by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
At the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, innovators and motorsport experts competed to race solar-powered cars 2,000 miles across the Australian Outback. Reminiscent of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, when Interwar Period engineers tried to balance speed, maneuverability,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala have announced the creation of a “biocultural” reserve to protect a trinational area corresponding with the borders of the classical Mayan empire. The second-largest intact tropical rainforest in the Americas, the Maya Region stretches...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
A retired rugby star turned quadriplegic has made an unbelievable recovery from a broken neck to reach the peak of a previously unclimbed mountain in Asia. Ed Jackson became the first person to successfully ascend the unnamed, 15,485-foot-high peak in the Tien Shan...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Washington state, a new Public Lands Commissioner has announced that 77,000 acres of special forests will be taken off the state’s logging rotation for conservation purposes. These “legacy forests,” as they’re being called, are in a state of growth between...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Reprinted with permission from World at Large In Ghana, Kenya, Japan, Poland and probably other countries as well, it’s now the mosquitos who fear the sound of buzzing—from drones built to detect and destroy them. Economies of scale and widespread adoption has reduced...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Roman mosaic at the bottom of a bathing pool has come to light after 1,600 years, and seems to show that the modern “flip-flop” sandal has an archaic origin story. Far from being invented by Havianas, it seems they were long-established as standard bathhouse...
