by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
From the Indian state of Bihar comes the story of a life-changing argi-tech application that’s giving farmers unprecedented control over the financial destiny of their crop. Called Ergos, this digital “grain account” is linked to a network of “grain banks” where...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
In the 1990s, a pair of Japanese municipalities estimated that the landfill they shared was going to be full by 2004. Unless they did something to start reducing the size of their waste streams, the towns would have to sacrifice more precious land, or truck their...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
Nathan Yuill was diagnosed as a child with stage-4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but the good news is that he’s two treatment courses away from what is anticipated to be a bell-ringing remission announcement. But before his time in Providence Children’s Hospital came to an...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
A Florida teen will have quite the story for his friends to chew on when they all meet back in class after spring break. 16-year-old Aiden Andrews found the 6-inch-long tooth of an ancient shark known as a megalodon while diving near Sarasota. This was the largest...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
The future looks substantially brighter for a beautiful and totally unique Australian cockatoo species that requires very specific nesting habitat. Scientists say it takes 250 years, some termites, no wildfires, and a cyclone to make the ideal home for the palm...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
It had long been suspected that somewhere in or under the Church of Peter and Paul in Wolder, the Netherlands, lay the remains of the man who inspired the character of d’Artagnan, immortalized in Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. Real name Charles de Batz de...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
Now from the Netherlands comes the delightful story of an 8-year-old’s dream design made reality on the carriages of a very special train. Hosted by the national train operator NS, the NS Drawing Competition invites children all over the country to submit drawings to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Land of the Nile has quickly joined the number of countries responding to the current oil shock by announcing new wind and solar projects. For a country that’s over 90% sand desert, where the Sun was deified in ancient times as a scarab beetle and its dung ball,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
A canal in India has been transformed from a plastic-choked fetid mess into a growing mangrove forest. The clean-up has restored the waterflow, and the 20,000 mangrove seedlings will help clean the water and reestablish fish stocks. Along a 1.8-mile stretch of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Apr 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
Storms, ribbons, and its iconic rings in screaming electric blue, Saturn appears like you’ve never seen it before in a new set of images released by our flagship space telescopes James Webb and Hubble. Whether you want to call it peeling an onion or cutting through a...
