by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
A California-based nonprofit dedicated to advancing quality education and career opportunities for students from low-income backgrounds just received a “transformational gift” from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. She donated $42 million this week to the group ‘10,000...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
A nature reserve has become the first in UK to record 10,000 species, with the discovery of a unique moth that imitates a wasp. The National Trust’s Wicken Fen, in Cambridgeshire, England, hit the total when a rare species of moth—the six-belted clearwing—was recorded...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Bay scallops are making an incredible resurgence in coastal bays along Virginia’s Eastern Shore, according to a new survey. The exponential population growth is the result of decades of dedicated seagrass restoration efforts that allowed scientists to reintroduce the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
While bestowing the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week, the winners were praised for their innovation, which one Nobel committee member compared to Hermione’s handbag from the Harry Potter novels. The honored scientists developed materials that are full of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
An antique dealer who bought a stained glass window in a Scottish thrift shop for $25 says it belonged to King Robert I, popularly known as Robert the Bruce from the 1300s. Richard Drummond spotted the colorful glass for sale in Moffat, Scotland, and was told it had...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
The red helicopter was dropping steadily into a collision course with Highway 50, an 8-lane interstate dotted with commuters and travelers near Sacramento, California’s capitol city. Fortunately, when the REACH Air Medical Services chopper with three passengers did...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 11, 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 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Not all heroes wear capes, some, well, blink confusedly. That’s been the story to some degree of the last 12 years of Drew Scanlon, a man who would come to be known as “Blinking Guy,” but who used that fame to raise money for charitable causes. Scanlon’s life would...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the rare occurrence that police actually looked into the case of a woman who had her phone stolen in London, it turned into the crumbs on a bread crumb trail which led to a huge organized crime effort. The sirens quiet now, and the London Met. Area Police report...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Oct 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
With a pioneering procedure, a nature center in New York made sure that a broken wing wasn’t the end of one monarch butterfly’s journey. Famous for migrating from Mexico up to Canada, a Deer Park resident found one of these orange beauties stranded with the upper...
