by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
From a dusty plain in central India comes the story of a truly brilliant solution to a significant problem. Brought to light in a report from the Better India, a railway manager has found a masterful way to bring much needed medical services to the vast network of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
For an Australian marsupial facing extinction on a continent-wide scale, the news of an oncoming drought back in 2001 probably felt like the coming of the end times. But in a surprising break from the narrative, the ampurta (Dasycercus hillieri) a rat-sized predatory...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the Indian city of Ambikapur, several Garbage Cafes will give a person an entire four-course meal if they bring 1 kilo of plastic waste with them. Feeding on average 20 people a day, it’s a clever and distinctly Indian way of clearing two hurdles in one jump: that...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Yes, you’ve read the headline correctly. When a nurse in Kentucky’s Letcher County scooped a dead-drunk raccoon out of a dumpster, she was desperate to save its life. It had been a normal day on the job for Misty Combs, arriving at the Letcher County Health Department...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
The animal kingdom has long been the source of inspiration for all manner for technologies, and now again in South Korea, where a new drug delivery method has been modeled after the bee sting. Patients who suffer from chronic conditions often require continuous...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Minnesota pizzeria owner is making headlines for the kindness he’s shown to dumpster divers behind his restaurant. “I can’t sit in a building full of food and watch somebody starve in my parking lot,” he told national news, determined to take action. Pretty much as...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Once a byword for backward and mafiosos, Albania is experiencing a tourist boom, and sure to help the effort is the recent discovery of a Roman noble’s mausoleum. Part of the Empire’s territory for 600 years, the south Balkan country has never dug up anything like the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
A conservation project just announced the successful release of Popi, a female orangutan rescued as an infant, into the Busang Ecosystem of East Borneo. After nearly nine years of intensive rehabilitation, Popi has now returned to her natural rainforest home thanks to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
From far-western Canada comes the remarkable story of a man who entered a raffle to win a new house—just days before his home burned down. The $50 that Mr. Daniel Drouin spent on the raffle ticket is now looking like a pretty tidy investment, as he has the option of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Having once trained the first Black military pilots for deployment in World War II, Tuskegee University is now training another Black generation for another national challenge. Hoping to address the nation’s pilot shortage, the aviation science program at Tuskegee...
