Déjà vu: a mental disorder or a way to receive messages from other worlds?

Probably there are no people that have never experienced deja vu - a strange feeling that something had happened before. What is it - vague memories that pop to the surface from the dark corners of our consciousness? Snatches of dreams? Or perhaps it is a proof of reincarnation - that we don’t live for the first time?

The name of the phenomenon comes from a French phrase that means "already seen”. The sensation of deja vu is so elusive and fleeting, that for many years it has been considered impossible to study. However, in 2006 British scientists from the University of Leeds launched an experiment, which involved volunteers suffering from frequently recurring deja vu.

The head of scientific group Dr Chris Moulin claims that for the first time he faced a clinical case of deja vu when he met a patient haunted by this phenomenon. That patient had even stopped watching TV and reading newspapers because every time it seemed to him that he knew everything in advance. At the same time, he was suffering from lapses in memory: the poor man couldn’t remember what happened several minutes ago. How to help such a patient to remember what has happened in reality and to forget what has never happened? What if it’s not just

The brain learns during sleep

According to researchers from the University of Michigan in the U.S., learning occurs during sleep due to the fact that our memory treats the day's events at night.

They found out that there is a so-called "sleep memory" - a previously unknown form of memorizing.

Results of the research, which was attended by over 250 people, showedthat

How to prepare your memory for an exam

The night before an exam

Make sure to have enough sleep at night before an exam. During sleep the nerve endings, activated during the day, are being rehabilitated and are getting stronger, and the accepted information is moving from the short term to the long term memory. That is why sleepless nights before an exam are useless and even harmful. Planning a brainstorming preparation, you should know that in addition to time for studying information you will need a night for its "maturation".

Information is easier to memorize if:

• It is interesting, controversial or unexpected;
• Emotionallycolored;
• Expandsalreadyexistingknowledge;
• It

The influence of emotions on human health

As you know, our soul and body are closely connected together and have a strong influence on each other. Diseases affect our thoughts and emotions as well as some of our thoughts can cause disease.

Knowing the impact of emotions on human health, doctors advise not to be influenced by negative thoughts and feelings. But due to the pace of modern life, it’s not so easy to fully protect yourself from stress and negative emotions. However, it’s possible to minimize them. At least, try

3 tips to improve your concentration

1. Observe yourself.

Low concentration can be different: someone can’t listen for long, another one can’t speak or write for long, another one is constantly distracted by noise. A few days observe yourself, carefully analyzing your own behavior. Find out moments when it becomes difficult for you to concentrate on perceiving information or performing a specific task.

2.

4 exercises to improve your concentration

The main reason that we can’t memorize things is a lack of concentration. But this is fixable: the following simple exercises allow an adult or a child to improve concentration skills just

Music’s effect on the human brain

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Music can affect the human brain, and that’s why it’s one of the tools used in treatment of various psychiatric disorders.

Possible to control your home appliances with your mind!

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Italian specialists from the Roman Research Institute “Santa Lucia Foundation

Ten tips for time management

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Time management is necessary for professional and any other activity. The following useful tips will help you take your time under control.

1. Keep records.

One of the most common mistakes of time management is trying to use your memory to keep many details in your mind. It leads to information overload and confusion in your brain. Keeping records, you take control of your projects and tasks, and you become more organized.

2. List of priorities.

Setting priorities and making a priority list helps you focus on the most important things. Evaluate your goals and make a list of priorities, starting with the most important tasks and ending with less important. Thus, you'll spend most of your time on what is really important for you.

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Possible to upload knowledge into the brain!

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Recent advances in science and technology can be used to obtain the martial arts skills, learn to drive an aircraft or to speak a foreign language, without leaving home.

Researchers from the Boston University and the Computational Neuroscience Laboratories «ATR»

How to read faster

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I love reading books of different genres, from fantasy to science fiction, from psychology to computer books. So I wonder how to have time to read all the books of interest in a relatively short time? Here is a summary of some speed reading techniques. If you follow the recommendations listed below, you can increase the reading speed at least twice. For example, you will be able to read the book "The Da Vinci Code" in 8 hours!
Spend a few minutes for

Easy tips for speed reading

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1. Read with a pencil

Keep a pencil along the lines you are reading. Your eyes will get used to following the pencil. Then gradually move the pencil faster.

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Did humans come from another planet?

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Looking into the mysterious night sky, we reflect on the existence of other advanced civilizations, we look for ways to contact them. However, few of us wonder who we are and where we came from. Maybe we are aliens on our planet?

Nowadays some scientists, authors of numerous theories attempt to reinforce a hypothesis of extraterrestrial origin of humankind with different arguments. Here they are:

1. Human being from its birth is completely unadapted to living on Earth. According to Darwin, our closest relatives are primates. But they are completely different from humans. Chimpanzees are pregnant for months 7, and gorillas for 9.5, they give birth full-term babies, which weight only 2 kg. In this case a female chimp becomes adult in 8 years old, a male one - in 10. Do I need to explain how children Homo sapiens are in this age?

2. Mathematicians found out that if the force of gravity on Earth was 0.6 of the existing, a man, just like a cat or a dog, could fall down without causing any significant injury himself! Maybe that's why a human child suffers, cries, is capricious and sick? He feels unbearably hard, painful, and uncomfortable on this planet, which affects him with its gravity.

In mythology of

Everyone has talent

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It is known that the number of cells of the cerebral cortex, which are about 20 billions, in process of intellectual development almost don’t increase in comparison with a moment of birth.

This could mean that development of one’s capacities for intellectual work is connected with

2012: what is going to happen to the Earth and the human brain?

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For more than 20 years the vibrational frequency of our planet has been increasing. It is believed that such growth will peak in 2012 when the Earth’s frequency will rise from 7 Hz to 40 Hz. Only those who can adjust their brain to function at such high frequencies will be able to keep a healthy psyche in a new environment.

Nowadays the majority of children bear with a high frequency of the pineal gland, and we call them ‘indigo’. According to esoteric views, these children represent a new civilization - the so-called sixth race. They are able to perceive subtle realms of consciousness not accessible to ordinary human perception. But from the point of view of physicians, such a high frequency vibration of the brain is a clear sign of schizophrenia.

Top 10 Most Intelligent People of The World

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Have you ever wondered who is the smartest person in the world? Tony Buzan and Raymond Keene decided to find it out. For the whole twenty years, they have been interviewing people in order to make a rating of ten most intelligent people in history.

Researchers managed to interview more than one hundred thousand people from different corners of our planet. Moreover, the research has covered several categories. It was evaluated:

Secret of genius revealed

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A team of U.S. scientists discovered what is the key of genius. For several years they have been studying brain structure of people with high intelligence and came to interesting conclusions.

It was discovered that truly ingenious ideas come to those

Secret of sharp memory revealed

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It has been always considered that a good memory is connected with individual capacity to store more information. Now scientists believe that the main role in this process belongs to an individual's ability to concentrate and

Electrical stimulation of the brain accelerates learning

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A report presented at the British Science Festival by professor Heidi Johansen-Berg from Oxford University shows that passing a weak electrical current through specific areas of the brain can facilitate the learning process.

During the research scientists examined changes in the brain that occur after a person reaches adulthood. Also changes caused by paralysis were examined. Researchers monitored brain activity using

8 exercises to improve your memory

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1. 5-10 minutes after you wake up count backwards from 100 to 1 as quickly as you can.

2. Repeat the alphabet, finding a word for each letter. If you have forgotten a letter or can’t find a word, don’t stop. Pace is important.

LanguageTool

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Version:1.6.3

LanguageTool is an Open Source language checker for English and German language.

This is a rule-based language checker that will find errors for which a rule is defined in its XML configuration files. Rules for more complicated errors can be written in Java.
You can think of LanguageTool as a tool to detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect, e.g. mixing up there/their, no/now etc. It can also detect a limited amount of grammar mistakes. It does not include spell checking.

Interesting facts about human memory

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Memory is one of mental functions and types of mental activity, intended to preserve, store and reproduce information.

Thanks to memory we use in everyday life our own experience and that of previous generations. Is it possible to somehow improve it? What does it depend on? Let's try to answer these questions.
 

Short-term and long-term memory

Memory has two components - short-term, or operational, and long-term. Students manage to “load” in their memory a lot of information that vanishes just after exam. Patients suffering from so-called senile forgetfulness remember in detail events that occurred in early childhood or many years ago, but are unable to keep in mind what happened half an hour ago.
 

How to remember what you read

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In our information-saturated century most of us need help to memorize things efficiently. But it's hard to remember what we have learned. What can we do? Ability to appreciate and organize your study time may help to improve memory skills. Here are some tips.

Self-discipline is necessary to study effectively. Books, writing materials and paper should be organized. Try to study in a pleasant atmosphere, without any interference, and make sure you have enough light. Turn off the radio and television.

Ten tips for passing written exams

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1. Be prepared, get up early before the exam.
Prepare all you need in advance: pens, pencils, calculator, dictionary, etc. It will make you focus on the task.

2. Relax and don’t lose faith in yourself.
Try not to worry. Avoid talking to other students before the exam: excitement is contagious. Instead, remind yourself that you are well prepared and will certainly pass the exam well. If you get nervous during the exam, take a slow deep breath to relax.

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Which are the easiest languages to learn?

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First of all, it depends on your native language and foreign languages you know. For example, if you know Latin, it is easier to learn languages ​​of the Romance group. If you know French Spanish will seem easy. However, there are ways to estimate a

The most beneficial foreign languages to learn

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Which language to learn today to benefit in future and make a successful career? Professors of leading educational institutions believe that in the next 10 years the most useful languages in international business will be English, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic.

English is easy and logical – it’s clear. Today it dominates thanks to a big role of Internet. As a global language English strongly intrudes into all the national languages ​​by means of mass communication. This situation is not going to change in the next years as far as English remains

Getting a second bachelor degree in Germany

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Germany is a country of universities, some of which are centuries old. The universities of Tübingen, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Jena, Marburg, Göttingen have a significant advantage compared with other European universities: training fees in Germany don’t exceed € 600 per semester and are often reduced up to € 150 of administrative fee. To study inGermany you don’t need to invest "a fortune" but you have to arrange it properly and put some effort.

First of all, you have to

The future of e-learning

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The distance learning has a goal to make a learner obtain all the necessary knowledge and skills completely independently, without participation of other people. It is still not possible, but we should admit that over the past several years the distance learning (e-learning) has covered a large number of learners all over the world.

The Internet has become a huge technological breakthrough, more important than radio and television. Since it got possible to exchange instant messages with any person who has Internet access, the global network found its use in the field of education. Distribution of the "fast internet" has made it possible to launch "online" seminars (

Distance Learning today

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Today distance learning via the Internet is becoming more attractive for many people and even organizations. There are several reasons:

1. You can take lessons at any convenient time/location
2. You have a wide range of training programs to choose
3. Online courses are frequently updated and contain contemporary knowledge
4. Teaching methods are being improved constantly
5. There is no need to spend time on the road to a tuition center/ educational institution
6. You can study with

How do cheat on exam properly

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Apart from choosing the ways to cheat and devices to use there is another problem - how to cheat? It's much more difficult than making a cheat sheet. Here are several recommendations:
You have to know that a good cheat sheet doesn’t guarantee passing an examination. To be successful in an exam you must have a

7 best ways to cheat on exam without being noticed

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Have you ever cheated on exam? At school, college or university? No? Impossible! Statistics show that over 50% of pupils/students have ever done it. Cheating doesn’t mean inability to learn the subject or being stupid or lazy, but a lack of interest in a subject or a trivial lack of time. A "Cheat Sheet"(Crib Sheet) is a harmless way to receive a good grade by saving time and avoiding headaches.

No one knows who was the first to make a cheat sheet. But one thing is clear - it was a man of ideas, initiating an enormous road, trampled by many generations of students. However, in the age of

Electronic dictionaries replace the paper ones

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The term "computer dictionary" has already become ordinary. Usually it means a dictionary on your computer that in essence presents a content of a similar paper dictionary, equipped with convenient search tools. But in fact electronic dictionary is a special lexicographic object, which can contain many productive ideas that are not popular in paper dictionaries.

So let’s focus on problems of the classical paper dictionaries.

1. The bigger is the volume of the dictionary, the fuller is a description of lexical units the more difficult is to use.
That’s why in the market of paper dictionaries there is a big number of rather primitive but

Swiss Diploma is a key to a successful career in the hospitality industry

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Switzerland is considered a pioneer in the field of hotel, tourism and restaurant management, and the majority of top managers in this area were trained in Swiss universities. One them is IHTTI (International Hotel and Tourism Training Institute) of Neuchâtel, a lively university town located near the Neuchâtel Lake at the foot of the mountains.

The secret of success of the IHTTI is its connection with the former hotel EUROTEL, one of the most famous hotels in Neuchatel. As a part of their training all students make their internship in