Rats Taking Selfies, Brain Cancer Blood Test, Record-Breaking Handstand Push Ups, and More

0:03 Calaroga Shark media. Apparently rats like taking selfies. I am chunning Mack with five good news stories. An artist named Augustin bought two rats as pets, as one does, and you know when if you've got a pet rat. He built them in elaborate cage, and using a mechanism that gave the road and sugar whenever they pressed a button, he trained them to take selfies. The project is a commentary on the notions of pleasure, reward, and the addictive behaviors induced by social media. Augustin says the images offered a playful way to explore topics like reduced attention spans and the impact of social media algorithms. After taking selfies for a few days, the rats were sent to his mom's house to live out the rest of their days. I'm sure mom was thrilled.

0:50 Why didn't you just keep the rats? Dude? What are you doing? The rats probably have more followers than I have. Anyway. Good news A brain cancer blood test there's a segue. Scientists have developed a simple blood test that could offer early diagnosis for brain tumors in the future. It isolates tumor cells that have broken free from the tumor and are circulating in the blood. The cells are then stained it can be identified under a microscope. The Imperial Collegist doctor Nellafir said is that a non invasive, inexpensive method for the early detection of brain tumors is critical for improvements in patient care. Nice job by a long distance runner who raised thirty eight thousand dollars by running the length of Japan. Gary has racked up thousands of miles running in races around the world. Oh yeah, Gary's blind. About fifteen years ago, the Hong Kong resident lost complete vision in both his eyes. He was depressed, but he found that long distance running gave him confidence in the boost that he needed.

1:42 He became the first blind person who finished the sixty two mile Antarctic Ice Marathon. Wow. He recently organized and poleted the forty Day Dark Run twenty twenty three in Japan, where he ran from the south of Japan all the way to the north. He raised thirty eight thousand dollars from Make a Wish Hong Kong. He told CNN, A lot of people may say, Wow, you're r in the span of Japan. You're so impressive. I'm actually not the most impressive of these children. I wanted to show them that we all have our obstacles, but we must face them head on and with bravery. When they're faced with theirs, many of them suffer from worst difficulties. They could see it's possible to overcome. A Georgian athlete performed sixty one handstand push ups that broke the Guinness World Record. Sandro is a strength and conditioning coach. He broke the record of fifty two consecutive handstand push ups, which was sent by Victor back in twenty nineteen. Sandro told the Guinness Book, for me, the handstand is the epitome of athliticism and high neuromuscular control.

2:38 I like handstand push ups conceptually. By their very nature. You have to control all segments of your body in every single movement in order to not lose balance. He said. He trained for three years to take on the record, and during the final year he would practice six days a week. He is now attempting the world record for most handstand push ups in one minute and the most handstand push ups in three minutes. In this next one isn't really good news, but it made me smile and one of the goals of this podcast is to make you smile this one is it such naughty? Just a little naughty. So if naughty freaks out, or maybe the little ones are listening with you, I'll see you next time. Okay, for the rest of you, it's not that naughty. A woman posted a picture she was in her bathroom. She was showing off her cap and sunglasses. You know, in the bathroom is a mirror. It's a good place to take a selfie of sorts. She threw the post up on Instagram. It was up there for half an hour. She found out the double reflection that caught her boyfriend Harry, wiping himself on the toilet. It got hundreds of thousands of likes. It was only up for thirty seven minutes. Some viewers were questioning her boyfriend's wiping technique. One asked, why is he standing up? What kind of person does that? Another a different point of view and said, stand up, wiper. Respect. My favorite part of this story. The woman her first name, Shannon, her last name. You're not gonna believe me, You're gonna think a picking this up her last name, but that your five could do story search. If you join the program, tell somebody about it. They might like it too, Have an awesome day,