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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: Social Commentary
I just noticed this: the average workweek in the USA has declined to 34.1 hours (see the BLS report: Employment Situation Summary). Last year, the average television viewing time increased to 151 hours per month, or 5.03 hours per day...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 4:46 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
A few days ago, there was a minor ripple in the political world, when a media person tried to get John McCain to say that Obama is a socialist. Even though McCain had hinted at that several times during the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:18 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
The earthquake in Haiti is only the most recent in a series of catastrophes stretching back over two centuries. It was not always like this. Haiti, in fact, was once the most prosperous colony in the New World. When it...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:53 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Armchair Musings
This is a high-resolution photo of Pearl Harbor (click to enlarge). When I saw that it had been posted to the NASA Earth Observatory, I wondered -- momentarily -- why they would post a photo of Pearl Harbor. Then I...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:05 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Commentary
Reasonable persons still wonder why some others insist that permitting gay marriage will threaten heterosexual marriage. Now we find out: it happens as an unintended consequence. Take Texas (please): Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages By Dave...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:35 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Commentary
A meme making the rounds in some circles is this: Prayer for Obama, Psalm 109:8. This is what is known as an imprecatory prayer, that is, a prayer that expresses ill will toward another. This particular bit of verse...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:41 AM • 6 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: Science News
This is about chronic fatigue syndrome and the association with XMRV. I apologize in advance for the provocative title, and the subsequent gratuitous references to the Nobel Prize, but there is a point to this. Take a look at this...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:04 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Commentary
This is a bad sign. Specifically, it is an instance of the mainstream media starting to hint at the truth. I take this as a sign that things are getting worse, as the effort to keep up the pretense is...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 2:50 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
There is an interesting parallel between the fight over rural electrification, in 1935, and the current health insurance debate. (HT dangerousmeta) How FDR Enacted his "Public Option" By Bob Simmons, Crosscut.com, Guest Writer, 9-13-09...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:57 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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