by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
A wild-born red-billed chough (CHUF) has taken to the skies in South East England for the first time in over 200 years. The young chough took flight from a wild nest in Dover, marking the first time in more than two centuries that the bird has lived independently in...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 9, 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 | Aug 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
A genetic analysis of a million individuals with stutters has clued Australian researchers into a potential genetic component that would revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of this common disorder. 400 million people worldwide have stutters, and a cross-Pacific...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
From Wyoming and Oregon comes a story most bizarre: Scarlett Johansson’s voice being used to frighten away wolves. Famed for their emotional intelligence, the gray wolf population around Greater Yellowstone are obviously not adept enough to detect acting when they...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
One of the first things we learn about the Maya is that they played a curious ball and court game, and that these courts can be found in all the major Mayan archaeological sites. From the former Maya stronghold of Belize comes the story of the slow revival of this...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
The coastal dunes of the San Francisco peninsula serve as the natural backdrop to the dramatic curve of the Golden Gate Bridge, but just recently they also became the test bed for an “amazing” experiment in rewilding. Can an extinct species, which played a key role in...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Pittsburgher and a mysterious dog recently teamed up to save two unconscious individuals in a story that has earned the pair thousands of plaudits. Gary Thynes shared both on Facebook and to local news station WTAE that he was playing with his own dog in a park when...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
In 2015, GNN reported on the opening of Rising Tide Car Wash in Florida, where a man’s autistic son could acquire all the merits of hard work, earn a paycheck, and become more independent. Now 10-years-later, founder John D’Eri’s original vision has been shared by...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
In an exclusive for AP, Somalia’s camel dairies speak with hope about the future in a country that often has very little to hope about. From outside government meddling and invasions, to regular bombings, insurgencies, famine, and piracy, “Somalia” and “investment”...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Wisconsin residents called in by the dozen: “there’s a bear in my yard,” they said. But wildlife authorities were taken aback at the next detail, “it has a jar on its head!” The Winnie the Pooh wannabe was a 2-year-old female black bear who had obviously followed her...
