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 'charles darwin'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:10:53 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4734205&cid=t_129879_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F04%2F21%2Fa-snippet-of-psychologys-scientific-roots%2F Throughout the years, sometimes it seems that the public has been iffy about psychology and psychologists. Part of the problem is a lack of knowledge. Past surveys have shown that many people have no idea what psychologists even do. More recent research has found that the public largely views psychology in a positive light. But people still have a limited understanding of the discipline and don’t view it as a hard science. A 1998 survey revealed that both adults and college faculty viewed the physical sciences more favorably. They believed that psychology — along with sociology — led to fewer critical contributions to society and had less expertise than the physical sciences. How did psychology get this bad reputation? PsyBlog’s Jeremy Dean (which, by the way, is an aweso... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4734205 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:01:13 +0100 4734205 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4294637&cid=t_129879_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifeinthefastlane%2FWZHV%2F%7E3%2FS1YEIDycgxc%2F The LITFL team hopes a new movie about the life of Charles Darwin will help raise the profile of evolutionary medicine. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4294637 Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:10:04 +0100 4294637 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4225260&cid=t_129879_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifeinthefastlane%2FWZHV%2F%7E3%2FJNPmhBuhvkQ%2F On a day of historic destruction we look to provide some more light-hearted medical trivia to ease you into the weekend...with questions on Ayahuasca, Charles Darwin, identical twins and CVS (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4225260 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 06:12:48 +0100 4225260 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3106744&cid=t_129879_107_f&fid=35026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fv%2FlJPytZPDFz8%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1 For more on this see The Face of Darwin where K. Garvey explains the history of the mural in more detail.  -------- This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. -------- (Source: The Tree of Life) The Tree of Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3106744 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:16:01 +0100 3106744 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3106753&cid=t_129879_107_f&fid=35026&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheTreeOfLife%2F%7E3%2FxlF4gb0sDtg%2Fmy-favorite-evolution-stuff-2-charles.html In honor of Charlie D. I am posting one of my favorite Darwin items.  I got this from Ebay years ago.  It is a Darwin card - about 3 x 5 cm.  From Ogden's Cigarettes, much like baseball cards. Also see my previous "Favorite Darwin thing" - a post card from 1900 or so.  -------- This is from the "Tree of Life Blog" of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter. -------- (Source: The Tree of Life) The Tree of Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3106753 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:11:49 +0100 3106753 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2442607&cid=t_129879_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FC5GwDiZU98c%2F Even in poetry, there are controversies. Maybe this is a tempest in a teapot, but I’ve come over the decades to recognize poetry as my own personal teapot. The first female Oxford Professor of Poetry resigned today following her involvement in an alleged smear campaign against a former rival. Ruth Padel, a great-great granddaughter of Charles Darwin, insisted she had “acted in good faith” and had done “nothing intentional” to lead her rival Derek Walcott to withdraw from the election. Oxford University sources said a new election would now be held. via Oxford professor of poetry Ruth Padel resigns Related articles by Zemanta Ruth Padel quits top poetry job (guardian.co.uk) Technorati Tags: Charles Darwin, Derek Walcott, Oxford University, Professor of ... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2442607 Thu, 28 May 2009 23:03:17 +0100 2442607 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2178778&cid=t_129879_88_f&fid=38203&url=http%3A%2F%2Fprecordialthump.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F02%2F11%2Fhappy-darwin-day%2F February 12th 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of my favourite medical dropout, Charles Darwin. Darwin Day is a way of celebrating the great man’s contribution to science (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online) and, more generally, the importance of science to humanity. “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge; it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” - Charles Darwin Be sure to have a celebratory bowl of primordial soup (!) while you watch Richard Dawkins‘ uncut interview with Randolph Nesse on evolutionary medicine (from  “The Genius of Charles Darwin“): [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed... AEQUANIMITAS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2178778 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:22:58 +0100 2178778 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2210739&cid=t_129879_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FEQz2070_rUo%2F We have just this afternoon made our way to Miami Beach from Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. That’s a journey that can’t entirely be measured in miles. Of course, I have brought back lots of pictures, and have put some of them here for you to see. Lots of obligatory sea lion pictures. This year marks Charles Darwin’s bicentennial, and Ecuador is playing it up and doing a good job of it. Quito is a wonderful city, nestled into a valley between mountains on all sides. I had a hard time with the altitude, though. Now, I am going to acclimate myself to my own country some more. Copyright © 2009 white pebble. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyrigh... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2210739 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:43:08 +0100 2210739 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2089912&cid=t_129879_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F09%2Fdarwin-2009-multimedia-and-more%2F Good to see that the BBC are getting into the Darwin anniversary celebrations. Here’s their informative website with TV/radio shows and special features. BBC Radio 4 also have a Darwin website. You could do a lot worse than start by listening to Melvyn Bragg’s 4-part Darwin series from the show “In Our Time”. It’s available via the iplayer or as a podcast. Elsewhere in the UK there are Darwin 200 events organised by the Natural History Museum and the Wellcome Trust. Posted in multimedia, science news, web resources   Tagged: 2009, charles darwin, evolution    (Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate) What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2089912 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:08:19 +0100 2089912 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2077348&cid=t_129879_88_f&fid=38203&url=http%3A%2F%2Fprecordialthump.medbrains.net%2F2008%2F12%2F27%2Fnothing-in-medicine-makes-sense-except%2F “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” - The title of a 1973 essay by theistic evolutionist Theodosius Dobzhansky <fulltext> The same can, and should, be said of medicine. However as Catriona MacCallum notes: It is curious that Charles Darwin, perhaps medicine’s most famous dropout, provided the impetus for a subject that figures so rarely in medical education… Yet an understanding of how natural selection shapes vulnerability to disease can provide fundamental insights into medicine and health and is no less relevant than an understanding of physiology or biochemistry. - MacCallum CJ (2007) Does Medicine without Evolution Make Sense? PLoS Biol 5(4): e112 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050112 When I began studying medicine I was surprise... AEQUANIMITAS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2077348 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:19:26 +0100 2077348 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2902920&cid=t_129879_132_f&fid=35001&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.nodalpoint.org%2F2008%2F07%2F02%2Ftree_of_life I'm not much of an evolutionary biologist, but Jonathan Eisen asked for help and I can't resist. So, in the name of Science, and via the goodness of nodalpoint, here is some deserved Google Juice for various Trees of Life on the Web. Jonathan Eisen's "Tree of Life" blog Tree of Life Web Project Tree of life (science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Green Tree of Life at Berkeley Fungal Tree of Life Project Beetle Tree of Life project Fly Tree of Life project Mammal Tree of Life project Cypriniformes Tree of Life project Liverwort Tree of Life Project Early Bird Tree of Life project Angiosperm Tree of Life project Cnidaria Tree of Life Project Decapoda Tree of Life Project There, I've done my bit for Science, no... nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2902920 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:44:17 +0100 2902920 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1062875&cid=t_129879_145_f&fid=35710&url=http%3A%2F%2Fksdescartin.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F30%2Fteleread-today%2F   Some of my takes on e-Books: learning medicine and approaches to medicine 2.0, the dreams of sharing books and the joy of reading, and the beginning adventures and further explorations with the “E” is now up on Teleread. Thanks, David!   And, for the curious: Medicine 2.0 by Scienceroll Web 2.0 and Medicine Exploring Medical Librarianship & Web Geekery Medical 2.0 (Source: the story of healing) the story of healing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1062875 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:43:38 +0100 1062875 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=718791&cid=t_129879_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F7%2F2%2Fthis-and-that-mr-darwins-anniversary.html While Pat and Dov are away on a well-deserved vacation, I'll host TDWI. We've lined up an array of great posts that will maintain the same high quality you've come to expect on this site, so stay with us. Brian Klepper This interesting, sad little piece appeared in the July 1st edition of the The Writers'  Almanac, which is produced and edited by Garrison Keilor. It provides real context to the ongoing controversy over the "reality" of evolution. But it also is a reminder that, sometimes, drivers of change have a very clear idea of just how much turmoil they're creating, that their contributions can occur in the midst of the same difficult life issues that we all face, and that their lives aren't necessarily easier as a result of their momentous contributions. It w... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=718791 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:03:38 +0100 718791