by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Lotus flowers are blooming again in Kashmir’s historically largest lake, having been freed from the grasp of underwater silt that strangled them for 3 decades. The lake had already been shrunk dramatically by the conversion of shoreline and connected marshlands to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
A UK startup is designing new versions of established cancer drugs to be used routinely at home, saving the patient time and money, as well as floor space in the hospital’s cancer ward. The only thing is the startup’s manufacturing plant requires rather unique and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Ford Motor Company employee was reunited with a wallet he lost 10 years ago after a mechanic found it while servicing a car he built. This charming story comes via Minnesota, where mechanic Chad Volk was replacing the cooling fan on a 2015 Ford Edge, when something...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Chemists at MIT have discovered a way to fortify iodine salt with iron, resulting in a product that, if made widely available, could combat one of the world’s most prevalent nutrient deficiencies. A bout 2 billion people suffer from iron deficiency, which can lead to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Pollution control efforts kept over 727,000 pounds of fine sediment out of Lake Tahoe, protecting its water clarity and quality. Revealed in a new California-Nevada environmental report, the efforts will help preserve the lake’s world-famous cobalt-clear water by...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
New York City real estate is famous for many reasons; color not typically among them. Now though, the “most colorful home in Queens” has hit the market with a $3 million price tag. Britain’s Southwest News Service reported on the house, located on 36th Avenue, and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Japan, an organization is planning how to help ensure the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are remembered for thousands of years, rather than hundreds. Its plan revolves around the hibakujumoku or the A-bomb-surviving trees of Hiroshima. With the 80th anniversary of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Usually when scientists announce the discovery of a new species, it’s some small brown frog, a gnarly spider in a rainforest you’ll never visit, or a new sea-something. But Earth still has some curveballs to throw at us—like a new species of manta ray, just the third...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Co-Founder of Nike Phil Knight has opened his bank account and his heart in order to set a record for the largest charitable gift ever handed to an American university. $2 billion was given to a cancer institute bearing his name at the Oregon Health & Science...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 16, 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...
