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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: Humor
Clearly, this man is a candidate for the Darwin Award. K. Wayne McLeod has been charged -- posthumously -- with running a Ponzi scheme that victimized an estimated 260 law enforcement agents. He deliberately solicited hundreds of people, all of...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:33 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science in the Media
XKCD usually is pretty good; this one, however, is a brillant commentary on science journalism. People forget that once an event has happened, the probability of that event is exactly 1, and the probability of all other outcomes is exactly...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 2:03 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
Nicely illustrated in this photo: Thanks to Jim R., who doesn't have a blog to link....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 2:24 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
Today is the 90th anniversary of the first Felix the Cat cartoon. 1919-Felix The Cat - Feline Follies Uploaded by iToons. - Watch more comedy videos and sitcoms. Needless to say, it changed a lot over the years. In the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:16 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
We used to see a lot of cartoons that portray a psychiatrist's couch. That is not so common anymore. When we do see them, they tend to be annoying. This is no different, because it is so unrealistic. No psychiatrist...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:34 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Photos of Interest
Sometimes I think I have difficult patients. Then I saw this: Yes, it is a gorilla in a CT scanner. The poor animal had mastoiditis; the scan was used prior to surgery. The surgery was successful. See The Big Picture...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:55 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
The people of Obama are selling jellyfish candy. Really. The photo shows a diver next to a specimen of Nomura's jellyfish, Nemopilema nomurai. These creatures occasionally swarm off the coast of Japan, where they are a nuisance. Some creative souls...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:51 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
Alabama has decide to not allow a particular wine to be sold. The reason is that the label contains "some nudity." MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A wine label showing a nude nymph is too much for Alabama's liquor control agency, which...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 4:18 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
I got a kick out of this illustration. It's from the coloring book at Neuroscience for Kids, showing what neuroscientists look like: Neuroscience for Kids (link to pdf coloring book) Neuroscience for Kids (link to website)...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:31 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
Someone reached my site by searching for "callosal boobs." He probably was disappointed. The Corpus Callosum does not have boobs. However, nearby, there is a pair of structures known as the mammillary bodies. Maybe that will bring some joy. (image...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:14 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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