<?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/</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[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[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[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[Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/91346/1/" /><id>91346</id><summary><![CDATA[Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy]]></summary><issued>2009-01-27T20:57:35+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-27T20:57:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Some of Bush's policies held value which was debatable. One that didn't was his administration's disdain for science. Obama's promise to bring back science to its rightful place was music to many ears. Many feel that science should be placed on a pedestal. But why? What is it about science that is so important? It isn't just what nifty gadgets it can provide.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[10 Winning Science Fair Projects That Will Make You Feel Dumb]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/105415/1/" /><id>105415</id><summary><![CDATA[10 Winning Science Fair Projects That Will Make You Feel Dumb]]></summary><issued>2009-04-07T18:59:33+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-07T18:59:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Sure there are kids that don't take the science fair seriously and end up feeding Mountain Dew to a plant for 30 days to see what happens (yay science!), but there are also kids that go well above and beyond. Here are 10 that won with extremely brainy projects that have real world applications.]]></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 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[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[the small science collective]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/93121/1/" /><id>93121</id><summary><![CDATA[the small science collective]]></summary><issued>2009-02-06T10:46:19+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-06T10:46:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Offering a collection of <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zines" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">zines</a> about science. Really an amazing collection.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How science explains religion]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/55136/1/" /><id>55136</id><summary><![CDATA[How science explains religion]]></summary><issued>2008-03-21T06:36:44+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-21T06:36:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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..]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Science fiction 'thrives in hi-tech world' ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18652/1/" /><id>18652</id><summary><![CDATA[Science fiction 'thrives in hi-tech world' ]]></summary><issued>2007-05-01T21:24:42+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-01T21:24:42+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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?]]></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[The 7 Deadly Sins Of Religion In Science Fiction]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/102588/1/" /><id>102588</id><summary><![CDATA[The 7 Deadly Sins Of Religion In Science Fiction]]></summary><issued>2009-03-27T18:08:49+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-27T18:08:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Religion is a huge part of science fiction - and it makes the genre better and more fascinating, as Battlestar Galactica proved. But there are seven mistakes SF should avoid in portraying the spiritual realm.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[God Or Science? Choose One Or The Other]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/86017/1/" /><id>86017</id><summary><![CDATA[God Or Science? Choose One Or The Other]]></summary><issued>2008-12-21T16:45:30+01:00</issued><modified>2008-12-21T16:45:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Researchers at The University of Chicago have published a paper suggesting that in terms of explanations, for most people Science and God are mutually exclusive.<br/><br/>(PDF of the actual paper <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ffaculty.chicagogsb.edu%2Fnicholas.epley%2FPreston%26EpleyJESP.pdf&amp;ei=NKpOSe-QCoyg-gbny7XPDw&amp;usg=AFQjCNFaMkAROW6Yem3gJTVpGULeYiCbnQ&amp;sig2=1C2UoWYBg5D7Y4wxfBYJ-A" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ God and Science: An Inner Conflict]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/89510/1/" /><id>89510</id><summary><![CDATA[ God and Science: An Inner Conflict]]></summary><issued>2009-01-15T17:04:30+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-15T17:04:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[God and science are inherently at odds, or so goes the story with roots that reach back nearly 400 years to the Inquisition's trial of Galileo on suspicion of heresy.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bobby McFerrin Sings Science]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/129808/1/" /><id>129808</id><summary><![CDATA[Bobby McFerrin Sings Science]]></summary><issued>2009-08-03T16:42:43+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-03T16:42:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A demonstration of how expectations can be formed, communications directed and patterns established from Bobby McFerrin at the World Science Festival.]]></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[Beautiful nanotechnology images from the Science as Art competition]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/46138/1/" /><id>46138</id><summary><![CDATA[Beautiful nanotechnology images from the Science as Art competition]]></summary><issued>2008-01-05T15:40:20+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-05T15:40:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Basic Concepts in Science]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/48407/1/" /><id>48407</id><summary><![CDATA[Basic Concepts in Science]]></summary><issued>2008-01-25T20:33:59+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-25T20:33:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![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]]></content></entry></items></xml>