by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Four years ago, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) launched their Forests Forward program, partnering with big businesses to reduce deforestation and improve woodland management. A new report shows that their 26 global partners are positively impacting 15,000-sq-mi of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
A part-time minister has gone viral for his lifelike beach sculptures that depict everyday items like a giant toothpaste tube and a pair of crocs. Mark Lewis is passionate about sculpting sand into weird and wonderful forms—and says he loves to put a smile on people’s...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
That old stereotype of mailman-running-from-dog has been turned upside-down by a Texas letter carrier and a pooch named Floyd. Ian Burke first met the dog while delivering mail in Denton three years ago. Floyd, a German Shepherd and Border Collie mix, came charging up...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Johnette Wilmot learned CPR when she was 17-years-old and never needed it in the 40 years since then. But, recently, when a 15-year-old went into cardiac arrest during a baseball practice, Wilmot remembered everything as if she had been trained yesterday. Evan Tucker...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Absolutely gripping footage recorded during a recent apartment block fire shows a mother throwing her baby out from the third-floor window to a crowd of rescuers below. The arms of the rescuers envelope the falling child, and Cleveland news 19 reports that both mom...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
To use what will become a timeless adage, one of the most amazing things about life is how it, uh, finds a way—as seen lately in England where ash trees are spontaneously developing resistance to a deadly disease. Natural selection in woodlands is acting to combat the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
From the Jersey Shore comes the story of a parasail operator rescuing a kayaker and her dogs as fast as the wind which capsized them was blowing across the water. It was Thursday evening in Sea Isle City and Brennan Bollard wasn’t working. A storm was forecasted and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
A farmer in Kansas had an idea for an anniversary gift, but it was going to take eight months, one mile of land, and 65 million wheat seeds. Jesse Blasi and his wife Sarah were set to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary this year. And he was inspired by another...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Looking as intact as the day it was forged, a 1,000-year-old sword has gone on display in the Netherlands. Capturing a transition in medieval military technology with its expert degree of preservation as well as a dramatic culture of weapon embellishment with its...
