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Special 10th anniversary edition of WHAT IF?—revised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to important questions you never thought to ask—coming from November 2024. Preorder here!
[[Two figures are walking and talking to each other.]]
Figure One: Humans are defined by our curiosity, our hunger for answers.
Figure Two: We all spend a third of our lives lying down with our eyes closed and *nobody knows why.*
Figure One: ...touché.
{{Title text: Stanford sleep researcher William Dement said that after 50 years of studying sleep, the only really solid explanation he knows for why we do it is 'because we get sleepy'.}}
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