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The Corpus Callosum is an occasional journal of armchair musings, by a suburban, reality-based, slightly-left-of-center guy, who reserves the right to be highly irregular at times. Topics: social commentary, neuroscience, politics, science news. Mission: to develop connections between hard science and social science, using linear thinking and intuition; and to explore the relative merits of spontaneity vs. strategy.
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August 30, 2006
Category: Neuroscience
One of the articles that I read, early in my career, that influenced the way I think about neuroscience, was this one: Caudate glucose metabolic rate changes with both drug and behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder L. R. Baxter Jr,...
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August 29, 2006
Category: Personal
This meme involves going to the random quotations page, and picking five quotes. The rules: “Go here and look through random quotes until you find 5 that you think reflect who you are or what you believe.” I saw my...
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August 28, 2006
Category: Social Commentary
murrmann_nolawounds_320.jpg Originally uploaded by icki. This is a photo from an Ann Arbor blogger, known to the world as Icki, who has been in New Orleans lately. This is from his Flickr collection; click on the photo to go...
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Category: Politics
This is from a recent White House press conference. The transcript is on Yahoo News. QUESTION: A lot of the consequences you mentioned for pulling out seem like maybe they never would have been there if we hadn’t gone in....
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Category: Bioethics
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission ruled recently that small insurance companies that cover prescription drugs must also cover the cost of oral contraceptives. Firms with more than 15 employees are already under the jurisdiction of federal law, so the...
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August 26, 2006
Category: Social Issues
The New England Journal of Medicine has two freely-accessible articles this week. As is usually the case, their free articles are about important topics at the intersection of medicine and social policy, and are worth reading. However, this time, both...
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August 25, 2006
Category: Neuroscience
Years ago, I read a paper in which the authors proposed a model, in which the immune system was conceptualized as a sensory organ for the central nervous system. They did not think of it as the primary purpose of...
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August 24, 2006
Category: Armchair Musings
There is nothing mystical about the act of understanding. Sometimes it may seem like it, when one has an Aha! moment, or when understanding emerges in the context of meditation or spiritual reflection, but there really is nothing supernatural about...
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August 23, 2006
Category: Medicine
In Part I, I gave a brief review of an article in Scientific American, entitled The Expert Mind. The article described the outcome of research into the mental processes of expert chess players. The motivation for the research is to...
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August 21, 2006
Category: Computing
The August issue of Linux Format has an article showing how all the the most-anticipated features of Windows Vista are available today, on Linux. Although Microsoft touts these as "innovations," they are not new, or at least won't be new...
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