Emu on the Loose, Parrots Victory, and a Naked Bike Ride

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack, who with your five good news stories? Hey good news. A review commissioned by the World Health Organization looked into the potential risks of cell phone radiation and has found no connection between cell phone use and brain cancer, even for people who spend all day glued to their phone. Eleven experts from ten countries looked over decades of scientific research. They found the risk of brain cancer did not increase even with prolonged cell phone use to find as ten years or more among those who spent a lot of time on their phones or for people who made a lot of calls. Ken Karapitis is a lead author of the review and said the results are very reassuring. Karapita said that having more cell phone towers actually reduces the amount of radiation admitted from cell phones because they don't have to work as hard to get a signal. Meanwhile, scientists have discovered that some dogs have a remarkable ability to learn the names of toys. A Border callie known as Chaser learned the name of more than one thousand toys. Now, researchers have discovered that some dogs can remember the name of a toy even when they haven't seen it for years.

1:07 In a new study, dog owners brought the toys out of retirement. Three dogs had all twelve. So here's the study. They showed dog twelve new toys. The toys were then put away for two years. Then two years later the dog owners brought the toys back. Three dogs knew all twelve, another had eleven. After allowing the dog to inspect the objects, each owner placed five or six of the test toys in one room in their home, alongside eight of the dogs other toys. The owners moved into a second room and asked their dog to get each of the test toys one at a time. The results were that the dogs picked the correct toy forty four percent of the time on average, some at a success rate of up to sixty percent. Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, a woman couldn't believe her eyes. She looked out on the street and saw a loose EMU boy. I'll tell you, since the summer, there's just been random animals walking down the streets. I feel like I'm telling at least one of these stories every week. Ariel said. I rubbed my eyes and said, I'm really seeing what I'm seeing Apparently the emas would escape from a property just a few streets away. Somebody's got a pet emu. Meanwhile, a woman in Manhattan was facing a viction over her three emotional support parents. She's now going to be paid one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars in damages, plus five hundred and eighty five thousand dollars for her apartment under a consent degree announced by federal prosecutors. Merrill had purchased an apartment in nineteen ninety nine moved into it with her birds neighbors. Charlotte started complaining in twenty fifteen, telling the Daily News, Oh God, I wake up still with nightmares of them screaming in my head. The New York City Department of Environmental Protection sent inspectors fifteen times, but didn't find any excessive noise,

2:41 and inspector wrote, no birds, no screeching, no noise. All right. If you're wondering why I was down in Philadelphia recently, you know I'm a big fan of the annual Philadelphia Naked Bike Ride. The annual ride started in two thousand and nine. It's built as promoting cycling as a key form of transportation and fuel Conscious Consumption Organizer Stress Hover. You aren't required a ride completely nude. You can get as bare as you dare. The ride wasn't limited only to bicycles, but welcomed all forms of human power transportation, including roller blades, skates, skateboards, scooters. Twelve miles down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway pass City Hall, passed Rittenhouse Square and into South Philly before heading back north around the US Mint.

3:21 You're practically rocky without clothes. Now. This park cracks me up. Use your imagination. They used to have the ride in September. Enough of the naked riders mentioned it was a little cold, so they moved it to August, when you know, things are a little warmer. And those are your five good news stories for today. What I did say anything you enjoy the program at tell a friend about it. They may like it too. If you'd like the program without commercial interruption, there's a link in the show notes. I'll tell you how to do that. All right, You have an awesome day.