MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'alien'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:13:04 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4758720&cid=t_316092_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F008049.html If alien invasion armadas are approaching we aren't watching for their radio transmission signals. Lacking the money to pay its operating expenses, the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., has pulled the plug on the renowned Allen Telescope Array, a field of radio dishes that resemble giant dinner plates. The radio dishes in the Northern California mountains scan the skies for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. Deep in space word is getting around that the SETI Institute has stopped watching for aliens. So all the aliens in hiding are popping their heads out, hopping on their space scooters, and meeting up to make space jamborees with radio transmissions going in every direction. Yes, you read that right: The aliens are using... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4758720 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4758720 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4377666&cid=t_316092_122_f&fid=34755&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropsychological.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F01%2Fmedia-broken-brains-tonight-on-bbc-4.html Enjoy a brainy evening tonight on BBC4! Broken Brains (Source: BrainBlog) BrainBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4377666 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:19:00 +0100 4377666 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4349484&cid=t_316092_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007826.html What's the biggest argument against conspiracy theories of a US government cover-up of the existence of a crashed spaceship in a secret government lab? Think about it. There's an obvious way we could tell is such an event had happened decades ago. What is it? My argument against an alien spaceship crash: If such a crashed spaceship existed it would have been at least partially reverse engineered, yielding amazing advances in technology, But the US government did not generate a very big jumps forward in technology. If the US government had extremely advanced alien technology to reverse-engineer the US government would have ended up getting some of that tech leaking out to industries that supply it. We could look back... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4349484 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4349484 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4304917&cid=t_316092_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F01%2F03%2Ftestimonials-arent-real-evidence%2F Testimonial evidence exists for pretty much any claim that has ever been devised — alien abductions, demon possessions, miracle medical cures and the like. One needs to look no further than the dietary supplement industry to see the influence of testimonials.  In fact, testimonials are probably the key marketing tool for the supplement industry.  Medicine, psychology, and the beauty industry, to name a few, often refer to testimonials in an effort to show the efficacy of their products or treatments.  It is not uncommon for people to make decisions based on testimonials that conflict with scientific evidence — giving more weight to the testimonial. This is a mistake because testimonials are not real evidence. Placebo Effect “Placebo” is derived from a Latin word... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4304917 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:59:30 +0100 4304917 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4219709&cid=t_316092_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007710.html I suddenly feel very crowded. The cool dwarf stars have been undercounted. They've been staying in the background trying to avoid being noticed.. The biggest galaxies in the universe are elliptical galaxies. The largest of these hold over one trillion stars according to astronomical census takers, compared to 400 billion in our Milky Way. However, new research shows that elliptical galaxies actually hold five to ten times as many stars as previously believed. This means that the total number of stars in the universe is likely three times bigger than realized. As soon as the news about these dwarf stars gets spread across the galaxies residents of their habital planets are going to be at much greater risk of interstellar... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4219709 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4219709 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4118828&cid=t_316092_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007606.html Raising hopes that somewhere out there a planet is going thru a creative musical phase akin to the 1960s level of Rock and Roll music. Nearly one in four stars like the sun could have Earth-size planets, according to a University of California, Berkeley, study of nearby solar-mass stars. UC Berkeley astronomers Andrew Howard and Geoffrey Marcy chose 166 G and K stars within 80 light years of Earth and observed them with the powerful Keck telescope for five years in order to determine the number, mass and orbital distance of any of the stars' planets. The sun is the best known of the G stars, which are yellow, while K-type dwarfs are slightly smaller, orange-red stars. The researchers found... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4118828 Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:00:00 +0100 4118828 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4018143&cid=t_316092_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007531.html When will the invasion space ships from Gliese 581g arrive overhead and begin planetary bombardment? Washington, D.C. Astronomers have found a new, potentially habitable Earth-sized planet. It is one of two new planets discovered around the star Gliese 581, some 20 light years away. The planet, Gliese 581g, is located in a "habitable zone"—a distance from the star where the planet receives just the right amount of stellar energy to maintain liquid water at or near the planet's surface. The 11- year study, published in the Astrophysical Journal and posted online at arXiv.org, suggests that the fraction of stars in the Milky Way harboring potentially habitable planets could be greater than previously thought—as much as a few tens of percent.... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4018143 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0100 4018143 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3987037&cid=t_316092_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F40th4LunYA8%2F By Daniel GriswoldThe U.S. Senate may vote in the next few days on a piece of legislation known as the DREAM Act. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act would offer legal status to as many as 2 million students who are currently in the United States without authorization, many of them Hispanic immigrants who entered the country illegally with their parents. The act would legalize students who entered the United States at least five years before its passage and were under the age of 16 when they entered. A practical effect would be to make many of these students eligible for in-state tuition at colleges and universities. The DREAM Act is not a perfect call for those of us who believe in limited government, but in our less-than-perfect world, the act would make a bad situ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3987037 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:27:41 +0100 3987037 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3776607&cid=t_316092_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2Fw5qmKLRWSVk%2F Yet another legal headache for Pfizer over the 1996 Troval scandal in Nigeria. The drugmaker recently agreed to pay $75 million to resolve civil and criminal charges brought by the Kano State government in Nigeria. The move, effectively, settled most outstanding litigation. Until now. Another 192 victims have filed yet another lawsuit and are seeking a mere $384 billion, AllAfrica reports. These victims and their familiess are challenging a proposal to conduct a DNA test that Pfizer has pursued for identification purposes. But the lawyers for the 192 families say it is unclear how the DNA samples will be confirmed and have repeatedly voiced suspicions that samples may be secretly switched, depriving victims of compensation (background). The 1996 Trovan study was conducted on about 200 chil... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3776607 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:44:46 +0100 3776607 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3508140&cid=t_316092_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007130.html Physicist Stephen Hawking says aliens who detect us might have hostile intentions. “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach,” he said. “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the native Americans.” Here's a video of Hawking making these comments. Richard Carrigan thinks we should look for artifacts of alien civilizations that... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3508140 Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3508140 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3457825&cid=t_316092_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fcool-celebrity-baby-names%2F Lately we’ve been talking about all the horrible baby names lurking around Hollywood, but things really aren’t all bad. These stars came up with some sparkling monikers for their mini constellations. Willow and Jaden Smith (Image: WENN) Willow and Jaden – Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s kids Their daughter’s name relates to daddy, and their son’s to mom. Cool. Tallulah – Demi Moore and Bruce Willis’ daughter Scout and Rumer might be hip, but Tallulah takes the cake. Too bad she changed her name to Lula. Ripley and Nico – Thandie Newton’s daughters Thandie’s daughters were named after the character Ellen Ripley in the Alien films, and Nico, the Velvet Underground singer and Warhol Superstar, respectively. Satchel – Spike Lee’... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3457825 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:58:29 +0100 3457825 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3322328&cid=t_316092_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F006978.html The universe is not getting any younger. Menlo Park, Calif.—Using entire galaxies as lenses to look at other galaxies, researchers have a newly precise way to measure the size and age of the universe and how rapidly it is expanding, on a par with other techniques. The measurement determines a value for the Hubble constant, which indicates the size of the universe, and confirms the age of the universe as 13.75 billion years old, within 170 million years. The results also confirm the strength of dark energy, responsible for accelerating the expansion of the universe. These results, by researchers at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) at the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3322328 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3322328 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3318364&cid=t_316092_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F006975.html Think about the implications: Intelligent alien species could have migrated into our galaxy from an older galaxy riding along with a star cluster. KINGSTON, ON – As many as one quarter of the star clusters in our Milky Way – many more than previously thought – are invaders from other galaxies, according to a new study. The report also suggests there may be as many as six dwarf galaxies yet to be discovered within the Milky Way rather than the two that were previously confirmed. "Some of the stars and star clusters you see when you look into space at night are aliens from another galaxy, just not the green-skinned type you find in a Hollywood movie. These 'alien' star... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3318364 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3318364 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2313536&cid=t_316092_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F04%2F08%2Fhow-depression-is-like-the-x-files%2F Huh?? That’s probably what you thought when you clicked on this blog post. Depression….. The X Files….. Right. I’ll admit, I’m a scifi fan, and the X Files is one of my all-time favorite shows. I’m old enough to have enjoyed it the first time around in the ’90s, and now I’m watching the entire series again on DVD. Yes, I’m a big nerd, but I digress. A couple of nights ago, I watched one of the many alien conspiracy episodes involving Agents Scully and Mulder, Assistant Director Skinner, Alex Krycek, and a host of other folks mixed up in a thick plot. This is somewhere in the last of nine seasons, so alien conspiracy and high drama are not new to the regular viewer by this time. I had a few thought collisions today, leading me to compar... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2313536 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:24:43 +0100 2313536 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1686185&cid=t_316092_109_f&fid=34616&url=http%3A%2F%2Frebeldoctor.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fneuropsychiatric-explanation-for-alien.html Current Psychiatry has an article about Alien Abduction Experiences, which can be caused by several pscyhiatric and neurological conditions. Some cases are hypothesized to be secondary to sleep paralysis combined with hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations:Full-body paralysis normally accompanies rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which occurs several times a night. Sleep paralysis is a transient state that occurs when an individual becomes conscious of this immobility, typically while falling asleep or awakening. These experiences can be accompanied by hypnagogic (while falling asleep) or hypnopompic (while awakening) hallucinations. An estimated 30% of the population has had at least one sleep paralysis episode. In one study, 5% of sleep paralysis patients had episodes that were accompani... Rebel Doctor Web Log blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1686185 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:41:00 +0100 1686185 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1386858&cid=t_316092_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F274265211%2F Saturn’s moon Titan - three different views Courtesy NASA Titan, one of Saturn’s moons is like a genetic twin to Earth.  It enjoys many of the geological features of the Earth - volcanism, tectonics, erosion, deposition and atmosphere.  The rivers flowing across these plains are formed of a hydrocarbon soup with methane as its main ingredient. However the one main difference is that it is so cold so most of the water is solid. The true nature of this once mysterious world is now finally emerging, courtesy largely of the Cassini-Huygens mission, a joint US-European venture, which deposited a landing craft on Titan, and continues to send back data and pictures of Saturn, its rings and its 60-odd moons. The data coming back from the mission shows that on Titan it rains metha... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1386858 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:07:21 +0100 1386858