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 'homo'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:37 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3482950&cid=t_120000_109_f&fid=38950&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shockmd.com%2F2010%2F04%2F19%2Ffacebook-and-academic-performance%2F Today children are often described as follows They live in social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, and Second Life gathering friends; they text more than they talk on the phone; and they Twitter the night away often sleeping with their cell phones vibrating by their sides. A recent study challenges the believes that children have multitasking skills and that these skills negatively affects the processing of information. This is about children doing their homework while twittering, texting, watching YouTube, using facebook and surfing the web. This explorative study examined whether differences exists in the academic performance of college student facebook users and nonusers. Data were collected from 102 undergraduate and 117 graduate students from a Midwestern university in the United S... Dr Shock MD PhD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3482950 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:27:23 +0100 3482950 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=966704&cid=t_120000_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F10%2F21%2Fare-we-really-that-unique.html By Dov Michaeli MD, Ph.DThe question of what makes us "human" has occupied philisophers since  Aristotle. And the well worn, but profound statement of 17th century French philosopher Descartes "I think therefore I am" or in Latin "cogito ergo sum" (he actually wrote it if French: "Je pense, donc je suis"), has formed the basis for modern Western philosophy to this day. Today, thinking is one of the basic traits attributed to being human. And one of the of the pillars of thinking is language and speech, the ability to express our thoughts. From here, it is only a logical skip and hop to the assumption that Homo sapiens' uniqueness resides in its aqcuisition of the capacity for speech. In fact, molecular biologists discovered that a... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=966704 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:53:33 +0100 966704 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=760417&cid=t_120000_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F7%2F26%2Fadvice-from-the-distant-past-drink-its-good-for-you-but-in-m.html By Dov Michaeli, MD, Ph.D Did you ever stop to think: how old is this wine? No, I don’t mean this bottle, or even this medieval winery in Bordeaux ? I mean, how long have people been imbibing? How did they stumble upon this wonderful drink? The biochemical evidence The “active ingredient” in wine (and beer, and hard liquor) is ethanol—yes, the same stuff that is supposed to power our cars in a few years. But think about it, ethanol is a foreign substance to our body. So how come we have an enzyme (alcohol dehydrogenase) that is specifically designed to metabolize it? In fact, we are not unique in this respect—most organisms (even bacteria) contain a version of this enzyme. The answer is that since very very ancient times, probably since complex aerobic organis... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=760417 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:31:17 +0100 760417 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=740421&cid=t_120000_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F7%2F17%2Fhiking-in-the-pyrenees.html By Dov Michaeli, MD, Ph.DWe are on vacation in the Pyrenees.  It could also be called God’s Country—it doesn’t really matter which god, just a deity of some kind to whom you attribute the creation of beautiful things. As I walk up the trail leading to the awesome north face of the VigneMale mountain, my thoughts wander 15,000 years back. It was in this region, after all, that the last colonies of Neanderthals survived the great extinction that befell them as our species, Homo sapiens, spread across Europe. In a word, the Neanderthals were our distant cousins. About a million years ago our ancestral species, Homo erectus, migrated out of Africa and colonized most of the world. Amazing, coming to think of it, considering their primitive brain, their only ‘re... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=740421 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:54:39 +0100 740421 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=637802&cid=t_120000_85_f&fid=34692&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitedissent.com%2Farchives%2F1661 SHIELD Scientist: We’re after the Homo habilis. We want the caveman. SHIELD Scientist: The pre-man, regardless of his origin, is an evolutionary time capsule. He is from a time before cancer, before AIDS. Homo habilis lived during the early Pleistocene, roughly 1.8 - 2.5 million years ago. It is entirely likely that they lived before AIDS (though there were probably equally nasty diseases back then). It is untrue to say that Homo habilis lived “before cancer”; they did not. The first documented evidence of cancer dates back to 300-350 million years ago, the time of the vertebrate fishes — long before the first dinosaurs appeared, let alone ancient man. The frequency of cancers seemed to increase as the number of land-dwelling vertebrates rose, and another increase i... Polite Dissent blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=637802 Sun, 27 May 2007 03:02:26 +0100 637802