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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.
Category: Armchair Musings
The world's largest shopping mall boasts some impressive statistics: 7.1 million square feet (659,612 square meters) of leasable space and 890,000 square meters of total floor space; attractions, including a roller coaster and a Venice-like canal; and over 1,500 shops,...
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Category: Armchair Musings
I spend a lot of time working with gang kids. One of the amusing things, is to see some of these kids strutting around, feeling like a million bucks, because they are so smart. In actuality, they have IQs in...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:28 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Psychiatry
This is from an open-access article in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry: an article featuring a debate about the relevance of randomized, controlled trials to clinical practice. It is mostly about research on psychotherapy, but with some treatment of psychopharmacology....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:52 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Armchair Musings
The odd thing about the Pfizer story is that it is old news. Fierce Pharma wrote about it on 26 January 2009, and Neuron Culture posted about it, on 27 January 2009. Yet it just appeared in the New York...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:16 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Armchair Musings
Some irreverent souls have taken to Sunday blogging on a freethinking themes. I choose to Ozymandize* that which we worship the most: our economic system. That plant in the middle is my mimosa (Albizia julibrissin) tree, the one I am...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:01 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Armchair Musings
Botanical names drive me nuts, sometimes. Every plant that is worth anything has many names. The supposed gold standard, the (Latin) Linnaean taxonomical name, gets changed every so often. So there is no constancy. You'd think it would be easier...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:15 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Psychiatry
Natalie Angier has another interesting article in the NYT. In the article, she discusses the meaning of the word behavior. Apparently, this all came from the realization that even standard works on the subject did not contain a "point-by-point definition." ...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:09 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Armchair Musings
The Pantone color of the year for 2009 happens to be: PANTONE 14-0848 Mimosa. Something about this captured my attention. I was casually sipping from the Internet firehose when I encountered this tidbit of information. Why, I wondered, would...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:33 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Armchair Musings
I've been trying to figure this out. I don't think I need to include any links to the evidence, because it's all over the place. Some people think there is a ridiculous amount of hysteria about H1N1/2009, others think people...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:37 AM • 1 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...
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