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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.
November 26, 2008
Category: Public Health
No, it is not newspapers and videos that are disrupting your endocrine system (well, not that we know); rather, the topic is in the media. Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that mimic the effects of hormones. Perhaps the best-known example is...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 25, 2008
Category: Psychiatry
This is from an interesting open-access article in Annals of General Psychiatry. It describes two studies, relating to two different catastrophic events. The authors examine the differences in how various risk factors may contribute to the development of PTSD in...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:39 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 24, 2008
Category: Photos of Interest
It is not obvious what this sign is intended to depict, or why. It almost has to be a photoshop job (?)....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 10:35 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 21, 2008
Category: Armchair Musings
There was a time when I was vacationing, near the Bosque del Apache wildlife preserve. There were literally thousands of birds. Most were snow geese or sandhill cranes. There were a lot of people, too. But off a ways, there...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 18, 2008
Category: Humor
This looks like a pile of wooden cubes with odd images on them. Assemble them correctly, and you get a 3-D image of the brain...except you can't see it when you are done... ...because the image is entirely inside....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:42 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Photos of Interest
This is a sample from Euphoria Magazine's nature photography roundup for 2007. I chose the most whimsical one; the others are more serious, but equally good....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:13 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2008
Category: Photos of Interest
The Cassini orbiter shows us what is happening in the final frontier: This is an aurora on Saturn. It's false-color, obviously. The technique is explained on the NASA site: This image of the northern polar region of Saturn shows both...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 3:09 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Razib already did the definitive post of voting trends in the South, looking especially at the influence of skin color. Now, we see there is a peculiar correlation: those areas that had the highest cotton production before the Civil...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:36 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 14, 2008
Category: Science News
This is an illustration of Basilosaurus, a fossil whale discovered in Egypt by Phil Gingerich and colleagues. Gingerich is the guy who taught me everything I know knew about collecting fossils. I wanted on the team that went to Egypt,...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:30 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 10, 2008
Category: Humor
Various alternatives to and offshoots from Wikipedia have emerged over the years. Some readers may be familiar with Conservapedia, as an example. Now there is an entity known as Christopedia. Today the Featured Article is the one about Barack...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 2:06 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
