by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Girl Scouts in Massachusetts just sent nearly 14,000 boxes of cookies to members of the US military this month. The donation was part of their Project Care and Share—and five of the region’s top cookie sellers were on hand to help load the trucks. “Every scout, every...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
A cat miraculously survived a 380-foot fall after she sadly went over the railing with her owners at Bryce Canyon—but she was soon adopted by the pilot who rescued her. The owners, a 45-year-old male and 58-year-old female, were found at the bottom of the gorge in...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 14, 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 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
A German bio-tech company has developed a naturally-occurring enzyme discovered in a cemetery into a near-market ready solution for recycling plastic without any loss of quality. In 2022, GNN reported on a paper published by Leipzig-based scientists who first...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Spanish startup has successfully tested a new thruster for spacecraft that runs on a ‘green’ propellant to replace the ultra-toxic hydrazine commonly used in the industry. It inside uses hydrogen peroxide, and is then not only less toxic but also substantially less...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Two paintings have been recovered 40 years after they were stolen from an art museum in New Mexico, the FBI has reported. The paintings, by Victor Higgins and Joseph Henry Sharp, were stolen in March of 1985 from the Harwood Museum of Art at the University of New...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
An architecture firm is having fun building microlibraries across Java with playful designs that offer respite from the heat. Envisioned as an excellent way to increase literacy, they attract children with the designs who then get to enjoy a reading environment that...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
‘Lucky’ doesn’t begin to describe David Serkin, who beat cancer and won the lottery in his home state of Alberta, Canada. Serkin won $500,000 million last August with a LOTTO MAX game by the Western Canada Lottery Corporation, giving the cancer survivor and retiree an...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
For the first time ever, Chinese biologists have successfully rescued, rehabilitated, and reintroduced a Yangtze finless porpoise back into the wild stretches of the great river. A critically-endangered species of cetacean, the family that includes dolphins,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jun 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
An active compound in ginger root may inhibit the growth of cancer tumors via a sabotage of their metabolic pathways. Published in Nature Scientific Reports by a team at Osaka Metropolitan University (OMU), the study demonstrated that a ginger-derived molecule known...
