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March 3, 2008
Hoisted
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2008/02/clear_think_about_the_overmedi.php#comment-768312">from
the comments:
I find it particularly alarming that children are
prescribed some of these drugs. How much is truly known about how
various psychiatric drugs affect the…
March 2, 2008
Generally, no. But some can. Some are rather good
at it. A contest was reported in Science Magazine:
The rules were simple: Using no words or images,
interpret your Ph.D. thesis in dance form. Entrants were divided into
three categories—graduate student, postdoc, and
professor—and the prize for…
March 2, 2008
One of the darker chapters in the history of the
title="American Medical Association">AMA is
their historical opposition to universal, single-payer health care
coverage. The term socialized
medicine came into use in the post-World-War-II period, in
an attempt to falsely conflate such a health…
February 28, 2008
Judith Warner has some insightful essays in the NYT column, pertaining
to the long-raging question about whether psychiatric patients are
style="font-style: italic;">overmedicated or
style="font-style: italic;">undermedicated.
One of the essays addresses the question directly:
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February 28, 2008
I noticed this photo on Flickr...
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A smile is always worth something.
February 25, 2008
A fellow blogger, Logtar,
href="http://blog.logtar.com/2008/02/18/bodies-revealed-boycott/">tipped
me off to a controversy, and asked if I had anything to say
about it. The controversy has come about over an exhibit:
rel="tag" href="http://www.bodiesrevealed.com/index-home.html">Bodies…
February 23, 2008
Sigmund Freud was right about a lot of things, but he also was wrong
about a lot of
things. For example, he thought that there were only two
fundamental motivations: sex and aggression. Bloggers know
better, as this xkcd panel illustrates...
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(I know
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February 19, 2008
The FDA has been making a strenuous effort to combat the problem of
href="http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2005/405_confusion.html">
look-alike, sound-alike drug names. The reason is
simple: there have been tens of thousands of documented medication
errors, in which the wrong drug is…
February 18, 2008
Do cell phones decrease male fertility? Researchers at the
Cleveland Clinic think so. According to
href="http://www.clevelandclinic.org/reproductiveresearchcenter/staff/agarwala.html">Ashok
Agarwal, et. al., greater
use of cell phones is associated with decreased sprem count.
Other factors,…
February 17, 2008
The US Food and Drug Administration is a weird chimera: it contains
some elements of rule-bound regulatory hell, and some elements of
laissez-faire libertarianism. On the libertarian side, they allow
physicians to prescribe any drug that they have approved, even if was
not approved for the use for…
February 11, 2008
I noticed while writing this, that the word
style="font-style: italic;">numb, if modified
by adding the suffix -er,
becomes an entirely different word.
style="font-style: italic;">Number does not
convey the meaning of more
numb.
According to Answers.com, number
is a adjective, with the…
February 10, 2008
...You are trying to run a country. What would you like to do?
href="http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/02/overwhelmed-at-work.html">
This must be old, before Powell joined the torrent of acceptably
competent persons leaving the Administration, and before MS Office
2007. It is still funny…
February 7, 2008
Zyprexa Adhera is a new formulation of
href="http://zyprexa.com/index.jsp">Eli LIlly's
antipsychotic medication,
href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/medmaster/a601213.html">olanzapine.
It contains the same active ingredient as the pills, but it
is a long-acting injection. …
February 4, 2008
I haven't been posting much. I have been trying to figure out
why. Probably it is because all I want to say is that Bush is
an idiot, and I guess I have said that already. More than
once.
But this latest gig is a particularly egregious case. I would
like to comment upon the situation,…
February 3, 2008
This absolutely blows my mind. Evidently, it is OK to drop
cluster bombs on municipal areas. But show your
derrière, and you're off the job.
href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080203/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictisraelmilitary">Israeli
soldiers suspended for mooning Palestinians
JERUSALEM…
January 28, 2008
There are no cash rewards, and no instant fame. But I have
looked at a great many "best photo" series, and this is the most
enjoyable. Why? Because every single one of the
photos is in the public domain.
It's the
href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bild_des_Jahres/2007">…
January 27, 2008
Several days ago, I saw
href="http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/blogs/editor/2008/01/expensive-wine.html">an
article about some research on the relationship between the
price of wine, the subjective experience of taste, and the effect of
wine on brain function as assessed by
title="…
January 25, 2008
Usually I cringe when I see yet another newspaper article about
suicide. But I always read them. This time, I did
cringe, but needlessly. The article turned out to be OK.
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/washington/24fda.html?ei=5090&en=69952ee3ab69a7b3&ex=1358917200&partner…
January 21, 2008
Deputy Dog has a post detailing "
href="http://deputy-dog.com/2008/01/04/5-unbelievably-cool-research-facilities/">5
unbelievably cool research facilities." The one
shown here is the Z
Machine, at the Sandia National Lab in Albuquerque, New
Mexico.
(Sandia Labs have more than one location.)…
January 20, 2008
Usually when we think of
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_medical_record">electronic
medical records (EMR) as being
three-dimensional, we think of the relational aspect of databases.
Researchers at IBM, however, are testing a different concept.
The idea is to have a rendered 3D…
January 14, 2008
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alt="Blogging on Peer-Reviewed Research"
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height="50" width="80">Sounds
too good to be true. Perhaps it is. For one,
there is only one
published case. For another, it…
January 14, 2008
In the great role-playing game of life, I did not get very many
audiophile points. I mean, fine machinery is something I can
appreciate, but I'm pretty indifferent to the sounds those machines
make.
So it strikes me as remarkable that anyone would make, much less buy, a
$300,000 turntable.
No…
January 9, 2008
The US Supreme Court is hearing arguments in Baze v. Rees
(
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/07/AR2008010700618.html">WaPo,
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/washington/07cnd-scotus.html">NYT).
This is a case about a guy who killed a sheriff and a…
January 8, 2008
Previously, I posted a photo of
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2006/07/noctilucent_clouds.php">noctilucent
clouds, as seen from earth. Now, NASA's Earth
Observatory Newsroom presents us with
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17883"…
January 7, 2008
Several of the candidates have been found to have made egregious
misstatements in the
href="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/05/nh.debates/?iref=mpstoryview">New
Hampshire debates. FactCheck.org, the organization
made famous by Dick Cheney when he
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
January 6, 2008
Keith Olbermann Special
Commentary on Bush Lies
Ron Paul was
href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01042008/watch2.html">interviewed
by Bill Moyers last Friday (1/4/2008).
Paul Responded to Moyers' observation that
the media have been complicit in keeping the War out of the public eye
as…
January 6, 2008
I know I've been a bit lax with this blog lately, but just
in case anyone still cares, and has a mobile device (such as a Palm
Pilot, smart phone, etc.) you now can get the RSS feed for Corpus
Callosum on your device. You have to use the
href="http://www.avantgo.com/">AvantGo service.
If…
January 5, 2008
There are only two interesting things about what happened in the Iowa
caucuses. One, the turnout for Democrats was much higher than
the turnout for Republicans. Voter turnout is everything in
US elections. It will continue to be the single most
important factor, until we adopt a civilized form…
January 5, 2008
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January 2, 2008
This photograph expresses my hopes for the new year:
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