by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Every November, the 1,200 denizens of Australia’s Christmas Island break out the rake and leaf blower and head out to their yards, driveways, and sidewalks. It’s not dead oak and beech leaves on their minds, however, but another red-tinted carpet—100 million...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
A pair of European mathematicians have proven a 300-year-old inference on shapes wrong, and won a bet on behalf of a long-dead Englishmen who got into a famous argument with his prince. The story begins with an experiment: take two gaming dice, put one on top of the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Stargazers and Luna-lovers are being spoiled this autumn. Having already enjoyed a late Harvest Moon spectacle in October, they can now follow that up with a second supermoon that will be the largest of 2025. A supermoon is a colloquial term for when the Moon reaches...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Between 2012 and 2017, 62 babies and toddlers were treated with a genetic therapy for severe combined immunodeficiency, known colloquially as the “Bubble Boy disease.” In 2021, GNN reported on the results of the trial—that by 2019, 95%, or all but two of the young...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Royal Meteorological Society has announced the winners of this year’s Weather Photographer of the Year Competition. Sponsored by the financial services and banking firm Standard Chartered, the competition is now in its 10th year. Chosen from over 4,000 images...
