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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.
Corpus Callosum is written by a psychiatrist at a small community hospital somewhere in the USA. Email to cc.scienceblogger at gmail dot com.
October 31, 2007
Category: Politics
This won't happen, but I think it should. Television media should not be allowed to participate, other than to do the broadcast. The media performance in the 10/30/07 Democratic debate shows that MSM do not know how to conduct a...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 4:43 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Computing
This is a pico-projector from Texas Instruments. The idea is to have a device that can project an image onto a screen, using a very small device such as a PDA. Right now the usable image size is about 15...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 12:33 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
It was kind of depressing to see the post on Effect Measure (Chemical plants: internal dangers, external costs) about the half-measures being taken to safeguard chemical plants and facilities. The chemical security problem is as urgent as it is obvious....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:11 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 30, 2007
Category: Psychiatry
Nov. 5 event at U-M will feature top experts discussing alternatives to “criminalization” of America’s mentally ill ANN ARBOR, MI – Across America, prisons serve as an unofficial holding system for the mentally ill. Families desperate to get treatment...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 12:35 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Photos of Interest
This is a macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus). Photo by Jungleboy, on Flickr. ...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:50 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
Medscape has an article about a study that shows a relationship between the amount of eduction a person has, and how rapidly memory loss occurs when they get senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT). The more education a person...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:18 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chatter
A guy was sitting at a stoplight, minding his own business, when a wrecking ball crashed into the trunk. The man was not seriously injured. The wrecking ball was being used in demolition, but apparently had a defective cable....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 12:32 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 29, 2007
Category: Environment
I don't think I am being unduly harsh in saying that this was an incredibly stupid thing to do: U.S. Forest Service investigators were on campus last week to question Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members about an Oct. 11 incident...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:05 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chatter
When he said: We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. --Dwight D. Eisenhower (source)...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:20 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 28, 2007
Category: Environment
Today I watched the C-Span broadcast (link to Real Player file, 80 minutes) of Dr. Gerberding's testimony to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. The topic: The potential effects of climate change on public health. After seeing it,...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 12:37 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
