Giant Penguins, Origami Tests, and More (The Lost Episodes)

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with another episode of the Lost five Good News Stories. Now, if you don't know what I'm talking about, I recently found a file on my computer called Good News twenty four, which are these scripts from the episodes of this podcast from twenty twenty four, and I noticed I never recorded a whole bunch of them. So I've been sharing these on Saturday, and they're the lost episodes. So some of the information might be a little dated, but it's a bonus, and you know, they're happy stories, so why not. One of the stories Pesto, the penguin broke the Internet and the scales. Pesto, who was nine months old at the time of me not recording this, so now you know over a year, was weighing twenty two and a half kilograms, the largest chick that the Sea Life Aquarium and Milburn had ever seen. By comparison, his foster parents were eleven kilograms. Jacinta, who works at Sea Life Milburn and said it was quite unusual for the penguin to be this big and heavy, as penguins of his age of the aquarium, I've waited a maximum of eighteen again pastou twenty two and a half.

1:08 The plan was for Pesto to lose weight in the coming weeks as he developed his adult feathers. Now. Because it's a lost episode, I can give you sort of an update. I went to visit sealife dot com and they're highlighting Pesto. It says visit our viral king Penguin Pesto. You have to book to visit Pesto. All right, let's click on that and see what happens. Well, I'll tell you what happens. A website loads very, very slowly. I made an edit there general mission anti aquarium fifty one Australian dollars thirty seven to fifty four. Kid, I'd be able to get in today if I tried. Okay, sea Life Melbourne has a whole page about Pesto and tells us Pesto is growing up. Our King Penguin celebrated his first birthday on January thirty first. In his peak fluffy era, he waited over twenty three kilograms. Now he's down to fourteen point six. Great job, Pesto. Back in the day, Pesto is eating twenty five to thirty two fish day spread over four feeds that was about double what adult king penguins typically eat. But hey, if best oa can lose weight, so can you, so can I. A cheap new test uses origummy paper sensors to help detect infectious diseases like COVID. Researchers at Cranfield University said the new test device could dramatically change how public health measures are directed in any future. Pandemics, How does it work? They test waste waters? I see, They take samples from water treatment plants nationwide and use the results to understand which areas have the highest infection rates. I get it. Okay, scientists are at it. New research shows that children's performances

2:41 in math can show a huge improvement through the teaching of a finger counting method. Swiss and French teams explored whether finger counting can help primary school age children solve math problems. They said adults rarely use their fingers to calculate a small sum because such behavior could be attributed to cognitive impairments, but young children under eight who used their fingers to solve such problems may be seen as intelligent, probably because they've already reached a level that allows them to understand that a quantity can be represented by different means. Doctor Catherine Thevenot says finger calculation training is effective for over seventy five percent of kindergarteners. The next step is to explore how we can support the remaining twenty five percent of children who didn't respond as well to the intervention.

3:21 Let's keep it sciencey. Today, the FDA had approved a nasal spray vaccine against the flu. No more needle. That's kind of neat. Flu missed can be self administered outside of a healthcare setting, giving people greater convenience, flexibility, and accessibility. You still need a prescription. He still got to deal with the insurance people. Okay, this is a lost episode. So back in September, an Idaho man reclaimed one of his own titles by throwing twenty eight metal chopsticks into an archery target in one minute. David Rush, the record breaker guy, had originally broken the record in twenty twenty by striking his target with nineteen thrown chopsticks in one minute.

4:02 Somebody else broke the record throwing twenty one chopsticks in a minute. David Rush did not mess around and brought the record from twenty one to twenty eight. He says the title is difficult because you have to stand more than thirteen feet away from the target and you have to hit the two innermost colors on the standard archery target for a hit to count. Congratulations on your record and all your free time. And those are five of good news lost stories for today. Back to Where with a normal episode See Then