by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
With every step toward the finish line, Natalie Grabow was proving it’s never too late to get started. Earlier this month, the 80-year-old grandmother from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, became the oldest woman to ever finish the punishing Ironman World Championship...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
A newly developed antibody which restricts the growth of treatment-resistant breast cancers offers new hope for patients. It may be able to treat some of the most aggressive forms of the deadly disease, say researchers at King’s College London who designed the new...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Edited with permission of EarthTalk® and E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What’s new regarding more efficient batteries that can help usher in a new age of renewable energy? Batteries are everywhere—in your phone, your car—even the artificial organs many...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Cutting your couch time by 30 minutes every day would give you an energy boost by improving metabolism, according to new research. It shows that reducing the time you’re seated can improve your body’s ability to utilize fats and carbohydrates for energy production....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Time was running out when Mark Rankin and Grant Cameron arrived on a Nova Scotia Beach earlier this week. After apparently swimming too close to shore, three pilot whales were found stranded at 9 a.m., with low tide quickly approaching. If the two friends didn’t...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Taylor Swift just released her latest album The Life of a Showgirl and her popularity has reached every demographics—including a certain 95-year-old in a Nebraska retirement home. Frank Uryasz is a resident at the Remington Heights Retirement Community in Omaha. He...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
After 25 years of diligent work, an English botanic gardens is ready to face whatever reality climate change may throw at us, safe in the knowledge that a large chunk of the world’s plant diversity lies safely tucked away underground for future generations. By the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is the convent of Gravelbourg, a small town in Canada that boasts a long-time motto: “a touch of Europe on the prairie.” For over a decade this stately building—a true stunner in the middle of very little else—has been useless and vacant, but the town is...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
An English fisherman who grew indignant at the number of nylon fishing nets he saw abandoned on the wharfs of Cornwall every year has moored his boat and invented new recycling technology to turn the nets into raw plastic again. A skipper will replace his nylon...
