<?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 - generaldecay's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - generaldecay's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:49:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:28:30 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Dr. Generaldecay</title><description><![CDATA[Well, well, Newsvine! It's been a while. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407109-dr-generaldecay</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407109-dr-generaldecay</guid><category>me</category><pubDate>Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:49:17 +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><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="/_vine/images/users/tn/generaldecay/2407132.jpg" width="75" height="75" /></item><item><title>Social status shapes racial identity</title><description><![CDATA[Penner and Saperstein used data from a study called the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which began in 1979 by interviewing a group of about 12,000 Americans aged 14 to 22. The sample were followed once a year until 1993 and every two years thereafter.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407105-social-status-shapes-racial-identity</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407105-social-status-shapes-racial-identity</guid><category>race</category><category>research</category><category>sociology</category><category>class</category><category>social-science</category><pubDate>Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:33:10 +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>Evidence of 'risk-taking' brain</title><description><![CDATA[Scientists say they have found physical evidence of brain differences which may drive "thrill-seekers" to act impulsively or dangerously.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407097-evidence-of-risk-taking-brain</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407097-evidence-of-risk-taking-brain</guid><category>health</category><category>research</category><pubDate>Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:30:46 +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>Many 'change accent to get ahead'</title><description><![CDATA[More than one-third of employees have changed their accent in order to impress their boss and improve their career prospects, research suggests.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407082-many-change-accent-to-get-ahead</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407082-many-change-accent-to-get-ahead</guid><category>business</category><category>society</category><category>sociology</category><category>prejudice</category><pubDate>Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:26:57 +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>'Paris Syndrome' strikes Japanese</title><description><![CDATA[A dozen or so Japanese tourists a year have to be repatriated from the French capital, after falling prey to what's become known as "Paris syndrome".]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407076-paris-syndrome-strikes-japanese</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407076-paris-syndrome-strikes-japanese</guid><category>health</category><category>psychology</category><category>mental-health</category><pubDate>Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:23:47 +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>Student Paramedics tackle knife and drugs dangers in school</title><description><![CDATA[Student paramedics from the University of the West of England have visited secondary and special schools to give first-aid skills training, utilising three real-life topics relevant to young peoples' everyday lives as part of an Aim Higher campaign.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407068-student-paramedics-tackle-knife-and-drugs-dangers-in-school</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407068-student-paramedics-tackle-knife-and-drugs-dangers-in-school</guid><category>crime</category><category>violence</category><category>society</category><category>sociology</category><category>criminology</category><pubDate>Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:21:31 +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>Police scour Facebook and Bebo for criminals</title><description><![CDATA[Trainee officers at Strathclyde Police are being used to search social networking sites for pictures of people posing with weapons, mainly knives.

More than 400 people, most of them teenagers, have been questioned and several convictions have been secured.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407060-police-scour-facebook-and-bebo-for-criminals</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407060-police-scour-facebook-and-bebo-for-criminals</guid><category>technology</category><category>social-networking</category><category>society</category><category>sociology</category><category>police-state</category><category>1984</category><category>privacy-rights</category><pubDate>Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:18:59 +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>Selfish adults 'damage childhood'</title><description><![CDATA[The aggressive pursuit of personal success by adults is now the greatest threat to British children, a major independent report on childhood says.

It calls for a sea-change in social attitudes and policies to counter the damage done to children by society.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407046-selfish-adults-damage-childhood</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407046-selfish-adults-damage-childhood</guid><category>research</category><category>society</category><category>parenting</category><category>sociology</category><category>social-science</category><category>criminology</category><pubDate>Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:14:44 +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>Why kissing means more to women</title><description><![CDATA[If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, so may be a kiss - or certainly to a woman anyway, researchers say.

A State University of New York team quizzed over 1,000 students, finding women place a big emphasis on kissing.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407038-why-kissing-means-more-to-women</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/07/2407038-why-kissing-means-more-to-women</guid><category>women</category><category>research</category><category>evolution</category><category>men</category><category>psychology</category><category>sociology</category><category>social-science</category><pubDate>Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:11:37 +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>An Agreement Has Been Reached.</title><description><![CDATA[An agreement has been reached between the staff, myself, and several other involved parties, concerning the ongoing harassment that has occurred on Newsvine.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis P. McCann]]></dc:creator><link>http://paperdragon.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/12/1858424-an-agreement-has-been-reached</link><guid>http://paperdragon.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/12/1858424-an-agreement-has-been-reached</guid><category>politics</category><category>islam</category><category>debate</category><category>meta</category><category>judaism</category><category>bigotry</category><category>coh</category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:18:45 +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><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="/_vine/images/users/tn/paperdragon/1858479.jpg" width="75" height="56" /></item><item><title>A woman's place (week-long series in the Guardian)</title><description><![CDATA[The Guardian is currently running a week-long series on  women's suffrage. Here is a link to the main page.

I have included some excerpts from various pages below.

The right to vote. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/09/1650588-a-womans-place-week-long-series-in-the-guardian</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/09/1650588-a-womans-place-week-long-series-in-the-guardian</guid><category>world-news</category><category>women</category><category>feminism</category><category>womens-rights</category><category>sociology</category><pubDate>Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:09:38 +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>How to get stabbed: you, too, can be knifed in a public place (opinion)</title><description><![CDATA[Rod Liddle says that it helps to be aged between 14 and 30, white and male. Being drunk and argumentative speeds things along. And no public policy seems to dissuade those who do the stabbing]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/08/1648897-how-to-get-stabbed-you-too-can-be-knifed-in-a-public-place-opinion</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/08/1648897-how-to-get-stabbed-you-too-can-be-knifed-in-a-public-place-opinion</guid><category>world-news</category><category>crime</category><category>opinion</category><category>society</category><category>knife-crime</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:54:17 +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><item><title>A message from Raymonty/ Seedplanter/ Montaneer/ Good Troll</title><description><![CDATA[Hello all! 

I got a message from Raymonty on NowPublic which I thought you'd all be delighted if I passed on! So here it is!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/31/1525656-a-message-from-raymonty-seedplanter-montaneer-good-troll</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/31/1525656-a-message-from-raymonty-seedplanter-montaneer-good-troll</guid><category>nothing</category><category>messing</category><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 10:54:41 +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><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="/_vine/images/users/tn/generaldecay/1525658.jpg" width="75" height="75" /></item><item><title>This PhD thesis just will not write itself</title><description><![CDATA[On the 29th December 2007, I updated my Vine info:

Thesis-related newsvine-hiatus reinstated. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/10/1355848-this-phd-thesis-just-will-not-write-itself</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/03/10/1355848-this-phd-thesis-just-will-not-write-itself</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:48:33 +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><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="/_vine/images/users/tn/generaldecay/1355851.jpg" width="75" height="75" /></item><item><title>Baby Bible Bashers</title><description><![CDATA[I saw this Cutting Edge documentary advertised this morning (it will be shown on Channel Four next week). It's called 'Baby Bible Bashers', and the one minute preview terrified me. 

From the site: ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/08/1286500-baby-bible-bashers</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/02/08/1286500-baby-bible-bashers</guid><category>religion</category><category>christianity</category><category>abortion</category><category>bible</category><category>intolerance</category><category>bible-bashing</category><pubDate>Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:18:42 +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><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="/_vine/images/users/tn/generaldecay/1286514.jpg" width="75" height="100" /></item><item><title>Spare us the 'People's Prostitute' routine...</title><description><![CDATA[Let's get the caveat out of the way from the off. The five women murdered in Ipswich were tragic, lost souls who met a grisly end. I sincerely hope whoever killed them is caught, charged and convicted.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/24/1252480-spare-us-the-peoples-prostitute-routine</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/24/1252480-spare-us-the-peoples-prostitute-routine</guid><category>women</category><category>misogyny</category><category>prostuition</category><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:33:23 +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>Heath Ledger found dead in New York apartment (links to news stories)</title><description><![CDATA[Heath Ledger has been found dead at an apartment in New York City. The Oscar-nominated actor, who was found face down on the bed, was discovered by the apartment's housekeeper just after 3pm this afternoon (New York time) when she went to wake him for a massage appointment.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/23/1248256-heath-ledger-found-dead-in-new-york-apartment-links-to-news-stories</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/23/1248256-heath-ledger-found-dead-in-new-york-apartment-links-to-news-stories</guid><category>entertainment</category><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:25:57 +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>... On the politics of the people behind Facebook</title><description><![CDATA[I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/15/1227984-on-the-politics-of-the-people-behind-facebook</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/15/1227984-on-the-politics-of-the-people-behind-facebook</guid><category>technology</category><category>internet</category><category>online</category><category>facebook</category><category>social-networking</category><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:23:55 +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>Australians vote on word of 2007</title><description><![CDATA[Are you suffering from password fatigue? Ever considered manscaping? Do you know any tanorexics?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/10/1217268-australians-vote-on-word-of-2007</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/10/1217268-australians-vote-on-word-of-2007</guid><category>culture</category><category>language</category><category>linguistics</category><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:59:06 +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>Do you need to read books to be clever?</title><description><![CDATA[It's the National Year of Reading. Just as well, as one in four adults say they haven't read a book in at least a year. With so many other ways to get information these days, do we still need books?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[generaldecay]]></dc:creator><link>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/10/1217256-do-you-need-to-read-books-to-be-clever</link><guid>http://generaldecay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/10/1217256-do-you-need-to-read-books-to-be-clever</guid><category>education</category><category>intelligence</category><category>literature</category><category>reading</category><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:52:36 +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>