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,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Thai wildlife officials are heartened by the site of the world’s largest bovine leading her calves down a forest trail. The camera trap footage shows that conservation is working: that gaur are reproducing in numbers in the country’s Huai Kha Khaeng Forest, and that...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Rogers and Hammerstein wrote oh so famously that “at the end of the storm, there’s a golden sky.” At their home on the range, an Oklahoma couple are beginning to see that golden sky beyond a stormy nightmare that forced their 9-year-old son to try and save their lives...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
An English school has forked over $150,000 to buy all 270 incoming students a new blazer, tie, and laptop. Located in one of the poorest parts of London, the aid comes off the back of sustained improvements in grades and higher education attainments at the school,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
From British Columbia comes the story of a teeny critter and a kind teen sharing a “Canadiana” experience. Connor Belanger and his mother Liz were enjoying a summer tubing trip on a fast-flowing river when the pair heard a high-pitched squeaking sound. Liz was a few...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Recapturing ancestral responsibility and restoring endangered orchids are the themes coming out of Australia’s scorched grasslands. Burned by the cataclysmic bushfires of 2019, a national park called the Barrington Tops exploded in rare veined doubletail orchids, and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
A unique and beautiful mountain-dwelling frog has been bred in captivity and released in the wild—the culmination of years of work by scientists and conservationists. Dwelling in rainforests at higher elevation in southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales...
