by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
A retired rugby star turned quadriplegic has made an unbelievable recovery from a broken neck to reach the peak of a previously unclimbed mountain in Asia. Ed Jackson became the first person to successfully ascend the unnamed, 15,485-foot-high peak in the Tien Shan...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Washington state, a new Public Lands Commissioner has announced that 77,000 acres of special forests will be taken off the state’s logging rotation for conservation purposes. These “legacy forests,” as they’re being called, are in a state of growth between...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Reprinted with permission from World at Large In Ghana, Kenya, Japan, Poland and probably other countries as well, it’s now the mosquitos who fear the sound of buzzing—from drones built to detect and destroy them. Economies of scale and widespread adoption has reduced...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Roman mosaic at the bottom of a bathing pool has come to light after 1,600 years, and seems to show that the modern “flip-flop” sandal has an archaic origin story. Far from being invented by Havianas, it seems they were long-established as standard bathhouse...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Lithuania, Welsh Corgi owners from around Europe came to celebrate the breed “and life in general” at the annual Corgi Race. Held in Vilnius for the fifth time, the Corgi Race is about as joyful an event as one could hope to see. The race is followed by a costume...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
A study team from Oxford University has identified a fermentation method that creates the perfect balanced diet for honey bees who can’t get enough natural pollen. Synthetic pollen substitutes are often fed to bees as a dietary supplement to natural pollen, but until...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
From the popular social media platform Reddit comes the incredible story of a young woman recovering her iPad lost two years before while traveling in the US. It started on a forum, called a sub-Reddit on the site, for Columbus Ohio—a 23-year-old Australian woman...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
It was the oldest passenger ship still floating: he turned it into an unforgettable terrestrial hotel experience. Long since declared unseaworthy, the MV Doulos Phos is now the 5-star Doulos Phos Ship Hotel at the Bintan resort reclamation project in Indonesia. But if...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Police in the Polish town of Rybnik are calling this teenager a hero after he reacted when no one else did to a random act of violence and allowed the victim to escape. Located in the Silesia region, the young man—found through his characteristic ‘Hello Kitty’...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
A deadly tropical disease known as sleeping sickness has been eliminated from Kenya in a significant public health triumph. The East African nation is the 10th on the continent to achieve the milestone, but also the most populous to do so. Human African...
