<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : science : All Links : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://science.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><link><id>135470</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135470/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Happy Carl Sagan Day!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Carl Sagan died in 1996, but his ideas and passion for science and exploration live on. Friends and colleagues have created the first celebration of his life, hoping it will become an annual event. Speakers include Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy and James Randi, viewings of Cosmos and sky watching. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.ustream.tv/channel/carl-saga-day-live" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Live USTREAM coverage all day.</a><br/><i>&quot;Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known&quot; </i>]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>104</score><crdate>11/7/2009 11:25:03 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-07T11:25:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135452</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135452/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Transgender papaya: scientists change the sex of a tropical fruit ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Papayas already come in three sexual varieties: male, female and hermaphrodite, but it is only the hermaphrodite varieties that produce the succulent fruit that is sold commercially(bet you didn't know that).]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>68</score><crdate>11/7/2009 12:44:02 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-07T00:44:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135447</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135447/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Walking Backwards No more.]]></title><description><![CDATA[It seems that the flu shot victim <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/135396/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Desree Jennings</a> has suddenly been cured of walking backwards.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>504</score><crdate>11/6/2009 7:43:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-06T19:43:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135430</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135430/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Large Hadron Collider halted by Bird with a Sandwich]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bird dropping a piece of bread on a section of the LHC particle accelerator has  shut down the whole operation. With freak accidents piling up at CERN, the idea of time traveling particles returning from the future to prevent their own discovery seems less like a sci-fi joke today. *Of course it could just be Zaphod Beeblebrox refueling the infinite improbability drive of the Heart of Gold.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>559</score><crdate>11/6/2009 11:44:52 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-06T11:44:52+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135383</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135383/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Uh Oh. Cats Can Get Swine Flu]]></title><description><![CDATA[Health officials in Iowa say a 13-year-old cat tested positive for swine flu - the first feline to come down with the virus.<br/><br/>Two of the three people who live with the cat had the flu before the cat got sick, officials say.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>209</score><crdate>11/4/2009 7:29:11 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-04T19:29:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135374</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135374/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow's weather: Cloudy, with a chance of fractals]]></title><description><![CDATA[With increasing darkness toward the evening hours.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>109</score><crdate>11/4/2009 6:12:16 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-04T18:12:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135372</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135372/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Midwest quakes are aftershocks from 1800s]]></title><description><![CDATA[The largest quake is estimated to have been 8.0 in magnitude and was powerful enough to temporarily make the Mississippi River flow backwards.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>109</score><crdate>11/4/2009 6:05:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-04T18:05:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135371</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135371/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ Failed Doomsday Predictions ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Includes Video: 2012 Cataclysm or Ancient Myth?]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>141</score><crdate>11/4/2009 5:58:47 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-04T17:58:47+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135326</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135326/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New vaccine offers hope in Africa's malaria battle]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;A vaccine that appears to be able to prevent the disease in about 50 percent of children, is now undergoing the final stage of testing.<br/>...This vaccine was developed specifically for Africa and will only prevent the African strain of the disease. Experts say it would be a historic advancement.&quot;]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>140</score><crdate>11/3/2009 8:58:25 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-03T08:58:25+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135322</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135322/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Giant Crack in Africa Will Create a New Ocean]]></title><description><![CDATA[The same rift activity is slowly parting the Red Sea, too.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>193</score><crdate>11/3/2009 2:32:55 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-03T02:32:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135298</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135298/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Newly-discovered prehistoric spider's web is world's oldest]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world's oldest spider web was found by an amateur fossil hunter.  The 1 millimeter threads of web, similar to those woven by orb spiders today, were encased in amber, and are around 140 million years old.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>210</score><crdate>11/1/2009 6:04:21 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-01T18:04:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135278</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135278/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Too Much Sleep Can Make You Tired]]></title><description><![CDATA[Did you grab that extra hour of sleep this morning after setting the clocks back an hour? (I didn't). You probably shouldn't have.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>148</score><crdate>11/1/2009 7:35:53 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-01T07:35:53+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135257</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135257/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Now THIS is scary!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Watch an unthinking human sneeze without covering his mouth! Watch his virus invade your body and wreak havoc! Watch it take over your DNA and clone itself millions of times! Watch it launch itself into your blood stream! Hope your immune system beats its little viral ass!]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>446</score><crdate>10/31/2009 2:01:33 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-31T14:01:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135224</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135224/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Giant penis-eating worm found in UK aquarium]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don't like the sounds of this at all....]]></description><comments>24</comments><score>651</score><crdate>10/29/2009 7:15:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-29T19:15:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135221</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135221/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ever wondered just how small an atom really is?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The University of Utah built an interactive sliding scale to illustrate the size of REALLY REALLY small things like cells, atoms, HIV, water molecule, etc. Click the link to see. Very cool.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>874</score><crdate>10/29/2009 6:01:57 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-29T18:01:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135207</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135207/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ilya the Manatee Rescued from Horrible Place Called &quot;New Jersey,&quot; Coming to Miami]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ilya, <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://cbs4.com/local/new.jersey.manatee.2.1278644.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">the wandering manatee</a> has been plucked from the cold NJ waters by the <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/article_b575e174-c49d-11de-9ea7-001cc4c03286.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Coast Guard </a> and has been flown home to Florida.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>374</score><crdate>10/29/2009 12:55:35 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-29T12:55:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135173</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135173/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Seven questions that keep physicists up at night ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why this universe?<br/>What is everything made of?<br/>How does complexity happen?<br/>Will string theory ever be proved correct?<br/>What is the singularity?<br/>What is reality really?<br/>How far can physics take us?]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>177</score><crdate>10/28/2009 2:57:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-28T02:57:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135100</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135100/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Stroke Switches Sexuality]]></title><description><![CDATA[A case reported to the Journal of Neuropsychiatry tells the case of a 57-year old gay man who after his second stroke found himself sexually attracted to women instead of men.]]></description><comments>53</comments><score>516</score><crdate>10/26/2009 10:58:00 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-26T10:58:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135078</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135078/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Technique that can identify songs developed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers have developed a novel system to identify common patterns in versions of songs, which will help to quantify the similarity of musical pieces. The method, based on mathematical equations, makes it possible to identify the concurrent presence of tonal events on two song tracks.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>199</score><crdate>10/25/2009 1:19:40 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-25T13:19:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135023</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135023/1/</url><title><![CDATA[What Really Scares People]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whether you jump at the sight of a spider or work up a sweat at the mere mention of getting on an airplane, fears and phobias abound.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>159</score><crdate>10/23/2009 7:06:14 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-23T19:06:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135016</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135016/1/</url><title><![CDATA[World&#8217;s Largest Web-spinning Spider]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new species of golden orb spider has been found in South Africa. It is the biggest spider ever found that spins a web -and what a web it is!<br/><br/>(Video at bottom of article)]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>97</score><crdate>10/23/2009 5:12:02 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-23T17:12:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135006</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/135006/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Anthropologist Argues that Modern Humans Are Wimps]]></title><description><![CDATA[Peter McAllister argues that human physical strength and endurance have deteriorated over time.<br/><br/>    <i>Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions.</i>]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>398</score><crdate>10/23/2009 1:51:25 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-23T13:51:25+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134978</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/134978/1/</url><title><![CDATA[I am the real ,Balloon Boy, survivor , '60s scare ...]]></title><description><![CDATA[At least one man reckons &quot;Balloon Boy&quot; is trying to steal his &quot;thunder&quot;, and his moniker: Dan Nowell, the man originally dubbed Balloon Boy after he was caught up, undesirably, in a hot-air balloon flight in the 1960s.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>98</score><crdate>10/22/2009 10:52:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-22T22:52:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134934</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/134934/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Time is an illusion: your brain stitches it together until it seems continuous. But what happens when it goes wrong..]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>517</score><crdate>10/21/2009 6:14:15 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-21T18:14:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>134922</id><url>http://science.plime.com/science/l/134922/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Just in time for Halloween!]]></title><description><![CDATA[A bloodybelly jellyfish!  Recently discovered by the Monterey Bay Aquarium.<br/><br/>Makes me think of The Tell Tale Heart!]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>472</score><crdate>10/21/2009 1:05:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-10-21T13:05:20+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>