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Phraseologism: Lost sheep.

Meaning: A person who has gone astray.

Origin: From the Bible. In the New Testament, in the Gospel of Matthew (18:12-13) it says: "What do you think? If anyone had a hundred sheep, and one of them went astray, would he not leave ninety-nine in the mountains and go looking for lost? And if it happens to find her, then I tell you truly, he rejoices over her more than over ninety-nine who are not lost." The expression is also found in the Gospel of Luke (15:4-6).

Random phraseology:

How to stop worrying and start living.

Meaning:

Jokingly-ironically about a way of life that one can only dream of.

Origin:

The title of a book by the famous American human relations expert Dale Carnegie (1888-1955).

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In their article in PLoS ONE, researchers from Harvard just describe the diversity of chronotypes in different people, whose rhythms of sleep and wakefulness, according to the authors of the work, in some cases can differ by ten hours.

Dorothee Fischer and her colleagues used data collected from 2003 to 2014 as part of a large health project: several tens of thousands of people aged 15 to 64 reported a variety of information about their lifestyle, including when they go to bed and when they wake up. However, in order to determine the chronotype, they did not take the time of falling asleep and waking up, but the middle point between the one and the other; for example, if a person fell asleep at midnight and woke up at eight in the morning, then his "middle of sleep" fell on him at four in the morning. (At the same time, the study used only those data that related to sleep on the weekends, when no work interferes with getting a good night's sleep.)

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Among young people (from 15 to 25 years old), the scatter of chronotypes was the largest, while their diversity decreased with age - as they grew older, the points of the "middle of sleep" in different people approached. Men and women in this sense also differed from each other: up to the age of forty, the male chronotype, on average, turned out to be later than the female, after forty they changed places.

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