by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
What can you do if you want to test a dam, railway line, submersible, or a space capsule’s resistance to gravitational force without risking the destruction of it in the process? Well now, you can take a scale model to Zhejiang University in China, where the CHIEF1900...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Conservation work on a luxurious royal villa near Pompeii has revealed sumptuous frescoes, including one depicting a famous fictional theater character, and another of a peacock. Additional recent work using cast molds has identified the position of a colonnade of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Centuries after they were made famous by Charles Darwin, and a century after they had become plagued by invasive rats and cats, the Galapagos Islands are well on their way to recovery. Few events could better capture that recovery than the recent reappearance of the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
When an Ohio school bus driver began to suffer a medical event, a brother and sister took action that may have saved her life. Footage taken from a surveillance camera inside the bus shows 8-year-old Catrina sitting in the seat nearest the driver, who began to have...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Having been called “Britain’s Loneliest Sheep,” and later the “World’s Most Famous Sheep,” Fiona is now pregnant with twins 2 years after her harrowing rescue. GNN reported in 2023 that rural Scotsmen were planning a daring, cliffside extraction of a sheep that had...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Ancient Indian stepwells are being restored to modern water storage facilities to help cure modern water shortages. Recently, an Indian environmentalist and editor was invited to share his incredible work restoring hundreds of natural and man-made water sources all...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
A slender North American predator not seen in parts of Ohio for 200 years has started returning to its former habitat. The fisher was extirpated from the state in the 19th century due to fur trapping. Back in 2013, it was spotted again for the first time in northern...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Louisiana comes the story of a corporate dream fulfilled, as a man succeeded his father as CEO of the family business, invested in innovation which paid off, and guided the business through a big sale. But there was something else that Graham Walker had in his...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Travel teaches many lessons, and for famous American travel writer Rick Steves, one of those is that “Love thy neighbor” need not depend on proximity. The biblical phrase has been on Steves’ mind of late, following his philanthropic rescue of a community hygiene...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Dec 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
When family medical troubles seemed to have struck down a top student’s hopes for university, the administrators took action to lift them back up again. Now the holder of a doctorate and a successful entrepreneur, she has given back to the school that did so much for...
