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Hello, Nikolay Nikolaevich!

I am graduated from your "M" class (school 179) in 2005 and now i am a graduate student in University of Miami. First i wanted to say thank you for your work, without you i wouldn't be here. And i have one question.

Here in US physics in schools is not mandatory and i think this is a big mistake, because it is so important in many sciences. I see how students struggle with it in undergraduate but they have to take it. Therefore, many of them hate it. Do you think that physics should be mandatory in schools? or us system is better?

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thank you for your kind words

Dear Dr. van Swinderen. Thank you very much for your IAMA. I am a PhD student and i also study sleep in Drosophila. Are you familiar with Borbely two process model for sleep control in human? Do you think that this model can help to understand the underlying biology of sleep control? And is it possible to construct similar model for sleep control in drosophila? And one more question: Do you think that 5 minute of inactivity rule that widely used to detect sleep in drosophila is reliable method?