<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : science : Popular Links : ATOM 0.3</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><entry><title><![CDATA[Bottled Water Sexes Up Snails]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/103557/1/" /><id>103557</id><summary><![CDATA[Bottled Water Sexes Up Snails]]></summary><issued>2009-04-01T01:03:31+01:00</issued><modified>2009-04-01T01:03:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A German study of commercially-available bottled water found contamination by chemicals that mimic natural sex hormones. When the researchers raised snails in the water, they bred with extreme rapidity &#8212; a warning sign that the chemicals were active. Contamination levels were twice as high in brands packaged in plastic instead of glass, suggesting that plastic was the culprit.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Why chimps are stronger than humans]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/103412/1/" /><id>103412</id><summary><![CDATA[Why chimps are stronger than humans]]></summary><issued>2009-03-31T08:19:33+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-31T08:19:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The brutal attack last month by a pet chimpanzee on a Connecticut woman was a stark reminder that chimps are up to four times stronger than humans.<br/><br/>One reason, a new study suggests, is that we pay a price for our fine motor skills.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What Makes Us Fart?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/103021/1/" /><id>103021</id><summary><![CDATA[What Makes Us Fart?]]></summary><issued>2009-03-29T20:11:53+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-29T20:11:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[You just knew I'd have to post a follow up to cow farts.The answer may stink, but eating or drinking anything gives us gas. In fact, it's normal to fart up to half of a gallon (1.9 liters), or about 15 to 20 toots worth of gas, each day.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Alligator In Love With A Garbage Truck]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/102991/1/" /><id>102991</id><summary><![CDATA[Alligator In Love With A Garbage Truck]]></summary><issued>2009-03-29T16:26:34+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-29T16:26:34+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Attitude the alligator had raised herself out of the water, head and tail pointing upward. Powerful contractions of her mid-section forced a series of low-pitched bellows resounding through the park.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Find The Farmer]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/102965/1/" /><id>102965</id><summary><![CDATA[Find The Farmer]]></summary><issued>2009-03-29T12:59:26+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-29T12:59:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/technology/internet/28farmer.html?_r=1&amp;em=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;adxnnlx=1238252797-8g849D270U5SDAYANsbEFA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Traceability</a>...knowing your food's source.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How to Defend Earth Against an Asteroid Strike]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/102687/1/" /><id>102687</id><summary><![CDATA[How to Defend Earth Against an Asteroid Strike]]></summary><issued>2009-03-28T04:34:26+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-28T04:34:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In troubled economic times, it's often hard to convince the government to fund space science. Heck, at least fruit flies live on our planet. But there's one field of research that the public should be happy to support: keeping the Earth from being pummeled by asteroids. And there is no shortage of ideas for how to do this.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The New Pseudo-Shrinks]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://science.plime.com/science/l/102655/1/" /><id>102655</id><summary><![CDATA[The New Pseudo-Shrinks]]></summary><issued>2009-03-28T01:16:02+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-28T01:16:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[With psychiatrists becoming an expendable luxury during tough times, trainers, masseuses, and even dentists are doling out mental-health advice to needy clients. Beth Landman on the perils of mixing dental work and daddy issues]]></content></entry></items></xml>