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...
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...
