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 'cricket'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:36:24 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159648&cid=t_103449_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FLncO1v9-mTs%2F Which is it? Cicada, cricket, or grasshopper? Perhaps a katydid. But regardless of species, it sat with me out in the sun at lunch yesterday. Filed under: Natural world Tagged: Arthropoda, Cricket, Grasshopper, Insect, Insecta, Tettigoniidae (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159648 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:55:12 +0100 5159648 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4322665&cid=t_103449_136_f&fid=39212&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbahtocancer.com%2F2011%2F01%2Fnot-cricket%2F I’m not a cricket fan. And I have had ample opportunity to become one. Both of my grandfathers were fans, as are  my Dad, my brother, my ex-husband, and my son. I’ve tried, but I just don’t get it. Although I do have a grudging admiration for a sport that stops for tea and, I always imagine, cake. Lots of cake. Victoria sponge and scones and dark, claggy gingerbread. Something else I admire about cricket is what happened in Australia this week. It wasn’t that England won (or retained, or whatever) the Ashes: it was Jane McGrath day. I’d never heard of Jane McGrath, who died of breat cancer in 2008, and was first diagnosed at the age of 31. I’d never heard of her husband, Glenn McGrath, an Australian cricketing legend. (But then again, if I listed a... Bah! to cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4322665 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:38:22 +0100 4322665 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4159276&cid=t_103449_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSciencebaseScienceBlog%2F%7E3%2FZfVMnbGkAHs%2Falcohol-effects-giant-testicles-pennycress-diesel.html An alcoholic FAQ – Aspirin and other drugs prevent the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase (found in the stomach and liver) from breaking down alcohol, thus slowing the liver’s ability to metabolise alcohol and so it accumulates in your blood faster and has longer-lasting effects, which means you get drunk faster and say drunk longer, but you will have an almighty hangover too (one that aspirin will not cure) The biggest balls of all – The largest testicles by mass as a proportion of body mass are those of the bush cricket. According to behavioural ecologist Karim Vahed who has presumably had a good look, the tuberous bush cricket has testes accounting for 14% of its body mass. Making pennycress pay its way – I'd never heard of this weed until today, but apparently, p... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4159276 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:29:19 +0100 4159276 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4151855&cid=t_103449_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSciencebaseScienceBlog%2F%7E3%2FZfVMnbGkAHs%2Falcohol-effects-giant-testicles-pennycress-diesel.html An alcoholic FAQ – Aspirin and other drugs prevent the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase (found in the stomach and liver) from breaking down alcohol, thus slowing the liver’s ability to metabolise alcohol and so it accumulates in your blood faster and has longer-lasting effects, which means you get drunk faster and say drunk longer, but you will have an almighty hangover too (one that aspirin will not cure) The biggest balls of all – The largest testicles by mass as a proportion of body mass are those of the bush cricket. According to behavioural ecologist Karim Vahed who has presumably had a good look, the tuberous bush cricket has testes accounting for 14% of its body mass. Making pennycress pay its way – I'd never heard of this weed until today, but apparently, p... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4151855 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:29:19 +0100 4151855 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1692171&cid=t_103449_85_f&fid=34924&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baggas.com%2Fposts%2F2008%2F08%2F09%2Fjesus-played-cricket%2F The focus of the world is on sport over the next fortnight, and the best international sport not being featured in Beijing would have to be cricket. I’m not a huge sports fan but I have always been a lover of cricket. Cricket is huge in Australia, and heroes like the great Don Bradman are honoured like saints… but perhaps cricket is even more saintly than we imagined… According to an ancient Armenian manuscript, Jesus may have played a form of cricket as a child on the shores of the sea of Galilee. Check out this fascinating story from The Age. It seems Jesus had an unfair advantage in this form of beach cricket though, with his ability to walk on water! Cool. (Source: Baggas' Blog) Baggas' Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1692171 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:19:38 +0100 1692171 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=480780&cid=t_103449_115_f&fid=34678&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.catscanman.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D147 Warning: A rare sport post which also doubles as a rant. Americans are excused from understanding this. I went from rabid fan to disinterested spectator after the last edition of the Cricket World cup. At least in 2003, we lost in the finals to a better team. But to lose to Bangladesh in the opening game of our campaign is shameful. Or as Mr. Roget would say, it is disgraceful, deplorable, despicable, contemptible, reprehensible, low, unworthy, ignoble, shabby, shocking, scandalous, outrageous, abominable, atrocious, appalling, vile, odious, heinous, loathsome, inexcusable, unforgivable, ignominious, embarrassing, mortifying, humiliating and degrading. Heads should roll. Starting with Greg Chappell & Sharad Pawar. I hereby declare my personal renunciation of the Indian Cricket tea... scan man's notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=480780 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 03:58:03 +0100 480780