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August 7, 2007
This
is featured at the
title="Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences">PNAS
site. It appears to not have a permanent link, but it
currently is the PNAS Featured Image on their
href="http://www.pnas.org/misc/news.shtml">PNAS in the News
page. The caption:
The
intromittent…
August 7, 2007
This
is an interesting exercise. Go to a site and state your
position are various issues that are major themes for next year's
Presidential election. Also rank the importance of each issue
to you.
When you do this, you are not seeing the names of any of the
candidates.
The site then shows…
August 7, 2007
The
US Army Crops of Engineers accidentally dumped hundreds of unexploded
pieces of ordnance on the beach at Surf City.
Now, they want the city to help pay for the cleanup.
"If
they're talking about getting any money out of Surf City to pay for
their mistakes, they can forget about it," Mayor…
August 6, 2007
Donald
Rumsfeld
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6930197.stm">revealed
the identity of the star witness in the Abu Grhaib case.
The guy who blew the whistle had been promised anonymity.
In
2004, the Bush Administration
href="http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/07/bush-…
August 6, 2007
Put
this near the top of things you don't want to do to yourself.
This woman developed fever and abdominal pain, but did not
disclose to her physician what she had done. That was her
second mistake.
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The oval darkish thing near the top of the CAT scan…
August 5, 2007
At
least in mice, that is: rendering the
href="http://neuro.fsu.edu/%7Emmered/index.htm">vomeronasal
organ inactive by deleting the gene
href="http://www.informatics.jax.org/searches/accession_report.cgi?id=MGI%3A109527">TRPC2
(transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily C,…
August 5, 2007
There is an article in the Christian Science Monitor about the history
of tainted consumer goods. The author, Jane Whitaker, points
out that the USA has a history of problems ever bit as bad as what we
are seeing now from China, and makes the point that we should not be so
quick to judge. That…
August 5, 2007
Unexploded
ordinance: the legacy of modern warfare.
href="http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DD5ACEEF-42DC-4FA0-82CE-7C053457C9E1.htm">Reportedly,
Laos has the undesired distinction of harboring the most UXO's of any
country. Courtesy of Uncle Sam, of course.
It's hard to imagine…
August 5, 2007
href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-pod-pix,1,4514127.photogallery?coll=chi_business_promo&index=3">LA
Times photo by Stephen Osman
Buddy,
a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, catches a wave while surfing Rincon
Point in Santa Barbara County, north of Ventura, Calif.
August 4, 2007
Separation
of Church and State often is controversial. Sometimes I worry
about this in the USA, but I have never seen anything as bad as what
they are doing in China:
href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2194682.ece">China
tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before…
August 4, 2007
An
article in the Honk Kong Medical Journal reports on a seried of cases
of Mah-jong Epilepsy. This is something I had not heard of
before: it is considered a subtype of cognition-induced epilepsy.
rev="review" href="http://www.hkmj.org/abstracts/v13n4/314.htm">Mah-jong-induced
seizures:…
August 4, 2007
This
little devil gets a rating of over one million
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale" rel="tag">Scoville
heat units.
It's
the Bhut
Jolokia (ghost chile), also called the
href="http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave/sagajolokia.asp" rel="tag">Naga
Jolokia.
According to…
August 3, 2007
Foreign
Policy magazine has released the results of their
second survey of 100 foreign policy experts, on the topic of national
security. The results are compiled into what they call the
href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3700"
rel="tag">Terrorism Index. Their sample…
August 3, 2007
That
is the conclusion of the most review review of the security of the
Dielbold voting machines in California. Most damning is the
finding that many of the previously-reported vulnerabilities have not
been fixed.
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">...Although we present
several previously…
August 3, 2007
I
happened to run across a couple of articles pertaining to cultural
influences on mental health. Neither presented modern
first-world culture in a positive light.
The two articles are:
href="http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/191/50/s71">Schizophrenia
outcome measures in the wider…
August 2, 2007
title="Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences">PNAS
has an open-access article describing the current state of knowledge of
the genetics of
rel="tag">autism. The authors looked at
information from the Autism
Genetic Resource Exchange and two other databases; one from
the…
August 2, 2007
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Microsoft
(the company, not the cat) is planning
to introduce a free,
href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070801/tc_nm/microsoft_works_dc_1;_ylt=AvNzaQ0YzHMN8HgffxSZzmYE1vAI">adware
version of Microsoft Works.
Works is their stripped-down version of…
August 2, 2007
HR 2102 IH -- Free Flow of Information Act of 2007
US Reps Rick
Boucher,
href="http://mikepence.house.gov/">Mike Pence,
rel="tag" href="http://www.house.gov/conyers/">John
Conyers,
rel="tag">Howard Coble,
href="http://yarmuth.house.gov/" rel="tag">John
Yarmuth, and
rel="tag"…
August 1, 2007
This
is the face the USA presents to the rest of the world:
href="http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003619296">Bush
Insults BBC Political Editor at Press Conference
By E&P Staff
Published: August 01, 2007 10:50 AM ET
NEW YORK At a recent press…
August 1, 2007
A
couple of months ago, I
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/06/psychologists_and_torture.php">wrote
about the revelation that the a committee of the American
Psychological Association had been manipulated into tacitly supporting
the involvement of psychologists in developing…
July 31, 2007
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/images/Carmona-CTAGlobalHealthdraft.pdf">This
report (PDF 260KB file) is what set off the controversy over
the former Surgeon General of the United States. It is a
draft report, entitled The Surgeon General’s Call
to Action on Global Health 2006. …
July 30, 2007
This
is a visual amusement, courtesy of
href="http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/" rel="tag">Websites
as Graphs. The top one is Corpus Callosum.
The bottom one is the ScienceBlogs main page.
The
key is as follows:
What do the colors mean?
blue:
for links (the A tag)
red:
for…
July 29, 2007
In
general, the Corpus Callosum celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit.
This may be the best example of Yankee ingenuity I've ever
seen.
This
being a family-oriented site, it would be too risqué for me
to show the photo uncropped. Plus, my mother reads this
sometimes.
So the full monty is…
July 28, 2007
President
George W. Bush will have a brief opportunity to know what it is like to
be in command, when VP Dick Cheney undergoes surgery to replace his
automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator. White House
spokesman Tony Snow told reporters, "This will be an historic occasion.
Under the…
July 27, 2007
This
is a follow-up to my
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/07/this_is_what_they_are_hiding_1.php">post
from yesterday:
I'm not sure what "GOP fingerprints..." are, but I gather it was
important
to avoid them.
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/images/voter-caging…
July 27, 2007
This
little gal was in the garage.
It's a green toad, Bufo debilis.
July 27, 2007
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OK,
here's another front-yard bird.
July 27, 2007
This
is why some in Congress are issuing subpoenas and talking about
contempt citations. This is why...
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/22/AR2007062201291.html">William
Mercer
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/27/…
July 27, 2007
This
bird was in my front yard a couple of days ago. It flew away
before I could get a better picture.
July 26, 2007
For
some reason, my Father used to say that when he made an
indisputable point of some significance. It is in the
href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=put+that+in+your+pipe+and+smoke+it"
rel="tag">Urban Dictionary in case you are curious
about the expression. It is also the…