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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: Propaganda
From Media Matters: It is difficult to understand how so many errors could be crammed into one simple chart, merely by accident. It is even harder to understand how the artist could end up with a straight line, after incorporating...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:46 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:17 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Issues
I wrote about this before, a couple of times, most thoroughly here. I was reminded of this topic when I saw that the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) have updated their Report Card on America's Infrastructure. In 2008, I...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:48 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
The USA still leads the world int he number of scientific papers published per year. Germany and Japan were essentially tied for second, for years. According to a recent report by Thomspon-Reuters ISI, there is a new player at the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 1:13 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,...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:45 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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: economy
Just goes to show how lobbying reform hasn't gone anywhere near far enough: Bank Lobbyists Are Not Only Trying to Kill NEW Legislation, They Are Trying to Weaken EXISTING Regulations By George Washington of Washington's Blog. Everyone knows that the...
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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...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:01 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: economy
A chart on Clusterstock (great name) by Kamelia Angelova (another great name) shows what I've suspected for a while: all the jobs created in the USA, during the Bush II years, were unsustainable. All have been lost. Meanwhile, the population...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:36 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
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