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Your Fork Is Why You’re Fat

It turns out the size of your fork effects how much you eat. Yes, size matters--but not in the ways you might think. Next time you go out to a restaurant, request a big fork.

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McIlroy better be a quick study

Ballengee: U.S. Open champ can fix his so-so first round by simply applying the lessons he learned from his only other sub-par rounds at this year's majors

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New Respiratory Virus Jumps from Monkey to Lab Worker

By Zoe Cormier of Nature magazine A class of virus has for the first time been shown to jump from animals to humans--and then to infect other humans. The virus is described in PLoS Pathogens today. [More]

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Mole’s Extra Finger Is Wrist Bone-us

Former major league pitcher Antonio Alfonseca had six fingers on each hand. One of his coaches was once asked about the consequences of Alfonseca having six fingers and replied, “He can’t flip you off.” Think about it.

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Dear Netflix Subscribers: Stop Whining

Consumers are reacting to price increases on Netflix the same way Tea Partiers are likely to react if the government raises the debt ceiling.

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Deal Will Fast-Track Hundreds of Species onto Endangered List

By Emma Marris of Nature magazine On 12 July, the US government agency that administers the Endangered Species Act came to an agreement with a wildlife group that has sued them numerous times over the past decade. [More]

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CIA’s Fake Vaccination Campaign to Find Osama Bin Laden Raises Public-Health Fears

By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine Did the United States organize a fake vaccine campaign in Pakistan to try and ensnare the world's top terrorist? In true spook fashion, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) isn't saying, but the rumor alone could set back already fragile vaccination efforts in the troubled nation of 180 million, according to public-health researchers from the region. The story, which first appeared in The Guardian on Monday, alleges that the CIA sent vaccinators into the Pakistani city of Abbottabad in the months before the raid by US special forces that killed Osama bin Laden

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