by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Is hope just “a thing with feathers” as Dickenson wrote, or is it Aristotle’s “waking dream?” Or instead. is it “a promise we live” rather than a “promise we give” as Amanda Gorman wrote in 2021. According to new research examining the impact of hope as a positive...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
An iconic and charming shade of light blue has a surprising origin story, one that was just recognized in a worldwide poll as one of the most popular crayon colors ever made. It turns out an 8-year-old boy hatched the idea to name the color “robin’s egg blue”—not a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Having crested 30 days of government shutdown, a Portland coffee shop has stepped up to channel donations towards supporting those in need. With Americans’ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits lagging, Heretic Coffee Shop, which itself operates on...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
As the global leader in offshore wind development, a Chinese turbine manufacturer has designed a two-headed behemoth that will generate 50 megawatts on its own. Blazing past renewable energy targets, the wind lobby in Beijing are serious players, unlike in Europe and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Native species like the Endangered Palau ground dove have significantly increased in number thanks to a successful restoration campaign on Ulong Island in Palau. Working together in 2023-24, government agencies advised and assisted by the NGO Island Conservation,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
A massive, early republican-era water basin was recently uncovered in the ancient Roman town of Gabii, central Italy, that was constructed without concrete. While architectural students from around the world come to marvel at the Romans’ structures of marble, brick,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
A boy in California may have saved his father from a deadly returning cancer by becoming one of if not the world’s youngest stem cell donor. 9-year-old Stephen Mondek from Torrance loves playing catch with his dad, Nick, who himself loves nothing more than being a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Scientists in Australia, which endures the highest rates of breast cancer in the world, have presented multiple lines of evidence to suggest that breastfeeding and childbearing reduces a woman’s risk for developing breast cancer. The scientists started by first...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
A volunteer and his 7-year-old German shepherd named after a goddess have been hailed as heroes for finding a lost toddler amid plummeting temperatures. In Dorchester, New Hampshire, temps were passing 40 on route to an expected 20°F when a mother called 911 to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
English news headlines are no stranger to buried treasure. Thousands of silver coins have been found by citizens up and down the country over the last 50 years. Gold ones, however, are substantially rarer, and that makes this haul of 69 gold coins from the Tudor...
