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Gene Overdose' Causes Extreme Thinness
ScienceDaily (Aug. 31, 2011) Scientists have discovered a genetic cause of extreme thinness for the first time, in a study published August 30 in the journal Nature. The research shows that people with extra copies of certain genes are much more likely to be very skinny. In one in 2000 people, part of chromosome 16 is duplicated, making men 23 times and women five times more likely to be underweight

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alc is the softest known substance. At 25, Physicist Lawrence Bragg is the youngest person to receive a Nobel Prize.

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Marshmallow Test Points to Biological Basis for Delayed Gratification
ScienceDaily (Aug. 31, 2011) A landmark study in the late 1960s and early 1970s used marshmallows and cookies to assess the ability of preschool children to delay gratification. If they held off on the temptation to eat a treat, they were rewarded with more treats later. Some of the children resisted, others didn't.

The effect of Relativity made Astronaut Sergei Avdeyev a fraction of a second younger If you fully stretch your arms out, the fingertip to fingertip length is almost exactly
your body height. upon his return to Earth after 747 days in space.

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