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 'civilization'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:58 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5057869&cid=t_172766_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2011%2F06%2Fi-am-not-anonomous-but-they-have-point.html Our message is simple: Do not lie to the people and you won't have to worry about your lies being exposed. Do not make corrupt deals and you won't have to worry about your corruption being laid bare. Do not break the rules and you won't have to worry about getting in trouble for it."It goes on to warn, "do not make the mistake of challenging Anonymous. Do not make the mistake of believing you can behead a headless snake. If you slice off one head of Hydra, ten more heads will grow in its place. If you cut down one Anon, ten more will join us purely out of anger at your trampling of dissent."Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/06/10/anonymous-warns-nato-this-is-not-your-world/#ixzz1Q1ysqLeNThis is the response of Anonomous to NATO's public musing of how to respond to this widespread ne... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5057869 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:48:00 +0100 5057869 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4960252&cid=t_172766_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2011%2F06%2Fi-am-not-anonomous-but-they-have-point.html Our message is simple: Do not lie to the people and you won't have to worry about your lies being exposed. Do not make corrupt deals and you won't have to worry about your corruption being laid bare. Do not break the rules and you won't have to worry about getting in trouble for it."It goes on to warn, "do not make the mistake of challenging Anonymous. Do not make the mistake of believing you can behead a headless snake. If you slice off one head of Hydra, ten more heads will grow in its place. If you cut down one Anon, ten more will join us purely out of anger at your trampling of dissent."Read more: http://techland.time.com/2011/06/10/anonymous-warns-nato-this-is-not-your-world/#ixzz1Q1ysqLeNThis is the response of Anonomous to NATO's public musing of how to respond to this widespread ne... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4960252 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:48:00 +0100 4960252 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2796689&cid=t_172766_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fmonday-t-shirt-rescue-and-linkfest.html I've been doing internet chores all day, one of which was to get started on fixing my Zazzle stores. They've been improved, you see. And you know what that means... a lot of work. So I figured I'd try to get started on turning a pile of designs into some sort of coherent organized form.And of course, I found some old designs I rather liked. Most of these have been used in blog posts over the last several years, but some haven't, and some are topical again.I'm interspersing with stories I thought worth a thought, with an eye toward there be some vague relationship...Spafford 2.0 Template by webcarveMany t-shirt designs available at zazzle On Being Hated In a Nation of Assholes by: David Sirota I'll put it bluntly: We are becoming a nation of ha... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2796689 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:40:00 +0100 2796689 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2477548&cid=t_172766_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FmDmTDwITUH8%2F Randolph Bourne warned us nearly a century ago that “war is the health of the state.”  There may be no better present evidence of the danger of promiscuous war-making comes than a new article by columnist Ralph Peters.  Faced with the inevitable horror of war, he says embrace the horror rather than forgo the war. Argues Peters: While the essence of warfare never changes—it will always be about killing the enemy until he acquiesces in our desires or is exterminated—its topical manifestations evolve and its dimensions expand. Today, the United States and its allies will never face a lone enemy on the battlefield. There will always be a hostile third party in the fight, but one which we not only refrain from attacking but are hesitant to annoy: the media. While this brief ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2477548 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:34:42 +0100 2477548 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2040106&cid=t_172766_131_f&fid=34994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2Ftweakers-are-crashing-on-us.php Most scientists believe that only objective factors are real and try to eliminate all subjectivity from their explanations -- subjectivity is seen primarily as a source of error. Economists are the most objective social scientists, and they customarily sneer at dumber so-called scientists who fail to reduce human behavior to hard facts.When things are going well, that is. During times of prosperity economics is a hard science like physics. It's only when things go badly that they kick the can over to psychology and reach for mental factors like "irrational exuberance" and "mental depression" so that they can blame other, stupider sciences for their failures. (Quantum physicists also reach desperately for The Mind at times, since after sixty or seventy years their data are still impossible ... Gene Expression blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2040106 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:51:00 +0100 2040106 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1625661&cid=t_172766_131_f&fid=34994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F07%2Fregional-differences-in-intelligence.php In the post below, Colder climates favor civilization even among Whites alone, I made a few comments about possible differences between Germans in Illinois and Germans in Texas, based on nothing much more than a hunch. I trust my hunches, but there's no reason you should, so I decided to see if there was anything here in regards to my assumption about interregional differences in intelligence and how they might track across ethnic groups. So of course I went to the GSS website, and checked the mean WORDSUM scores of various white ethnic groups broken down by region. I specifically focused on whites who stated that their ancestors were from England & Wales, Germany and Ireland. My reasoning is that these are three groups with very large N's within the GSS sample and they are well repres... Gene Expression blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1625661 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:32:00 +0100 1625661 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1622208&cid=t_172766_131_f&fid=34994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F07%2Fcolder-climates-favor-civilization-even.php DiscussionHere, correlation probably is causation, as climate precedes the other three variables in causality, and again because these are unlikely to be genetic differences that reflect adaptation to different environments -- one of the few cases where natural selection "has not had enough time."An objection is that the differences could reflect a "brain drain," whereby smart people flock to colder states, and their smart children boost the state's NAEP scores. Even in this case, where climate does not cause group differences in IQ, it still confirms the hypothesis that colder climates favor civilization -- why else would smarties flock there? But I doubt this anyway, since Montana, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota are not exactly fonts of civilization that smarties pour into, yet they... Gene Expression blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1622208 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:12:00 +0100 1622208 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1543332&cid=t_172766_131_f&fid=34994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F06%2Fyour-generation-was-more-violent.php Previously we found that your generation was sluttier, so we turn now to another great threat to civilization -- violence (between individuals). As before, our concern is with whether violent crime rates are increasing or decreasing, and not so much with the absolute level: it is easier to screw up civilization than it is to improve on it, so a decline can quickly snowball, while it may take much longer to restore things to their previous levels.There are very good and very clear data on violent crime, so this post will be much more direct than the one on sluttiness. Let's begin with homicide. The Bureau of Justice Statistics, part of the US Department of Justice, has taken homicide data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics and put it into a straightforward graph. I see fiv... Gene Expression blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1543332 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:08:00 +0100 1543332 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1484931&cid=t_172766_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F302249562%2F   Stonehenge, UK  A topical article for me as I will be passing Stonehenge today.  It is an amazing feat of 4,500 year old primitive engineering and still provokes feelings of wonder and awe everytime I pass by, especially on solstice and equinox days. Stonehenge served as a burial ground for much longer than had previously been believed, new research suggests. The site was used as a cemetery for 500 years, from the point of its inception. Archaeologists have said the cremation burials found at the site might represent a single elite family and its descendents - perhaps a ruling dynasty. Professor Mike Parker Pearson, from the department of archaeology at the University of Sheffield, and his colleagues have now carried out radiocarbon dating of burials excavated in the 1950s that were k... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1484931 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:00:02 +0100 1484931 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1466094&cid=t_172766_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F297231439%2F King Akhenaten (photo credit www.usu.edu)  The feminine features and elongated head of ancient Egypt’s King Akhenaten may be attributed to two genetic defects called aromatose excess syndrome and craniosynostosis, reports Yale School of Medicine dermatology Professor Irwin Braverman, M.D. Akhenaten, a pharaoh during Egypt’s 18th Dynasty credited with starting the practice of worshipping one God, fathered six children. He was often portrayed in sculptures and carvings with a thin neck, elongated head, large buttocks, breasts, and even a prominent belly, suggesting pregnancy. Aromatose excess syndrome can lead to feminine features in men and advanced sexual development in girls. Akhenaten’s daughters are depicted with breasts at age three and seven in some carvings. It ma... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1466094 Sat, 24 May 2008 12:00:08 +0100 1466094 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1463841&cid=t_172766_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F296470802%2F (Photo credit: British Museum, crystal skull)  Without giving too much of the plot away, the focus of the latest ‘Indiana’ movie is about crystal skulls thought to have been produced by early American civilizations. But experts say examples held at the British Museum in London and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC are anything but genuine.  Their results show the skulls were made using tools not available to the ancient Aztecs or Mayans and were more than likely to have been produced in the 1960s. Researchers say the work, which is published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, should end decades of speculation over the origins of these controversial objects. The researchers were not able to determine where the quartz used in the skulls was quarried. But lo... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1463841 Fri, 23 May 2008 10:32:54 +0100 1463841 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1286295&cid=t_172766_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F247485887%2F Copyright © 2008 Patti. Visit the original article at http://www.white-pebble.net/?p=4078.I have just come back from an attempt to get out before the worst of our “worst blizzard of the year” falls in earnest, and stock up on those ever-mysterious and never fully defined “staples” at whichever grocery store I happened upon first. People never remember that it’s almost never as bad as “they” say it’s going to be. Even when it is, like now, the main streets will be plowed soon, and salted, and driven over dozens of times. Civilization will not fall. We are all a lot better off than we think we are, for the most part. So be prepared for multiple postings as I stave off boredom and snow-blindness. ShareThis (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1286295 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:03:28 +0100 1286295