by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
A long-lost sport once feared dead is being dusted off and played again in the villages where it was born. “Knurr-and-spell” was once played widely in pubs across England’s South Yorkshire, but had all but vanished by the 1970s. The quirky ball game which bears a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
Across Iowa, a tiny fish has inspired an enormous conservation program that has seen hundreds of ponds restored to their natural state. Though originally for the sake of this small federally-endangered fish, the lakelets soon demonstrated their power to alleviate the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
A district court judge struck down the stop-work order on the Sunrise Wind project, marking the fifth time courts have overturned the Department of Interior’s order halting work on 5 offshore wind projects under construction along America’s eastern seaboard. Sunrise...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
At 0.77 children per woman in 2025, South Korea was the world’s least fertile country. Perhaps heralding a reversal of fortune, though, childbirths have grown at the fastest pace in 18 years on the Peninsula, with a 6.2% increase totaling 233,708 babies between...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
A scorched cherry twig miraculously sprouting; a diseased swamp restored to ‘peak fertility’; healing the broken leg of an ox; and multiplying cabbages. These are just some of the forgotten medieval miracles of the Augustinian Order which Dr. Krisztina Ilko brings to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
It wasn’t quite a reunion; since the women knew each other well. Their relationship, so far as they understood it, was that important one between an OB/GYN and their patient carrying a child. Little did Megan Lewis and Suzanne Koziol know it at the time, but their...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, Sotheby’s oversaw the record $18 million sale of a drawing by Rembrandt: one of 6 drafts he made of lions, and the only one to have resided in private hands. Those hands belong to Dr. Thomas S. Kaplan and his wife, who along with standing foremost among the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
The reproductive spores of a moss species were able to somehow survive the vacuum of space during a 9-month stint outside the International Space Station. In the immortal words of Jeff Goldblum, life, uh, finds a way. Physcomitrella patens is known as a hardy pioneer...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering the confirmation of a bright galaxy that existed a mere 280 million years after the Big Bang; so close to the beginning of the universe as we understand. GNN reported on the last such...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
While searching for their cubs, the females of the world’s third-largest feline will make a sound that’s strikingly similar to what you’ve heard your own cat make. Weighing in excess of 300 lbs., the jaguar is a ferocious predator that can take large caiman and even...
