<?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/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - Alex Haakonsen's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://industrial.newsvine.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2012</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:49:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:45:19 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Debate: 'Should Muslims turn a blind eye to the cartoons?'</title>
<description><![CDATA[Two Muslims disagree about the appropriate response to the cartoon controversy]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></source><link>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/01/113835-debate-should-muslims-turn-a-blind-eye-to-the-cartoons</link><guid>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/01/113835-debate-should-muslims-turn-a-blind-eye-to-the-cartoons</guid><category>iran</category><category>muslim</category><category>world-news</category><category>prophet</category><category>cartoon</category><category>danish</category><category>muhammad</category><pubDate>Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:49:55 +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>No more heroes: On Leo Strauss</title>
<description><![CDATA[Leo Strauss, father of neoconservatism, is not the fascist thinker of left-wing caricature. But neither is he a figure with whom democrats can feel comfortable. He believed in virtue rather than liberalism]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></source><link>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/01/113833-no-more-heroes-on-leo-strauss</link><guid>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/01/113833-no-more-heroes-on-leo-strauss</guid><category>bush</category><category>politics</category><category>heroes</category><category>leo</category><category>strauss</category><category>neoconservatism</category><pubDate>Wed, 1 Mar 2006 10:48:04 +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 The World's Poor Children Really Need A $100 Laptop?</title>
<description><![CDATA[The chairman and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab recently launched the $100 laptop to the world's media. Is it necessary?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></source><link>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112993-do-the-worlds-poor-children-really-need-a-100-laptop</link><guid>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112993-do-the-worlds-poor-children-really-need-a-100-laptop</guid><category>technology</category><category>dollar</category><category>politics</category><category>chairman</category><category>founder</category><category>lab</category><category>laptop</category><category>telephony</category><category>mit</category><category>hundred</category><category>e-ink</category><category>coaxial-cable</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:03:38 +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>Is This India's Finest Hour?</title>
<description><![CDATA[Travelling around India this month, in blinding contrast to the evident levels of stark poverty that can be seen in a great number of its citizens, something in the air tells one that India is pulsing with energy for change.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></source><link>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112988-is-this-indias-finest-hour</link><guid>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112988-is-this-indias-finest-hour</guid><category>business</category><category>india</category><category>economy</category><category>development</category><category>subcontinent</category><category>finest-hour</category><category>explore</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:00:20 +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>The Smarter Way to Experience the Great Pyramids</title>
<description><![CDATA[From their construction throughout the centuries the Pyramids of Giza have represented mystery, wonder and awe to all. They are perhaps the only great architecture of the ancients to have survived more or less completely intact.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></source><link>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112985-the-smarter-way-to-experience-the-great-pyramids</link><guid>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112985-the-smarter-way-to-experience-the-great-pyramids</guid><category>egypt</category><category>great</category><category>experience</category><category>pyramids</category><category>cheops</category><category>khufu</category><category>giza</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:58:13 +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>A Short Guide to Having Fun in Italy</title>
<description><![CDATA[The best time to go to Italy could well be, well, anytime. In reality the best time is between April and June as the flood of school holidays hasn't yet hit the roads, the countryside is at its fullest bloom and the weather isn't uncomfortably hot yet.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></source><link>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112981-a-short-guide-to-having-fun-in-italy</link><guid>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112981-a-short-guide-to-having-fun-in-italy</guid><category>travel</category><category>weather</category><category>italy</category><category>food</category><category>guide</category><category>fun</category><category>cuisine</category><category>region</category><category>speciality</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:55:23 +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>Travelling in the Arabian Peninsula</title>
<description><![CDATA[It may seem in the days of mass tourism and cheap worldwide flights that no stone has been left unturned in our pursuit of the unexplored. However, Arabia still offers much in the way of mystery and exoticism.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></source><link>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112974-travelling-in-the-arabian-peninsula</link><guid>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112974-travelling-in-the-arabian-peninsula</guid><category>travel</category><category>dubai</category><category>arabia</category><category>peninsula</category><category>sand</category><category>civilisations</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:53:01 +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>A New Science for a New Climate</title>
<description><![CDATA[At first glance it's hard to imagine how the proliferation of human activity upon the environment has been a major factor in climate change given that climate change alone is nothing new. Over two million years the earth's history has seen enormous changes.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></source><link>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112283-a-new-science-for-a-new-climate</link><guid>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112283-a-new-science-for-a-new-climate</guid><category>technology</category><category>energy</category><category>wind</category><category>coal</category><category>science</category><category>climate</category><category>change</category><category>toxic</category><category>carbon</category><category>hydrogen</category><category>photosynthesis</category><category>refinement</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:49:36 +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>A new science for a new climate</title>
<description><![CDATA[At first glance its hard to imagine how the proliferation of human activity upon the environment has been a major factor in climate change given that climate change alone is nothing new.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alex Haakonsen]]></source><link>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112371-a-new-science-for-a-new-climate</link><guid>http://industrial.newsvine.com/_news/2006/02/28/112371-a-new-science-for-a-new-climate</guid><category>human</category><category>politics</category><category>environment</category><category>science</category><category>climate</category><category>change</category><category>activity</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:04:56 +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>
