by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Divorcé philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave $7.1 billion to various nonprofits and charities last year, a recent blog post from the reclusive giver claimed. “Since my post last December, I’ve given $7,166,000,000 to organizations doing work all over the world,” she...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Conservation in India successfully doubled the native population of tigers in the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study reveals. In 2010, the nations that make up the remaining range countries of the tiger set a target to double the number of wild tigers...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Sotheby’s recently sold a painting of a man from Roman-controlled Egypt in the first century CE that experts suggest represents the dawn of realistic portraiture 1,200 years before it appeared in Italy. The image is part of a family of works known collectively as the...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
As the Winter Olympics roars into life in northern Italy, athletes will be sporting state-of-the-art airbag vests that inflate during crashes, protecting speed skiers from the worst injuries. For those unfamiliar, the Olympics are being held at the renowned ski area...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
An artist is using cremation ashes in his paintings to create unique memorial landscapes that grieving families can personalize as a way to remember loved ones. Gary Harper began painting professionally just two years ago and was inspired by the loss of his cousin to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
A button-sized snail once thought extinct has been officially saved after conservationists bred and released more than 100,000 into the wild. The greater Bermuda snail (Poecilozonites bermudensis) was believed to be lost forever until a small surviving population was...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Apes share the human ability to imagine and pretend, suggests new research that included a series of tea party experiments. Scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, called it the first study to show the capacity for pretending is not unique to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
A would-be thief was caught by police after a herd of llamas cornered the suspect in a field until officers could arrive. It was dark outside when a man was alerted to an intruder on the couple’s farmland by animals making a loud alarm call last Monday evening. The...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Numbers of rare butterfly eggs have skyrocketed in South Wales after landowners let their hedgerows grow wild. Volunteers for the UK nonprofit Butterfly Conservation have counted record tallies of Brown Hairstreak eggs this winter around the Welsh county of...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Scents from the past are being recreated using state of the art technology to give museum visitors a whiff of history. Bio-molecular archaeology can bring ancient odors to life and allow people to breathe in the past. Advances in the field have shown that ancient...
