by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 6, 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 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
A study recently found that deep-breathing exercises induce similar patterns of blood flow to the brain seen in patients using psychedelic substances like psilocybin. This altered state of consciousness matched one first described by Freud, and was characterized by...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Given all the expenses and anxieties that come with battling cancer, one might think that parking fees really shouldn’t be among them. Yet as wild as that may sound, some hospitals and cancer centers in Canada either charge for parking—as much as CAD$12 a day—or don’t...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
A species of cottontail rabbit endemic to Mexico has been seen again for the first time in over 100 years following a committed search by biologists. For more than 4 years, GNN has paid close attention to a special conservation mission called the “25 Most Wanted”...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
From southwest China comes the story of a group of strangers who stopped at nothing to rescue a boy from a raging river. While unable to literally move heaven and earth, their determination was such that they altered the flow of the river—with nothing less than their...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is Logan. He loves trains, always has. And now, he’s one of the youngest licensed train drivers in the whole of the UK. For some children, the question “what do you want to be when you grow up” is mulled over in a fit of anxious uncertainty. For others, it’s as...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Virginia farm is welcoming newly-retired military to come learn how to farm as a way of providing a fulfilling path back into civilian life. The Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food figured that veterans were perfectly cut out for farming, as the average vet is 45%...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
A man recently received word through social media that a Long Islander and his metal detector found his missing class ring, lost on a day at the beach 56 years ago. Then just Alfred DiStefano remembers vaguely standing on a dock or a pier on Cedar Beach, Long Island...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Italy comes a remarkable coincidence generations in the making—told with a little help from Airbnb. Between 1850 and 1950, around 3.5 million Italians immigrated to Argentina, with the 19th century seeing mainly Northerners arriving, and the 20th century seeing...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Sep 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
In America’s arid southwest, a scientist who’s studied dryland water systems for over 20 years has found the key to transforming barren desert into verdant oases. That key is so basic, it hardly even merits being called technology, as it’s more or less nature at its...
