by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
An Iranian-born British lawyer has made history as the UK’s first High Commissioner to come to the country as a refugee. Fleeing the post-revolutionary landscape to arrive in Great Britain without a word of English on his lips, Kanbar Hossein-Bor admitted his mother...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Physicists experimenting with a giant particle accelerator accidently proved medieval alchemists right: that base metals could be turned into gold. While studying electromagnetic disassociation and beam losses, the physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) saw...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
The owner of a California dry cleaner is showing those down on their luck that the community wants them to succeed—so he’s ensuring they look their best as they get ready for their next big break. After talking to fellow owners of dry cleaners about how they could...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
For more than a decade, parents were inundated with unsubstantiated claims that violent video games influence children and teens to be violent. Now, from California comes the story of exactly the opposite occurring. A teenage gamer, who routinely engages in virtual...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Pennsylvania comes the story of a man who had to make the difficult decision to put down his dog, but who couldn’t believe the sendoff he received from the local Texas Roadhouse. Receiving a to-go order with the note “last meal for our dog,” the staff made sure...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
A former social worker in Canada is enjoying his retirement in a very similar way to how he enjoyed his long career: by listening to people. Likening it to being the “stranger on the airplane” in the seat next to you, Paul Jenkinson is currently on a cross-Canada tour...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Geologists recently unearthed the vertebrae of a giant prehistoric marine lizard during fieldwork. Measuring a full 7 inches across, an extrapolation of that size would place the animal among the largest ever to swim in the prehistoric precursor to the Gulf of Mexico....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Dutch robot with neither hardware nor software can nevertheless reach incredible speeds with its soft legs powered only by air and simple physics. Able to walk, hop, and swim without the aid of electronics or AI, its top speed will see it cross a distance equal to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
There’s something make-believe, almost Pokémon-like in a new species of bacteria found living on a mud flat in Oregon—a species which is basically like electric wiring, and which could inspire a revolution in bioelectronic interfaces. A type of “cable” bacteria, the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | May 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
There’s an old saying that if goods are crossing borders, generally soldiers don’t, a saying that new research has shown to be true even in the case of the warlike Aztecs in central Mexico. A new study sheds light on the economic networks, rituals and political...
