4-Day Work Week, Cat Rescue, and a Decoded ET Message

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Good news if you like a shorter work week, like say a four day work week, We've got a case that will help us all. The District Council in South Cambridgeshire did a trial that showed that worker performance mostly improved or at least remained the same, while staff's turnovers fell by thirty nine percent while they were doing a four day week. They did a fifteen month trial. The council reports they saved like four hundred thousand dollars because they spent less money recruiting for vacant positions.

0:43 Staff were paid the same despite working fewer hours, but you know, less turnover. Four day work week, who says no. Visually impaired soccer fan got to experience a game thanks to his friend. Jan traveled to a game between two teams in Columbia. His friend Marcos went with him. When the match kicked off, Jan couldn't see what was happening, but he was able to follow the action on field thanks to Marcos, who traced the movement of the ball on his back while narrating the play by play. The two were now working together to promote inclusion in stadiums and in other aspects of daily life. I think that's fantastic. All right, We've all heard tales of cats stuck in trees, and you know it's usually Superman that rescues the cat. I guess this is the thing that actually happens. John came by a tree and there was a cat in it. Yeah, and the cat couldn't get down. The cat was meowing.

1:31 John grabbed a twenty foot ladder, but he still couldn't reach the kitten, who was still a few feet up. So he used some cat food as bait, trying to get the kitten to come down. Hey, kiddy, come on down. First, the kitten didn't respond. Then it made him move. The kitten lost its footing and plummeted to the ground. Now the show's called five Good News Stories. What do you think is gonna happen here? You think I'm gonna tell you some horrible ending here, like suddenly I'm gonna go psycho And this is a really negative story. Of course, not John caught the cat. Everyone is okay. Nice job, John. Hey, doing at least eighty minutes of moderate exercise per week can almost half the risk of new mothers developing postpartum depression. Canadian researchers have shown of the benefits extens new mothers, who were found to have a forty five percent lower chance of developing baby blues if they did at least eighty minutes of moderate exercise weekly. The research finds that starting exercise within twelve weeks of giving birth was linked to a greater reduction in depressive symptoms, but researchers acknowledge that that can be difficult for new mothers. Professor Margie Davenport said, once the mother is recovered from labor and delivery, going for short, gentle walks is encouraged. As she's ready to begin more vigorous exercise. We recommend a gradual but progressive fashion. Congratulations to a father and daughter who won the race to decode and extra terrestrial message. Some white dots arranged in five clusters against a black background simulate what the ETS might send us. The project was organized by some of the world's top astronomers to run the scenario of how civilians might respond in the event of a real interstellar communication. This was part of a project

3:05 called a Sign in Space organized by SETI they sent a radio signal back to Earth from Mars. Three radio astronomy observatories on Earth intercepted the communication. The challenge was first to extract the message from the raw data of the radio signal, and secondly to decode it. It took ten days for five thousand citizen scientists on discord to extract the signal from the raw data. Father and daughter Ken and Kelly cracked the code. They ran simulations for days trying to assemble the message into all kinds of different forms before the family discovered that the message contained movement. It stayed in motion and only displayed in any configuration for about one tenth of a second. To them, that suggested cellular formation. What appeared on the screen were believed by the dad and daughter to be amino acids and proteins, which are the building blocks of life. Long story short.

3:51 They decoded the message, which said, dare mighty things than those your five good news stories for today. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, there's a link in the sh show notes. I'll tell you how to do that. Four ninety nine a month, you'll get this show and twenty plus others on the network commercial free interruption free and if on Apple Podcasting, click that banner thirty day free trial. Why wouldn't you get to day thirty one, decide what you want to do, but take the free thirty days? Why not? All right, you have a great day,