by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Better Bike Lanes project in the metropolitan area of Boston has led to a substantial increase in bicycle trips and a modest decrease in the number of motor vehicles on the roads at any given time. Taking place between 2023 and 2024, the changes were revealed in a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
They are called “swami khejos,” translated to “Husband Eaters.” In reality, it’s just a superstition, as it was the tigers of the Sundarbans forest that ate these husbands, not the women. This unique region of eastern India/western Bangladesh contains the world’s...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the dreamy old city center of Lincoln, where Tudor and Victorian buildings stand bedecked in Christmas gaiety, CCTV footage revealed a wild sight one evening in November. A red fox and a river otter were galivanting through the town—as near to a scene in a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Imagine the charm of sifting through bills and junk mail in your mailbox and seeing the quirky script and colors of a handwritten Christmas card—now imagine you’re pulling it out from a box at one of the farthest point on Earth from any human civilization. At the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
One might call the first three weeks of operations for a new, state-of-the-art seawater desalination plant in coastal China a ‘watershed’ moment for the industry. Long held back by fundamental difficulties in turning seawater into pure water, this new installation...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Christmas 2025 is better and brighter for one family whose daughter is on the mend from a previously untreatable form of childhood cancer. Christmas 2024 saw then-5-year-old Bryn Ailinger isolated in a child cancer ward, having been diagnosed with precursor B-cell...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Hope and opportunity are blossoming on the South Side of Chicago where a man and his wife have used flowers to help poor communities turn over a new leaf. Running two nonprofits, Southside Blooms and Chicago Eco House, Quilen Blackwell and his wife Hannah Bonham are...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Around the size of a postage stamp and thinner than a credit card, a wireless implant that “speaks” to the brain could help restore lost senses. The device uses light to send information directly to the brain, bypassing the body’s natural sensory pathways in what...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
In South Sudan, on the banks of the Nile, a flood of rare destructive power swept an already water-stressed city into poverty before acting as the catalyst for a transformative humanitarian success. Development funding from the Netherlands and South Korea has made a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
INTERPOL recently executed the largest-ever edition of its annual series of coordinated of raids to dismantle criminal shipments and networks of trafficked and poached wildlife. Called Operation Thunder, some 30,000 live animals were seized in 4,620 raids across 134...
