by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 23, 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 | Aug 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
A coalition of telescopes have allowed astronomers to produce an image of the nebula MSH 15-52 in unprecedented color and detail. Centered in the middle of the nebula is a pulsar, or the rapidly-spinning, extremely dense remnant of an exploded star. Captured together,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
A patient’s of smell could be restored using radio waves without having to undergo surgery, according to new research. Worldwide, there are actually very few effective treatments for those who have lost their sense of smell, perhaps from a brain injury. Treatments...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Though it might make someone feel old, a Scottish skatepark from 1978 is set to undergo archaeological excavation—with help from the city’s skaters who once hung out there. Kelvin Wheelies in Glasgow was a radical design when it first opened to host the first Scottish...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
A freak rain event dumped 40% of Beijing’s average yearly precipitation down in a single week, triggering floods. From out of the chaos, Chinese social media rose to salute the “Bulldozer Hero,” Wang Tianyu, a business owner turned rescuer. On July 28th far outside...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
An advance in prosthetics 7 years in the making has jumped into life with a lower-leg device that feels more like a part of the body than any other commercially-available product. Considered something like a prosthesis in three layers, tests have shown it to grant...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
A woman who was blessed with a loving father as her pen pal while growing up has decided to share her gift—her father—with the world. Starting the Dad Letter Project, she’s now connecting the love of letter writing among a group of fathers with a world of lonely,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Under cover of darkness in the north Italian city of Brescia, a masked man has become famous for performing “acts of urban love.” Armed with a paint roller and the moniker “Ghost Painter,” this unknown citizen stalks the city streets, painting over graffiti left by...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Two years ago, the UK government gave roughly $15 million to its own conservation organ called Natural England for the purpose of preventing species decline. Now, its report card has arrived, and its A+ work has seen the recovery of 150 struggling or declining...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
In a provincial English city, a man has taken it upon himself to address what he referred to as a “fun deficit” in town. By placing humorous signs in the style of public notices and road signs around town, he hopes they will disarm people into seeing issues in a new...
