by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
The substances behind the slimy strings from okra and the gel from fenugreek seeds could trap microplastics better than a commonly used synthetic polymer. Texas researchers proposed in 2022 using these sticky natural polymers to clean up water. Now, they’ve found that...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 10, 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 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Pacific island territory of New Caledonia has announced a moratorium on seabed mining for nickel across 1.3 million square kilometers of ocean. The rare and sweeping move places the French territory among the most restrictive in the world in terms of seabed...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
China has always placed importance on self-sufficiency, and now the world’s largest consumer of industrial metals is digging mines into its own waste streams. The largest producer of solar panels, batteries, and EVs, Chinese businesses are seeing in these valuable...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
After a conclave of merely two days—a shock in itself—a far greater shock emerged when the white smoke billowing out into the skies over Vatican City heralded the election of the first American ever to hold the papacy. Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, holds in his...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Like any good foster parent, Alan Toyne shared everything with the babies he was responsible for rearing—his bed, his dining table, his life. And if you paid him a visit in his Bristol home during a seven-month period in 2016, you’d be impressed with his dedication to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
As other endangered Australian wildlife, the mountain pygmy possum has recovered to its pre-wildfire population in the Snowy Mountains. While conservationists are to be applauded for the turn around, they maybe aren’t the experts you’d expect to be managing such a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
A new study examining 7,000 years of human consumption of grapes found that the domestication of the fruit occurred gradually rather than suddenly, and that wild varieties continued to be used for wine making long after domesticated species emerged. The data leaves...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Sotheby’s has halted their planned auction of a cache of gemstones that were found alongside the Buddha’s ashes and bone fragments after a formal complaint was raised by the Indian government. Known as the Buddha’s “gem relics,” those that were up for sale were a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
If the man on the street had to guess the best metric for healthy aging, they might say blood pressure, cholesterol levels, lean muscle mass, blood triglycerides, or even telomere length if they follow aging science closely. But it turns out that one of the best is...
