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 'bats'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:51:00 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4696623&cid=t_153099_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fbaseball-safety-should-we-ban-non-wood-bats%2F2011.04.10 Opening Day, the first day of the 2011 major league baseball season, was March 31st. The first pitch was thrown a little after 1 p.m., and sometime after that baseball fans heard the first crack of the bat of a brand-new season. Even nonfans can rejoice at this sign of spring, and a promise that summer days are ahead. But you won’t hear the crack of the bat very much these days from other diamonds—Little League, high school, and college. It has been replaced by pings and thunks as most players at those levels now use metal bats or composite ones, which that are made with a mixture of materials, including graphite. Players started using metal (usually aluminum) bats about 30 years ago. They last longer than wooden bats and send the ball farther. The composite models have come on strong ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4696623 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:00:17 +0100 4696623 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1386003&cid=t_153099_86_f&fid=34468&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrowsing.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F04%2Ffirst-bat-of-year.html On April the 18th we saw a Pipistrelle bat (on the way back home from the spar shop) we named it Bert! It stayed around for 5-10 minutes (it was very small!)Bert flew around the busy road for ages we had to leave him flying around.We will inform the local bat group. (Source: Browsing) Browsing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1386003 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:36:00 +0100 1386003 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1192854&cid=t_153099_107_f&fid=35762&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fgrrlscientist%2F%7E3%2F226813266%2Ffungus_killing_northeastern_ba.php tags: bats, little brown bats, Indiana bats, white nose syndrome, cavers, Alan Hicks Hibernating bats suffering from the mysterious "White Nose Syndrome" (arrows). Image: Alan Hicks, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation [larger view] If you live in New York or Vermont, then you might have heard about the mystery disease that is killing tens of thousands of bats hibernating in caves and mines throughout these two states. The disease has been given the descriptive appellation, "white nose syndrome" because its most obvious symptom (besides death), is the peculiar ring of white fungus that forms on the bats' muzzles. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)) Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1192854 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:09:45 +0100 1192854 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1127389&cid=t_153099_140_f&fid=35448&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseemedlikeagoodideathetime.com%2F2008%2F01%2F02%2Fjust-your-average-day-at-my-house%2F by UM/TPB File this under “Too Weird To Be True” stories.  If somebody told me this,  I don’t know if I would believe it. But, I swear that this is the honest truth. This actually happened in my house this evening. Time to take down the Christmas tree. Our tree is one of those “umbrella” type trees that comes in 4 sections. The limbs fold out when you set it up. I got the top section off but could not get the other sections apart. So, I waited until my husband came home to lend a hand. We got the 2nd section off without any trouble but the 3rd section was just plain stuck. We tugged and pulled. We turned the tree on it’s side and upside down. It just would not come apart. Finally, I got on the floor pulling in one direction while hubby was standing pulling in another directi... bipolar chicks blogging blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1127389 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:15:29 +0100 1127389 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=966704&cid=t_153099_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F10%2F21%2Fare-we-really-that-unique.html By Dov Michaeli MD, Ph.DThe question of what makes us "human" has occupied philisophers since  Aristotle. And the well worn, but profound statement of 17th century French philosopher Descartes "I think therefore I am" or in Latin "cogito ergo sum" (he actually wrote it if French: "Je pense, donc je suis"), has formed the basis for modern Western philosophy to this day. Today, thinking is one of the basic traits attributed to being human. And one of the of the pillars of thinking is language and speech, the ability to express our thoughts. From here, it is only a logical skip and hop to the assumption that Homo sapiens' uniqueness resides in its aqcuisition of the capacity for speech. In fact, molecular biologists discovered that a... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=966704 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:53:33 +0100 966704