Weekend Links Unclogged

• The real Turing test: learning to say sorry.
• Brown apologises for 'appalling' treatment of Turing
• Read This If You Hate Meetings
• Better world: Take Friday off… forever – I seem to recall that the American worker's productivity has doubled since the 1940s; maybe we could reduce the work week to 20 hours....
• Single Vaccine Dose, Even One from 1976, Could Protect against the H1N1 Swine Flu
• Epidemic Influenza And Vitamin D – No excuse for not getting vaccinated, but very interesting.
• Vitamin D Deficiency May Increase Risk Of Colds, Flu – Again, no excuse for avoiding vaccination, but very interesting.
• NO Good: Nitric Oxide May Be Key to Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance
• 13 more things that don't make sense.
• Igniting Fusion
• Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings – If only it’d been a dead parrot.
• Icy stares and dirty minds: Hitch-hiking emotions.
• Brain science to help teachers get into kids' heads.
• Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
• First Drug Shown to Extend Life Span in Mammals
• Can Aging Be Solved?
• July 16, 1867: Concrete Gets Some Positive Reinforcement
• Mysterious, Glowing Clouds Appear Across America’s Night Skies
• Rethinking the bee's waggle dance.
• Moth Blocks Bat Attack by Jamming Sonar
• Rare plant worthy of Endangered Species Act protection--But won't get it.
• Spy Satellite Sea Ice Images Finally Made Public
• Potential Neuropoison Could Be in Our Food
• Obama, Farm Industry Clash Over Antibiotics
• 8-Story Antigravity Forest Facade Takes Root
• Time Magazine: The liberal bias of facts. – Thanks to Jay Lake.
• How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
• The Top 5 Lies About Obama's Health Care Reform
• The burden of debt.
• Why markets can’t cure healthcare.
• The Swiss Menace
• Better world: Legalise drugs
• Senate Votes to Stop Stealth Jets, Continue Pentagon Overhaul
• NSA surveillance program too secret for its own good.
• FBI compounds mystery with secret justification of gag order.
• US rogue nuke detection upgrades not worth the cost.
• Secrets, Leaks, and Outright Lies
• How to Stack a Rocket – The Ares I-X test vehicle takes shape, even as the program faces funding disaster.
• ATK test fires Ares 1 five-segment booster.
• Augustine appears before Congress about space review.
• Augustine panel presents five manned space options.
• ULA claim gap reducing solution via EELV exploration master plan – They might be proposing a great plan, but, on the other hand, when have our aerospace contractors ever tried not to steer billions of taxpayer dollars into their coffers?
• Tentative Signs of Water Found on Moon
• How to Land Safely Back on the Moon – Thanks to Jay Lake.
• Back from the Moon, Apollo Astronauts Had to Go Through Customs
• Historic Apollo landing sites imaged by new lunar orbiter.
• NASA reacquires original Moon landing footage.
• NASA High Definition Video: Partially Restored Apollo 11 Video.
• Mars, methane and mysteries.
• Cracks on Mars hint at dried-up lakes.
• Too much radiation for astronauts to make it to Mars – Not exactly new information, but it bears repeating.
• Rare meteorite found by 'fireball' observatory.
• "Green" propellant could give rockets--and the environment--a boost. – Aluminum and ice. Very nice.
• Armadillo Aerospace qualifies to win Lunar Lander Challenge level 2 – Congratulations!
• Students snap images of Earth from space for $150.
• Timeless Tom Baker Makes Return Trip to Doctor Who