by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
China has always placed importance on self-sufficiency, and now the world’s largest consumer of industrial metals is digging mines into its own waste streams. The largest producer of solar panels, batteries, and EVs, Chinese businesses are seeing in these valuable...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
After a conclave of merely two days—a shock in itself—a far greater shock emerged when the white smoke billowing out into the skies over Vatican City heralded the election of the first American ever to hold the papacy. Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, holds in his...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Like any good foster parent, Alan Toyne shared everything with the babies he was responsible for rearing—his bed, his dining table, his life. And if you paid him a visit in his Bristol home during a seven-month period in 2016, you’d be impressed with his dedication to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
As other endangered Australian wildlife, the mountain pygmy possum has recovered to its pre-wildfire population in the Snowy Mountains. While conservationists are to be applauded for the turn around, they maybe aren’t the experts you’d expect to be managing such a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
A new study examining 7,000 years of human consumption of grapes found that the domestication of the fruit occurred gradually rather than suddenly, and that wild varieties continued to be used for wine making long after domesticated species emerged. The data leaves...
