Conan the Bacterium and The Great Google Eyes Mystery

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Jennie Mack with five good news stories. Congratulations to five time English language Scrabble World champion Nigel Richards. He has now won the championship in Spanish. What's interesting about that is he doesn't speak Spanish. That's right. He won the Spanish World Scrabble Championships in Spain back in November. He lost only one game out of twenty four. He speaks no Spanish. He started memorizing the language's scrabble word list a year ago. His friend Liz told the AP he can't understand why other people can't just do the same thing. He can look at a block of words together and once they go into his brain as a picture, he can just recall it very easily. He's done this before. In twenty fifteen he became the French language Scrabble champ. He doesn't speak French either. He studied that list for nine weeks. I think everybody was pretty psyched when the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris reopened during the rest of some archaeologists were allowed to dig under the foundations. They uncovered hundreds of fragments, many from limestone sculptures, of men and saints, including Jesus. A thirteenth century screen that previously separated the choir and sanctuary from public view was among the more significant architectural finds. Also found were some heavy iron clamps ten to twenty inches long used to bind stones together. They think those are from around eleven sixty Wow. Scientists have named a bacteria conan the Bacterium for its ability to survive the harshest of extremes.

1:32 It can withstand radiation doses twenty eight thousand times greater than those that would kill a human being, so we know who will rule the world after the next war. Scientists are trying to figure out how this works. They're hoping they can protect astronauts from high doses of cosmic radiation on future deep space missions across the Solar System. Meanwhile, Lego celebrates five years of success for its sustainability initiative Replay that allows consumers to ship used in unwonted Lego bricks back to Lego for redistribution to others. In Boston and Richmond, they shared some giant Lego birthday cakes bearing the number five. Those were decorated by children who then got to take sets made of donated Lego bricks home with them. Tim Brooks works for Lego and says most people don't want to give away or throw out their Lego collection. The vast majority hand them down to children and grandchildren, but others are vasts for a safe way to dispose of would donate their bricks. With Replay, they have an easy option that's both sustainable and socially impactful.

2:23 The donation process is simple. Collect any loose Lego you have, put them in a cardboard box and visit Lego dot com slash Replay, print out a free ups shipping label and send your package off to Lego. All right. In Portland, Oregon, we've got a mystery. Googly eyes have been appearing on sculptures around the city of Bend. The city shares some photos on social media. One photo shows googly eyes placed on a sculpture of two deer, while another shows them attached to a sphere. No one knows who's doing this, the city said. With the googly eyes placed on the various art pieces around town, they might give you a chuckle, but it costs some money to remove them with care and not damage the art. Some Facebook users said they like the googly eyes. One said, My daughter and I went past the Fleaming Chicken today and shared the biggest laugh.

3:08 We love the googly eyes. This town's gett to be stuffy. Let's have fun. The city so far has spent over fifteen hundred dollars. I'm removing googly eyes. I'm going to investigate this more and update you as soon as possible. Those are your five good news stories for today. If you like the program, till a friend about it. They might like it. To share an episode with them, and you have an awesome day.