by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Kids these days, right? They spend too much time playing video games and not enough time outside. Tell that to grandmother Michelle Statham, and you’d expect her to agree with you. But in reality, her response would probably be something like “Which game?” From behind...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
From the Amazon Basin comes the story of a remarkable collaborative effort between 5 countries to break up criminal exploitation of the forest and its peoples. Thousands of live animals and tens of thousands of board-feet of illegally harvested timber were confiscated...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last week, the nation’s largest nonprofit focused exclusively on senior dogs announced it is awarding a record-breaking $1.57 million in grants to 119 animal welfare groups in United States. “If 50 is the new 30 for humans, why not for our older best friends?” asked...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
The video is harrowing. Smoke was billowing outside a Paris apartment window. Fire was raging inside. Two adults and four children were trapped. Fousseynou Cissé never hesitated once he saw them —even though the only escape route was a narrow ledge 65 feet in the air....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
In a development that could reduce the emissions that exacerbate humanity’s climate crisis, an international team of engineers may have created the whitest coating yet—with the help of artificial intelligence. Their new thermal coating could reduce energy bills...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 19, 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 | Jul 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Power tools, cars, heavy machinery, office supplies, schools supplies—even land, there’s all kinds of things on the virtual auction block of Municibid. This ‘eBay for government,’ is allowing state, county, and municipal governments to sell off valuable assets and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Prince of Darkness made his official curtain call recently with a benefit concert for Parkinson’s research and children’s hospitals that raised a staggering $190 million. Featuring a star-studded lineup of heavy metal greats, and culminating in Black Sabbath’s...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
In 1966, the Beatles perched in the boughs of a giant ceder for the music video of their song, “Rain.” Now, the tree has another claim to fame—a finalist in the UK’s Tree of the Year Contest. Rightly nominated under this year’s theme of being “Rooted in Culture,” the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jul 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
What happened when a wildcat and a small mammal met in the park? Dinner! This joke isn’t only terrible, it’s actually wrong. Scientists camera trapping in the Amazon revealed an extraordinary behavioral trend between a wildcat species called the ocelot and an opossum....
