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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
James Gunn, the director for the movie Slither, seems to be enthralled by creepy crawly things. He also has a blog-like website, on which he posted Evolution Fucked Your Shit Up: The World's 50 Freakiest Animals. (HT: Interesting Pile.) The...
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Category: Armchair Musings
Sometimes I see sad-looking plants on clearance, buy them, and try to heal them. This activity provides me with a gratification that is similar to that which comes from healing sad-looking people, but without the tribulations that occur if it...
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Category: Armchair Musings
Susanne Sternthal, a writer based in Moscow, has published an article about the ecology of stray dogs. The article is in Financial Times, of all places. Why is that? Moscow's stray dogs By Susanne Sternthal January 16 2010 00:04...
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Category: Armchair Musings
This is a high-resolution photo of Pearl Harbor (click to enlarge). When I saw that it had been posted to the NASA Earth Observatory, I wondered -- momentarily -- why they would post a photo of Pearl Harbor. Then I...
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Category: Politics
Is there some kind of especially violent undercurrent right now, in the right-wing river of hate? Ed Brayton just posted about a billboard put up by the GOP, specifically the Lafayette County (Missouri) Republicans: The sign (bigger view in new...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:11 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
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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...
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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...
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