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What Happened to Google Body Browser? Discontinued by Google; Continues with Zygote Media Group

Mon Oct 24, 2011 02:22 pm Cardinal News

The Body Browser tool, which was not officially released by Google, has been discontinued in Google Labs. The original developer, Zygote Media Group, will be a partner with Google in developing the Body Browser website […]

‘Steve Jobs’ Biography by Walter Isaacson Reveals That Steve Jobs Delayed Critical Surgery Needed to Treat Pancreatic Cancer

Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:44 am Cardinal News

Author Walter Isaacson — the biographer of “Steve Jobs” due to be published Monday — says Jobs came up with the Apple Computer name while he was on a diet of fruits and vegetables. Isaacson […]

Today in History for October 5th; Search Trends for October 5, 2011

Wed Oct 5, 2011 08:19 am Cardinal News

Highlights of this day in history: First victim dies in post-Sept. 11th anthrax scare; VP candidates spar over JFK; The Beatles release ‘Love Me Do’; ‘Monty Python’ premieres; Baseball’s Barry Bonds tops single-season runs record. […]

Today in History: September 24th — 267th Day of the Year

Sat Sep 24, 2011 04:55 pm Cardinal News

Highlights of this day in history: Patricia Hearst gets prison time; Author F. Scott Fitzgerald born; ’60 Minutes’ premieres in 1968; Baseball’s Dodgers play last Brooklyn game in 1957; Muppets creator Jim Henson born; Children’s […]

Raw Video: Mt. Kilauea Erupts in Hawaii

Fri Aug 5, 2011 12:53 pm Cardinal News

Scientists say a new lava flow has broken out at Mt. Kilauea, a Hawaiian volcano that has been continuously erupting for nearly three decades. Kīlauea, on the island of Hawaii, is one of the most […]

Spacecraft Probe ‘Juno’ Begins 5-Year Journey to Jupiter

Fri Aug 5, 2011 12:44 pm Cardinal News

NASA has launched a robotic explorer to Jupiter at 12:25 EDT on August 5, 2011. The spacecraft, named Juno, blasted off aboard an unmanned rocket Friday from Cape Canaveral. It will take Juno five years […]

Winnetka Teachers Won’t Be Fired for Showing Graphic HBO Film ‘The Middle Passage’

Wed Mar 2, 2011 08:14 am Cardinal News

Winnetka School District 36 officials released a statement Tuesday reporting that no employees would be fired as a result of investigation of a graphic film shown to fourth-graders at Greeley School. Letter to Community from […]

Arlington Heights Fire Department Helps Out at ‘Celebrate Reading’ Night at Windsor School

Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:03 pm Cardinal News

Terry Valentino, Arlington Heights Fire Department Training Division Commander, read The Fire Station as the guest reader to a group of about 25 first and second graders at Windsor School, 1315 East Miner Street in […]

Word of the Day: STEM Degree

Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:35 am Cardinal News

The acronym STEM represents a degree involving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The STEM fields are those academic and professional disciplines that fall under the umbrella areas represented by the the fields of science, technology, […]

Word of the Day: Scraper Website

Mon Nov 29, 2010 06:54 am Cardinal News

A scraper website is a web site that copies content from another website. Occasionally, just a page is ‘scraped’ from another website and used illegally in another website. Scraper sites often add their own ads […]

Word of the Day: Tragedy of the Commons

Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:51 pm Cardinal News

The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently, and solely and rationally consulting their own self-interest, will ultimately deplete a shared limited resource even when […]

George W. Bush: Decision Points #3, Glenn Beck: Broke #2, and Keith Richards: Life #1 on Amazon

Thu Oct 28, 2010 05:30 pm Cardinal News

George W. Bush Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life. President […]

Word of the Day: Gauges (Body Piercing)

Fri Oct 15, 2010 09:05 pm aauthor

Chances are you’ve walked into a Best Buy or a cell phone store or some kind ‘hip’ store and a store staffer has walked up to you with giant holes in his ear lobes. You […]

Fire Department/Emergency Medical Service Triage Tags: Red, Yellow, Green, Black, White

Sat Oct 9, 2010 08:28 pm Cardinal News

Chicago Fire Department and area suburban fire departments, including Arlington Heights Fire Department, use color coded tags to triage victims for treatment and transportation demands. RED TAGS – IMMEDIATE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT REQUIRED for victims […]

Word of the Day: ‘o.O’ is Skeptical Shock

Wed Sep 29, 2010 09:44 am Cardinal News

Call it a smiley or emoticon. Here’s a communication expressing shock, puzzlement, misunderstanding, raised eyebrow, and skepticism in online chatting, e-mail and Facebook communications, etc. Other variations … o.o, O.O, O.o, or o.O o.o , […]

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