Oct. 11, 2025

Good News if you wanted to paint stripes on cows

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting stories. A golden retriever named Cruiser finds a missing dementia patient and earns a burger reward. Vilnius, Lithuania, launches a solar-powered electric ferry. Australian researchers test bite-resistant wetsuit materials to protect against shark attacks. A Michigan farm dedicates a corn maze to Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown. Lastly, quirky IgNoble Prize awards highlight painting zebra stripes on cows to deter flies and lizard pizza topping preferences.

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Caalaroga Shark Media with me there. I'm Johnny Macomcdog is

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hanging out in the studios today and together we have

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five good news stories for you. And the first one

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is about a dog who got a reward for his

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good deed. A known dementia patient went missing and Cruiser,

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the Golden Retriever cruised right to his location. The person

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was found in the woods behind a school. Police Chief

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McGrath said Cruiser can't hide a smile. Today on social media,

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the dog post had got to play my favorite game

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of find the missing person. I won today when I

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located a seventy year old man suffering from dementia. No

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one worry. Sergeant Morris got me my Hamburger reward. Cruiser

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the Dog is over sixteen hundred followers on Facebook. The

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local PD regularly posts pictures of what Cruiser has been

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up to. Anyway, the hook Cruiser up with some burghers

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and they shared pictures of that as well. Meanwhile, in Lithuania,

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the capital city there, which as you know, is Vilnius,

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they debuted a new electric ferry boat for transit up

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and down the river. Ners Villainous was named the European

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Green Capital. Of twenty twenty five, and they had a

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tight deadline to get these zero emissions electric ferry online

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by July twenty fifth. They did do it. The ferry

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holds thirty two people and cuts through the water as

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opposed to aquaplanting a top of it, which saves energy.

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Eighty percent of the boat is covered in solar panels

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and passengers get free Wi Fi. The boat's top seed

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is seven and a half kilometers per hour, higher than

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similar types of water vehicles in other European cities. Very nice.

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They plan to get two more electric ferries. Good news

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if you like to swim but you're afraid of sharks.

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Australian shark experts have tested four byte resistant materials to

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assess their ability to reduce injuries and blood loss. Now,

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you might still get some internal and crushing injuries should

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a shark bite you, but this bite resistant wetsuit should

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help with the cause. Now, traditional chain mail suits are protective,

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but two inflexible and heavy for activities like surfing or diving.

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So these scientists looked towards new materials and they tested them.

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They baited the water with fish guts and then they

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put in a wooden board with a gel that replicates

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the density of human muscle. On top of the gel

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was this wetsuit material. They jerked it back and forth

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and got the sharks to bite it. There's some scary

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research there. I was somewhere on vacation. There was an

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opportunity to go down at a shark tank, and I

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was like, no, thank you. Anyway, Once the sharks realized, ah,

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these aren't humans. This stinks, they swam away. But the

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researchers pulled the wood up to see how much shredding

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the shark teeth did. They tested this one hundred and

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fifty two times. They found that tiger shark bites never

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created a critical wound, and white sharks sometimes did, but

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it was still way better than a regular wetsuit. I'll

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be on the beach. It's October, so it's corn maze time.

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A Michigan farm unveiled a five acre corn maze depicting

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Detroit Lyons wide receiver. I'm on Ross Saint Brown performing

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his viral heads down touchdown celebration. That's right, the Long

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Family Orchard and farm over in Commerce Township, you know

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the place. They posted a video to social media showing

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the corn maze. Bobby Long said he and his brother

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Will came up with the idea last January started working

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on it in July. Bobby said, we do a special

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corn maze every year, and with the lions being so

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awesome and with everything I'm on Ro's done for a

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city or state in the fans, we wanted to give

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something back for him to enjoy two. It's open from

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ten to six on weekends. And I know I did

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a story already about the Ignoble Prize, but I saw

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a sub story about it and I had to go

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back and revisit this. A team of Japanese researchers won

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the Biology Prize for showing that painting zebra stripes on

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cows meant that flies were less likely to bite the cows.

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How that works, Who knows, ask the flies, but that

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was what caught my eye. Another study was curious what

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kind of pizza would a lizard steal? What topping would

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they like? The best? They prefer the four cheese pizza,

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of course, And a physics prize went to European researchers

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for discoveries about the physics of pasta sauce, in particular

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how to avoid clumpiness while making the iconic Italian dish

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cacco at Pepe. I'm off to go paint some cows.

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And those are your five good news stories for today.

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Have an awesome day.