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<link><id>11610</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/11610/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Top 10 Craziest Science Stuff you didn&#8217;t know]]></title><description><![CDATA[Do you know you can Hypnotize Chickens, you can have an erection once dead?...Stuff you may not have known about science and some of the crazy things you can do, things your body is capable of doing that you may not have known.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>48</score><crdate>2/25/2007 10:14:23 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-25T22:14:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>38015</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/38015/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Homebrewed Science]]></title><description><![CDATA[A fellow Plimate, <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/members/Snocrash/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Snocrash</a>, has a website called Homebrewed Science that you might find interesting.<br/>It is a new community that encourages discussion and experimentation on science projects you can do at home. Read it for enjoyment, read it for education, check it out today.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>232</score><crdate>10/11/2007 2:41:06 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-11T14:41:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68194</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68194/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New legal threat to school science in the US]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the 28 June, The Science Education Act was passed as law in the State of Louisiana. This piece of legislature now allows teachers in this US state to present non-scientific alternatives to evolution, global warming and cloning &#8211; including ideas related to intelligent design. Opponents fear that Louisiana teachers are now free to present evolution and other targeted topics as matters of debate rather than broadly accepted science, and could have national implications.]]></description><comments>18</comments><score>403</score><crdate>7/9/2008 1:28:31 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-09T13:28:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>49341</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49341/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Resuscitation Science: Is There a Third State of Being?]]></title><description><![CDATA[They call it resuscitation science. It's a new area of research at the University of Pennsylvania, where a Center for Resuscitation Science opened less than a year ago, and where the line between life and death is shifting.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>72</score><crdate>2/4/2008 12:32:52 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-04T00:32:52+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>74245</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/74245/1/</url><title><![CDATA[MythBuster Adam Savage: 3 Ways to Fix U.S. Science Education]]></title><description><![CDATA[By 2010, Asia will have 90 percent of the world&#8217;s Ph.D. scientists and engineers. Today, when science is more important then ever, the US has fallen far behind. How can we recitfy this? Adam Savage has a few ideas.]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>531</score><crdate>8/30/2008 11:02:50 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-30T11:02:50+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>12000</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/12000/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Most Popular Myths in Science]]></title><description><![CDATA[I knew some of these couldn't be true.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>29</score><crdate>3/1/2007 11:24:17 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-01T23:24:17+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>52323</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/52323/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New british TV show teaches science in an exciting new way]]></title><description><![CDATA[What happens when you have physics and chemistry professors teach grade school science classes?  A whole lot of fun.]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>187</score><crdate>2/27/2008 6:07:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-27T18:07:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>74691</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/74691/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Science Debate 2008]]></title><description><![CDATA[Presidential candidates answers to the top 14 science questions facing America. First up is Obama's answers. McCain's to follow. Also check out the rest of the site]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>141</score><crdate>9/3/2008 12:29:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-03T12:29:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>79941</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79941/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Science Debate 2008 - McCain's Turn.]]></title><description><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/politics/l/74691/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Previously</a> we heard Obama's answers to 14 of the top science questions facing Americans. Here are McCain's answers.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>84</score><crdate>10/21/2008 3:55:09 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-21T15:55:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>76071</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/76071/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Science Laughs at Your False Beliefs!...]]></title><description><![CDATA[... in UK science lessons.<br/><br/>'Teachers should take the time to explain why creationism had no scientific basis, Professor Michael Reiss said.']]></description><comments>2</comments><score>50</score><crdate>9/13/2008 2:48:56 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-13T14:48:56+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46781</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/46781/1/</url><title><![CDATA[India aims for 'quantum jump' in science]]></title><description><![CDATA[India's prime minister Manmohan Singh has announced unprecedented funding for science education and research, saying it is a top priority for his government. He has announced a range of schemes to attract students and replenish government agencies' shrinking pool of scientific personnel.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>133</score><crdate>1/10/2008 8:24:57 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-10T20:24:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>47491</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/47491/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Disgust Quiz (maybe nsfw)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Test your sensitivity to disgust and take part in a real science experiment. It has 20 questions and should take between 5-10 minutes. It was developed by Dr Val Curtis of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>343</score><crdate>1/16/2008 7:49:56 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-16T19:49:56+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7620</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/7620/1/</url><title><![CDATA[A science news site]]></title><description><![CDATA[An irreverent and probably irrelevant take on science news from award-winning science writer David Bradley]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>-15</score><crdate>12/14/2006 11:48:08 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-12-14T11:48:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>70767</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/70767/1/</url><title><![CDATA[What's wrong with science as religion?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Piercing a Communion wafer with a nail and throwing it in the garbage, as one crusading biologist recently did, does science no favors.<br/><br/>Note: You may have to wait 5 seconds for the &quot;Enter Salon&quot; link]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>25</score><crdate>7/31/2008 10:20:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-31T10:20:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57471</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/57471/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Science tattoos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Extremely cool science tattoos]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>197</score><crdate>4/8/2008 11:07:32 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-08T23:07:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>83136</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/83136/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Mad Science Book]]></title><description><![CDATA[This book originated as a by-product. During my time as the head of the science section of a now-defunct Swiss news magazine, I accumulated a stack of research studies about weird experiments. Unfortunately <b>my editor</b> had no desire to see these in print, because they <b>violated all the basic journalistic criteria</b>: they were utterly inconsequential, hopelessly ancient or both<b>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</b>]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>135</score><crdate>11/30/2008 12:35:51 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-30T00:35:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48674</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48674/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Wired Science Reveals Secret Codes in Craig Venter's Artificial Genome]]></title><description><![CDATA[Wired Science has ferreted out the secret amino acid messages contained in &quot;watermarks&quot; that were embedded in the world's first manmade bacterial genome, announced last week by the J. Craig Venter Institute.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>40</score><crdate>1/28/2008 3:24:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-28T15:24:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>51264</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/51264/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Deutsches Museum in Munich - Science and Technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[Photo Gallery and information about the Grand Deutsches Museum in Munich. The German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>31</score><crdate>2/19/2008 1:28:15 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-19T13:28:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>60410</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/60410/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Science Leads To Killing People!]]></title><description><![CDATA[In an interview with the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Ben Stein had these insane things to say:<br/><br/>Stein:  [...]I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed <br/><br/>...Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>304</score><crdate>5/2/2008 10:29:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-02T10:29:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>75686</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/75686/1/</url><title><![CDATA[True Enough: the science, history and economics of self-deception]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grounded in history and science, True Enough paints a dismal picture of a species with a limitless capacity for self-deception and selective reasoning.<br/>(I believe it)]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>93</score><crdate>9/10/2008 3:29:07 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-10T15:29:07+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>