June 5, 2025

Hormonal Hawk Attacks Bald Men

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Johnny Mac shares quirky and intriguing stories. He reports on a hormonal hawk named Jesse terrorizing bald men in the UK, the mental health benefits of growing and sharing seeds, self-repairing road materials, and biodegradable batteries. Additionally, he covers a global chess game where Magnus Carlson was forced to a draw by over 143 participants. For uninterrupted listening visit www.caloroga.com/plus

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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per new stories. I've really been enjoying those stories the

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last few weeks. They've just been different and quirky. Watch

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out if you're bald. There's a hormonal hawk attacking bald men.

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Apparently the hawk has been engaging in a week's long

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reign of terror. The hawk is named Jesse.

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Jesse. The hawk drew blood from fifty or so victims

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in the UK after escaping captivity. Falcon Or Allen told

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the BBC it's because of hormones. You see, if he

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wanted to grab anybody, he would grab them. But all

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this dive bombing. I think it's hormonal courtship because it

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only started happening in the last couple of weeks breeding season. Well,

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good news. Steve captured the hawk by throwing a cage

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over it when he spotted in his garden. I need

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more details there, so like, do you just have like

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an extra cage and you see a hawk in the

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garden You're like, I'm gonna sneak up on the hawk

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and throw a cage over it. How does that work? Anyway?

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Steve is now a local hero. Jim who had been

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attacked by the hawk on his way to the store,

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said he was delighted to learn of the hawks capture.

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He was relieved he no longer had to drive to

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the shop, but he was trying to be cautious, saying,

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I didn't want to be beaten by a bird. Good news.

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Growing and sharing seeds can boost your mental health. During

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fifteen years of working on community food projects, Catherine noticed

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something other than the biodiversity benefits of saving and sharing seeds.

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There seemed to be a positive impact on the growers themselves.

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She tested her hypothesis. Larissa took part in the studies.

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She grew yard long beans. She said, I would watch

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it grow like it was my own baby. I always

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came out of the polytunnels happy. Author Kathy Slack said

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sowing a seed is an active hope. Not to be

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overly dramatic about it, but when you're wondering whether it's

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worth even bothering to stick around anymore, planning a seed

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was like a prompt to your future self. Scientists have

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figured out a road surface material that repairs itself take

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that potholes. The asphalt contains plant based spores that are

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packed with recycled oils. When the road is compressed, the

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oil seep out, softening the surface to seal fractures. That's

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pretty cool. Different scientists have unveiled the first fully biodegradable battery.

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Unlike traditional lithium ion batteries that rely on rare earth

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materials and toxic chemicals, this new biodegradable battery is made

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from natural materials such as cellulose salt and carbon based electrodes.

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The battery can be buried in soil after use and

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will decompose within a few weeks, leaving no trees behind.

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That's pretty cool. Now, you might not like your battery

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life these batteries as cool as this tech is. The

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batteries last twenty four to forty eight hours of operation

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for low power devices. But I guess if they were

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cheap enough, we could buy one and use one every day.

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except Magnus Carlson, we all of us the world have

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forced Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlson to a draw. More

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than one hundred and forty three people worldwide. We're playing

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against him in a game of chess. Team World voted

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on each move, and each side had twenty four hours

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to make their move. Carlson played White Black, force the

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draw and move thirty two after checking Carlson's king three times.

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The rule is called threefold repetition, meaning all the pieces

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on the board are in the exact same position three

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times and that is a draw. Carlson said, overall, the

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world played very, very sound chess from the start. Maybe

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not the most enterprising options, but kind of keeping more

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in vain with normal chess, which isn't always the best strategy,

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but it worked out well this time. This was a

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freestyle match. In a freestyle match, bishops, Knights, Rooks, Queen,

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and King are randomly placed around the board at the start,

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while the pawns are in their usual spots. Freestyle chess

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is popular because it allows players to be more creative

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and avoid memorization. I didn't know that was the thing.

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That's kind of cool now. Last year, Indian Grandmaster vis

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Wanathon Anon won his Versus the World match. He took

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on seventy thousand players. And those are five good news

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stories for today. Have an awesome day.