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Facebook users with more friends suffer more stress and “neurotic limbo” from feeling they have to continually update and amuse their larger audiences, according to new research.

Want to protect against the effects of Alzheimer’s? Learn another language. That’s the takeaway from recent brain research, which shows that bilingual people’s brains function better and for longer after developing the disease.

Psychologist Ellen Bialystok and her colleagues at York University in Toronto recently tested about 450 patients who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Half of these patients were bilingual, and half spoke only one language.

Pungent body odor from sweaty adult human skin is unique in the animal kingdom. Humans turn out to be particularly smelly because odors are released from nearly every part of the body while other species living on us are simultaneously emitting odors too.

Our powerful scent attracts at least two species of mosquitoes, according to a paper accepted for publication in the journal Trends in Parasitology. Understanding what it is about human odor that attracts these bugs could help prevent the spread of diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.

The new list is more frightening than ever, with fresh inductees like a 10-pound cheese steak, 4-pound sushi roll and bona fide Guinness World Record holder. For those who believe restaurants in the U.S. are the only offenders of taste and decency, more than a few international eateries are now represented.

It’s only a matter of time before Vegas bookies start taking bets on such gastrointestinal gambling. Read on for 83 of the most gratuitous food challenges anywhere in the world, complete with a side order of nausea, bloating and bragging rights.

The fastest selling consumer electronic device in the world? Yup, you guessed it, it is Microsoft’s Kinect. Wow.

Guinness World Records has officially named Kinect for Xbox 360 the fastest selling consumer electronics device, which sold an average of 133,333 units per day for a total of 8 million units in its first 60 days between Nov. 4, 2010 and Jan. 3, 2011.
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Forbes has put out its annual list of billionaires and the tech industry filled a large percentage of the top 100 spots. Some of the more notable people on the complete list (not just the top 100):

2.) Bill Gates 24.) Larry Page – Sergey Brin 52.) Mark Zuckerberg 110.) Steve Jobs 136.) Eric Schmidt 938.) Jerry Yang

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