<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : Science : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : Science : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55204/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Top 10 Craziest Science Stuff you didn&#8217;t know]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/11610/1/</link><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></item><item><title><![CDATA[New legal threat to school science in the US]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68194/1/</link><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></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homebrewed Science]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/38015/1/</link><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></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resuscitation Science: Is There a Third State of Being?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49341/1/</link><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></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Most Popular Myths in Science]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/12000/1/</link><description><![CDATA[I knew some of these couldn't be true.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Earth Impact: Saving Science Dollars and Illuminating Geo-Science]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/18113/1/</link><description><![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;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has U.S. Science Lost Its Competitive Edge?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/60082/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science fiction 'thrives in hi-tech world' ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18652/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds is in a prime position to look dispassionately at the present and project into the future, having spent 12 years as an astronomer with the European Space Agency (Esa).<br/><br/>Books apparently blurring the science:fiction boundary as well as the present:future boundary.  Has anybody out there read any of these?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science tattoos]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/57471/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Extremely cool science tattoos]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gallery: Stunning visualizations of science]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/77785/1/</link><description><![CDATA[It's a feast for the eyes: the winners of the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge have been announced.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science Laughs at Your False Beliefs!...]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/76071/1/</link><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></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful nanotechnology images from the Science as Art competition]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/46138/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The 2007 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting concluded in Boston on November 30. This was the first time that the popular Science as Art competition was held at an MRS Fall Meeting. Three first place and three second place winners were selected from the various entries. Some of the images are from the nanotechnology domain but most are micro-scale.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[How science explains religion]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/55136/1/</link><description><![CDATA[&#8220;Explaining Religion&#8221;, as the project is known, is the largest-ever scientific study of the subject. Science and religion have often been at loggerheads. Now the former has decided to resolve the problem by trying to explain the existence of the latter. Non-believing scientists look at the advantages of belief..]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basic Concepts in Science]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48407/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A regularly updated list of blog entries explaining the basics of science and mathematics. Great list, any of which makes find posts in themselves]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science Debate 2008]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/74691/1/</link><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></item><item><title><![CDATA[True Enough: the science, history and economics of self-deception]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/75686/1/</link><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></item><item><title><![CDATA[SciFinds - Science Fiction Plimed]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14690/1/</link><description><![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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[A science news site]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/7620/1/</link><description><![CDATA[An irreverent and probably irrelevant take on science news from award-winning science writer David Bradley]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's wrong with science as religion?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/70767/1/</link><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></item></channel></rss>