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 'colbert report'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:41:20 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4121920&cid=t_204010_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F10%2F30%2Flaugh-when-youre-afraid%2F “If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane,” sings Jimmy Buffett. “Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods,” says a Japanese proverb. A sense of humor, for me, is by far the most useful weapon in my depression arsenal. Which is why Eric is panicked when I stop laughing, when my funny bone is split in 43 places. For two nights in the psych ward, our group therapy session was to watch a comedy act by an actress (I forget her name, sorry … I was on too many sedatives to take notes) who pokes fun at depression and mood disorders, the way I try to do on Beyond Blue. Our psychiatric nurses were well aware of the studies showing that laughter can be a powerful tool for recovery and healing. In between meals and meds, they did their best to evoke a fe... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4121920 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:11:56 +0100 4121920 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3457819&cid=t_204010_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Four-absolute-favorite-video-of-the-week-stephen-colbert-on-tiger-woods%2F By now you’ve seen the new Nike TV ad featuring Tiger Woods and the voice of his inquisitive (yet deceased) dad. Genius marketing, state-of-the-art technology, top-flight manipulation. But have you heard Ward Cleaver from Leave It to Beaver and Gene Wilder’s character from Young Frankenstein giving sage advice to ol’ Tiger? Much, much funnier. Check out this clip from an episode of The Colbert Report this week on Comedy Central: Post from: BlissTree Our Absolute Favorite Video of the Week: Stephen Colbert on Tiger Woods (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3457819 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:18:50 +0100 3457819 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3322411&cid=t_204010_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F03%2F02%2Fthe-hidden-power-of-humor%2F Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said, “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” Despite the buffoonish imagery that comes to mind when one considers the joker, the clown or the pie-in-the-face comedian, humor is more than mere silliness. It is an advanced intellectual means of developing new perspectives and coping with extreme circumstances. A maltreated animal has two potential responses to an abusive master: attack to stop the abuse, or cower/flee to avoid it. He cannot disarm the bully with a witty remark or ironically imitate his master behind his back for his own amusement. One of the first government actions in Nazi Germany was the establishment of a law against treacherous attacks on the state and party that made anti-Nazi humor an a... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3322411 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:11:48 +0100 3322411 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2381341&cid=t_204010_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F05%2F01%2Fthe-situation-of-stephen-colbert-audienc%2F Taegan Goodard of Political Wire links to an interesting finding from a new study titled “The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in the Colbert Report.”  The study was authored by three Ohio State School of Communications graduate students, Heather Lamarre, Kristen Landreville, and Michael Beam.  Here is Goodard’s take: * * * An Ohio State University study finds that conservatives were more likely to report that Stephen Colbert “only pretends to be joking” on his Comedy Central television show “and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements.” * * * To read an abstract of the study, which has ... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2381341 Fri, 01 May 2009 04:01:28 +0100 2381341 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1829589&cid=t_204010_117_f&fid=36026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fzimney%2Fnothing-but-nets-%25e2%2580%2593-an-affordable-effective-medical-charity%2F The other night, I was watching “The Colbert Report,” which, along with “The Daily Show,” is a regular TV staple at our house (both shows won Emmy’s the other night by the way), when the guest was Rick Riley, a sportswriter and founder of the anti-malaria effort Nothing But Nets. Nothing But Nets is a grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer, especially of children, in Africa. The disease is transmitted by mosquitoes, which are primarily active at night and which can be effectively thwarted by the use of sleeping nets. The charity’s name is a play on the basketball term for a perfect shot that does not touch the backboard or rim, hitting “nothing but net.” In addition, it speaks to the focus of the campaign, which is directed... Dr. Z's Medical Report blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1829589 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:45:23 +0100 1829589