by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
‘Caring’ is a word that many Americans wouldn’t choose if asked to describe commercial aviation, but a story recently touched down from Pittsburgh International Airport of humanity and kindness that left a woman’s jaw suspended in disbelief. April Schmitt had just...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
For the last 30 years a tiny Minnesota town has played a huge role in the lives of its graduating students. Despite the population of Swanville sitting at a comfortable 328, what is essentially one big family comes together every year to send off their seniors with a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
If they don’t grow in right, most people will treat their wisdom teeth as bio-baggage, useful only for preventing money from burning a hole in one’s pocket due to the surgical costs of removing them. But an astounding new discovery has found that this third set of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Recent wet season rainfall along the east coast of Australia has shattered hundred-year records, but as the floodwaters recede, a feast of epic proportions seems ready to explode among the hills and valleys. Soaking up all that water, New South Wales’ various eucalypt...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Two meteor showers are visible in the late July skies, and they happen to peak at the same evening in a rare case of perfect timing. Especially visible in the Southern Hemisphere, but also visible farther south in the Northern Hemisphere, the α-Capricornids and the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Getting in fights, texting too much in class, skipping school—they are the kinds of stories that the parents of most high schools will have heard of before, and know the ending of. But at Morse High School in Maine, detention is enforced with an altogether different...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Paleontology may be entering another great era of discovery: characterized by serial misidentification in decades past. For an example one need look no further than the newly-dubbed “Dragon Prince of Mongolia,” a small tyrannosaurid from the earlier days of the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, stars, and even our own solar system’s planets. Now, the most expensive telescope ever made has unveiled a new trick—a coronagraph, which allows...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
There is no shortage of people in the world who see a burning building that isn’t theirs and choose not to risk their lives to help: Tomasz Zareba is not one of those bystanders. The Dublin truck driver helped save a man from a harrowing fall when the second-story...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Alabama will be the site of a new training camp for the next generation of female astronauts—funded and named in honor of one of the profession’s great pioneers. Okay, maybe next exactly, because the Nichelle Nichols Space Camp honors someone who pioneered an idea...
