by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Birds of a feather usually flock together, but a lucky blackbird was ‘adopted’ by a mistle thrush mama who took the juvenile ‘under her wing’ in a rare case of inter-species feeding. Photographer Andrew Fusek-Peters captured the rare phenomenon in adorable close-up...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 24, 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 | May 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Uganda, a nurse was excited to start practicing medicine, but realized only afterwards that his patients didn’t so much need pharmaceuticals as proper nutrition. 14 years ago in northern Uganda’s Yumbe district, Francis Asiku was riding home from that nursing job...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Canada comes the story of a lost family heirloom finding its way home in the most bizarre series of circumstances. Kelly Brown, a member of the Aurora post of the Royal Canadian Legion, sat at her home last week in shock: staring at what appeared to be a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have photographed the auroras of Jupiter, revealing a host of details previously unknown to science. Naturally, the aurora on our solar system’s largest planet is hundreds of times brighter and more energetic than our...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Meet Master Degbo, a Chinese Shaolin kung fu and tai chi teacher on the other side of the world from China. From the West African nation of Benin comes the ultimate story in intercultural exchange, whereby a young man inspired by Jackie Chan films took up kung fu and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the usually sleepy Swiss town of Mulegns, pop. 11, a dramatic white tower rises four stories into the Alpine air—the tallest 3D-printed structure on earth. One might imagine such a technological marvel to be debuted in a square in the Silicon Valley cities of San...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
For the 10% of the global population that live near an active and potentially dangerous volcano, help may be forthcoming from an unlikely source: trees. In advance of volcanic eruptions, carbon dioxide gases are released from the magma below the earth. The trees...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Yosemite National Park, the eradication of non-native American bullfrogs has led to the return of California’s only native turtle species. The northwestern pond turtle has been proposed as a threatened species according to the US Endangered Species List, and their...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, a local business sorts through thousands of donated sneakers to decide the best way to keep them out of landfills. Whether pristine or worn out, each pair will have a future either as recycled material or with a new owner who’s...
