by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
The beleaguered city of Baltimore, once a posterchild for crime infested American cities, has seen substantial year on year reductions in homicides, with the current 2025 rate on track for a historic low. Through June, Baltimore has had 68 recorded homicides, which is...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
As green as the Chardonnay grapes they grow, a winery along the base of California’s coastal Santa Lucia Mountains run entirely on wind power. The mountains’ unique geography keeps the area windy, which powers not only a large private wind turbine, but a delayed and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
A trial investigating the potential for a gene therapy to correct congenital deafness in children and young adults saw all 10 participants gain auditory ability, and allowed them to hear the sound of falling rain or their mother’s voice for the first time ever. The...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Astronomers have confirmed for just the third time ever that the solar system has been visited by an interstellar comet. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and Jupiter, and will...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
When Sandie Gillard fell from a two-story window, the impact knocked the senior citizen unconscious, a state that may have become permanent if not for the intervention of a very small, very unlikely hero. Lightly tapping on her head, a bird named Jellybean roused its...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone. This ‘auto-petrification’ may offer a strange new way to reduce human carbon emissions, as the mineral created by the trees has a much longer...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
If there were one place in America where you’d decline a glass of tap water it would be Flint, right? Wrong. A decade after lead-contaminated water was found in the Michigan city’s water system, the legal battle to replace lead water pipes is nearly finished. Homes...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
From the coast of Madagascar springs a story of pirates and sunken treasure, as an American research team believe they have identified a famous shipwreck. Nossa Senhora do Cabo (Our Lady of the Cape) was a 700-ton Portuguese warship captured by an infamous French...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Using a vacuum and some plastic tubing, rescuers Macgyvered a device to rescue two baby hedgehogs who had tumbled down a storm drain. While the vacuum didn’t work, the tube did, and can perhaps became a standard-issue rescue device for these little critters who “love...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
A little-known Coast Guard officer has been hailed as a hero after rescuing 165 people from the Texas hill country floods. Petty Officer and rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan, a native of New Jersey, was on the scene when the Guadalupe River rose dramatically, causing...
