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</script></div><item><title><![CDATA[Chocolate Covered Ants]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ingredients &#8211;<br/>100 Live Black Ants (avoid red ants, their too spicy)<br/>1 vanilla bean split and seeds scraped out<br/>2 Egg Yolks<br/>1 Tbsp. Sugar<br/>1 tsp. Butter, melted<br/>12 oz. Bittersweet Chocolate]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23269/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23269/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Ants More Rational Than Humans?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ants can accomplish a task more rationally than our &#8211; multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, bipedal, opposing-thumbed &#8211; selves. This is not the case of humans being &quot;stupider&quot; than ants. Humans and animals simply often make irrational choices when faced with very challenging decisions.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/129030/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/129030/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Tarantulas, snakes, fire ants lurk in Texas floodwaters]]></title><description><![CDATA[South Texans eager to salvage what they can from waterlogged homes struck by Hurricane Dolly have another problem. &quot;You don't want to wade in this water,&quot; state Health Services Commissioner David Lakey said. &quot;You don't want to play in this water. You want to stay out of this water.&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/70196/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/70196/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Electronics shopping? Look online for bargains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some good news for everyone who has electronics on their holiday shopping list. Chances are you&#8217;ll have a pleasant experience looking for that MP3 player, flat screen television, or computer &#8211; especially if you shop online.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38071/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38071/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Baby Fire Ants Play Dead When Attacked]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ants from an attacking colony will come up to inspect them, and they&#8217;ll be curled up just like a dead ant. Then moments later they uncurl and walk away.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58563/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/58563/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[From Ants! Natures Secret Power ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ants! I understand they are also good chocolate coated.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/82423/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/82423/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Crazy woman.. just, crazy]]></title><description><![CDATA[This crazy woman throws herself onto  car and then onto the ground and screams. When a cop arrives, she gets up and yells at him in Hebrew(?) and asks if everyone would like for her to do it again. <br/><br/>It's an ebaum's link, but it's good, I promise.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/20477/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/20477/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Move over fire ants -- here come needle ants]]></title><description><![CDATA[The name alone is enough to induce a shudder: the Asian needle ant.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/world/l/84224/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/world/l/84224/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Lapse of Ants Eating A Gecko]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bunch of ants devour a dead gecko from flesh to bone in a matter of a hours. Pretty cool time lapse.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/65315/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/65315/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Digital Ants will protect your computer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Modeled after the workings of a real ant colony, scientists have created 'digital ants' that can protect your computer from viruses and worms.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135197/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/135197/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Come celebrate - Get whipped by clowns and showered by fire ants!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I couldn't tell where this video was actually taking place but it is a pretty bizarre annual festival. Some guys dressed like clowns run through the streets whipping people with sticks with festivities culminating in a shower of fire ants! Sounds like fun huh?]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11279/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11279/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Researchers Make New Electronics -- With A Twist]]></title><description><![CDATA[They've made electronics that can bend. They've made electronics that can stretch. And now, they've reached the ultimate goal -- electronics that can be subjected to any complex deformation, including twisting.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/82474/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/82474/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk...]]></title><description><![CDATA[...is sort roving flea market meets Internet meme.<br/><br/>The idea, hatched by the guys over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, is to send a box containing random electronics junk to somebody who would take a few pieces, write about them, add some item, and then send it on its merry way to somebody else.<br/><br/>You can request a box or even start one of your own]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/102125/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/102125/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Butterflies trick ants into raising young]]></title><description><![CDATA[The butterflies deposit their larvae on marsh gentian plants where exploring ants find them, identify the chemical coating, and take the butterfly larvae back to the ant colony and feed them until they grow up and leave...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45957/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45957/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Ferocious ants bite like a bullet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trap-jaw ants bite with a force of over 300 times their own bodyweight. Uninvited visitors to a nest of trap-jaw ants can expect a vicious response.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/19/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/19/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Study reveals how ants talk to each other]]></title><description><![CDATA[Next time you see an army of ants scurrying around, bear in mind that they may be following orders.<br/><br/>For scientists have shown that the insects talk to each other and are more intelligent than anyone ever realised.<br/><br/>They discovered that ants communicate by stroking a natural 'washboard' on their abdomen with a body part that resembles a plectrum.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/97943/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/97943/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[ Philips Electronics Adopts a New Name]]></title><description><![CDATA[Philips Electronics is adopting a new name and new strategy that relies on supplying chips to the fast growing consumer market for advanced electronics products.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/70/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/70/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Ants fitted with radio transmitters for scientific study]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tiny radio transmitters were fitted to ants by scientists to study their house-hunting habits.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/108914/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/108914/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Fighting Back Against Fire Ants]]></title><description><![CDATA[These destructive little varmints cause 6 billion dollars worth of damage a year in the USA alone, not to mention their bites burn like the poisonous flames of hell. Now scientists fight back with an ant-specific virus.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19409/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19409/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA['Stench of life' prevents ants from being buried alive ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Life really stinks for Argentine ants. New research shows that while alive, the ants produce two odoriferous chemicals that prevent their compatriots from immediately carting their bodies away to the 'morgue'.<br/>*word of the day...Pupae*]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/112309/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/112309/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item></channel></rss>