by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Reprinted with permission from World at Large. One of America’s largest bonsai tree collections recently celebrated its centennial with the largest exhibition on these miniature trees ever held. The collection includes some wonders of the artform: a Rocky Mountain...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
In a laboratory model of Down Syndrome, the CIRSPR gene editing technique successfully removed the duplicate chromosome that causes the condition while also augmenting cell function and fitness, and reduced biological aging. While the authors are far from even...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
For the first time in 500 years, the European beaver has been seen in Portugal, a moment that one nonprofit has called “one of the most significant steps in the aquatic rewilding of Portuguese rivers.” As GNN has reported in the case of the UK, there is no animal...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
As is so often the case in Greek history, real events merge with myth—and there’s no more perfect example than the island of Ithaca, renowned as the homeland of ‘Odysseus’ the hero king in Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey. Now, at an archeological dig there, tiles...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Rarely is there good news to be found amid the wreckage of a crashed plane, but from the Air India flight which recently went down in Ahmedabad, a ray of positivity emerges. The crash claimed 241 souls on board, but it could have been dozens, perhaps hundreds more on...
