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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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Category: Chatter
Sharron Angle has said some pretty obtuse things before, but for the most part, I've resisted the temptation to comment. But this one is a gem: The 16-page flier, available at TPMM, accuses gay people (aka "sodomites", "perverts") of everything...
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This one is useful for very few persons. The story is this: I wanted to get one of those mats that goes under a treadmill, to protect the floor. So I went to Sears, where I got the treadmill, because...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:07 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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I've written before about the world's hotter chle pepper: the bhut jolokia, rated at over 1 million scoville units. (Sauce available here.) Now, India has a new use for the infernal things: combatting terrorism. India deploys world's hottest chilli to...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:55 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Today is the birthday of Linus Torvalds. That is all....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:44 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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In general, I try to be respectful of cultural groups, even ones that are rather aberrant. Somehow, though, I find it exceedingly difficult to muster any sympathy or respect for Scientology. By now, you probably have heard that Scientologists were...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:49 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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IEEE reports that chicken feathers are superior to carbon nanotubes: Scientists at the University of Delaware say that carbonized chicken feathers could be a cheap way to store hydrogen for fuel cells. According to chemical engineering professor Richard Wool, the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 10:44 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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This is good. Indeed, it may qualify as the type specimen (holotype) of snark. From The New Yorker: It's So Obvious From Avi Zenilman, online news editor, The New Yorker: Do you think the right is upset about President...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 1:16 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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AnnArbor.com (HT: Edward Vielmetti) has a youtube time-lapse video at the Ann Arbor Art Fairs. Get the whole thing, compressed into 177 seconds: This probably is the very best way to experience it. I still remember going to the first...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:20 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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It has come to my attention that Kalamazoo is on the map, again. The last time was is 1942, when the Glen Miller Orchestra played I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo (lyrics). Now, Ratebeer.com has included TWO Kalamazoo beers on...
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Our man in Chicago turned me on to Charlie Stross. Little did I know, Stross' writings have become something of a sensation in the academic world. One of the first blogs I read was Crooked Timber. I think it was...
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