by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
More than half of Americans care about the mark they will leave on the world, and even more are concerned about the impression they leave on their loved ones (80%), according to a new survey. The poll of 2,000 adults found that over half (54%) of respondents say they...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
The dream never died, even after a wife and daughters and decades-long career as an accountant filled up every aspect of Kent Broussard’s life. Somewhere deep in his mind, the dream still survived. Now 66, he still remembers when it first took root in 1968, as a...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
How do you decarbonize a city state? With so little space, so many demands on power, and so many citizens, generating any meaningful electricity from renewable energy is a major challenge for urban planners. But over its history, the planners of Singapore have shown...
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...
