Interesting Links for 9-11-2011

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• BBC News - The strange and curious history of lobotomy
  It's 75 years since the first lobotomy was performed in the US, a procedure later described by one psychiatrist as "putting in a brain needle and stirring the works". So how did it come to be regarded as a miracle cure?
  (tags: interesting health braaaaaains weird medicine SCIENCE!!! history )
• Appeals court upholds Obama's health care law as constitutional | World news | guardian.co.uk
  'A conservative-leaning panel of US appellate judges on Tuesday upheld President Barack Obama's health care law as constitutional, helping set up a supreme court fight. [against a suit which] claimed that the insurance mandate violates the religious freedom of those who choose not to have insurance because they rely on God to protect them from harm.'
  (tags: law wtf religion america medicine interesting news )
• Sexiest Dance Moves for Men Identified : Discovery News
  'Psychologists have identified the key male dance movements that most arouse female interest -- and all are to do with central body motions which send out primal signals of health, vigor and strength.'
  (tags: amusing science SCIENCE!!! sex interesting psychology )
• How the FRA is Regulating Passenger Rail Out of Existence | East Bay Bicycle Coalition
  'What if the FAA required that jet aircraft be able to survive crashes into the ground? Or if the FHA said automobiles had to survive any head-on crash at 60 mph into a tractor trailer without deformation? Even if such vehicles could be engineered, they would be far too costly to operate. But for passenger trains, that is precisely what the FRA has been doing.'
  (tags: interesting America trains transport safety via Andrew Ducker )
• Square - Card Case - Tabs.
  App that lets you pay by just saying your name, if you've used the app to open a tab at the place you're shopping and got it on.
  (tags: interesting commercial money technology via Andrew Ducker )