Links for 2008-05-11

• Is in vitro meat the future? (Times Online)
  Chicken, beef and pork that has never been a living animal could be better for people and the planet. But will it catch on?
• A Real Nuclear Option for the Nominees (Slate)
  Averting "inadvertent" war in two easy steps.
• VIDEO: Chimp Memory Beats Humans' (Nat'l Geographic)
  Watch young chimpanzees beat Japanese college students in a short-term-memory test by a wide margin—raising questions about primate intelligence and evolution.
• You say in Vitro meat, yuck. But eat deep fried meat slurry, corn and chemicals. Called chicken nuggets (Next Big Future)
  Many people have an initial reaction that invitro meat would be yucky and they do not want it. However, people already eat meat slurry in fairly large quantities.
• Boy seized by child welfare to make sure he gets chemotherapy (Globe & Mail)
  Child welfare officials have taken temporary custody of an 11-year-old Ontario boy to ensure he undergoes chemotherapy after his father decided to take him off treatment for his aggressive form of leukemia.
• Trajectories - The Rise of Rockets in the Post-Space-Age Age (NYT)
  TO JUDGE from the news out of NASA these days, you might think we are witnessing the last gasps of the space age.
• David Deutsch Speaks With Aubrey De Grey About Sens (Thoughtware.TV )
  Renowned Quantum Physicist, and father of the Quantum Computer, David Deutsch speaks with Aubrey de Grey about the scientific details, and feasibility of life extension technology SENS.