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...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
In a story that will stretch and strain every heartstring, an East Coast infant is set to undergo a complex brain surgery that will disconnect the left side of his brain from his right side. This “hemispherotomy” was going to bring financial ruin upon parents Brad and...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
A startup venture in New Zealand has discovered a way to extract critical battery minerals from rocks piled up as waste in mining operations. Olivine is of little value beyond a smattering of niche uses like the semi-precious peridot production, sauna rocks in Finnish...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
The White Earth Nation was surprised and overjoyed as a bison calf was born out of season, a sign the band said demonstrates “resilience, healing, and hope.” It’s the first bison calf born on the White Earth Reservation since it started a buffalo harvest and breeding...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Virtual reality goggles and headsets absolutely exploded in the late twenty-teens, with products like the HTC Vive and Oculus offering incredible ways to experience video and gaming. Now, scientists are using VR experiences to study how the brain reacts to pain by...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Aug 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
A family-owned restaurant was saved by a gaggle of teenagers after the owner’s wife fell into a coma. From Hudson, Minnesota comes the story of the team at the heart of Urban Olive & Vine, and their dedication to a woman they’d come to know and love, Carol...
