Now on ScienceBlogs: HeartlandGate: Anti-Science Institute's Insider Reveals Secrets
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.
April 26, 2010
Category: Medicine
National Geographic reports: A new strain of hypervirulent, deadly Cryptococcus gattii fungus has been discovered in the United States, a new study says. The outbreak has already killed six people in Oregon, and it will likely creep into northern California...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:17 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2010
Category: Neuroscience
The article describes a technique that it said to show a priori which patients are at risk for developing suicidal thoughts after starting an antidepressant. Of course the usual interpretive caveats apply: it is a small study, needs to be...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 1:19 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 19, 2010
Category: Science in the Media
Yes, this is old news. I've written about it before, as have numerous other progressive scientifically-oriented bloggers. But now that there is an opinion piece featured prominently in the New York Times, perhaps the issue is gaining momentum. Cows on...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:32 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 12, 2010
Category: Medicine
This is a pretty neat idea. This technology, still under development, promises to enable the printing of skin grafts. It uses a technology similar to inkjet printers: Inkjet Cell Fabricator Prints Healing Flesh Directly Onto Wounds Popular Science By Stuart...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:50 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 5, 2010
Category: Science News
This is a nice little study in PNAS. It is nice for a few reasons. For one, it is the sort of thing that drives conservatives crazy, for it seems to be a highly detailed study of something useless. Two,...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 1:35 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 4, 2010
Category: Photos of Interest
Well, it is not the traditional flower, but it happens to be what is blooming right now. The crocuses and daffodils are pretty much spent; the lilies and allium haven't blossomed yet. These are blossoms on a claretcup cactus (Echinocereus...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 5:48 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
