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 'comm'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:04 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4984398&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F008159.html In a nutshell: More borders lead to more war. The internet is creating more virtual borders and therefore more potential for conflict. Is progress inevitable? It depends on what you categorize as progress. If you like war (and the sight of beautiful women can bring that out in men) then you can feel satisfied that lower war costs due to technological progress have combined with the breakdown of empires to make it easier to have more wars. New research by the University of Warwick and Humboldt University shows that the frequency of wars between states increased steadily from 1870 to 2001 by 2% a year on average. The research argues that conflict is being fed by economic growth and the... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4984398 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4984398 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4862476&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F008099.html Razib Khan has been using Google Trends to watch the rise of Facebook and the fall of Myspace. Well, looks like Facebook finally hit a plateau. Well, that was a fast ride to a peak. He's not forecasting a Facebook decline. But not everyone wants to devote a substantial amount of their day to Facebook posting. I found that on Razib's Twitter feed. That brings up a question: Has Twitter peaked yet? Facebook soared far above Twitter on Google Trends with about a 30:1 advantage if I read that page correctly. But looking at Twitter by itself still shows a strong up-trend, at least measured by search volume. What might unseat Facebook or other current social media leaders: the shift... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4862476 Sun, 22 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4862476 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4862474&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F008102.html Another "progress is not inevitable" story. Sweden and the US are two countries in which increased leisure use of computers by children leads to poorer reading ability. This is the conclusion from research carried out at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Professor Monica Rosén of the Department of Education and Special Education has analysed differences between different countries over time in order to explain change in reading achievement among 9-10-year olds. Within the framework of the research project she and her colleagues have studied how pupils' reading skills have changed since 1970. Hungary, Italy, the US and Sweden have been included in all of the international comparisons. Reading ability has improved steadily in Italy and Hungary, while it has fallen... (Source: FuturePund... FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4862474 Sun, 22 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4862474 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4696597&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F008014.html My deep thought for the day: In the future, when some group wants to burn some politically or religiously objectionable book, will physical books be so rare that they'll have to get the books specially printed just to burn them? Or will protesters copy electronic books onto many hard drives and simultaneously all pull out magnets to pass over the hard drives in a mass demonstration of magnetic erasure? Got any ideas on how book suppression will be done 50 years hence?... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4696597 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4696597 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4676737&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F008002.html We report an experiment with 150 participants in which we manipulated the worm and superimposed it on a live broadcast of... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4676737 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4676737 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4642559&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007988.html An article in the New York Times takes a look at the legal battles between major computer companies over use of pairs of common words. Microsoft is suing Apple, and Apple is suing Amazon, all over the right to use a simple two-word phrase: “app store.” Apple got there first, introducing its App Store in July 2008 as a marketplace for mobile applications. In January, Microsoft disputed Apple’s trademark claim, arguing that “app store” had already become a generic expression. And last week, Amazon announced its own “Appstore” for Google’s Android devices, prompting an infringement suit from Apple. "Facebook" strikes me as a less obvious use of a pair of words than "App store". But Facebook has actually filed trademarks... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4642559 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4642559 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4512364&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007927.html Why pull back from self-destructive behaviors when you can join support groups that will egg you on? Of course, after you eat the egg you'll have to throw it up. It can be a helpless and heartbreaking situation for families as they try to confront a family member with an eating disorder. What they may not know is that there’s a society on the Internet that is dedicated to thwarting any recovery from this dangerous and possibly fatal behavior. University of Cincinnati communication researchers are reporting on a new type of social support group as social networks grow on the Web. This emerging Online Negative Enabling Support Group (ONESG) surrounding the pro-anorexia movement is reported in the current issue of... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4512364 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4512364 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4322481&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007809.html Among adolescent girls in Fiji even if they did not have a TV to watch themselves TV watching by their peers increased the incidence of their having eating disorders. This is almost like harmful secondhand cigarette smoke. Researchers from Harvard Medical School's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine examined the link between media consumption and eating disorders among adolescent girls in Fiji. What they found was surprising. The study's subjects did not even need to have a television at home to see raised risk levels of eating disorder symptoms. In fact, by far the biggest factor for eating disorders was how many of a subject's friends and schoolmates had access to TV. By contrast, researchers found that direct forms... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4322481 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4322481 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4313972&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007802.html Writing in Technology Review Paul Boutin reports on how a Microsoft Bing-Facebook alliance is allowing Facebook friends links to influence Bing search results. Microsoft's alliance with Facebook could give it a key advantage over Google in the race to provide a better search experience. Google has also sought to improve its results by tapping information from users' social sphere, but its own social networking services have not been adopted anywhere near as widely as Facebook, so the information to which Google has access is relatively limited. In contrast, Facebook provides Bing with an ever-growing data mine of friends' links. It is an interesting idea because, as the article points out, a lot of automated efforts to generate links to boost... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4313972 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4313972 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4304860&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007798.html Robin Dunbar, professor of evolutionary anthropology at Oxford, discoverer of Dunbar's Number (150 for the number of relationships people can handle on average), and author of How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbars Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks, says what Facebook accomplish in building relationships can is limited by the designs of our minds. Instant messaging and social networking claim to solve that problem by allowing us to talk to as many people as we like, all at the same time. Like the proverbial lighthouse blinking on the horizon, our messages fan out into the dark night to every passing ship within reach of an Internet connection. We can broadcast, literally, to the world. I use the word “broadcast”... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4304860 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4304860 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4288548&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007772.html It is a continuing source of amazement to me just how few people use their full names when commenting on blog posts and on articles on news sites. I've asked people why on various sites and some claim to fear what would happen if their views became known (and not just about obviously taboo subjects like race). I've been insulted for telling people this hiding of identity is rarely necessary. I've insulted back by telling one guy he was a coward. The trend appears to be away from anonymity mostly because of where people are doing more of their chatting. Note that on the soaring social networking site Facebook everyone uses their real names (unless they've gone out of their... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4288548 Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4288548 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4245268&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007734.html The current flap about WikiLeaks and companies booting the site off their servers either due to government pressure, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, or commercial pressures serves to remind that there's no guaranteed free speech on the internet because the internet is not a real public square. Some internet experts say the situation highlights the complexities of free speech issues on the Internet, as grassroots Web companies evolve and take central control over what their users can make public. Clay Shirky, who studies the Internet and teaches at New York University, said that although the Web is the new public sphere, it is actually “a corporate sphere that tolerates public speech.” Do we need a subset of the internet... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4245268 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4245268 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4225197&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007711.html So you go inside a building and your Global Positioning System (GPS) smart phone stops working. What to do? Mini-gyroscopes to keep track of your movements. But the mini-gyros drift. So how to reduce the error? Radars in your shoes could keep track of when you are moving and when sitting still to eliminate much of the drift. However, IMUs have traditionally faced a significant challenge. Any minor errors an IMU makes in measuring acceleration lead to errors in estimating velocity and position – and those errors accumulate over time. For example, if an IMU thinks you are moving – even as little as 0.1 meters per second – when you are actually standing still, within three minutes the IMU... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4225197 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4225197 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4086238&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007582.html Facebook isn't as shallow and meaningless as it seems? Social media will drive more people to network with friends and business contacts and ultimately to start their own businesses? Social media will reduce the power of big corps and empower small businesses? Superficial contacts on Facebook, apparently unnecessary comments, and banal status updates may be more worthwhile than we think. This is shown in a new report from the National IT User Center. The report also predicts the new social media will ultimately lead to more individual entrepreneurs. Many people are critical of those who collect hundreds of so-called friends on Facebook. Often the majority of these "friends" are old classmates, acquaintances of acquaintances, and the like, relationships that are... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4086238 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:00:00 +0100 4086238 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3993848&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007509.html A “halfalogue” is much worse than a dialogue. People who want to use cell phones to talk need the equivalent of a smoker's area. Far better that they do texting or emailing. “Yeah, I’m on my way home.” “That’s funny.” “Uh-huh.” “What? No! I thought you were – ” “Oh, ok.” Listening to someone talk on a cell phone is very annoying. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds out why: Hearing just one side of a conversation is much more distracting than hearing both sides and reduces our attention in other tasks.  Lauren Emberson, a psychology Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University, came up with the idea for the study when... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3993848 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3993848 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3935790&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007457.html City size needed for successful industries has shrunk due to cheap air flights and low costs and high speeds for telecommunications and internet access. EAST LANSING, Mich. -- A city’s size no longer is the key factor in building vibrant local economies, according to a study by a Michigan State University sociologist. Zachary Neal found that although America's largest cities once had the most sophisticated economies, today that honor goes to cities with many connections to other places, regardless of their size. The study was published online Aug. 30 in the research journal City and Community. The rise of commercial aviation, high-speed rail, the Internet and other technological advances have allowed smaller cities to compete with urban powers such as... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3935790 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3935790 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3924855&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007457.html City size needed for successful industries has shrunk due to cheap air flights and low costs and high speeds for telecommunications and internet access. EAST LANSING, Mich. -- A city’s size no longer is the key factor in building vibrant local economies, according to a study by a Michigan State University sociologist. Zachary Neal found that although America's largest cities once had the most sophisticated economies, today that honor goes to cities with many connections to other places, regardless of their size. The study was published online Aug. 30 in the research journal City and Community. The rise of commercial aviation, high-speed rail, the Internet and other technological advances have allowed smaller cities to compete with urban powers such as... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3924855 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3924855 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3802344&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007368.html Clive Thompson argues voice phone calls are dying and deserve to die. According to Nielsen, the average number of mobile phone calls we make is dropping every year, after hitting a peak in 2007. And our calls are getting shorter: In 2005 they averaged three minutes in length; now they’re almost half that. This jibes with my experience. I rarely use the phone for voice calls and then mostly for people who for some bizarre reason have phones that can't handle SMS or email messages. One obvious problem with voice phone calls is the need for both sides to be available at the same time. As Thompson points out, voice calls are more emotionally demanding. They pull us away from... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3802344 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3802344 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3611893&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007210.html In the last 10 years the kids have shown a declining ability to understand the emotional state and viewpoint of others. The researchers for this study want to run down the causes of this trend in personality development. ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Today's college students are not as empathetic as college students of the 1980s and '90s, a University of Michigan study shows. The study, presented in Boston at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, analyzes data on empathy among almost 14,000 college students over the last 30 years. "We found the biggest drop in empathy after the year 2000," said Sara Konrath, a researcher at the U-M Institute for Social Research. "College kids today are about 40 percent... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3611893 Sat, 29 May 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3611893 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3193683&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F006885.html A Kaiser Family Foundation study finds cell phones and other devices have increased the number of hours kids spend using entertainment media. Even though conventional TV consumption is down increased internet TV consumption more than makes up for that loss. Even more TV is being consumed. WASHINGTON, D.C. – With technology allowing nearly 24-hour media access as children and teens go about their daily lives, the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth, according to a study released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation.  Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week).... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3193683 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3193683 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871539&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F006602.html Video game addicts get so little experience with nature that they do not develop a love and support for the great outdoors. Serious hikers and backpackers tend to become supporters... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871539 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2871539 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2745476&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F006490.html Battles are playing out on the internet over control of information about political events. The latest evidence of these clampdowns comes in a report on the Middle East and north... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2745476 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2745476 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2639564&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F006393.html Can the emotional state of the populace be tracked by measuring phrase frequencies in blog postings? Their methods show that Election Day, November 4, 2008, was the happiest day in... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2639564 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2639564 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2576570&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F006350.html CMU researchers find it too easy to figure out US national identity numbers of individuals. The nation’s Social Security numbering system has left millions of citizens vulnerable to privacy breaches,... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2576570 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2576570 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2447495&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F006246.html 75 text messages a day is not healthy. Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2447495 Sat, 30 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2447495 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2232669&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F006008.html Cellular telephone infrastructure is a lot easier to build than ground phone lines to every dwelling. So countries that are still too underdeveloped to have widespread land line phone service... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2232669 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2232669 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1924560&cid=t_140138_135_f&fid=35246&url=http%3A%2F%2Faids-write.org%2F%3Fp%3D1104 20,000 Register To Vote In One Day Event Thursday, October 30, 2008 –West Hollywood West Hollywood, California (Thursday, October 30, 2008) - Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan announced that his office received nearly 20,000 voter registration transactions on Monday, October 20th – the final registration date for the November 4, 2008 Presidential General Election. The registration forms were collected in conjunction with the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s (RR/CC) Close of Registration event. “Partnering with the community and the League of Women Voters, we staffed 14 registration sites [including west hollywood city hall ---rk] throughout the County and most were open until 12 midnight,” Logan said. “As a result, literally thousands of eligible Los Angeles ... aids-write.org blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1924560 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:29:29 +0100 1924560 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1709806&cid=t_140138_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fmultiple-sclerosis%2Flife-with-ms%2Fthe-other-ms-drugs%2F First let me say that I’m sorry for not being in touch for about a week now. Between my schedule and some (really fun and exciting) things happening at HealthTalk, you haven’t seen a post from me in a while. I knew it was bad when my father called to check on me because he hadn’t read anything new in a while. Today, after looking back at several of your comments, I thought we’d talk about the “other” drugs we’re taking for MS symptoms. Not disease modifying therapies we inject or have infused into us to (hopefully) slow the disease. I’m talking about the stuff we take for the stuff that MS does to us. There are drugs for fatigue, muscle spasms and naturopathic pain. Pills for bladder issues, stiffness and buzzing and just about every other sy... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1709806 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:16:37 +0100 1709806 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1677017&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F005411.html There are a lot more than 50 ways to leave your lover and technological advances produce yet more ways to do the deed. When Alexis Gorman, 26, wanted to tell... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1677017 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1677017 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1655464&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F005389.html Crackberry addicts are walking into cars, telephone poles, and everything else in their way as they type away walking. But most of the time the victims are the texters, who... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1655464 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1655464 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1531262&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F005296.html These companies are just figuring this out? Slow learners anyone? Some of the biggest technology firms, including Microsoft, Intel, Google and I.B.M., are banding together to fight information overload. Last... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1531262 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1531262 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1002510&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F004751.html The New York Times reports on the growing use of illegal cellphone jammers by people who do not want to hear one side of many different phone conversations. As cellphone... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1002510 Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:00:00 +0100 1002510 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=913491&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F004630.html Rather than check out provided references after interviewing some employers are using social networking sites to find work acquaintances to ask about prospective employees even before calling them in for... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=913491 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:00:00 +0100 913491 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=870417&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F004587.html An article in the Wall Street Journal relays the claim that changes to recordings to make them sound better when played from MP3 format causes the pre-MP3 original releases to... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=870417 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:00:00 +0100 870417 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=845750&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F004562.html There'll be no need to force people to undergo Borg assimilation. The hive mind can take over by getting people addicted to computer games with brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Several makers... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=845750 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:00:00 +0100 845750 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=801410&cid=t_140138_107_f&fid=35025&url=http%3A%2F%2Frrresearch.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fwhat-are-dpra-and-comms-real-jobs.html Conclusions? These are two ubiquitous and very strongly conserved genes. Their effects on transformation in naturally competent cells are likely to be only side effects of more important functions in all cells, but we remain quite ignorant of what these functions might be. (Source: RRResearch) RRResearch blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=801410 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:46:00 +0100 801410 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=735527&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F004390.html It could be that more knowledgeable people are more likely to read the web. But I say down with TV and up with link-rich news sites. As candidates and pundits... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=735527 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 735527 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=650911&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F05%2F31%2Fmedications-that-cause-high-blood-sugar%2F Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Childhood, Adult Onset, Drugs, Research, SupportSeveral commonly used drugs have adverse effects on glucose metabolism. Among these drugs are: aspirin, and an antibiotic. Aspirin is a commonly used drug to relieve minor aches and pains, to reduce fever, as an anti-inflammatory and as a blood-thinner. However, studies show it leads to glucose metabolism impairment in insulin-sensitive tissues. A 3g daily dose of aspirin was administered over a three-day period. Although insulin release increased after the aspirin, the glucose remained unchanged. Despite the increased insulin, the body seemed to decrease cellular sensitivity to insulin in the aftermath of aspirin. A healthcare facility in Scottsdale, AZ advises doctors to avoid giving gatifloxacin to patients wit... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=650911 Thu, 31 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 650911 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=587936&cid=t_140138_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F004228.html Ever find a thought somehow gets lost in the noise? Our neurons suffer from noise effects when transmitting data. Addressing a current issue in neuroscience, Aldo Faisal and Simon Laughlin... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=587936 Fri, 04 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 587936