<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : worms : 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[Women white collars in Beijing enjoy eating worms]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/40603/1/" /><id>40603</id><summary><![CDATA[Women white collars in Beijing enjoy eating worms]]></summary><issued>2007-11-04T21:34:08+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-04T21:34:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A white collar Ms. Yang recently has become indulged in eating worms. Under her influence, many of her friends are proud of eating worms and of finding worm food in Beijing's restaurants.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Weird Worms ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/97528/1/" /><id>97528</id><summary><![CDATA[Weird Worms ]]></summary><issued>2009-03-03T21:26:30+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-03T21:26:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Worms are pretty odd compared to creatures we are more familiar with. Within that already weird group, some worms are weirder than others, like the Pig Butt Worm in the theme pic.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Toilet worms trauma fear]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44429/1/" /><id>44429</id><summary><![CDATA[Toilet worms trauma fear]]></summary><issued>2007-12-16T20:12:44+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-16T20:12:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A New Zealander who invented a toilet that used worms to produce compost had to prove the worms were not traumatised before authorities would approve his product.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Horrible case of Intestinal Worms]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38092/1/" /><id>38092</id><summary><![CDATA[Horrible case of Intestinal Worms]]></summary><issued>2007-10-12T01:21:57+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-12T01:21:57+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Woman in Nepal has a Horrible case of Intestinal Worms. This is Hard to Watch.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[5 Most Horrific Parasitic Worms [With Gruesome Pictures](careful@work)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/111301/1/" /><id>111301</id><summary><![CDATA[5 Most Horrific Parasitic Worms [With Gruesome Pictures](careful@work)]]></summary><issued>2009-05-02T19:28:49+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-02T19:28:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Loathed wherever they go, parasitic worms are some of the animal kingdom&#8217;s true lowlifes. They feed off living hosts, sapping them of energy and nutrients while causing a range of horrible diseases.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Proton-powered Pooping In Worms: Subatomic Protons Act Like Nerve-signal Transmitters]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/46839/1/" /><id>46839</id><summary><![CDATA[Proton-powered Pooping In Worms: Subatomic Protons Act Like Nerve-signal Transmitters]]></summary><issued>2008-01-11T04:10:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-11T04:10:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Muscles usually contract when a neurotransmitter molecule is released from nerve cells onto muscle cells. But University of Utah scientists discovered that bare subatomic protons can act like larger, more complex neurotransmitters, making gut muscles contract in tiny round worms so the worms can poop.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Why Are Humans Always So Sick?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/111702/1/" /><id>111702</id><summary><![CDATA[Why Are Humans Always So Sick?]]></summary><issued>2009-05-04T19:08:51+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-04T19:08:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Among the possible causes for our modern ills: super-hygiene, sedentary lifestyles, and a lack of worms in our stomachs.<br/><br/>*did he say worms? You <i>need</i> worms?*]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[ Parasitic worms: Just what the doctor ordered? ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/127591/1/" /><id>127591</id><summary><![CDATA[ Parasitic worms: Just what the doctor ordered? ]]></summary><issued>2009-07-13T11:04:29+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-13T11:04:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Hookworms, whipworms, pinworms, flukes: mere mention of the panoply of parasitic worms that plague humans is enough to make most of us shudder. Not John Turton. In the mid-1970s, while working at the UK's Medical Research Council Laboratories in Surrey, he intentionally infected himself with hookworms in an attempt to relieve his chronic hay fever. It worked.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hundreds of New Reef Creatures Found in Australia]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/77459/1/" /><id>77459</id><summary><![CDATA[Hundreds of New Reef Creatures Found in Australia]]></summary><issued>2008-09-24T10:08:21+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-24T10:08:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Previously unknown shrimps, worms, scavenging crustaceans, and spectacularly colored soft corals were identified at the tropical sites during a study led by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS).]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[China Uncovers &quot;Worms, Substandard Goods&quot; From U.S.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/33884/1/" /><id>33884</id><summary><![CDATA[China Uncovers &quot;Worms, Substandard Goods&quot; From U.S.]]></summary><issued>2007-08-31T08:03:03+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-31T08:03:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[China has found microscopic worms in wooden packaging from the United States and uncovered substandard U.S. vitamin pills and fish oil for children, Chinese media said on Friday in the latest volley of cross-border accusations.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Synthetic sea worm glue may mend shattered knee, face bones]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/82990/1/" /><id>82990</id><summary><![CDATA[Synthetic sea worm glue may mend shattered knee, face bones]]></summary><issued>2008-11-27T09:11:00+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-27T09:11:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Sandcastle worms live in intertidal surf, building sturdy tube-shaped homes from bits of sand and shell and their own natural glue. University of Utah bioengineers have made a synthetic version of this seaworthy superglue, and hope it will be used within several years to repair shattered bones in knees, other joints and the face.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Is there a worm psychologist in the house?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45169/1/" /><id>45169</id><summary><![CDATA[Is there a worm psychologist in the house?]]></summary><issued>2007-12-24T18:03:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-24T18:03:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Coll Bell from Auckland, New Zealand, is developing a toilet that uses tiger worms to eat poop.  Coll has been told by Auckland Region Council that this could traumatise the worms and that a full psychological evaluation is needed.<br/><br/>Seriously.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Worms (careful@lunch)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/9634/1/" /><id>9634</id><summary><![CDATA[Worms (careful@lunch)]]></summary><issued>2007-01-27T17:32:17+01:00</issued><modified>2007-01-27T17:32:17+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[It's what's for dinner!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The 7 Most Horrifying Parasites on the Planet]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/103399/1/" /><id>103399</id><summary><![CDATA[The 7 Most Horrifying Parasites on the Planet]]></summary><issued>2009-03-31T07:21:34+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-31T07:21:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[As soon as your doctor says you've got parasites in your body, you don't need to hear any more details. They're all horrible, right? How can it get worse than little tiny worms or something feeding on your insides?<br/><br/>The horsehair worm description make me laugh.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Worms Fall from the Sky ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/27676/1/" /><id>27676</id><summary><![CDATA[Worms Fall from the Sky ]]></summary><issued>2007-07-17T02:42:46+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-17T02:42:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Great name for a band, btw.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ro-Revus Talks About Worms (1971)]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18887/1/" /><id>18887</id><summary><![CDATA[Ro-Revus Talks About Worms (1971)]]></summary><issued>2007-05-03T10:46:06+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-03T10:46:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[An amazing film about intestinal parasites as told by a frog puppet.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Florida's 'Worm Grunters' Collect Bait Worms By Inadvertently Imitating Mole Sounds]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/80162/1/" /><id>80162</id><summary><![CDATA[Florida's 'Worm Grunters' Collect Bait Worms By Inadvertently Imitating Mole Sounds]]></summary><issued>2008-10-24T00:03:11+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-24T00:03:11+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Worm grunting involves going into the forest, driving a wooden stake into the ground and then rubbing the top of the stake with a long piece of steel called a rooping iron.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scientists Create Lesbian Worms]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/40292/1/" /><id>40292</id><summary><![CDATA[Scientists Create Lesbian Worms]]></summary><issued>2007-11-01T16:02:21+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-01T16:02:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[By altering a gene in the brain of a female worm, scientists were able to change its sexual orientation so that it was attracted to other females.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Decoding Mysterious Green Glow Of The Sea]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/105075/1/" /><id>105075</id><summary><![CDATA[Decoding Mysterious Green Glow Of The Sea]]></summary><issued>2009-04-06T17:21:19+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-06T17:21:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Many longtime sailors have been mesmerized by the dazzling displays of green light often seen below the ocean surface in tropical seas. Now researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have uncovered key clues about the bioluminescent worms that produce the green glow and the biological mechanisms behind their light production.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Protection sought again for giant, spitting worms]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/126393/1/" /><id>126393</id><summary><![CDATA[Protection sought again for giant, spitting worms]]></summary><issued>2009-07-01T22:03:37+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-01T22:03:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Fans of the giant Palouse earthworm are once again seeking federal protection for the rare, sweet-smelling species that spits at predators.]]></content></entry></items></xml>