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 'dickens'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:49:17 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4852942&cid=t_114923_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F05%2F21%2Fthe-link-between-creativity-and-eccentricity%2F It’s common knowledge that creatives can be eccentric. We’ve seen this throughout history. Even Plato and Aristotle observed odd behaviors among playwrights and poets, writes Harvard University researcher Shelley Carson, author of Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity and Innovation in Your Life, in the May/June 2011 issue of Scientific American. She gave several examples of creatives’ strange behaviors: “Albert Einstein picked up cigarette butts off the street to get tobacco for his pipe; Howard Hughes spent entire days on a chair in the middle of the supposedly germ-free zone of his Beverly Hills Hotel suite; the composer Robert Schumann believed that his musical compositions were dictated to him by Beethoven and other deceased luminaries fro... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4852942 Sat, 21 May 2011 16:30:10 +0100 4852942 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3617815&cid=t_114923_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fcharles-dickens-on-chocolate%2F There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. –Charles Dickens Post from: BlissTree Charles Dickens on Chocolate (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3617815 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:00:28 +0100 3617815 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3122219&cid=t_114923_158_f&fid=36018&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcaregiversbeacon.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fmy-video-victorian-christmas-musical.html Charles Dickens said about Christmas: "I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys." The theme is a Charles Dickens Victorian Christmas in Florence, Oregon this year, and you see it everywhere. The outer decorations are one thing. But the important part is that many people have opened their hearts to their fellow passengers in life and reached out to others who are going through hard times. A quiet walk through Old Town Florence on the Siusl... The Caregiver's Beacon - Resources, Links, Ideas, News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3122219 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:52:00 +0100 3122219 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2593217&cid=t_114923_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FWyE0D0SHd9Y%2F It’s been a lovely week up here in Chautauqua NY, sunny and just warm enough for comfort. Some of our friends are driving up to join us today, and Peter and his friends arrived last night around midnight. So, of course, I wake to the sound of thunder in the distance. I expect the patter of rain at any minute now. Fortunately, we have downstairs in the living room complete sets of Dickens and Mark Twain. There are also a couple of old orange-jacketed Penguin editions of Nancy Mitford’s novels. The possibility of spending the rainy afternoon with copies of novels and quiet conversation over cups of hot tea dance in front of my mind. However the prospect of spending the afternoon in the Library up the street, using the free WiFi also springs to mind. Which is better? Technorati... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2593217 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:26:03 +0100 2593217 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2017835&cid=t_114923_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FlKiExNLGdI4%2F Emmett Doyle and Michael Wesely are students—a senior and a junior, respectively— at Apollo High School in Minnesota and are both acting in a school production of A Christmas Carol. Doyle is playing Scrooge and Wesely is playing Marley, who visit Scrooge in ghostly form. As noted in the December 6th St. Cloud Times, both have Asperger’s Syndrome and have found acting a way to work on their social and communication skills. Elements of theater such as following a script (which enforces turn-taking in conversation), interpreting body language, developing empathy for their characters and working as a team all help with their everyday lives. Through acting, they are memorizing social cues, which can in turn become more instinctive to them offstage. “One of the cool things ab... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2017835 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:58:43 +0100 2017835