Author: DXO
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How to Find the Winfield Mounds Prehistoric Site
In the village of Winfield in DuPage County, Illinois, there is a prehistoric burial ground that is 1,000 years old. It is called Winfield Mounds, and it is nestled in the forest preserve of the same name. I’ve been going to Winfield Mounds, and taking nature pictures there for years. A favorite thing to do…
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Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo
Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, originally uploaded by juggernautco. The pond just to the south of the Lincoln Park Zoo has been tranformed. In recent years, when it was called the South Pond, it's been a mildly crumbling thing, with narrow shores along the Farm in the Zoo, 70s-style paddles boats that I never…
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New York City Marathon Weekend Street Closures, November 5 – 8, 2010
This Sunday is the ING New York City Marathon, which means getting around in the morning might be challenging. But every weekend, there's all sorts of stuff that goes on in the city that affects traffic. Here's some info from NYCDOT: One of four lanes of the Williamsburg Bridge eastbound to Brooklyn will be partially…
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Commercial Technology Thwarts Terror Plot
One thing that is well-noted by little noted about the recent failed toner cartridge bombings is the fact that the key element to finding the packages was the exact tracking package numbers. So technology that we all use daily, that is deeply integrated with our favorite search engine, that allows us to see where our…
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Introducing the New York Times Anonymity Database
I am a lover of the New York Times. Loving the New York Times is an essential piece of my identity, similar to the movie Goodfellas. I wouldn’t know how to be me if these two things did not exist. For any lover of the NYT, the Jayson Blair plagiarism and fabrication episode was a…