by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Older male whales are more successful at mating than their younger rivals because they are better singers, suggests new research. The older singing whales are increasingly successful at birthing offspring compared to younger males, with the findings suggesting that...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
A Colorado man was given a heartwarming surprise last week, after his granddaughter reached out to strangers who provided one last look at his favorite thing—a classic car show. “I just wanted to do something special for him,” his granddaughter, Annaliesse Garcia,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
A Monopoly World Champion has shared his top tips for winning your next game—and his first piece of advice is to always buy the ‘orange’ properties. As the iconic board game celebrates its 90th birthday this year, Jason Bunn, who once won the world title, talked to...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 28, 2026 | 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 | Feb 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
A neat feat of calculation and deduction may have solved one of our solar system’s greatest mysteries. Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is bigger than Mercury, yet for all its conspicuousness, scientists don’t know exactly how it came to be so large that it’s...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
The UK’s first geothermal power plant has just begun operations, using hot water from deep underground to create renewable electricity. The United Downs plant in Cornwall has been in development for nearly two decades, and will now begin providing enough electricity...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
A snow plow driver was crawling through near-white out conditions on Long Island when he saw something strange. Kenny McGowan has had to stop his snow plow in the past for all manner of hidden obstacles and hazards, from buried cars to fallen branches. Instead, two...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
In January, GNN reported on how the brain-disabling cold of the Norwegian winter couldn’t affect the performance of an all-electric ferryboat plying the waters in the country’s far northern district of Finmark. Well closer to home, a fleet of all-electric buses in...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
From the charming British countryside of Salisbury comes an equally-charming story of a roll of lost film found lodged in a thrift shop camera. Developed by Ian Scott of Salisbury Photo Center, he and the new owner of the antique camera were suddenly looking at crisp...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Feb 26, 2026 | Uncategorized
Capable of undergoing 120,000 charge cycles and being disposed of anywhere, an experimental new battery design might be thought of as truly state-of-the-art. To the contrary, the magnesium chloride or calcium chloride electrolytes used to carry the charge between the...
