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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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April 28, 2008
Category: Armchair Musings
The Ubuntu craze is sweeping SciencBlogs: Aardvarchaeology, Scientific Indian, Greg Laden, Corpus Callosum, even PZ's kid. At SB, we strive for logic and precision. Enough so, that we swoon over passages such as this one, from Gottfried Leibniz: "The...
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April 27, 2008
Category: Humor
From xkcd; click on image to see the original....
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April 23, 2008
Category: Personal
Everyone's anatomy has little quirks. One of mine, is the length of the roots of my wisdom teeth. They go down halfway to Sulawesi. When I was in college, I had to have two of them extracted. The oral...
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April 21, 2008
Category: Politics
A while back, a guy named Lyle Rossiter wrote a book, The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness. I haven't read the book, so this is one of those posts that is less than fully authoritative. Perhaps...
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April 16, 2008
Category: Psychiatry
“Doctors think, ‘Well, of course she’s depressed — she’s dying of breast cancer,’” he said. I do see that kind of response sometimes, not just with regard to terminally ill patients. The physician does not think the depression should be...
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April 15, 2008
Category: Bioethics
Here at ScienceBlogs, we've regularly posted about the thorny issue of antibiotic overuse, and the subsequent antibiotic resistance. This is a good example of evolution in action; it's also a good reason why we need to study and understand evolution....
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April 13, 2008
Category: Environment
Forget to water your tomato plants? Try using ollas (pronounced oy-ya). Olla is Spanish for pot, as in clay pot. What you do is to get unglazed clay pots, bury them near the plants, and put water in them....
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April 7, 2008
Category: Armchair Musings
I wasn't sure whether to put the quotes around "Ruthlessness Gene," or "Discovered." I suppose I could have just left them out entirely, but I have this urge to spice things up a bit with punctuation marks. Don't blame me...it's...
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April 6, 2008
Category: Photos of Interest
A new world record has been set: The previous record for hanging spoons on a human face was 15. Joe Allison "smashed" the record with 16. He's only 16 years old. He thinks that when his forehead is a little...
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April 4, 2008
Category: Public Health
More than 90,000 u.s. infants are victims of abuse or neglect. My question: what is Michael Chertoff gong to do about it? Homeland security begins at home. Nothing new there. It was true before 9/11, and it is true...
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