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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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June 29, 2009
Category: Psychiatry
Psychology is turning out to be a rather important field these days. Nate Hagens has a post on The Oil Drum, The Psychological and Evolutionary Roots of Resource Overconsumption Revisited. He reviews the evolutionary psychology of poor economic decision-making. Calculated...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:06 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 27, 2009
Category: Uncategorizable
OK, folks, explain this to me. It is a bicycle. Bicycles are cool. But from the looks of this thing, it seems as though it would be like riding an anvil around town. Sure, it'd be great if you got...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 1:04 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 25, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
PhysioProf commented about this back in 2006 after Alex Palazzo 's post, A silent mutation affects pain perception? That post discussed mutations that affect pain perception. Now, there is a bit more information available about potential commercial developments stemming from...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:27 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 22, 2009
Category: Medicine
It was the second-most-blogged article on the NYT when I got up this morning; now, it is the first-most-blogged. It is the article that reports on a survey that shows 72% support for a government-run health insurance program. The program...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:24 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 18, 2009
Category: Energy
This method, if it pans out, could not only be clean, it could make the environment even cleaner. Jonathan Trent, the lead research scientist on the Spaceship Earth project at NASA Ames Research Center, has been working on a method...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:25 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 17, 2009
Category: Medicine
When I first heard about the American Medical Association (AMA) opposing Obama's health care reform, I was troubled. I almost wrote a post about it, but by the time I got home, I found that others had beaten me to...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:01 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 16, 2009
Category: Psychiatry
This is one of those "interesting, wonder if it'll ever pan out" studies. So far it has been presented at a meeting, but not published. The study was summarized in an article on Medpage Today (free registration): APSS: Depression and...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:12 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 9, 2009
Category: Medicine
Market Folly writes of a new hedge fund strategy, and asks if there are any more ideas like this: We came across this interesting piece in Dealbook the other day and thought it was very intriguing. Simply put: hedge funds...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:37 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 8, 2009
Category: Environment
In 2008, we were informed that a kind of cloud formation had been named: the mammatus formation, so-called because it resembles a breast. Sort of. Whatever. A new development is more serious. The Cloud Appreciation Society has suggested that the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 2:34 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 3, 2009
Category: economy
Business Matters has posted interviews about the financial crisis. these interviews provide a good overview of the origin of the crisis, plus some clues as to where we are headed. The first interview is with Paul Craig Roberts. Roberts was...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:53 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
