<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Radical Rodents : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/"/><tagline>Radical Rodents : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-10-13T02:30:36+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Radical Rodents]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/54420/1/" /><id>54420</id><summary><![CDATA[Radical Rodents]]></summary><issued>2008-03-15T08:41:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-15T08:41:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Meet the Radical Rodents, the &quot;coolest and hippest rats in the world&quot; and keen surfers from Down Under! Their owner, Shane Willmott of Queensland, takes the rats surfing when the sea is calm and said that they love it!<br/><br/>It says they are mice but they're rats.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Volcano surfing]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/68329/1/" /><id>68329</id><summary><![CDATA[Volcano surfing]]></summary><issued>2008-07-10T15:24:54+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-10T15:24:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Tired of normal surfing? Have you hit everything from the wave machine at your local swimming pool to the latest tsunami? How about Volcano Surfing? No, not lava surfing, but surfing the waves 20 feet from where the lava hits the ocean. Surfing in boiling hot water is the latest extreme event.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Swedish Landlord Makes Gruesome Find]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/46804/1/" /><id>46804</id><summary><![CDATA[Swedish Landlord Makes Gruesome Find]]></summary><issued>2008-01-10T22:38:02+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-10T22:38:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Swedish landlord inspecting a recently vacated cottage got an ugly surprise when she found dozens of dead or ailing snakes, mice, rats and lizards locked up in cages inside the house.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Australian scientists help fat mice lose weight]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/60007/1/" /><id>60007</id><summary><![CDATA[Australian scientists help fat mice lose weight]]></summary><issued>2008-04-29T09:11:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-29T09:11:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[By blocking the action of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in mice, Australian researchers have influenced the behaviour of fat cells, causing the rodents to lose weight while simultaneously reducing blood pressure and reducing the risk of diabetes.<br/><br/>Cake loving mice everywhere are rejoicing.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Study: Toilets Need Radical Redesign]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29690/1/" /><id>29690</id><summary><![CDATA[Study: Toilets Need Radical Redesign]]></summary><issued>2007-07-31T12:19:44+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-31T12:19:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Western World's dependence on flush toilets could be its environmental downfall. Toilets that use less water, such as the &quot;squat toilet&quot; in which one squats over a hole in the ground, are prevalent in parts of Asia, Europe and Africa, but a new historical study suggests that after decades of flushing, it will take radical innovations for the mainstream West to adopt any new system.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Radical new treatment could end transplant crisis by stopping bodies rejecting new organs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/42450/1/" /><id>42450</id><summary><![CDATA[Radical new treatment could end transplant crisis by stopping bodies rejecting new organs]]></summary><issued>2007-11-25T08:01:09+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-25T08:01:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A radical treatment that &quot;rinses&quot; organs and then implants them with patients' DNA is being hailed as a solution to the transplant crisis.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Rats, cats work together to sniff out land mines]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28746/1/" /><id>28746</id><summary><![CDATA[Rats, cats work together to sniff out land mines]]></summary><issued>2007-07-24T22:37:46+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-24T22:37:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[For the past year, a special Colombian police unit has been locking rats in cages with cats as part of a project to train the rodents to sniff out the more than 100,000 land mines planted mostly by leftist rebels across this conflict-wracked Andean country.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Meet Sarah Palin&#8217;s radical right-wing pals]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79268/1/" /><id>79268</id><summary><![CDATA[Meet Sarah Palin&#8217;s radical right-wing pals]]></summary><issued>2008-10-11T19:03:33+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-11T19:03:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Extremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin&#8217;s political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy. &#8220;Her door was open,&#8221; says Chryson &#8212; and still is.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Coming soon: 'chlorine surfers' keen to wave goodbye to packed beaches]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sports/l/46813/1/" /><id>46813</id><summary><![CDATA[Coming soon: 'chlorine surfers' keen to wave goodbye to packed beaches]]></summary><issued>2008-01-11T00:08:08+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-11T00:08:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[From 2011, the world's first outdoor artificial surfing machine will try to rival the Atlantic breakers of Devon and Cornwall using cleaned river water. The plan is to persuade surfers to take to their boards in Tower Hamlets rather than make the long drive to the West Country, where the surf is sometimes more millpond than Maui.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Forget Snakes on a Plane.  How about Mice in the Toilet?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/8763/1/" /><id>8763</id><summary><![CDATA[Forget Snakes on a Plane.  How about Mice in the Toilet?]]></summary><issued>2007-01-09T08:43:29+01:00</issued><modified>2007-01-09T08:43:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Small neighborhood adjacent to the University of Arizona see an influx of lab mice supposedly coming through their toilets.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Record Plague Of Mice]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36297/1/" /><id>36297</id><summary><![CDATA[Record Plague Of Mice]]></summary><issued>2007-09-20T20:33:22+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-20T20:33:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Remember the old &quot;Guinness Book of World Records&quot; TV show? Here is a story that will make you cringe. It is about the largest infestation of mice. The number of mice is sickening enough, but when they talk about the kid eating the dead mice...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Who knew? Mice have vocal sex too, we just couldn't hear it]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/57048/1/" /><id>57048</id><summary><![CDATA[Who knew? Mice have vocal sex too, we just couldn't hear it]]></summary><issued>2008-04-04T12:42:42+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-04T12:42:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[No one knew exactly why mice sing, but rats make similar calls during sex, pleasant brain stimulation, and drug use, so psychologists thought the songs might be a sign of happiness.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[2 Billion Mice Overrun China]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/26780/1/" /><id>26780</id><summary><![CDATA[2 Billion Mice Overrun China]]></summary><issued>2007-07-09T22:41:33+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-09T22:41:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The trouble began when the Yangtze River flooded and drove the mice out of their holes - now the ravenous rodents are wreaking havoc across the countryside.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Transgendered Women Wearing Lingerie Made From Taxidermied Rats [NSFW]]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43236/1/" /><id>43236</id><summary><![CDATA[Transgendered Women Wearing Lingerie Made From Taxidermied Rats [NSFW]]]></summary><issued>2007-12-04T10:13:21+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-04T10:13:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Yeah, obviously not safe for work. An example of &quot;art&quot;? Pics and videos of exactly what it says above. Semi-Women wearing bras, panties, high-heeled shoes and more made from taxidermied rats. Isn't the internet great?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Eating live frogs, rats &quot;cures tummy upsets&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/22990/1/" /><id>22990</id><summary><![CDATA[Eating live frogs, rats &quot;cures tummy upsets&quot;]]></summary><issued>2007-06-07T02:32:56+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-07T02:32:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A man in southeast China says 40 years of swallowing tree frogs and rats live has helped him avoid intestinal complaints and made him strong.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Radical Honesty]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34661/1/" /><id>34661</id><summary><![CDATA[Radical Honesty]]></summary><issued>2007-09-05T21:27:20+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-05T21:27:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[I think you're fat.]]></content></entry></feed>