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 'geography'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:09:43 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4265829&cid=t_111693_106_f&fid=36682&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSutureForALiving%2F%7E3%2Fa1A_feWYn2A%2Fbreast-augmentation-geographical.html This article (full reference below, free access) came to my attention via MDLinx.  It was interesting to read.  The conclusion verified my expectations rather than surprised me. The authors conducted a retrospective review of patient demographics and implant information from three university settings:  Kelowna (British Columbia, Canada), Loma Linda (California, USA), and Temple (Texas, USA).  Each cohort included 100 consecutive breast augmentation cases. Characteristic analyzed included age, height, weight, BME, parity, and average implant volume.  When considering the 300 as one cohort, the average age was 34 years with a height of 163 cm (5’4”), weight of 58.1 (127.8 lb) and parity of 1.7 .  The average implant size was 370 ml. When considered separate... Suture for a Living blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4265829 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:17:00 +0100 4265829 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3880840&cid=t_111693_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FP2ZPFnAp2t4%2F Unlike Randal O’Toole, I was delighted by Tyler Cowen’s New York Times article on the high cost of free parking. And indeed, if I’m reading O’Toole’s post right, it sounds like Cowen and O’Toole don’t actually disagree on the policy issue: both agree that business owners should be free to decide how much parking to supply. The debate so far has focused on whether parking mandates push the price of parking below the market rate. But I think the more important effect is on the geography of cities. Parking mandates (and other regulations) preclude developers from catering to people who want to live in pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods. Parking mandates necessarily mean that every large building is surrounded by a large parking lot. And for someone who... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3880840 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:51:40 +0100 3880840 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3560300&cid=t_111693_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F13%2Fthe-spatial-situation-of-crime-and-criminal-law%2F No pressure (except for you, grandma — loyal reader number 1), but I have a new article out in the most recent issue of the Cardozo Law Review.  The abstract for The Geography of Criminal Law is below. * * * When Westerners explain the causes of actions or outcomes in the criminal law context, they demonstrate a strong tendency to overestimate the importance of dispositional factors, like thinking, preferring, and willing, and underestimate the impact of interior and exterior situational factors, including environmental, historical, and social forces, as well as affective states, knowledge structures, motives, and other unseen aspects of our cognitive frameworks and processes. One of the situational factors that we are particularly likely to overlook is physical space—that is, la... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3560300 Thu, 13 May 2010 16:00:57 +0100 3560300 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3403944&cid=t_111693_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F25%2Fflow-and-the-situation-of-water%2F From Wikipedia: Flow: For Love of Water is a 2008 documentary film by Irena Salina. The film concentrates on the big business of privatization of water infrastructure which prioritizes profits over the availability of clean water for people and the environment. Major businesses depicted in the film are Nestle, The Coca-Cola Company, Suez, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The first video below is the trailer.  You can watch the movie in 9 (roughly 10-minute) sections after the jump. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To review a sample of related Situationist posts, see “Global Climate Change and The Situation of Denial,” (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3403944 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:01:38 +0100 3403944 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2995935&cid=t_111693_131_f&fid=34994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F11%2Fisles-in-america.php It's easy to find maps of American ancestries, but I wanted to play around with the data, and in particularly the visualization myself. So I went to the Census and got the county level numbers. The first thing I wanted to do was look at non-Hispanic white ethnicities as a proportion of non-Hispanic whites. That would for example increase the Anglo-Saxon character of the lowland South because it would remove African Americans from the equation. All the data was from the 2000 Census, and I simply divided the % of each European ancestry group by the non-Hispanic white percentage to reweight appropriately. Here are some correlations I found:English X Scots-Irish = 0.34English X Irish = 0.30English X American = -0.20Scots-Irish X Irish = 0.37Scots-Irish X American = -0.25Irish X American = -0.4... Gene Expression blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2995935 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:51:00 +0100 2995935 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2894692&cid=t_111693_131_f&fid=34994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F10%2Fless-than-nations.php Since Afghanistan is in the news a lot, I keep hearing about it. I decided to double check some numbers, and here's some weird stuff:Afghanistan, 11 million Pashtuns, Pakistan, 27 million PashtunsAzerbaijan, 8.1 million Azeris, Iran, 17.75 million AzerisMongolia, 2.3 million Mongols, China, 5 million Mongols (Source: Gene Expression) Gene Expression blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2894692 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:59:00 +0100 2894692 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2834467&cid=t_111693_145_f&fid=35710&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstoryofhealing.com%2F2009%2F09%2F26%2Finternational-medicine-2008-conference-and-revisits%2F I had so many posts planned for the months past when my schedule and flow took a turn—in a very good and mostly fun way. I have been occupied with our wedding celebration, teaching and other projects, medical electives, mouse jogging through my studies, plus my occasional will of glorious procrastination to begin writing. For those who gave me a-okay for my Media In Medicine series e-interviews, I hope they can still remember me when I start knocking on their email doors again with my finally-written down Qs. For those whose correspondence I am all too happy to receive but have not replied yet, I hope you won’t tire checking in and seeing if I have actually risen from my blog-grave yet. And, of course, thank you for reading. Conference A little over a year ago in May, I flew to t... the story of healing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2834467 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:20:06 +0100 2834467 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2417138&cid=t_111693_131_f&fid=34994&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnxp.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F05%2Fgeography-of-online-social-networks.php Since most people use online social networks like Facebook to keep in touch with people who they interact with in real life, it doesn't make sense to sign up for a Facebook account unless others in your area have already. This predicts that we should see a spreading out of Facebook from its founding location, just like a contagious disease rolling out from Typhoid Mary's neighborhood. Let's take a look at the data and see.First, I found this map from Google Images of the number of Facebook visits by state:Unfortunately, these are not per capita rates. But you can still tell that the Northeast has a whole hell of a lot of activity, while super-populated California shows little. Luckily, Facebook calculated the number of adult users in each state, and divided this by the state's entire adult... Gene Expression blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2417138 Tue, 19 May 2009 09:18:00 +0100 2417138 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2376171&cid=t_111693_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F04%2F29%2Fthe-situation-of-climate-change%2F From Pop!Tech and YouTube, here is Situationist friend, Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert speaking  about the psychology of global warming. * * * * * * For related Sitautionist posts, see “Jeffrey Sachs on the Situation of Global Poverty,” “The Need for a Situationist Morality,” “The Heat is On,” and “Captured Science.” (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2376171 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:11:53 +0100 2376171 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2364959&cid=t_111693_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E5%2FwUhNPbyrsqs%2F28_07_06_happiness_map.pdf I recently purchased a book titled, The Geography of Bliss, in which the author, who spent 10 years as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio visiting some of the unhappiest places on earth, decided to visit some of the happiest. There is actually a map of the happiest and unhappiest places on earth. Denmark has topped the charts for the past 30 years as the happiest country on earth. The United States is currently ranked number 17 out of 95, up from 23 in 2006 (Zimbabwe and Moldova ranked at the bottom), and number 97 out of 140 in peacefulness.We as Americans believe that we have such a high standard of living. We have convinced ourselves, rightly so, that we are the greatest nation on earth, but we have so much to learn from other countries that appear to have so much less, y... Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2364959 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:40:09 +0100 2364959 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811599&cid=t_111693_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F09%2F21%2Fjeff-sachs-speaks-for-the-voiceless-at-harvard-law-school%2F From Sam Flaks’s article in the Harvard Law Record. * * * Dr. Jeffrey Sachs spoke to a packed hall in an address entitled “Representing the Voiceless: The Poor, The Excluded, and the Future,” on the morning of Thursday, September 11, 2008. The passionate but precise economist called for the recognition of the intermeshed dilemmas posed by an overcrowded planet and an increasingly interconnected globe. Sachs’ appearance was organized by Professor Jon Hanson, Carol Igoe, Jon Taylor ‘10, and an inter-year committee of students from Section VI. Sachs, who is one of the leading international economists of his generation, is Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and President and Co-F... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811599 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:37:42 +0100 1811599 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1475482&cid=t_111693_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F28%2Fal-gores-situationism-and-call-for-urgency%2F For a related post, see “Al Gore - The Situationist.” (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1475482 Wed, 28 May 2008 23:04:24 +0100 1475482 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1451811&cid=t_111693_85_f&fid=34924&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baggas.com%2Fposts%2F2008%2F05%2F19%2Fgeographical-prodigy%2F SO can you accurately locate Bolivia, Ivory Coast, and Turkmenistan on a world map? If not then you have some catching up to do. Take a look at this video of a 2 year old geographical prodigy. I would bet that the vast majority of our high school students wouldn’t come close… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r43yCiKlbCo (Source: Baggas' Blog) Baggas' Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1451811 Mon, 19 May 2008 05:02:41 +0100 1451811 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1358540&cid=t_111693_122_f&fid=34758&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrainwaves.corante.com%2Farchives%2F2008%2F04%2F08%2Fchinese_neuroscience_activity.php Action Potential, the blog for Nature Neuroscience, has an excellent post on recent funding trends in Chinese neuroscience along with some interesting history with respect to funding levels. (Source: Brain Waves) Brain Waves blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1358540 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:32:52 +0100 1358540 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1314543&cid=t_111693_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F19%2Fthe-space-place-situation-of-rural-women%2F Lisa Pruitt, Professor of Law at University of California, Davis (and blogger on Legal Ruralism Blog) has posted a fine new paper on SSRN: “Of Spaces and Spheres: What Critical Geography Can Teach Law about Rural Women.” The abstract is as follows: Like other legal scholars, feminists often think about social change over time, using history as a lens to reveal disadvantage and injustice. They have demonstrated, for example, that the public/private divide and related separate spheres ideology are socially contingent developments based on evolving perceptions of women and gender roles. Shifts in such perceptions have thus informed legal changes, and vice versa. This Article argues that a more grounded and more nuanced understanding of women’s lived realities requires legal ... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1314543 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:29:29 +0100 1314543 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=719429&cid=t_111693_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fflash-earth.html DJ discovered Flash Earth and has been finding our home and virtually travelling around the planet. (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=719429 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:49:00 +0100 719429 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=703115&cid=t_111693_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F128745133%2F Did you (if you are the parent of an autistic child) feel that, on learning of your child’s diagnosis, the world turned upside down—-like this? But take a look again at that map. It is the same world—same countries, and continents, and oceans; same names, just from a different perspective. I like how the water (the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic Ocean) is on top—-water being the major element it is for my son Charlie. And I’m thankful to be Charlie’s mother and to have been given the chance to learn to see the world from another point of view. Maps can be read in more ways than meets the eye. Share This (Source: Autism Vox) Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=703115 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:11:23 +0100 703115 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=541829&cid=t_111693_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fall-sorts.html Geography: DJ is learning lots from Voyage Century, like all the names of every port city in the Mediterranean, and so on. The game is also really good for learning about body language.Religion: Done a bit of revision on Buddhism and watched Making of a Monk, which briefly covered the four noble truths, taking refuge and the three jewels.ResourcesHands-on ActivitiesPlanet Science for TeachersOn the NewsPupils 'in makeshift classrooms'Long school day 'risks families' (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=541829 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:32:00 +0100 541829 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=539290&cid=t_111693_133_f&fid=35090&url=http%3A%2F%2Faspiehomeeducation.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fgeography-stuff.html Geography: Today we have been looking at geology, geography, and earth science of the United States, covering all sorts from tectonic plates to erosion. At the end DJ did a quiz.Languages: we talked about the problems with literal translations and using google language tools. Science: thanks to by other means, we've found out about this KS3/4 Science video about the Periodic Table. The periodic table is used to explore some of the elements and find out why some are more reactive than others.On the NewsIn Portugal Ensino em casa ganha adeptos.In the UK, A-grade pupil banned from dance "because her parents refused to allow her to attend extra revision lessons... the school insists the tough line on extra study benefits pupils." (Source: Aspie Home-Education) Aspie Home-Education blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=539290 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:02:00 +0100 539290