by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
From central England comes the feel good story of a tiny pony rescued from disease whose winning and warming hearts of visitors at the rescue center where he was nursed back to health. Last March, Pickle the 9-month-old Shetland Pony was found critically ill after...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
A huge scientific survey of over 1 million German solar installations has revealed a surprising statistic: their potential to degrade year by year has been significantly exaggerated. Previous models have overestimated the rate of degradation in a solar installation’s...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
In 2021 GNN reported that a man diving off the Israeli coast discovered a sword from the Crusader period. All locked up in shells and sand, it looked like it could have been forged in mythical Atlantis, and even half-buried on the seabed, diver Shlomi Katzin couldn’t...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Just days before he left office, former Chilean President Gabriel Boric signed into law protections for the remote Juan Fernández Archipelago and a gargantuan swath of the surrounding sea. The protections connect the archipelago with the existing Nazca-Desventuradas...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
Australian researchers have developed and tested the world’s first quantum battery. Their prototype is far from anything that will be a perspective power source in an EV or storage facility, but the experiment revealed some important directions for future research. A...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
A teenage Texan has earned a commendation given fewer than 300 times in the history of the Boy Scouts after saving his scout leader from drowning in rapids. Devon Champenoy was one of several teen scouts from Houston rafting down class 3 rapids at a summer camp in...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
Last week GNN reported on the completion of the Cross-Texas Trail that would allow Americans to enjoy the full breadth of natural beauty in the Lone Star State. For Brits, or for those who like their hiking a little more moist, there is the just-finished King Charles...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
An autistic barista who had a day’s worth of tips stolen from his coffee shop was left “speechless” after his community rallied to his side. Michael Coyne knows most of the people who get a coffee from his shop, Red White and Brew, and so the theft of his tips felt...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
Researchers in Sweden recently found that seniors were able to offset a genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease by consuming more meat. The study authors say that their findings suggest that conventional dietary advice may be unfavorable to a subgroup of the population...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Mar 24, 2026 | Uncategorized
The new payphone outside a coffee shop on a Boston University campus is a strange sight: with its canary yellow box and the sticker pasted across the top reading “Call a Boomer.” But what passersby can’t see and don’t know is that over 2,000 miles away in Reno,...
