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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: Personal
(From five years ago!) There is a restaurant called Pelagos. The name means "from the sea," in Greek. It is underground, but has a patio open to the sky. A staircase leads from the sidewalk to the subterranean patio. The...
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Category: Photos of Interest
Visiting with Kevin, went hiking in Soledad Canyon. The light was crazy, alterating between awful for photography, and interesting, but always challenging. When it stopped snowing and the wind wasn't blowing me around, I was able to get some decent...
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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: Armchair Musings
Botanical names drive me nuts, sometimes. Every plant that is worth anything has many names. The supposed gold standard, the (Latin) Linnaean taxonomical name, gets changed every so often. So there is no constancy. You'd think it would be easier...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:15 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chatter
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
Category: Photos of Interest
Went for a Sunday drive. Saw this: White Sands National Monument Drove a little farther, saw this: Odocoileus hemionus You might have guessed, I did not take the first picture. It is a view from Earth orbit. The second picture,...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 12:55 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
Everyone's anatomy has little quirks. One of mine, is the length of the roots of my wisdom teeth. They go down halfway to Sulawesi. When I was in college, I had to have two of them extracted. The oral...
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Category: Personal
In late winter, 1979, I knew an architecture student at the University of Michigan. She wanted some pictures of buildings, in downtown Chicago, for a presentation she had to do. She was from Chicago, but did not have a car...
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Category: Chatter
When I was in junior high, I used to do this. I don't know why. Probably I was bored with something that is inherently boring. It does not spice things up very much. But some spice is better than none....
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Category: Personal
This is my second music-related post in one week. Salon has an article with podcast, with Patti Smith. The occasion is the forthcoming release of her new album, Twelve. The interview is not so much about the album; it's...
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