Manatee Mating and the Disco Kiosk

0:02 The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Hate good news if you hate those jerks who don't park properly and hog multiple spots so annoying. An unnamed at man recently went viral after getting petty revenge on a driver who had parked over the lines of a space, hogging two spots. The unnamed man went back to their own vehicle and grab something to leave on the other driver's windshield. Uh oh what did he leave? A coloring book to help him stay inside the lines. This got posted on social media along with two pictures, one of the bad parking from the guy with the large blue Volvo Yeah you dude, and another of the coloring book and a note on the windscreen. This is amazing good news if you like disco kiosks.

0:47 Moved by a desire to help people deal with grief and angst caused by COVID, Brexit and the climate crisis, artist Annie Nicholson wanted to create a space where the public can shake out grief and unravel their climate angst. She's working with the Lost Project Case Berlin and Street Sound System for the disco Kiosk. It's a refurbished K sixty seven Kiosk, which is a modernist design associated with ad hoc post Soviet spaces, ship stalls, newspaper stands, student cafes and shelters. It evokes a legacy of European unity and collaboration. As well as DJ sets, there'll be meditation and yoga workshops at the disco Kiosk, dance classes, and grief raves where clubbers can request tracks that remind them of absent or lost loved ones. You'll find this thing in London's Canary Wharf. It'll eventually tour Europe. Nicholson said, the dance floor has been a space of silence and safety as I've navigated the many great losses and painful grief in my life throughout the past decade, and having successfully installed public realm projects around grief and mental health over the past two years, We've noticed a distinct change in how people wish to connect and come together. Speaking of music, a new study explored the casual role that music has on student achievements in math. Researchers believe that music can make math more enjoyable, keep students engage, and help ease their fear or anxiety about topics like fractions. Didn't Schoolhouse Rock figure this out in forty something years ago. Maybe yes. A typical technique for integrating music into math lessons for young children involves clapping the songs with different rhythms, learning numbers, and equating fractions to musical notes. About seventy three percent of the students who had integrated music in the math lessons did significantly better than children

2:22 there didn't have any kind of musical intervention. A new excavation site at the Roman city of Pompeii may have uncovered pizza. They found a beautifully preserved fresco and there's an item sylading on a silver platter in the depiction that looks an awful lot like pizza. Gennaro Iovino great name, is the co lead excavator and Gennaro till the BBC. Every room and every house has its own micro story and the grander story of Pompeii. I want to uncover those micro stories. The building where they found all this is suspected to be a wholesaler, but the wealth of the merchant that ran it is conspicuous. The atrom of the building featured to skylight where lion headed statues poured rain wall down into a basin, probably surrounded by plans. That sounds pretty nice. The right hand side of the house has a massive oven that could have baked a hundred loaves of bread per day. This place sounds awesome, especially two thousand years ago.

3:09 Yeah, well, except for the whole fucky you know thing that was kind of crampy without a shop window. Iovine and his team believe the oven was to make bread for wholesale. Unfortunately, Buzzkill, there's almost no chance that it's actually pizza because tomatoes are native to South America and mozzarella hadn't been invented yet. I think it's probably a ficaccia bread wood toppings. I am Patty Callahan, Henry, I am Mary kay Andrews, I'm Kristin Harmel, and I'm Kristy Woodson Harvey. Friends in Fiction is led by four longtime friends, the four of us with more than seventy five published books between us.

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4:32 You can listen to Friends and Fiction on any major streaming platform. And our final story today is a little bit naughty, not too naughty. But you know, if you've got the little ones there hid pause, you're gonna get a laugh here. But he hid pause. If there's a kid with you. Florida Police kids going. Florida Police as public to stop reporting manatees having group sex Dpanella's County Sheriff's office assures us they are more than fine. We get calls all the time from citizens when they see this, believing the manatees are in distress. Manatees actually mat in herds and they're often near the shore. Save the manatees said The activity can attract onlookers who were either curious about the commotion or concerned that the manatees or injured or stranded or in distress.

5:26 And they warn you adult manatees are large, powerful creatures, and interfering when the mating herd is inherently dangerous. If you see a manatee mating herd, observe respectfully from a distance. Do not touch that. You're five good news stories for today. Fallow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or YouTube or wherever you get your shows. You have a great day. Hi, I'm Mark Francis and host of a new podcast, The Messy Effect. Join us as we take you into the exciting new vote of Argentine soccer phenomenon Lionel Messi and he's new life at Inter Miami will bring you into the glitz, the glamor, the star started events along with the exciting journey to a new world of US soccer and international football with news and stories three times a week. Come along for the ride as Messy Miami, a major league soccer experience the journey of a lifetime. Get The Messy Effect wherever you get your podcasts.