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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 30, 2009
Category: Computing
If you encounter a web site that contains malware (virus, trojan, etc.), how do you report it? I had a devil of a time finding out. A friend had forwarded a suspicious email to me. The email contained a link. ...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 10:28 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Photos of Interest
One of the strangest things I've ever seen. The photographer's identification is tentative: Vespula pensylvanica. Personally, I'd never try to identify an unfamiliar insect. One summer, I took classes at the UM Biological Station near Pellston, MI. My cabinmate...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:08 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 29, 2009
Category: Medicine
Just to let everyone know, if they don't already: freebooks4doctors has a downloadable text, Influenza Report 2006. It is a 225-page, 2.7 MB PDF. Being from 2006, it does not specifically cover the current situation. Rather, it focuses a bit...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:22 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Armchair Musings
Well, maybe not Malthus, but Garrett Hardin and Paul Ehrlich -- the 1960's-era neomalthusian academicians -- have been right on the money. There are hard limits to growth, and those limits are upon us. This is the contention of Charles...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:36 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2009
Category: Public Health
Just a few quick interesting links: Google Map of H1N1 Swine Flu Cases (HT: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog) Google Flu Trends We've found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 10:47 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
I had to look this up, so to save others the trouble of finding it, here is the WHO explanation of pandemic alert levels: In nature, influenza viruses circulate continuously among animals, especially birds. Even though such viruses might theoretically...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 2:04 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2009
Category: Photos of Interest
The NASA Earth Observatory site is holding a photo contest to celebrate and popularize their 10th anniversary. It is a contest in which users vote for their favorite images-of-the-day. Here's my favorite: This is an image from the Cassini mission;...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:26 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 20, 2009
Category: Politics
Amy Goodman, the lead journalist for Democracy Now!, has been traveling around the country, giving talks, and promoting her book Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times. This (standing up to the madness) is inherently difficult....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:18 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 15, 2009
Category: Armchair Musings
Michelle Obama's White House garden has attracted some attention, as noted on La Vida Locavore: Did you hear the news? The White House is planning to have an "organic" garden on the grounds to provide fresh fruits and vegetables for...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 12:53 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 13, 2009
Category: Photos of Interest
his is a photo of a mask from an ancient Peruvian tomb. The mask is about 1,500 years of., made of copper and seashells, among other items. It is one of the front-page (web page, that is) photos at National...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:24 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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