<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : mass : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.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[11 Weirdest Real-Life Cases of Mass Hysteria]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/83855/1/" /><id>83855</id><summary><![CDATA[11 Weirdest Real-Life Cases of Mass Hysteria]]></summary><issued>2008-12-07T20:22:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-07T20:22:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re an avid movie watcher, you&#8217;ve probably come across some pretty weird urban legends and myths. What&#8217;s amazing is that oftentimes real-life occurrences of mass hysteria, spurred on by mass psychogenic illness or collective obsessional behavior are much more bizarre and scary than fictional myths.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Coronal Mass Ejections And A 3-D View Of A Solar Storm]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/107324/1/" /><id>107324</id><summary><![CDATA[Coronal Mass Ejections And A 3-D View Of A Solar Storm]]></summary><issued>2009-04-15T10:20:31+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-15T10:20:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Twin NASA spacecraft have provided scientists with a view of the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of powerful explosions from the sun known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. This new capability will dramatically enhance scientists' ability to predict if and how these solar tsunamis could affect Earth.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Priest Drops Silent Bombshell During Mass]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/130605/1/" /><id>130605</id><summary><![CDATA[Priest Drops Silent Bombshell During Mass]]></summary><issued>2009-08-13T04:15:17+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-13T04:15:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[No, not like that!<br/><br/>As his congregation of deaf Roman Catholics prepared to head home after Mass, the priest indicated that he had something to tell.<br/><br/>Then, using sign language, Father Peter McDonough dropped his bombshell]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Military sonar blamed for mass dolphin strandings]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/123582/1/" /><id>123582</id><summary><![CDATA[Military sonar blamed for mass dolphin strandings]]></summary><issued>2009-06-17T07:06:47+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-17T07:06:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Mass strandings of dolphins and whales could be caused because the animals are rendered temporarily deaf by military sonar, experiments have shown.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dinosaur mass grave discovered in Switzerland]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/30789/1/" /><id>30789</id><summary><![CDATA[Dinosaur mass grave discovered in Switzerland]]></summary><issued>2007-08-09T10:38:42+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-09T10:38:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An amateur paleontologist in Switzerland may have unearthed Europe's largest dinosaur mass grave after he dug up the remains of two Plateosaurus.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Millionaire's Tax' Could Fund NYC Mass Transit]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/57465/1/" /><id>57465</id><summary><![CDATA['Millionaire's Tax' Could Fund NYC Mass Transit]]></summary><issued>2008-04-08T21:38:43+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-08T21:38:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Under the plan, people who earn over $1 million in New York state will pay an income tax surcharge of about 3/4 of 1 percent for five years. In all, it would raise over $5 billion for mass transit.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Saddam trial told of mass grave find]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/6605/1/" /><id>6605</id><summary><![CDATA[Saddam trial told of mass grave find]]></summary><issued>2006-11-28T19:46:12+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-28T19:46:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A US forensics expert took the stand in Saddam Hussein's trial for genocide against ethnic Kurds to tell in grim detail how he unearthed the remains of 27 people from a mass grave in northern Iraq.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mass extinctions caused by global warming?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/2464/1/" /><id>2464</id><summary><![CDATA[Mass extinctions caused by global warming?]]></summary><issued>2006-10-08T13:18:14+01:00</issued><modified>2006-10-08T13:18:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An asteroid impact may have caused one mass extinction in the past, but this article argues that relatively sudden releases of hydrogen sulfide gas from the world's oceans may have caused others. H2S is thought to be released as a consequence of high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. Guess what's happening now?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Pope considers return to Latin mass]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21518/1/" /><id>21518</id><summary><![CDATA[Pope considers return to Latin mass]]></summary><issued>2007-05-26T17:05:23+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-26T17:05:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Latin mass says, &quot;Bring it on!&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mass graves uncovered in Colombia]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19275/1/" /><id>19275</id><summary><![CDATA[Mass graves uncovered in Colombia]]></summary><issued>2007-05-06T18:42:48+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-06T18:42:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Colombian authorities have uncovered the mass graves of more than 100 people believed to have been killed during the country's long-running civil conflict.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Rumor: Mass Walkout At Gamespot?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/43293/1/" /><id>43293</id><summary><![CDATA[Rumor: Mass Walkout At Gamespot?]]></summary><issued>2007-12-05T00:25:11+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-05T00:25:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Unless cooler heads prevail or concerns are addressed, Gamespot could see &quot;mass resignations&quot;.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[World Body Mass Index]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14836/1/" /><id>14836</id><summary><![CDATA[World Body Mass Index]]></summary><issued>2007-04-01T09:26:30+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-01T09:26:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[...percentages of &quot;fat people&quot; by national populations. Guess who's #1?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A big chunk of the universe is missing - again]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40753/1/" /><id>40753</id><summary><![CDATA[A big chunk of the universe is missing - again]]></summary><issued>2007-11-06T02:48:23+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-06T02:48:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Not only has a large chunk of the universe thought to have been found in 2002 apparently gone missing again but it is taking some friends with it. The new calculations might leave the mass of the universe as much as ten to 20 percent lighter than previously calculated.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Looking Back: Dancing plagues and mass hysteria]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/125783/1/" /><id>125783</id><summary><![CDATA[Looking Back: Dancing plagues and mass hysteria]]></summary><issued>2009-06-24T18:52:27+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-24T18:52:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The year was 1374. In dozens of medieval towns scattered along the valley of the River Rhine hundreds of people were seized by an agonising compulsion to dance. Scarcely pausing to rest or eat, they danced for hours or even days in succession.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Overweight women have more sex]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81003/1/" /><id>81003</id><summary><![CDATA[Overweight women have more sex]]></summary><issued>2008-11-04T11:09:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-04T11:09:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Ninety-two percent of overweight women reported having a history of sexual intercourse with a man, as opposed to 87 percent of women with a normal body mass index.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Gay marriages brings in $111m to Mass.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/115196/1/" /><id>115196</id><summary><![CDATA[Gay marriages brings in $111m to Mass.]]></summary><issued>2009-05-18T11:10:34+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-18T11:10:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Gay marriages have pumped more than $111 million into Massachusetts since 2004. Also young, highly educated same sex couple are much more likely to move to Mass. due to the legalizing of same sex marriages.<br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/114864/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">F you, Mr. Steele</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sharpest views of Betelgeuse reveal how supergiant stars lose mass]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/129420/1/" /><id>129420</id><summary><![CDATA[Sharpest views of Betelgeuse reveal how supergiant stars lose mass]]></summary><issued>2009-07-29T23:06:00+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-29T23:06:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Betelgeuse -- the second brightest star in the constellation of Orion, is a red supergiant, one of the biggest stars known, and almost 1000 times larger than our Sun.<br/><br/>*Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Outbreak! Strange tales of mass hysteria]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/133319/1/" /><id>133319</id><summary><![CDATA[Outbreak! Strange tales of mass hysteria]]></summary><issued>2009-09-20T00:40:09+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-20T00:40:09+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[HOPES AND FEARS<br/>The authors have sifted through a vast range of material, and believe the spectrum of extraordinary social behaviour encompasses everything from faddish children to the mindless mob &#8211; from the &#8216;harmless&#8217; hula-hoop mania of 1958 (in which 30 million were sold in the USA alone within four months) to the flash-mobs of the French Revolution]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[In action: a skyscraper&#8217;s amazing 728-ton stabilising ball]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/84251/1/" /><id>84251</id><summary><![CDATA[In action: a skyscraper&#8217;s amazing 728-ton stabilising ball]]></summary><issued>2008-12-11T00:21:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-11T00:21:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The idea behind a tuned mass damper is quite simple: as a building sways (resulting from high winds, earthquakes etc), its tuned mass damper, essentially a finely tuned and ridiculously heavy pendulum, will move in opposition to the structure&#8217;s oscillations and minimize any movement.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA['Vampire' discovered in mass grave]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/98061/1/" /><id>98061</id><summary><![CDATA['Vampire' discovered in mass grave]]></summary><issued>2009-03-06T10:46:18+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-06T10:46:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A skeleton exhumed from a grave in Venice is being claimed as the first known example of the &quot;vampires&quot; widely referred to in contemporary documents.]]></content></entry></items></xml>