by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Royal Meteorological Society has announced the winners of this year’s Weather Photographer of the Year Competition. Sponsored by the financial services and banking firm Standard Chartered, the competition is now in its 10th year. Chosen from over 4,000 images...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
An English musical project helps plants and fungi branch out from their quiet natures and express their creativity thanks to a set of bionic arms. Translating their bioelectrical signals into movements of the arms, the mushrooms begin to jam out on keyboards and drum...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Tramping through coastal marshlands in eastern China, a strange looking deer roams freely in herds of hundreds; a remarkable recovery from where they had been just a few decades ago. Described in ancient China as a beast with the antlers of a deer, hooves of an ox,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Thanks to a good old newspaper back page ad, an English woman has found a whole new side to life—her father’s, whom she had never met. It started when Louise Walters was 8 years old and found out the man she thought was her father, wasn’t. Louise’s mom, Angie Ishmael...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
The world’s largest spectroscopic telescope has just recorded the first observations from its new perch high in the mountains of Chile. Capable of revealing new information about any cosmic object or phenomena an astronomer cares to study, the telescope will feature...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Two California farmers were honored recently for being the first ones to help save over 20 students aboard a school bus that caught fire. Long before the Madera Country Fire Department arrived on scene, Angel Zarco and Carlos Perea were there, and in fact, the pair...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
A French shipbuilder has brought back the sail and schooner to decarbonize low to mid volume shipping. Only historians can say how eager the world’s merchants marine were to replace frigates with steamships when the technology became available. Now after more than 200...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
An extinct species of rhino that lived inside the Arctic Circle 23 million years ago has been discovered. The nearly complete fossilized skeleton was recovered from the fossil-rich lake deposits in Haughton Crater on Devon Island, in the Canadian High Arctic. It is...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Don’t you wish all used car salesmen were like this one in Gladstone, Missouri? Back in June, a mom came in to buy a vehicle for her college student who needed it for regular commutes to school in Kansas. J.P. Knudsen, the owner of Northtowne Auto Group, sold her a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Nov 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
“Help” isn’t a dirty word: a new study has found younger generations are less likely to think that asking for help is a bad thing. The poll of 2,000 U.S. adults, split evenly between Gen Z, millennial, Gen X and baby boomer generations found the two younger...
