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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…
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 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,"…
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…
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. face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> The oval darkish thing near the top of…
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,…
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.…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.  …
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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"…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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.  …
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…
This little gal was in the garage. It's a green toad, Bufo debilis.
cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="500"> valign="middle" width="500"> OK, here's another front-yard bird.
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/…
This bird was in my front yard a couple of days ago.  It flew away before I could get a better picture.
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…