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 'clocks'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:21:03 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5078073&cid=t_128395_180_f&fid=38607&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fsuccessbeginstoday%2FBHWQ%2F%7E3%2F8KkdK8uxlSo%2F Have you ever dreamed of planning out your perfect week where every minute of every day is spent in a productive manner? A week where things go exactly as planned. A week where each event brings a smile to your face, and there is no stress. You are in control, and the universe is aligned completely with your task list. I’ve had visions just like this on Sunday night as I write in my calendar for the following week. I set aside a time block here, I put a fun task there, and soon my week is completely full. I go to bed knowing that the coming seven days will be total bliss. As I awake on Monday morning, the sun crawling through the blinds, I look across the room. My day planner is where I left it the night before. There is total quiet in the room. This is going to be a great week, I tell ... Success Begins Today blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5078073 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:02:28 +0100 5078073 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4968582&cid=t_128395_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F06%2F23%2Ffrustrated-by-devices-read-the-manual%2F Handsome, well-made tools are a joy to use; confusing devices are a drain. So often, I find, things once easy to operate — TVs, irons, dishwashers, alarm clocks, washing machines — are now humiliatingly challenging. Cognitive-science professor Donald Norman points out that when we expect a device — like a toaster or video camera — will be fairly simple to operate, and it’s not, we assume we’re at fault, instead of holding the object responsible. One Sunday afternoon, when I was frantically trying to synchronize the data on my laptop with my desktop, I kept getting strange error messages. In desperation, I asked my husband to take a look. “Oh. Our internet service isn’t working,” he announced after fifteen seconds on the computer. I’d assumed I was doing ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4968582 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:22:03 +0100 4968582 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4560356&cid=t_128395_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F03%2F07%2Fthe-healthy-home-31-ways-to-protect-yourselves-from-toxins%2F In their exceptional, informative book The Healthy Home: Simple Truths of Protect Your Family From Hidden Household Dangers, son and father team Myron Wentz and Dave Wentz tackle the topic of toxins from room to room, starting with the bedroom and ending with the garage and yard. “Every second of every day, we face an onslaught of unnecessary dangers—toxic chemicals, negative energies, unforeseen side effects, and more—in our modern world,” writes Dave, the younger Wentz. Myron, his father, who holds a Ph.D. in microbiology with a specialty in immunology from the University of Utah, throws in the statistics: “A new chemical substance is discovered every nine seconds during the workday. Chemists discovered the eighteenth millionth chemical substance known to science on June 15... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4560356 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 11:40:57 +0100 4560356 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4142747&cid=t_128395_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fmedical-devices-daylight-savings-time-and-y2k-nostalgia%2F2010.11.07 Remember that cold December in 1999 when we all thought that planes would soon be dropping out of the sky, nuclear power plants were to be melting down, and the world was going to end? This weekend Health Canada is giving clinicians across the country (and really all of North America) an opportunity to feel the anxiety, fear, and excitement all over again. In 2007, the dates for switching between Standard and Daylight Saving time were changed, and the authorities, three years into the new schedule, have issued a warning for this weekend’s one hour rollback: Medical equipment manufactured prior to 2007 may not function optimally if the equipment has not been updated by manufacturers to compensate for the new dates. To date, Health Canada has not received any reports of device malfunct... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4142747 Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:00:13 +0100 4142747 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3490593&cid=t_128395_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Ffeel%2Fgreen-sex-for-earth-week-with-toys-in-babeland%2F No, really! In honor of Earth Day, Toys in Babeland is donating 20% of its “eco-toy” sales to Grist.org for the entire month of April. Grist.org is an award-winning online eco-news source based in Seattle, Washington, and the Toys in Babeland donations will go toward creating more great content to keep us clued into environmental news. If you don’t have time to volunteer for Earth Day; you can at least squeeze in a ride with the Solar Bullet. So what exactly is an “eco-sex toy”? Here are a few to ignite your, um, imagination: The Solar Bullet: turn eight hours of sunshine into one hour of vibes. ($34) Eco-Sexy Kit - Organic lube, all natural spa products and a latex-free "Laya Spot". ($64) Birds n' Bees Condoms - Certified vegan pre-lubricated ... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3490593 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:10:40 +0100 3490593 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2249318&cid=t_128395_137_f&fid=35357&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAlzheimersNotes%2F%7E3%2FWmy2TT8yczg%2F Tonight we turn our clocks ahead…and get up an hour earlier in the morning.  I enjoy the longer evenings of daylight and somehow find I get so much more done.  However, until the year approaches its longest day, in June, our mornings remain darker.  If we’re earlier risers, we’ll find it dark or dawn.  But…we may have the glorious adventure of watching the sunrise rather than having it fully daylight when we get up. Sometimes the changes in time will affect Alzheimer’s patients and confuse them if they have a body pattern.  In others, who simply have a nap and awake mode, they’ll not sense the time change at all.  It simply may be more difficult upon the caregivers as they adapt to the different time. Do you find Daylight Savings Time affecting yo... Alzheimer's Notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2249318 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:28:59 +0100 2249318 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1289146&cid=t_128395_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F248067011%2Fdo_brains_spring_forward_with.html In a matter of hours now … clocks will spring forward … workers will drag drowsy brains behind… and many will struggle against that sleepy syndrome as they walk into work. Even experts find it hard to explain why the brain needs to sleep for a third of every day. We do know that humans sleep in cycles and every 60 minutes the brain swoops into a deep sleep or REM … which is the cycle that rewires your brain nightly. This is the time when your brain integrates what you learned into long term memory tools. For people who retire at about the same time … and in the same setting … their internal brain clocks often need no alarm clock to awaken them. All is disrupted however when the clock changes its routines and your internal clock races to keep up. Ex... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1289146 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:52:54 +0100 1289146 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1207315&cid=t_128395_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F02%2F05%2Fsurrounded-by-clocks-but-no-time%2F I looked around my desk today and realized I have about 5 clock faces staring back at me. Not because I’m a crazy person holed up in a world of clocks (although now I’m beginning to wonder…), but because clocks seem to be an added component of other, largely unrelated things. There’s one on my computer screen, always reminding me of how little I’ve done today. There’s one I got from Ireland, in an ornate, hand-carved base. I bought the clock for the base — the clock itself is just some cheap, made-in-china timepiece. The clock on my weather station leaves me scratching my head a little (I need the weather forecast, not the time!). To say nothing about the clocks on my wrist or in my pocket on my cell phone. But the worst clock of them all is the ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1207315 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:13:44 +0100 1207315 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1119294&cid=t_128395_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F207150982%2F Autism is not keeping 11-year-old Alex Wyatt down, today’s Enquirer Herald (South Carolina) notes. Diagnosed with autism at the age of 2, Alex was recently “awarded the ‘Soaring Eagle’ award for his class at Clover Middle School for being helpful and responsible in the classroom.” Alex is in a self-contained classroom for students “who need a little more teacher attention.” I’m reminded of what actor Peter Johnson, who stars in the movie The Child King, said in a recent WBZTV story: Johnson describes himself as having “Up” Syndrome. Today is our last day out here in California. Yesterday Jim and I went northwards to visit friends who we last saw 10 years ago when Charlie was just a few months old. Charlie made the trip up as a... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1119294 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:50:29 +0100 1119294