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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.
February 27, 2009
Category: Social Commentary
In The New Yorker Poetry A Street by Leonard Cohen [...] I see the Ghost of Culture With numbers on his wrist Salute some new conclusion Which all of us have missed [...] The ghost of culture is so much...
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February 26, 2009
Category: economy
Psychiatrists of old, never gave advice. But here's some advice: And never trust with your money anyone making a potential bonus. From Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Black Swan; HT: Automatic Earth. How bank bonuses let us all down By...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:25 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2009
Category: Public Health
When Bush announced the Global and Perpetual War on Terror, and shifted funding away from environmental, worker, and consumer safety functions, I speculated that "the terrorists" would not have to do anything to kill us: our own corporations would do...
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Category: Uncategorizable
Folks, please help me understand this: Why did God create Israel in 1948? He did so, not for the Jews' sake primarily, but to vindicate His holy name. I guess you have to read the whole thing to get the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:15 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 19, 2009
Category: Bioethics
The NEJM has published a provocative article about the ethics of the globalization of clinical trials. (The article is openly accessible.) The big issue is this: clinical trials are very expensive. It is cheaper to do them overseas, but this...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:09 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 18, 2009
Category: Social Commentary
The UN Office of Drugs and Crime brings us this cheerful news: VIENNA: The United Nations' crime and drug watchdog has indications that money made in illicit drug trade has been used to keep banks afloat in the global financial...
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February 16, 2009
Category: Armchair Musings
This is a photo of an embarrassing misattribution. It features a quote often misattributed to Charles Darwin: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change. photo...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:42 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 13, 2009
Category: Medicine
A minor controversy has erupted over the health care provisions that were slipped in to the economic stimulus bill without discussion. It has provisions such that.. Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system...One new bureaucracy, the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:11 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 10, 2009
Category: Psychiatry
The new Congress and new Administration passed a law already. It was barely notied by the media. It is a reauthorization and expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Given the expected resistance to major changes in health...
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Category: economy
Wouldn't you know it? Right after I post a compilation of graphical representations of the winter of our hardship, out come some more (HT: DeLong, CR). The first shows the absolute number of job losses in this recession, compared to...
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