by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
From southwest China comes the story of a group of strangers who stopped at nothing to rescue a boy from a raging river. While unable to literally move heaven and earth, their determination was such that they altered the flow of the river—with nothing less than their...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is Logan. He loves trains, always has. And now, he’s one of the youngest licensed train drivers in the whole of the UK. For some children, the question “what do you want to be when you grow up” is mulled over in a fit of anxious uncertainty. For others, it’s as...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Virginia farm is welcoming newly-retired military to come learn how to farm as a way of providing a fulfilling path back into civilian life. The Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food figured that veterans were perfectly cut out for farming, as the average vet is 45%...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
A man recently received word through social media that a Long Islander and his metal detector found his missing class ring, lost on a day at the beach 56 years ago. Then just Alfred DiStefano remembers vaguely standing on a dock or a pier on Cedar Beach, Long Island...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Italy comes a remarkable coincidence generations in the making—told with a little help from Airbnb. Between 1850 and 1950, around 3.5 million Italians immigrated to Argentina, with the 19th century seeing mainly Northerners arriving, and the 20th century seeing...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
In America’s arid southwest, a scientist who’s studied dryland water systems for over 20 years has found the key to transforming barren desert into verdant oases. That key is so basic, it hardly even merits being called technology, as it’s more or less nature at its...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
An international team of astronomers recently found not one, but two of the strangest and rarest of all cosmic objects, and in the same star system no less. Called brown dwarfs, these peculiar objects are invaluable resources for learning about the formation of stars,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
“We’re supposed to be good men,” said Officer Steven Harris. Harris was responding to a question from local news in Pittsburgh about why he would spend $113 of his own money to solve a stranger’s problem. It’s a suggestion that all of us, from cops to kids, should...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Denver Botanic Gardens recently hosted a worldwide competition to see who could stack the most weight on a water lily pad before it sank, and the results were simply extraordinary. Known as the Water Lily Weigh Off, more than 30 zoos and gardens in 9 countries...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
For some, a 4 bedroom 3 bath with a basement theater, wrap-around deck, and two-car garage is the dream. For others, housing that’s quaint, that’s economical—even portable, is the aim. The market should provide options to everybody, and for those in the latter...
