<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - Miguel's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - Miguel's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:40:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:15:30 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>3 men share 2009 Nobel Prize in physics for work in networking society, digital photography</title><description><![CDATA[Three scientists who created the technology behind digital photography and helped link the world through fiber-optic networks shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/19/3523896-3-men-share-2009-nobel-prize-in-physics-for-work-in-networking-society-digital-photography</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/19/3523896-3-men-share-2009-nobel-prize-in-physics-for-work-in-networking-society-digital-photography</guid><category>technology</category><category>photography</category><category>photos</category><category>digital</category><category>physics</category><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:40:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Ondra Redpoints Legendary Swiss Multipitch</title><description><![CDATA[The teenage Czech climber Adam Ondra has done the first redpoint ascent of WoGü (5.14), a super-sustained mini–big wall of limestone in the mountains of Switzerland.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/30/1708518-ondra-redpoints-legendary-swiss-multipitch?category=sports</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/30/1708518-ondra-redpoints-legendary-swiss-multipitch?category=sports</guid><category>sports</category><category>switzerland</category><category>climbing</category><category>big-wall</category><category>multi-pitch</category><category>ondra</category><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:16:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Leopard savaging a crocodile caught on camera</title><description><![CDATA[The astonishing spectacle of a leopard savaging a crocodile has been captured for the first time on camera.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/20/1681441-leopard-savaging-a-crocodile-caught-on-camera</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/20/1681441-leopard-savaging-a-crocodile-caught-on-camera</guid><category>science</category><category>africa</category><category>photos</category><category>biology</category><category>nature</category><category>photo</category><category>leopard</category><category>amazing</category><category>photograph</category><category>crocodile</category><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:49:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Rands Sends South African V12</title><description><![CDATA[Lisa Rands sent Nutsa (V12) despite rainy weather at the sandstone mecca of Rocklands, South Africa. Rands had tried the problem on previous trips to the area, but bad weather and injury hindered her success last year.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/19/1679094-rands-sends-south-african-v12?category=sports</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/19/1679094-rands-sends-south-african-v12?category=sports</guid><category>sports</category><category>africa</category><category>climbing</category><category>escalade</category><category>bouldering</category><category>rands</category><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:32:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>New High-Altitude 5.13 in Colorado</title><description><![CDATA[Rocky Mountain High (5.13a) is a two-pitch line with a crux 170-foot corner protected mostly with traditional gear. The route got its name from Mike Patz, who did the second ascent and said he was so addled from lack of oxygen that he forgot sequences on the crux pitch.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/08/1649447-new-high-altitude-513-in-colorado?category=sports</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/08/1649447-new-high-altitude-513-in-colorado?category=sports</guid><category>sports</category><category>colorado</category><category>hard</category><category>climbing</category><category>routes</category><category>high-altitude</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2008 22:53:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Artist Joshua Allen Harris Turns Garbage Bags Into World's Greatest Balloon Animals</title><description><![CDATA[Using only tape and garbage bags, Harris creates giant inflatable animals that become animated when fastened to a sidewalk grate. In the video above, watch him do a bear, a giraffe, and one that looks not unlike the Cloverfield monster.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/08/1647986-artist-joshua-allen-harris-turns-garbage-bags-into-worlds-greatest-balloon-animals</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/08/1647986-artist-joshua-allen-harris-turns-garbage-bags-into-worlds-greatest-balloon-animals</guid><category>arts</category><category>video</category><category>new-york</category><category>animals</category><category>city</category><category>urban</category><category>garbage-bags</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2008 15:17:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Nose Speed Record is Broken</title><description><![CDATA[According to a text message that Florine sent to Chris McNamara of Supertopo.com after the climb on July 2, the time of their ascent was 2:43:33.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/07/1646712-nose-speed-record-is-broken?category=sports</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/07/1646712-nose-speed-record-is-broken?category=sports</guid><category>sports</category><category>climbing</category><category>nose</category><category>el-capitan</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2008 04:01:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Rowling Testifies Against Lexicon Author</title><description><![CDATA[But she had flown to New York from her Edinburgh home for the occasion, she testified, because she felt so strongly about someone else turning 17 years of her labor on the Harry Potter series into an encyclopedia.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/16/1434379-rowling-testifies-against-lexicon-author</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/04/16/1434379-rowling-testifies-against-lexicon-author</guid><category>arts</category><category>law</category><category>books</category><category>court</category><category>harry</category><category>potter</category><category>encyclopedia</category><category>rowling</category><category>lexicon</category><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:59:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison</title><description><![CDATA[For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words "Mary had a little lamb" on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/28/1396025-researchers-play-tune-recorded-before-edison</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/28/1396025-researchers-play-tune-recorded-before-edison</guid><category>science</category><category>music</category><category>paris</category><category>audio</category><category>sound</category><category>berkeley</category><category>edison</category><category>phonautogram</category><category>phonograph</category><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:13:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Programming Pioneer Weizenbaum Dead</title><description><![CDATA[Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer programmer who invented the natural language understanding program known as ELIZA and later grew skeptical of artificial intelligence, has died, his family said Thursday. He was 85.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/17/1371690-programming-pioneer-weizenbaum-dead</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/17/1371690-programming-pioneer-weizenbaum-dead</guid><category>technology</category><category>death</category><category>computers</category><category>language</category><category>dead</category><category>programs</category><category>die</category><category>obituary</category><category>ai</category><category>artificial-intelligence</category><category>computer-science</category><category>computer-programs</category><category>eliza</category><category>natural-language</category><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:26:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Greed In the Name Of Green</title><description><![CDATA[Let us buy Anna Sova Luxury Organics Turkish towels, 900 grams per square meter, $58 apiece. Let us buy the eco-friendly 600-thread-count bed sheets, milled in Switzerland with U.S. cotton, $570 for queen-size.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/07/1351560-greed-in-the-name-of-green</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/07/1351560-greed-in-the-name-of-green</guid><category>world-news</category><category>green</category><category>nature</category><category>society</category><category>organic</category><category>gore</category><category>sociology</category><category>environmentalism</category><category>environmentalist</category><category>capitalist</category><pubDate>Sat, 8 Mar 2008 04:09:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Online donors buy breast implants for Calgary woman</title><description><![CDATA[A Calgary woman has become the first Canadian to receive enough donations from strangers through a U.S. website to get breast augmentation surgery.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/26/1325550-online-donors-buy-breast-implants-for-calgary-woman</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/26/1325550-online-donors-buy-breast-implants-for-calgary-woman</guid><category>odd-news</category><category>internet</category><category>funny</category><category>breast</category><category>donations</category><category>social-networks</category><category>breast-implants</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:19:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Military warns soldiers not to post info on Facebook</title><description><![CDATA[The Defence Department is advising Canadian soldiers not to post personal photos and information on social networking websites like Facebook, citing security concerns.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/26/1325527-military-warns-soldiers-not-to-post-info-on-facebook</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/26/1325527-military-warns-soldiers-not-to-post-info-on-facebook</guid><category>politics</category><category>facebook</category><category>army</category><category>social-networking</category><category>soldiers</category><category>social-networks</category><category>defence</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:00:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>New York accent: Still talking the tawk?</title><description><![CDATA[The New York accent is very much alive, linguists will happily tell you, but like all dialects -- and that's what our accent is -- it's changing.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/25/1325118-new-york-accent-still-talking-the-tawk</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/25/1325118-new-york-accent-still-talking-the-tawk</guid><category>science</category><category>new-york</category><category>linguistics</category><category>languages</category><category>dialects</category><category>accents</category><category>linguistic</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:40:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Humans 'evolving to have children later'</title><description><![CDATA[Good news for future generations of career women: we are evolving to have more children later in life, according to a recent study.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/17/1307504-humans-evolving-to-have-children-later</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/17/1307504-humans-evolving-to-have-children-later</guid><category>science</category><category>evolution</category><category>human-evolution</category><pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:06:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>A house is a home, not an investment</title><description><![CDATA[I live in a home, not a house. It is not an investment. It is where I hide from the world and I don't care what it's worth because if I sold it, I would still need another hideout, which would cost the same.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/13/1299681-a-house-is-a-home-not-an-investment</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/13/1299681-a-house-is-a-home-not-an-investment</guid><category>politics</category><category>home</category><category>investment</category><category>housing</category><category>toronto</category><category>houses</category><category>home-owners</category><category>mortages</category><category>house-owners</category><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:43:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Harrington, Sharma Are National Champs</title><description><![CDATA[Emily Harrington and Chris Sharma topped very strong fields at last weekend's comp near Salt Lake City to be named adult national champions in lead climbing.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/28/1261864-harrington-sharma-are-national-champs?category=sports</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/28/1261864-harrington-sharma-are-national-champs?category=sports</guid><category>sports</category><category>climbing</category><category>sharma</category><category>indoor-climbing</category><category>lead-climbing</category><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:10:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Turn off your lights, make a difference</title><description><![CDATA[A short introduction to the whole idea of "Earth Hour". Everybody should join in this wonderfully simply idea. The idea is simple, turn off your lights for one hour on March 29th, 2008. 
From their offical website:]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/28/1261850-turn-off-your-lights-make-a-difference</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/28/1261850-turn-off-your-lights-make-a-difference</guid><category>world-news</category><category>australia</category><category>global-warming</category><category>energy</category><category>earth</category><category>conservation</category><category>activism</category><category>electricity</category><category>lights</category><category>earth-hour</category><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Preparing for an Interview Presentation</title><description><![CDATA[There are, I've learned, different types of job presentations. For instance, in the academic world, a job talk, as *they* call it, can be very different than an interview presentation given to a Wall Street firm.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/28/1259796-preparing-for-an-interview-presentation</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/28/1259796-preparing-for-an-interview-presentation</guid><category>business</category><category>research</category><category>work</category><category>interview</category><category>presentation</category><category>powerpoint</category><category>public-speaking</category><category>presentations</category><category>job-talks</category><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:48:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Last Alaska language speaker dies</title><description><![CDATA[A woman believed to be the last native speaker of the Eyak language in the north-western US state of Alaska has died at the age of 89.

Marie Smith Jones was a champion of indigenous rights and conservation. She died at her home in Anchorage.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Miguel]]></dc:creator><link>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/24/1252130-last-alaska-language-speaker-dies</link><guid>http://miguel.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/24/1252130-last-alaska-language-speaker-dies</guid><category>science</category><category>world</category><category>usa</category><category>alaska</category><category>linguistics</category><category>languages</category><category>natives</category><category>indigenous-languages</category><category>native-speakers</category><category>eyak</category><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:57:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>