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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, 2008
Category: Politics
McCain has explained his choice of running mate, saying it will "shake up the status quo in Washington." It's time for a fact check, comparing Palin to the status quo... FEATURE CHENEY PALIN Anti-environment Yes Yes Anti-science Yes Yes Oil...
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August 26, 2008
Category: Medicine
JAMA has an article on the history of continuing medical education (CME). Annoyingly, they did not make it one of the open-access articles, so they don't get a link. However, there are some telling excerpts and some good commentary over...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:51 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 25, 2008
Category: Politics
Black Box Voting has sent out emails, suggesting that technologically-astute persons consider signing up for temporary tech support jobs, to provide support for the election process. Oddly, the message is not on the front page of their website, but someone...
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August 22, 2008
Category: Politics
Speaking of art, Rodger Payne has a beautiful post highlighting the hypocrisy of the US Government's responses to Russia's actions in Georgia. ...
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Category: Psychiatry
There have been many collections and compendia of artistic works by persons with psychiatric illness. They are interesting. In fact, it was a chance encounter with such a book that first got me interested in psychology. Thre is a story...
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Category: Politics
Republicans see that they are losing on this issue, so they just make the issue go away: U.S., Iraqi Negotiators Agree on 2011 Withdrawal Withdrawal from Iaq is one of Obama's stronger points. So it is a smart move for...
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August 21, 2008
Category: economy
Just in case you thought you were having a good day, here is a graph from the Fed that shows how much money the banks have: Don't panic. The final number is from 1 July 2008. I'm sure they've fixed...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:31 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Environment
In the late '60's - early '70's, is was commonplace for bands to write songs that were utterly meaningless, then pass them off as great works of art. The products of pure genius. I head one such song on...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:42 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 18, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
Huntington's Disease is a serious, progressive disease that involves degeneration of part of the brain. In particular, there is loss of neurons and development of gliosis in the striatum. The disease is named after George Huntington, who described it in 1872.Huntington's...
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August 15, 2008
Category: Science News
This seems very odd. The Internet -- including web sites and email -- has been found to have a very serious security flaw. Civilized places such as Sweden and Puerto Rico are already fixing the problem. There are plans to...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:43 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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