Three quick links

Combination of contractor craziness with family visitors means I can barely keep my day in line, so no time to give these what they deserve:

• Want to avoid flu? Then here are tips on how to wash your hands -- you're probably doing it too quickly...
  (via boing boing)
  
  
• This year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics says a free market isn't perfect, and gives some examples. US papers pretend the whole thing didn't happen...
  
  
• Those who think that without Christianity (or perhaps their other religion of choice) we'd all be savages might learn something from a recent study that shows that secular representations of goodness and justice are just as effective in eliciting "good" behavior as are overtly spiritual ones.