<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : Science : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55204/1/" /><id>55204</id><summary><![CDATA[Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?]]></summary><issued>2008-03-21T18:26:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-21T18:26:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Think you know a thing or two about science? Take our short quiz to determine if you'd pass an 8th grade science test.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Homebrewed Science]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/38015/1/" /><id>38015</id><summary><![CDATA[Homebrewed Science]]></summary><issued>2007-10-11T14:41:06+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-11T14:41:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Resuscitation Science: Is There a Third State of Being?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/49341/1/" /><id>49341</id><summary><![CDATA[Resuscitation Science: Is There a Third State of Being?]]></summary><issued>2008-02-04T00:32:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-04T00:32:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Top 10 Craziest Science Stuff you didn&#8217;t know]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/11610/1/" /><id>11610</id><summary><![CDATA[The Top 10 Craziest Science Stuff you didn&#8217;t know]]></summary><issued>2007-02-25T22:14:23+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-25T22:14:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New legal threat to school science in the US]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/68194/1/" /><id>68194</id><summary><![CDATA[New legal threat to school science in the US]]></summary><issued>2008-07-09T13:28:31+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-09T13:28:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Most Popular Myths in Science]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/12000/1/" /><id>12000</id><summary><![CDATA[The Most Popular Myths in Science]]></summary><issued>2007-03-01T23:24:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-01T23:24:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[I knew some of these couldn't be true.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[True Enough: the science, history and economics of self-deception]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/75686/1/" /><id>75686</id><summary><![CDATA[True Enough: the science, history and economics of self-deception]]></summary><issued>2008-09-10T15:29:07+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-10T15:29:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[SciFinds - Science Fiction Plimed]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14690/1/" /><id>14690</id><summary><![CDATA[SciFinds - Science Fiction Plimed]]></summary><issued>2007-03-30T22:08:15+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-30T22:08:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[SciFinds is similar to Plime and the rest but their theme is science fiction all the time. Fans can help each other find the most interesting science fiction news and views.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A science news site]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/7620/1/" /><id>7620</id><summary><![CDATA[A science news site]]></summary><issued>2006-12-14T11:48:08+01:00</issued><modified>2006-12-14T11:48:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An irreverent and probably irrelevant take on science news from award-winning science writer David Bradley]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What's wrong with science as religion?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/70767/1/" /><id>70767</id><summary><![CDATA[What's wrong with science as religion?]]></summary><issued>2008-07-31T10:20:30+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-31T10:20:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[India aims for 'quantum jump' in science]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/46781/1/" /><id>46781</id><summary><![CDATA[India aims for 'quantum jump' in science]]></summary><issued>2008-01-10T20:24:57+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-10T20:24:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Wired Science Reveals Secret Codes in Craig Venter's Artificial Genome]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/48674/1/" /><id>48674</id><summary><![CDATA[Wired Science Reveals Secret Codes in Craig Venter's Artificial Genome]]></summary><issued>2008-01-28T15:24:01+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-28T15:24:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Science Leads To Killing People!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/60410/1/" /><id>60410</id><summary><![CDATA[Science Leads To Killing People!]]></summary><issued>2008-05-02T10:29:30+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-02T10:29:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[New british TV show teaches science in an exciting new way]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/52323/1/" /><id>52323</id><summary><![CDATA[New british TV show teaches science in an exciting new way]]></summary><issued>2008-02-27T18:07:07+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-27T18:07:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[What happens when you have physics and chemistry professors teach grade school science classes?  A whole lot of fun.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Politics of Stem Cells]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43146/1/" /><id>43146</id><summary><![CDATA[Politics of Stem Cells]]></summary><issued>2007-12-03T10:47:12+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-03T10:47:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science presents a cogent description of Bush's interference in science. And what Congress can do about it.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[MythBuster Adam Savage: 3 Ways to Fix U.S. Science Education]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/74245/1/" /><id>74245</id><summary><![CDATA[MythBuster Adam Savage: 3 Ways to Fix U.S. Science Education]]></summary><issued>2008-08-30T11:02:50+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-30T11:02:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Deutsches Museum in Munich - Science and Technology]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/51264/1/" /><id>51264</id><summary><![CDATA[Deutsches Museum in Munich - Science and Technology]]></summary><issued>2008-02-19T13:28:15+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-19T13:28:15+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Photo Gallery and information about the Grand Deutsches Museum in Munich. The German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Google Earth Impact: Saving Science Dollars and Illuminating Geo-Science]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/18113/1/" /><id>18113</id><summary><![CDATA[Google Earth Impact: Saving Science Dollars and Illuminating Geo-Science]]></summary><issued>2007-04-27T08:56:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-27T08:56:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As an anthropology professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the Fulbright honoree has relied on bird's-eye views of the rural French countryside to find archeological excavation sites for over 25 years. Getting these views, however, often required snapping photos through rented airplane windows during low-level flyovers, an expensive process he describes as &quot;extremely inefficient and not a little dangerous.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Science Debate 2008 - McCain's Turn.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/79941/1/" /><id>79941</id><summary><![CDATA[Science Debate 2008 - McCain's Turn.]]></summary><issued>2008-10-21T15:55:09+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-21T15:55:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Has U.S. Science Lost Its Competitive Edge?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/60082/1/" /><id>60082</id><summary><![CDATA[Has U.S. Science Lost Its Competitive Edge?]]></summary><issued>2008-04-29T22:34:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-29T22:34:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[How far has the United States risen above the gathering storm of global competition in science? Not nearly far enough, warned a succession of luminaries at a symposium held today by the U.S. National Academies.]]></content></entry></items></xml>