by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
His dream was coming true. Stadium lights were shining in the nighttime Carolina sky. Fans dressed in their team’s trademark black and blue colors filled the stands. And 12-year-old Jase Garland was heading out onto the field, going into an NFL game for the Carolina...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
A tortoise that had been missing for a month after escaping her garden was found three miles away—having gone on the run at a brisk pace of 0.0041 miles per hour. The Hermann’s tortoise named Matilda managed to scale a zucchini plant to pull off her daring escape and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
After 30 years and 1,200 games, the phone call that Jen Pawol was waiting for finally arrived earlier this week. You’re going to the big leagues—and you’re going to make history. Just like that, Pawol became the first female umpire in Major League Baseball history on...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is the touching moment a rugby team carried a wheelchair-bound dad to the summit of Snowdon—helping to fulfill his lifelong dream. Members of Bangor Rugby Club helped Phil Thompson to the Welsh mountain’s 3650-foot peak earlier this month. The 66-year-old has...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Meningitis can be quickly spotted in babies with “great accuracy” thanks to a new non-invasive device developed to do the testing anywhere it’s needed. A study showed that it identified the potentially deadly infection in new-borns and infants with 94% accuracy,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Inside San Francisco’s 47-acre recycling and recovery center at the dump, where small businesses and residents can bring truckloads of cast-offs, artists have special access to a churning, ever-changing landscape where detritus from all over the city is sorted and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Blowing through a conch shell could help treat a potentially deadly snoring condition, according to new research from India. Patients who took part in the ancient practice regularly for six months experienced a significant reduction in their symptoms of obstructive...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
A tiny goat triplet shunned at birth is thriving after she was taken in by two sheepdogs. It was just one-third the typical weight of a baby goat and only five inches high at birth, compared to healthy newborns that stand roughly a foot high. While her healthy sisters...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
It may be the most massive black hole ever found. 36 billion times larger than the mass of our Sun, it was previously hidden from astronomers while existing at the heart of the Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy, previously photographed by space telescopes. The giant space...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Screams were coming from the woods, but the three lifeguards who had just started their shift at the Ohio pool didn’t hesitate. They sprinted away from the Pataskala Municipal Park and raced toward the screams, through the trees to the rushing river that flowed...
