by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Virginia farm is welcoming newly-retired military to come learn how to farm as a way of providing a fulfilling path back into civilian life. The Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food figured that veterans were perfectly cut out for farming, as the average vet is 45%...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
A man recently received word through social media that a Long Islander and his metal detector found his missing class ring, lost on a day at the beach 56 years ago. Then just Alfred DiStefano remembers vaguely standing on a dock or a pier on Cedar Beach, Long Island...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Italy comes a remarkable coincidence generations in the making—told with a little help from Airbnb. Between 1850 and 1950, around 3.5 million Italians immigrated to Argentina, with the 19th century seeing mainly Northerners arriving, and the 20th century seeing...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
In America’s arid southwest, a scientist who’s studied dryland water systems for over 20 years has found the key to transforming barren desert into verdant oases. That key is so basic, it hardly even merits being called technology, as it’s more or less nature at its...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
An international team of astronomers recently found not one, but two of the strangest and rarest of all cosmic objects, and in the same star system no less. Called brown dwarfs, these peculiar objects are invaluable resources for learning about the formation of stars,...