Dec. 11, 2024

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

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Discover how a four-day work week improved productivity and reduced turnovers in South Cambridgeshire. Learn about a visually impaired soccer fan who experienced a game with help from a friend. Hear about a heroic cat rescue. Understand how moderate exercise can reduce postpartum depression. Finally, celebrate a father-daughter duo who decoded an extraterrestrial message, winning an interstellar communication challenge organized by SETI.

00:11 The Benefits of a Four-Day Work Week
00:50 A Heartwarming Soccer Experience
01:17 Rescuing a Cat from a Tree
02:00 Exercise and Postpartum Depression
02:41 Decoding an Extraterrestrial Message

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Good news if you like a shorter

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work week, like say a four day work week, We've

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got a case that will help us all. The District

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Council in South Cambridgeshire did a trial that showed that

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worker performance mostly improved or at least remained the same,

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while staff's turnovers fell by thirty nine percent while they

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were doing a four day week. They did a fifteen

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month trial. The council reports they saved like four hundred

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thousand dollars because they spent less money recruiting for vacant positions.

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Staff were paid the same despite working fewer hours, but

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you know, less turnover. Four day work week, who says no.

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Visually impaired soccer fan got to experience a game thanks

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to his friend. Jan traveled to a game between two

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teams in Columbia. His friend Marcos went with him. When

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the match kicked off, Jan couldn't see what was happening,

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but he was able to follow the action on field

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thanks to Marcos, who traced the movement of the ball

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on his back while narrating the play by play. The

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two were now working together to promote inclusion in stadiums

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and in other aspects of daily life. I think that's fantastic.

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All right, We've all heard tales of cats stuck in trees,

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and you know it's usually Superman that rescues the cat.

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I guess this is the thing that actually happens. John

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came by a tree and there was a cat in it. Yeah,

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and the cat couldn't get down. The cat was meowing.

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John grabbed a twenty foot ladder, but he still couldn't

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reach the kitten, who was still a few feet up.

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So he used some cat food as bait, trying to

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get the kitten to come down. Hey, kiddy, come on down. First,

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the kitten didn't respond. Then it made him move. The

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kitten lost its footing and plummeted to the ground. Now

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the show's called five Good News Stories. What do you

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think is gonna happen here? You think I'm gonna tell

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you some horrible ending here, like suddenly I'm gonna go

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psycho And this is a really negative story. Of course,

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not John caught the cat. Everyone is okay. Nice job, John. Hey,

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doing at least eighty minutes of moderate exercise per week

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can almost half the risk of new mothers developing postpartum depression.

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Canadian researchers have shown of the benefits extens new mothers,

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who were found to have a forty five percent lower

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chance of developing baby blues if they did at least

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eighty minutes of moderate exercise weekly. The research finds that

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starting exercise within twelve weeks of giving birth was linked

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to a greater reduction in depressive symptoms, but researchers acknowledge

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that that can be difficult for new mothers. Professor Margie

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Davenport said, once the mother is recovered from labor and delivery,

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going for short, gentle walks is encouraged. As she's ready

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to begin more vigorous exercise. We recommend a gradual but

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progressive fashion. Congratulations to a father and daughter who won

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the race to decode and extra terrestrial message. Some white

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dots arranged in five clusters against a black background simulate

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what the ETS might send us. The project was organized

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by some of the world's top astronomers to run the

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scenario of how civilians might respond in the event of

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a real interstellar communication. This was part of a project

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called a Sign in Space organized by SETI they sent

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a radio signal back to Earth from Mars. Three radio

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astronomy observatories on Earth intercepted the communication. The challenge was

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first to extract the message from the raw data of

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the radio signal, and secondly to decode it. It took

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ten days for five thousand citizen scientists on discord to

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extract the signal from the raw data. Father and daughter

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Ken and Kelly cracked the code. They ran simulations for

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days trying to assemble the message into all kinds of

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different forms before the family discovered that the message contained movement.

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It stayed in motion and only displayed in any configuration

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for about one tenth of a second. To them, that

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suggested cellular formation. What appeared on the screen were believed

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by the dad and daughter to be amino acids and proteins,

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which are the building blocks of life. Long story short.

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They decoded the message, which said, dare mighty things than

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