by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
There is a high demand for safe and long-lasting medications to treat bone loss for the millions of people with osteoporosis. Discovering new targets for drug development is therefore a key step towards better therapies. In a recent study, scientists at Leipzig...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
It’s never too late to make amends. Nearly 35 years after his gold medal-winning boxing match, the guilt still weighed on South Korea’s Park Si-hun. He knew he lost in 1988, but was awarded the gold with a controversial 3-2 win over American Roy Jones Jr. at the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
We could all learn a few things from the animal world. This week’s lesson comes courtesy of a capybara and a howler monkey, two animals you would not expect to see together in close contact in the wild. The world’s largest rodent, capybaras are typically found in...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Acupuncture is a safe and effective treatment for back pain in older people, according to new research. Chronic back pain for the study participants (aged 65 and older) showed greater improvement—in both physical function and reduced pain—when treated with the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
An elementary school teacher in Australia has her head in the clouds after an elaborate marriage proposal from her new fiancé. Will Henderson’s sky-high idea hatched in the spring when he was preparing to seed the canola crop. Blooming yellow in September, he took...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
An eagle-eyed barber saved a teenager’s life by spotting a lump that turned out to be a rare cancer. A Turkish stylist name Firat Davutoglu spied it the 17-year-old’s neck after he’d come in for a trim of his back and sides. He advised him to “get it checked out”—and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
At a time when most of his peers are navigating elementary school cafeterias, playgrounds, and yellow buses, Aiden Wilkens is embracing an entirely different challenge. The 9-year-old Pennsylvania boy is already off to college—a fitting outcome for the lad who lives...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 20, 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 | Sep 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Set to begin development in Boston’s historic Chinatown, an affordable housing complex will perch atop a branch of the Boston Public Library system. It’s been 60 years since Chinatown had a BPL branch, and activists see it as the full-circle closure of a saga that...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Maine, a family farm that honors children’s books and local history has once again taken the #1 spot for the nation’s best corn maze. It’s Treworgy Orchards’ 4th win in a row in the competition that measures the most unique and expressive corn maze in the country,...
