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...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
For one special UK railway line, cats have always been part of the station staff. These mousers play a vital role in controlling the rodent population among the Grosmont Station’s many small buildings, nooks, and crannies. After their previous mouser passed away, the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
The world’s smallest snake was rediscovered under a rock in central Barbados during an ecological survey in March. The Barbados threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae) had been lost to science for nearly 20 years—meaning it had not had a sighting verified and documented...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
One day, a book will be written about the 21st century, and the topic will be how the denizens in the world’s largest cities cleaned up the rivers which flow through them. Whether that’s the Yangtze, the Seine, the Mersey, or the Chicago River, humans have well nigh...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
When we think of technological advances, writes Javier Blas at Bloomberg, we tend towards picturing faster internet, smarter devices, AI, driverless cars, and phone-controlled household appliances. But humanity continues to make advancements with even the most...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last year, a historic drought in the lowlands of the Amazon Basin saw hundreds of thousands of acres go up in flames. This year, the combination of more careful local communities and healthy rains have meant that the amount of tropical rainforest burned by wildfires...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
In a sweet story reminiscent of the Velveteen Rabbit, a young boy’s favorite stuffed animal is sleeping soundly again in the arms of his owner following a harrowing few days of separation. The Kay family was returning home from a ski holiday when they parked at a rest...
