<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : harvard : 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[$100 Mill goes to Harvard in Donation]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59661/1/" /><id>59661</id><summary><![CDATA[$100 Mill goes to Harvard in Donation]]></summary><issued>2008-04-25T13:43:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-25T13:43:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Philanthropist David Rockefeller donated a record $100 million to Harvard University's undergraduate program.<br/><br/>Holy Moly, can I change my name to clHarvard?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[To accommodate just six Muslim women, Harvard University closes gym to men]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/52901/1/" /><id>52901</id><summary><![CDATA[To accommodate just six Muslim women, Harvard University closes gym to men]]></summary><issued>2008-03-03T17:55:44+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-03T17:55:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Harvard closes gyms 6 hours a week to allow Muslim women to workout. That's 1 hour per female Muslim student who refuses to workout near men because of religious reasons. What's next?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Harvard Says &quot;You boys could use a little churching up&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/2448/1/" /><id>2448</id><summary><![CDATA[Harvard Says &quot;You boys could use a little churching up&quot;]]></summary><issued>2006-10-08T09:32:41+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-08T09:32:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Harvard University committee charged with revising curriculum proposed that undergraduates be compelled to take a course in religion as part of a new set of course requirements that breaks sharply from the school's peer institutions.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Harvard Looking To Have Fair Admissions Policy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/253/1/" /><id>253</id><summary><![CDATA[Harvard Looking To Have Fair Admissions Policy]]></summary><issued>2006-09-12T11:40:28+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-12T11:40:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Harvard will drop its early admissions policy citing that it is unfair to underprivileged and minority students.  Instead, they will have one deadline for all applicants.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Student Gets Extra Time to Pump Her Breasts]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36940/1/" /><id>36940</id><summary><![CDATA[Student Gets Extra Time to Pump Her Breasts]]></summary><issued>2007-09-30T10:39:16+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-30T10:39:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A breastfeeding Harvard student will have longer breaks during her medical exam so she can either nurse her baby or pump her breasts.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Boys who don't play videogames 'are at risk']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/61174/1/" /><id>61174</id><summary><![CDATA[Boys who don't play videogames 'are at risk']]></summary><issued>2008-05-09T02:20:51+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-09T02:20:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Boys who don't play videogames at all are at greater risk of getting into trouble than those who play violent games occasionally, according to two Harvard psychologists. The pair also said there was also no evidence to suggest violent games turn young people into criminals or violent people, despite some media reports.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Slowing Down Light]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/42479/1/" /><id>42479</id><summary><![CDATA[Slowing Down Light]]></summary><issued>2007-11-25T18:01:22+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-25T18:01:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Remember the good old days when you could count on death, taxes and the speed of light. Well we still have death and taxes. Harvard physicist slows and stops light.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Tumour growth block hopes raised]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/54509/1/" /><id>54509</id><summary><![CDATA[Tumour growth block hopes raised]]></summary><issued>2008-03-16T18:58:47+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-16T18:58:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Harvard Medical School identified an enzyme which enables cancer cells to consume the huge quantities of glucose they need to fuel uncontrolled growth.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Newly identified HIV proteins could lead to AIDS treatments]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/46955/1/" /><id>46955</id><summary><![CDATA[Newly identified HIV proteins could lead to AIDS treatments]]></summary><issued>2008-01-11T18:57:54+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-11T18:57:54+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Hundreds of new proteins critical in the spread of the HIV virus through the body have been identified by Harvard researchers. The discovery could lead to new treatment options for people with the virus.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Genes from Middle East families yield autism clues]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/68333/1/" /><id>68333</id><summary><![CDATA[Genes from Middle East families yield autism clues]]></summary><issued>2008-07-10T15:34:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-10T15:34:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Harvard researchers have discovered half a dozen new genes involved in autism that suggest the disorder strikes in a brain that can't properly form new connections.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Relax, smoking in movies is, like everything else, just fiction]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17740/1/" /><id>17740</id><summary><![CDATA[Relax, smoking in movies is, like everything else, just fiction]]></summary><issued>2007-04-24T19:49:56+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-24T19:49:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[people at Harvard want to get rid of smoking in movies. A report delivered to the Motion Picture Association of America by the Harvard School of Public Health advised that studios &#8220;eliminate the depiction of tobacco smoking from films accessible to children and youths.&#8221; I like that Harvard still uses phrases like &#8220;accessible to youths.&#8221; Harvard is going to have to revamp a lot of its research procedures when it hears about the Internet. The study was run by Associate Dean Jay Winsten, the guy]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Is there a neurological basis for racism?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/50331/1/" /><id>50331</id><summary><![CDATA[Is there a neurological basis for racism?]]></summary><issued>2008-02-12T21:53:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-12T21:53:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A study looks at the physiological aspects of racism in the brain.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Physics of The Familiar]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/52734/1/" /><id>52734</id><summary><![CDATA[The Physics of The Familiar]]></summary><issued>2008-03-02T13:20:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-02T13:20:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[How paint dries, the way flags flutter, how Nature discovered origami, and other marvels of the physical world<br/><br/>Just because something is familiar doesn&#8217;t mean you understand it. That is the common fallacy that all adults make&#8212;and no child ever does.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Japanese woman who produced vanilla from cow dung wins Ig Nobel Prize]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37437/1/" /><id>37437</id><summary><![CDATA[Japanese woman who produced vanilla from cow dung wins Ig Nobel Prize]]></summary><issued>2007-10-05T11:16:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-05T11:16:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Mayu Yamamoto, 26, was given the Ig Nobel Prize for Chemistry for developed vanillin -- vanilla flavoring and fragrance -- from cow dung.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Write Two Blog Articles And Call Me In The Morning]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/63110/1/" /><id>63110</id><summary><![CDATA[Write Two Blog Articles And Call Me In The Morning]]></summary><issued>2008-05-25T22:27:06+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-25T22:27:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[There seems to be therapeutic benefits in writing about personal experiences, thoughts and feelings. Besides serving as a stress-coping mechanism, expressive writing produces many physiological benefits. Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces viral load in AIDS patients, and even speeds healing]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Psychology of Barack Obama as the Antichrist]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/71994/1/" /><id>71994</id><summary><![CDATA[The Psychology of Barack Obama as the Antichrist]]></summary><issued>2008-08-11T12:16:57+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-11T12:16:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This is from The Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[True Love Revolution (the no sex club of Harvard U)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/sex/l/30379/1/" /><id>30379</id><summary><![CDATA[True Love Revolution (the no sex club of Harvard U)]]></summary><issued>2007-08-06T01:09:30+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-06T01:09:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[I was watching a tabloid tv program interview with one male member, when my highly tuned gaydar went berzerk.  Have Harvard's standards sunk so low as to let fundies as blahooey as these walk its hallowed halls?  I'm all for abstinence (it makes up most sober moments of married life) but lets not pretend it is FUN!  &quot;Cuddling, kissing, and baking cookies are underrated&quot; extolls one member.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Your Kid Does What?!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34435/1/" /><id>34435</id><summary><![CDATA[Your Kid Does What?!]]></summary><issued>2007-09-04T10:02:41+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-04T10:02:41+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Unusual child prodigies from around the world. These are not your typical 12-year-old Harvard overachievers.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ancient Human DNA Extracted From Yucca Leaves Spat Out]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/35029/1/" /><id>35029</id><summary><![CDATA[Ancient Human DNA Extracted From Yucca Leaves Spat Out]]></summary><issued>2007-09-08T13:46:55+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-08T13:46:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In a groundbreaking study, two Harvard scientists have for the first time extracted human DNA from ancient artifacts. The work potentially opens up a new universe of sources for ancient genetic material, which is used to map human migrations in prehistoric times.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Three Terabytes (3,000 Gigabytes) on a CD-R?!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/1722/1/" /><id>1722</id><summary><![CDATA[Three Terabytes (3,000 Gigabytes) on a CD-R?!]]></summary><issued>2006-09-30T13:26:03+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-30T13:26:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Harvard researchers have developed an &#8220;optical nano antenna&#8221; which helps focus light from an inexpensive laser onto a spot size of 40-nanometers. The result is up to 3,000-gigabytes of data on a regular optical disc!]]></content></entry></items></xml>