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 'attribution'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:29:22 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4872182&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F27%2Fintroduction-to-social-psychology-and-social-cognition%2F (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4872182 Fri, 27 May 2011 15:09:32 +0100 4872182 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3385397&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F20%2Fmis-expressed-lane%2F Today I’m on the Express Lane. (“12 items or less” — that ought to read “12 items or fewer”, but groceries are hardly models of grammar and punctuation.)  I’m not a “number Nazi” — if the other registers are busy, I don’t care if you’ve two dozen items; my goal is to get you checked [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3385397 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:55:13 +0100 3385397 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3298393&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F02%2F23%2Fthe-situation-of-suspicion%2F This article examines this claim by exploring in depth the cognitive biases and abilities that serve respectively as obstacles to, and opportunities for, police making accurate judgments about individualized suspicion. The article concludes that requiring police consciously to justify their intuitions can improve their accuracy, that the greatest accuracy comes from constructing institutions in a way that combines the best of unconscious intuition with more systematic critique, and that police training can be improved in various ways to enhance cognitive accuracy about the individualized suspicion judgment. * * * For a sample of related Situationist posts, see “The Legal Situation of the Underclass,” “Jennifer Eberhardt’s “Policing Racial Bias” – Video,” and “Th... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3298393 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:01:00 +0100 3298393 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3271084&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F02%2F14%2Foliver-sacks-on-humans-and-myth-making-oliver-sacks-big-think%2F From Big Think: * * * For a sample of related Situationist posts, see”The Interior Situation of Complex Human Feelings,” “Daniel Dennett on the Situation of our Brain,” “Dan Dennett on our Interior Situation,” “The Situation of Reason,” “The Situation of Confabulation,” “Social Psychology and the Unconscious: The Automaticity of Higher Processes,” “Jonathan Haidt on the Situation of Moral Reasoning,” “The Unconscious Situation of our Consciousness – Part IV,” and “Unconscious Situation of Choice.” (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3271084 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:01:16 +0100 3271084 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4098289&cid=t_115252_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffgibson.com%2F2009%2F07%2F10%2Fattribution-vs-citation-do-you-know-the-difference%2F This article outlines the differences between attribution and citation, and suggests that what most scientists are interested in is not attribution, which can be ensured via licensing restrictions, but instead citation, which is a much tougher nut to crack. At ISMB last week, there were a number of conversations about the difference between attribution and citation. This topic was brought up again yesterday in a conversation between the two authors of this post, Frank and Allyson. It is an important distinction which is explored in this post. First, some definitions for attribution and citation. These are not the only definitions possible, but for the purposes of this discussion, please keep these in mind. Attribution: Acknowledgement of the use of someone else’s information, data, ... peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4098289 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:23:45 +0100 4098289 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2447681&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F06%2F02%2Fbob%2F “Eek, a bee!” yelped the little girl as her mother paid for some flowers at the nursery register. “Oh, that’s just Bob; he can’t sting you.  He’s a carpenter bee.” I explained, holding an open hand up toward where Bob was doing loop-de-loops.  But my repeated explanations aside, most people were not buying Bob’s reported status [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2447681 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:44:03 +0100 2447681 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2313481&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F04%2F01%2Fthe-very-model-of-a-social-disability%2F BayDisability has begun blogging about prosopagnosia, and how it affects her life.  Because hers is an acquired case, it has affected her profoundly.  (Amazingly, it’s not some strange story she came up with to create “lesbian drama”! Oy.) I have to say that from the self-reports I’ve read, faceblindness due to injury is much more disabling [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2313481 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:37:06 +0100 2313481 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2188077&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F02%2F14%2Ffor-the-first-time-in-28-years%2F I have not bought a Valentine’s present for my husband. I am divorcing him. Disabilities can change how the processes of falling in love, joining, living together, loving together, and separating happen. For most disabled people, their disabilities affect how others perceive them as even being interested or capable to find love or sex. (WTF?!) For many disabled [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2188077 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:07:09 +0100 2188077 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2097954&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F13%2Fyou-just-dont-get-it%2F A few summers ago, right in the middle of my graduate programme, I was hit with Mono and Lyme. Taking a shower was exhausting. I kept falling asleep in statistics classes, and in the lab where I tried to work. Putting thoughts together in any of my research analysis or writing, or even learning new [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2097954 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:12:11 +0100 2097954 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2074301&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F03%2Fwith-a-price-tag-like-that-you-know-its-whats-best%2F Would you pay more for name-brand headache medicine than the generic or store brand?  If your budget is like mine, probably not; after all, the tablets are the same, it’s just the packaging that’s different. But on the flip side, what if your favorite practitioner recommends an expensive treatment that will help you or your loved [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2074301 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:57:02 +0100 2074301 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1990887&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F26%2F4-stages-you-dont-have-to-go-through%2F A recent article landed in my Google news aggregater, “Child’s Autism Diagnosis: 4 Stages You Will Go Through”.  Unfortunately, for all of its cheery helpfulness, it still manages to perpetuate some common stereotypes and misconceptions about disabilities: When you hear that your child has been diagnosed with autism, the worst thoughts come to your mind. You [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1990887 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:24:04 +0100 1990887 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1717683&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F08%2F19%2Fseeing-michael-phelpss-gold-medal-situation%2F Sam Sommers has another excellent (situationist) post, titled “The Greatest Ever? Not So Fast . . .” over at Psychology Today Blog. Sommers’s post is worth reading in its entirety (here), but here are a few particularly situationist excerpts. * * * U.S. Swimmer Michael Phelps just won his 8th gold medal of the Beijing Olympics tonight, the 14th gold of his career. These are feats that have never been accomplished before, and it’s hard to argue with the conclusion that his is the greatest Olympic performance of all time. Some in the sporting world (and beyond) are also calling Phelps the greatest athlete of all time. But not so fast—a number of psychological considerations suggest that the pundits (and public) are likely getting a bit carried away. Before I go an... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1717683 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:00:50 +0100 1717683 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1692208&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F08%2F09%2Fnot-flapping-my-lips%2F (”Flapping one’s lips” is American slang meaning to stand around talking, usually about nothing important, or gossiping, e.g., the disdainful address, “Don’t you just be standing around there flappin’ your lips.” ) “All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.” ~Edmund Burke “It is very tempting to take the side of [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1692208 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:08:23 +0100 1692208 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1689058&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F08%2F07%2Fthe-crystal-ball-crackd%2F The Kid recently took the ACT test, which like the SAT, is frequently used by colleges to determine scholastic abilities, and in his case helped place him for which college writing class he needed.  He had to ask his sister what the test was like, and her impressions about its difficulty level.  I could not [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1689058 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:42:44 +0100 1689058 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1655793&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F07%2F25%2Fattributing-blame-from-the-baseball-diamond-to-the-war-on-terror-2%2F The Yankees’ Joba Chamberlain and the Red Sox’s Kevin Youkilis are at it again. Joba, who showed no sign of control problems, nonetheless launched a pitch at Kevin’s head in tonight’s pitchers’ dual. The big question, of course, is whether Joba’s head-ward pitch was intentional or inadvertent. With that question in mind, we thought this an opportune moment to reprise a post we initially published in September. Whenever we witness something harmful or unexpected, we humans look to make attributions of causation, responsibility, and blame. Social psychologists have been studying the way we make those attributions for the last half century. Part of that research, known as attribution theory, focuses on how we draw inferences about how much control people e... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1655793 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:49:20 +0100 1655793 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1449386&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F17%2Fare-you-slow%2F “I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1449386 Sat, 17 May 2008 00:26:26 +0100 1449386 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1433786&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F10%2Fmaths-chem-ranting2%2F Why are so many math books poorly written? Even many of the physical sciences books seem to have this terrible dichotomy between the text explaining the concepts, and the text explaining the calculations. I suspect it’s partly because one person is writing the conceptual text, and another person is writing the calculations [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1433786 Sat, 10 May 2008 17:21:31 +0100 1433786 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1380655&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F18%2Fthe-rational-choice-myth-abstract%2F Michael Dorff recently posted his interesting paper, “The Rational Choice Myth: The Selection and Compensation of Critical Performers,” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * Some positions within an organization wield unusual impact over the entity’s success. The decision makers who hire these critical performers face a daunting task: to distinguish among closely comparable finalists in a context where small differences in talent can produce enormous outcome divergences. I apply research from psychology and behavioral law and economics to argue that decision makers demonstrate unwarranted confidence in their ability to distinguish among nearly identical candidates. The illusion of validity, representativeness bias, insensitivity to predictability, and the fundamenta... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1380655 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:49:01 +0100 1380655 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1352112&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F05%2Fbuzz-off%2F No, “buzz off” does not mean that I am being grumpy and telling everyone to Go Away. There are apparently a lot of other people out there who are grumpy about Mosquitos, but not the insect kind. The story (like most) gets complex very fast. So. There are some young people who hang out in [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1352112 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:56:11 +0100 1352112 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1316701&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F20%2Fpiss-poor-platitudes%2F There’s something about the intersection of the loss of a child and thoughtlessness that produces a dreadful lot of dreadful platitudes. But your child doesn’t even have to die — finding out that your child has an incurable disease or disabling condition can result in more horrible platitudes. Some people will protest that, “Well, they [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1316701 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:02:50 +0100 1316701 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1088748&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F12%2F12%2Fwhy-this-behavioural-observer-isnt-a-behaviourist%2F I’ve spent hours observing and recording the actions and reactions of insects and humans. I’m a behavioural observer, but I don’t consider myself to be a Behaviourist. Despite the usefulness of Behaviourism for training animals (including humans) to perform particular tasks, I find that school of thought to be too limiting for understanding and [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1088748 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:25:52 +0100 1088748 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1055683&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F28%2Fcross-cultural-communiques%2F David recently posted the following conundrum in an essay: How do you best convey experiences of living with a disability that are so alien to so many people? Where do you start? How do you convey challenges that people have never even considered? This insightful — and sometimes “incite-ful” post, because it made me thoroughly annoyed [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1055683 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:13:15 +0100 1055683 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=961701&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F18%2Fcrazy-people%2F Back in another lifetime, I did clerical work downtown in the Big City. One day the gal at the desk next to me came back from her lunch break and she said, “There’s a crazy woman down on the corner just standing there picking at the air.” I thought this description to be odd, but [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=961701 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:06:39 +0100 961701 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=928815&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F05%2Ffor-no-reason%2F (Coffee-spew warning) “I don’t know; he just started biting the other kid for no reason. But you know, children-with-autism just do those things.” “We were just going over the lesson when alla-sudden she just BLEW UP for no reason, and started cussing and calling me an F-ing B and threw her folder papers all over and [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=928815 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:21:52 +0100 928815 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=886296&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F20%2Fbut-its-not-the-same%2F Dave Hingsburger recently had a very nice column about the pros and cons of labelling. He made some very fine points, including the key idea that, “the issue is how we value the difference that is labeled.” This reminded me of something similarly related, which is how we value the accommodations. With many [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=886296 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:31:54 +0100 886296 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=830018&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F30%2Fattendance-required%2F Earlier this week I had to sit still in one place and pay attention for a longer period of time than I’ve had to do in ages. Man, I’d forgotten how utterly difficult that is to do! I had to not just sit, but “sit appropriately” on a hard wooden pew, and stay [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=830018 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:01:49 +0100 830018 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=811204&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F21%2Flearning-nothing%2F “I don’t know what to do with my son. You don’t understand what it’s like. He CAN’T LEARN. He’s been in school for FIVE YEARS and has learned NOTHING! I’ve been to all these meetings. It took him MONTHS of therapy to teach him how to sit down! [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=811204 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:55:20 +0100 811204 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=774182&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F02%2Fsmall-comforts%2F “You know when you have a few good days and you begin to wonder whether the bad days could have possibly been as bad you imagined they were and then you have a few bad days and wonder how on Earth you ever were able to do the things you did on the good days? [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=774182 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:37:07 +0100 774182 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=752879&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F07%2F24%2Fthat-kind%2F Vivid illustrations of a horrifying problem: three stories from recent news. So what’s going on here? Not the obvious, surface situations, but what is going on in the social dynamics? And we can we do to change things? (Click on headlines for links to full news stories.) Autistic boy not welcome in music store (New York City) As an [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=752879 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:42:23 +0100 752879 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=736319&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F07%2F16%2Fbridge-load-limit%2F “I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.” ~Jennifer Unlimited PART THE FIRST: THRESHOLDS AS VARIABLE MAXIMA Sometimes it’s hard to explain why things get overwhelming, or why something I could tolerate just find one day becomes overwhelming on another day. I look “normal”. I earned university [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=736319 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:22:09 +0100 736319 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=692625&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F23%2Frecovered%2F When reading about various “cures” for autism, AD/HD et cetera, you’ll see the term “recovered” used. As in, “was ill but recovered”. This takes the medical model of disability rather far, from the sort of issue that may sometimes be addressed symptomatically using medical intervention (e.g. Ritalin for AD/HD), into the realm of [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=692625 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 21:03:53 +0100 692625 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=676175&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F07%2Ffraud%2F I don’t belong here. Maybe I should have applied at a different department; Professor N was just being nice to write me a letter of recommendation. I don’t even know what those rec letters said; what if they were just so much “social noise” and I’m not really cut out for graduate school? I am not [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=676175 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:36:31 +0100 676175 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=654511&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F02%2Fthe-words%2F They lied. One sentence; two words. Together, two very powerful words. As the beginning, those two words beg more questions than they answer. Who lied? What about? To whom? When, where, and why? In my head, those two words are dark, hard and cold. They stand as a stark, heavy monolith deeply [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=654511 Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:37:20 +0100 654511 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=620215&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F05%2F13%2Fwhat-i-learned-from-the-bugs-alienation-and-othering%2F “Great truths are sometimes so enveloping and exist in such plain view as to be invisible.” ~Edward O. Wilson I went to study Entomology, and four years later found that I had discovered far more about my own species than I had about insects and other arthropods. What I learned about humans was enlightening, [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=620215 Sun, 13 May 2007 15:31:36 +0100 620215 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=570439&cid=t_115252_134_f&fid=35152&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsstrumello.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fcopyright-and-my-cat.html The other day, I was searching the Internet for something completely unrelated to diabetes and stumbled upon a posting that looked strangely familiar because it was actually MY 2006 Year-End Annual Review on developments on diabetes, except that none of the links I had in the original post were included, nor was there any acknowledgement or attribution of me as the author or even my blog address.After investigating further, I discovered at least a half dozen of my other postings had been lifted, again without the links, pictures or attribution. That probably wouldn't have bothered me too much since I discovered that the site was registered to someone in Thailand (although the domain was registered with Yahoo! in the U.S. and hosted by a server in Texas) but what really got me mad was the f... Scott's Web Log blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=570439 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:48:00 +0100 570439 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=531800&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F04%2F10%2Fthe-privilege-of-being-clouted-by-cabbage%2F Yesterday I went to the grocery store. I wandered up and down the aisles, repeating a few aisles in my (typically ADHD-forgetful) journey to fetch the items on my list (and I still forgot a couple of items, despite using a list). I selected various pieces of produce and only had one head of cabbage [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=531800 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:32:02 +0100 531800 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=506323&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F03%2F28%2Fwho-owns-it%2F “It’s not about YOU,” I explained, although I had that dreaded sinking sensation that although the words flowed by her ears and pinballed through the processing areas of her brain, that although she was hearing and listening and understanding the verbiage, the other staff member was also not really understanding what the hell I meant. [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=506323 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:03:58 +0100 506323 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487596&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F02%2F08%2Fbuilding-a-character%2F At 45, I can now claim to being somewhere in that amorphous zone of “middle-aged” where one is no longer the puppy-faced young adult, but hasn’t quite slipped over to the realm of the white-haired elders. By this point I have had enough “character-building experiences” to go from Having Character to at times Being [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487596 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:35:19 +0100 487596 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487599&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F01%2F22%2Fno-congratulations-needed%2F When I was assaulted, robbed, grossly insulted, Framed for infractions I didn’t do, And then went to the authorities They called me a liar. When I ignored pretentious fashions Avoided parties of catty gossip And shunned drinking and drugs I was denounced as rebelling the wrong way. When decided that I needed job skills Concensus dictated I should take courses That took advantage of my [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487599 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:33:26 +0100 487599 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487609&cid=t_115252_109_f&fid=35088&url=http%3A%2F%2Fqw88nb88.wordpress.com%2F2006%2F12%2F21%2Fproblems-with-solutions%2F Students will fail to succeed, or outright fail a subject, for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they have learning disabilities, sometimes they have health issues, sometimes their underachievement results from motivational issues. Oft times there are sticky combinations of these causes. In any regard, there’s a long and sadly-familiar road trod by [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:) Andrea's Buzzing About: blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487609 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:48:37 +0100 487609