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Obama Shops at Independent Bookstore — Politics and Prose

Sat Nov 30, 2013 03:07 pm Cardinal News

President Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha dropped in Saturday at Washington’s Politics and Prose bookstore. The Saturday after Thanksgiving has become known as “Small Business Saturday,” designed to drive customers to mom and pop […]

Christmas Cardinal 2013 Commemorative Christmas Ornament Features Original Art by Former President George W. Bush

Sun Nov 24, 2013 12:21 pm Cardinal News

George W. President Bush: The Artist Behind the 2013 Bush Center Ornament. The ornament, available exclusively at the Bush Center’s Museum store, features an image of a cardinal, originally painted for Ambassador Warren Tichenor by […]

Art Critic Jerry Saltz on George W. Bush Paintings” Kind of Weird, But Shocked that He Liked Some Paintings

Wed Nov 20, 2013 07:14 pm Cardinal News

Jerry Saltz talks about President George W. Bush painting photo-realism and “things you can’t see. Art critic Jerry Saltz says he would welcome the former president warmly in the New York art world. Jerry Saltz […]

Happy Halloween: Eat Your Heart Out with Miss Cakehead Creepy Cakes, Like Eyeballs and Finger Cakes

Thu Oct 31, 2013 02:46 pm Cardinal News

The creepy cakes of Miss Cakehead, which mix the delicious with the disgusting. Carmel hearts and chocolate hands. According to the MISS CAKEHEAD website, she is a freelance creative director that specializes in campaigns and […]

Spending, Credit, Interest Rates and More: How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio ICYMI

Sun Sep 22, 2013 11:55 pm Cardinal News

Economics 101 — “How the Economic Machine Works” by Ray Dalio YouTube Tips ⓘ Explanations of Income, Debt Repaying, Spending, Credit, Debt, Interest Rates, Central Bank, Central Government, Long Term Debt Peak, Inflation, Deflation, Deleveraging, […]

Ununpentium Is the Temporary Name of a New Element Synthesized, Confirmed at GSI in Sweden

Wed Aug 28, 2013 10:54 pm Cardinal News

Researchers in Sweden say they’ve made a new element, calling it Ununpentium. On August 27, 2013, researchers at GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research from Lund University in Sweden reported confirming the existence of […]

Wikipedia Leader Jimmy Wales Talks About Journalism and Freedom of Thought, Speech

Fri Aug 9, 2013 06:50 pm Cardinal News

Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales: Time to rethink journalism; explains that Freedom of Speech and freedom to read without someone watching is very important. Wikipedia leader Jimmy Wales believes that what you read is very personal and […]

Designing Future Batteries at Joint Center for Energy Storage Research Near Argonne

Thu Aug 1, 2013 11:59 pm Cardinal News

Battery experts at Argonne National Laboratory give CBSNews.com their take on the future of energy storage. CBS News Alexander Trowbridge reports. Lithium ion batteries currently dominate the electronics scene. Lithium ion batteries could be two […]

The Muon G-2 Superconducting Electromagnet Journey and Its Arrival at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory In Batavia

Sat Jul 27, 2013 09:20 pm Cardinal News

A giant magnet that was transported fromNew York to Illinois was 50 feet wide, weighs more than 15 tons and has taken a month to transport 3,200 miles from New York to Illinois. The Muon […]

Erasing Death: Dr. Sam Parnia, Intensive Care Physician Explains Afterlife Insights, Stopping Death

Fri Apr 12, 2013 08:29 am Cardinal News

Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death reveals that death is not a moment in time. Death, rather, is a process that can be interrupted well after it has […]

Panoramic View of Volcano Plosky Tolbachik, Kamchatka, Russia from AirPano

Wed Feb 6, 2013 09:09 pm Cardinal News

Video of arrival of erupting volcanos in Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia. Recently Russian photographers landed in a helicopter on a dangerous trip to get images of volcanoes erupting simultaneously with beautiful […]

GravityLight: Lift a Weight and Create Light

Sat Dec 22, 2012 04:01 pm Cardinal News

GravityLight: lighting for the developing countries from Therefore on Vimeo. GravityLight is a revolutionary new approach to storing energy and creating illumination. It takes only 3 seconds to lift the weight which powers GravityLight, creating […]

A Greater Challenge to Gun Laws: New Technologies, Like 3D Printing

Fri Dec 21, 2012 03:00 pm Cardinal News

Cody Wilson, a University of Texas Law Student, talks about the capability to make a gun with a 3D printer, even though it is not legal to make a complete gun. A stranger twist in […]

Awesome Chuck Yaeger and Awesome Fearless Felix Baumgartner Break the Sound Barrier on Sunday

Mon Oct 15, 2012 03:27 am Cardinal News

The first pilot to break the sound barrier in an aircraft did it again on Sunday. General Chuck Yeager flew faster than the speed of sound, exactly 65 years after his historic flight. Sixty-five years […]

Record Broken for Manned Balloon Flight by Felix Baumgartner During Red Bull Stratos Mission

Sun Oct 14, 2012 12:54 pm Cardinal News

Felix Baumgartner broke the record for manned space flight in a balloon at about 123,000 feet and still climbing. At about 127,000 feet Felix Baumgartner prepared for egress from the capsule. Prior to jumping from […]

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