by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Two minerals, known almost exclusively to be linked with microbial metabolism, have been found in a recent drill sample by the Perseverance rover. They sparked a flurry of excitement, and NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy was quick to point out that gold-standard...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
GNN has reported before that conservation works, almost wherever, and with whatever method it’s undertaken—though to be honest, hammers aren’t usually involved. They are, however, very much the tool of choice for the Bay Foundation, an extraordinary, dedicated outfit...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
At a zoo in Kansas, keepers were having trouble with a slippery, recalcitrant, baby pygmy hippopotamus who didn’t want to get out of the pool. It’s something they deal with every day, but in a viral video shared by the zoo, they demonstrate the best way to resolve the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the late 20-teens, a sort of DoorDash service for good began rescuing donated food in Pittsburgh that was nearing its expiration and diverting to other recipients who could use it. Connecting with hundreds of local businesses, and with the help of an app they...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Patients with clinical depression and treated with naturally-occurring psychedelic compounds are still free of symptoms five years later, according to new research. It’s not a surprise considering the scientific literature on psychedelic therapy, with patients...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
There’s an old Babylonian/Biblical legal maxim that goes, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” For Canadian Brent Chapman, his new maxim is “a tooth for an eye,” because he has become the first in his country ever to receive an osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis. If...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Imagine sitting in southern Texas and knowing that in less than a day you could drive to se the world’s third largest cat. That is absolutely the reality in Mexico today, following a second national jaguar population census which found this charismatic cat is actually...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
A painting looted by Nazis in World War II has been turned over to the Argentine police after a years-long search led the rightful owners to a property listing that showed it hanging on the wall in a living room. A Dutch investigative news outlet contacted the real...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
According to the reporter Amelia Hill, residents of southwest England used to be able to pay their land rent with their catch of European eel. She continues: songs were sung about the eel, lanes and canals and beaches were named after the eel; but those days are...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Food scraps in the Big Apple are now enjoying a second life as free compost for residents and community gardens. It’s all down to an expansion of New York City’s organic waste collection program which started last year. In it, yard waste and food scraps are collected...
