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 'history, science'. Tue, 04 May 2010 18:39:58 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3366217&cid=t_313691_99_f&fid=34593&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2FAyaJ%2F%7E3%2F7nyRYKrF9BM%2Falbert_einstein_birthday_greet.php Today is Einstein's birthday. If he were still alive he'd be 131. Those of you who have been reading here for a long time know that Einstein was (and is) one of my "culture heroes." When I was a kid I sent him birthday cards (yes, I'm that old) and when he died made a scrap book filled with news clippings. One of the great loves of my younger life gave me an Einstein bust as a present and it still sits on my desk, more than 40 years later (she reads the blog from across the ocean, so I hope she sees this! Mrs. R. knows and likes her so this isn't a guilty secret). I also have first editions of his second and third published works and a fairly large library of books by and about him. Unlike quantum mechanics, relativity theory is essentially the achievement of a single person, Albert Einste... Effect Measure blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3366217 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:27:05 +0100 3366217 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3035895&cid=t_313691_99_f&fid=34593&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2FAyaJ%2F%7E3%2FwkJmIzCX9R0%2Fgalileo_in_the_digital_age.php I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and think about things. In fact I frequently have a problem with early waking. I think it's age related. In any event, one of the things I sometimes think about (mainly I think about my research or something connected with it, which is one reason why I have trouble going back to sleep) is what side of the great scientific controversies I'd be on. Like Galileo. Everyone thinks of his problem with the Church (allegedly) because he championed heliocentrism (the true story seems to be more political, complicated and nuanced, but I'll leave that for others). But what I think about is his claim that "objects in motion tend to remain in motion" -- which of course they don't, at least not that anyone on earth has seen. There's this little matter of fr... Effect Measure blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3035895 Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:52:49 +0100 3035895 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1600762&cid=t_313691_115_f&fid=37661&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnottotallyrad.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F06%2Fbreasts-genitals-and-profanity-in.html It's time for another report from TAM6, coming to you from sunny downtown Las Vegas, where it got up to 107° F (41.7 ° C) today.Highlights from today:Ben Goldacre, M.D. is a British physician and journalist, and author of The Guardian's weekly Bad Science column. He spoke today about homeopathy in the U.K. He pointed out that in 1846, John Forbes, the Queen's own physician, was a strong opponent of homeopathy. He contrasted that to today, where the Queen's personal physician is a homeopath. Only partially tongue-in-cheek, Dr. Goldacre wondered if this movement toward wacky medicine correlated with the loss of the British Empire.Richard Saunders gave a short summary of skeptical matters in Australia. The best part of his session was an audience-participation experiment of dousing. This el... Not Totally Rad blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1600762 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:50:00 +0100 1600762 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1303166&cid=t_313691_99_f&fid=34593&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2FAyaJ%2F%7E3%2F251587891%2Fhappy_birthday_albert_march_14.php A lot of kids have personal "culture heroes" when they are growing up. I suppose athletes and celebrities predominate, maybe a political personage here and there. But I suspect lots of kids also have scientists or artists as personal heroes. My own culture here when I was a youngster (Elementary School) was Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955). I once sent him a birthday card and I had a scrapbook of clippings about him. He still is one of my heroes. And today is his birthday. I'll celebrate it with this nice little animation that explains the key concept in the Special Theory of Relativity, simultaneity. It's short, accurate and understandable. So is the Special Theory. There are lots of books for the general reader if you are interested. Meanwhile, enjoy: Read the commen... Effect Measure blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1303166 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:03:53 +0100 1303166 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=983243&cid=t_313691_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2007%2F10%2F26%2Fscientists-stop-hiv%2F I’m back, b*tches! From where, I cannot say. But what’s this about HIV? Stopped? What? Yes! I took biology in college…in Costa Rica. And I remember very important things from that course. 1) The local liquor, guaro, contains 14 hallucinogens. 2) They work. Here at Healthbolt, we have standards to uphold. The first is that we are wholly unqualified to give any kind of medical advice. The second is pretty much the same thing but more enthusiastic. The third is that we is actually me, and me feels the need to explain what a virus really is before launching into this amazing news about stopping the worst one. “Scientists find a combination therapy that prevents HIV from mutating and spreading.” Sweet! Except what the hell does a virus even do, anyway? If you alrea... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=983243 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:23:37 +0100 983243 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=972773&cid=t_313691_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F173900073%2F “‘Almost everything I learned in graduate school is wrong now,’” Mary Jane Weiss, the director of Research and Training of the Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center said at a forum on the campus of Rutgers University (reported in the October 23rd Daily Targum). Weiss was speaking in reference to what is known about autism among researchers and among those who work with autistic persons day in and day out. There are new reports just out about a large new database that will make it more possible to study the genetic variations in families with autism; there is more understanding about how to teach autistic children, and dialogue and dispute about what is best: ABA, for instance, is the cornerstone of my son’s education but just last night at the pool I spo... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=972773 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:58:30 +0100 972773 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=958890&cid=t_313691_132_f&fid=35001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nodalpoint.org%2F2007%2F10%2F17%2Fhow_the_scientific_publishing_industry_began_to_eat_itself Greg Tyrell recently remarked that there was no point in defending open-access publishing because its triumph is a foregone conclusion. I agree with him. However, for the younger guys out there, it may not be obvious why subscription science magazines is going the way of the Dodo. So I would like to offer some history. (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=958890 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:44:40 +0100 958890