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 'ignobel'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:38:48 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4253147&cid=t_152406_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifeinthefastlane%2FWZHV%2F%7E3%2FjrVDGlpZGEg%2F From conception to delivery...big brother is watching you. Remember the classic 1999 BMJ paper describing the MRI imaging of sexual intercourse? Of course you do... here's the video. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4253147 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:00:45 +0100 4253147 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4251113&cid=t_152406_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifeinthefastlane%2FWZHV%2F%7E3%2FjrVDGlpZGEg%2F Remember the classic 1999 BMJ paper describing the MRI imaging of sexual intercourse? Of course you do... here's the video. (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4251113 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:00:45 +0100 4251113 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1850944&cid=t_152406_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F10%2F04%2Fignobels-2008%2F I mark the passing of the years in a couple of ways. One is natural events: the coral tree flowers in mid-winter, the jacaranda flowers in spring, the comings and goings of Queensland’s bird species. The other is the annual IgNobel award ceremony. 2008 is a vintage year: List of winners BBC News story The Guardian story It’s hard to choose a favourite this year. Armadillos and archaeology would have to be up there, but based on the idea that how much you laugh correlates with how much you relate, I’m going with: “You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations”, from the journal Organization Studies. Posted in humour, publications, science news   Tagged: 2008, ignobel    (Source: What Y... What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1850944 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:49:17 +0100 1850944 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1852566&cid=t_152406_87_f&fid=34935&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.com.my%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D4773 Dan Ariely of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his work on placebos, demonstrating that expensive fake medicine is more effective than cheap fake medicine. Source: Timesonline Original ref: Waber RL, Shiv B, Carmon Z, Ariely D. Commercial features of placebo and therapeutic efficacy. JAMA. 2008 Mar 5;299(9):1016-7.(Free full text) The chemistry prize went to Deborah Anderson of Boston University Medical Center and colleagues for a 1985 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that found Coca-Cola kills sperm. Will that spawn more copy-cat experiments like the “Coke and Menthos” ones? You can view past winners in Wikipedia a And the Ignobel Prize in Medicine 2008 goes to….. (Source: Malaysian Medical Resources) Malaysian Medical Resources blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1852566 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1852566 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=957278&cid=t_152406_132_f&fid=35001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nodalpoint.org%2F2007%2F10%2F17%2Fthe_luxuriant_flowing_hair_club_for_scientists_lfhcfs Calling all Scientists, is your hair luxuriant and flowing? Perhaps you're a bouffant bioinformatician, a hairy hacker or share a lab with somebody who is? If this is you, its high-time you joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=957278 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:10:17 +0100 957278