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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: 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Category: economy
Courtesy of Chart of the Day... Click on the graphs to see the Chart of the Day explanations for the data. The top chart shows the aggregate earnings, over time, of the companies in the S&P 500 Index. The second...
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Category: economy
Barry Ritholtz, author of Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy, has a nice, terse, thought-provoking post:: US vs Europe: Who is the Welfare State?
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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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Category: economy
Psychiatrists of old, never gave advice. But here's some advice: And never trust with your money anyone making a potential bonus. From Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Black Swan; HT: Automatic Earth. How bank bonuses let us all down By...
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