by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
For the towns along Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction through North Carolina, rebuilding homes and stores takes time. But thanks to an army of volunteers, rebuilding the sense of community in towns like Chimney Rock and Bat Cave has been done at light speed....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Everyone in a relationship will know how love often works in mysterious ways, but quicksand isn’t typically involved, right? Typically, no; but never? Also no. Just ask Mitchell O’Brien and Breanne Sika, a new couple, for whom falling in love first meant falling in...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
Throughout 2024, the city of Athens focused on expanding urban greenery in key areas in response to several sweltering summers in a row. Featuring the planting of the city’s first micro-forest, greening has occurred in six neighborhoods as well as on the famous...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
The US National Institute of Health has announced it will work with food industry giants to eliminate 6 synthetic food dyes from their products as fast as possible. To be led by the FDA, the work will target Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1, Blue 2, Citrus Red 2, and Orange...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
For 25 years, a local nonprofit has been refurbishing bikes for resale or donation to communities in need in Chicago and the world. Over the years, its horizons have continued to expand beyond the Windy City and out to the farthest corners of the world. Working Bikes,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
For the millions of American women and girls who will get a UTI at some point in the next few years, they may be able to treat it with the first new medication approved for the purpose in 3 decades. The new class of targeted, oral antibiotic for urinary tract...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Northern India comes the story of an entrepreneur’s efforts to clean up a historically-beautiful lakefront by turning an infestation of weeds into rich natural fertilizer. Being something along the lines of the Lake Como of India, Dal Lake in the nation’s...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
An experiment in human photoreceptors allowed scientists to recently define a new color, imperceptible by the human eye, that lies along the blue-green spectrum but is different from the two. The team, who experimented on themselves and others, hope their findings...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Passing away Monday at the age of 88 to the shock of Easter revelers, Pope Francis left behind a simple last will in testament that outlined how the pontiff hoped his earthly remains would be interred. The news of the Pope’s death broke first around Europe given the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
(Image from YouTube courtesy of EBRP) Famous Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder has decided to lend his star power to efforts to cure a rare skin disease. Inspired to take action after a family friend’s child was born with the malady, Vedder’s work leveraging the fame...
