Rhino Rescue, Ancient Dodecahedrons and Oklahoma's plan for nation's Tallest Building

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hi, I'm
Chunni Mack with five good news stories.

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A woman enjoyed the letter she got
about an upcoming vet appointment. Doctor Mike

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wrote the letter not to the woman, but to Loki, the cat.

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It said, Dear Loki, it's
time for vaccination, which is very important

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to prevent you from contracting infectious diseases
from your fellow cat mates or the environment.

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The letter went on to say that
Loki would also enjoy a general health

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check. We could look out for
lumps and bumps, long nails, fleas,

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creaky joints, sore teeth, or
pesky extra weight. Let your humans

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know that it's time to give us
a call and make the appointment for you

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when it can be fitted in between
naps, of course. In Nairobi,

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scientists have successfully transferred a rhinoceros embryo
for the first time. This could be

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good news for the endangered Northern white
rhino. There are only two left and

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they're both females. Now Gene and
daughter for two are both unable to carry

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pregnancies. The last male Northern white
rhino died in twenty eighteen, so you

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could see, yeah, this is
an emergency. Before that rhino named Sedan

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passed away. Scientists had believed there
were only eight Northern White rhinos alive on

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the planet, and they were all
in zoos. Those rhinos didn't breed.

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A project called Biorescue went to Kenyon
twenty fourteen and started working on a different

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plan. They harvested developing eggs from
the two living Northern White rhinos and they

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used the sperm of a dead Northern
White rhino for artificial insemination. The eggs

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were fertilized, with two resulting in
viable embryos. A third embryo was created

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in twenty twenty using the same technique. There are now thirty embryos from the

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Northern White rhinos that can be used
to produce babies. Scientists transferred the embryo

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into a Southern White rhinos surrogate.
Future surrogates of the Northern White rhinos will

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probably continue to be Southern White rhinos
until the subspecies can naturally breed again in

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or released it in the wild.
They think that could happen in the next

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ten to five fifteen years. A
nonprofit is helping hospitalize children by providing a

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gaming experience during treatment. It's called
Gamer's Outreach. They have something called the

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go Cart goos and Gamers Outreach go
karts, a portable gaming kiosk game here

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is to restore a sense of normalcy
to children's lives, allowing them to engage

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in activities that bring a joy into
childhood. The go cart is designed to

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address the unique needs of pediatric hospital
environments. It's portable, easy to sanitize,

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and deployable by hospital staff. Each
go KRT has an Xbox Series X,

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Nintendo Switch and PS five. People
have been finding some dodecahedrons. Those

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are mysterious twelve sided objects from Roman
times. One was found in Belgium last

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year, another recently found in England. Altogether, one hundred and thirty of

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these twelve sided items have been found
across the Roman world, thirty three in

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Britain alone. They range in size
and weight and that has the experts confused.

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Is it a weapon? Probably not. Is it some sort of jewelry,

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well no, because some are quite
heavy and if they hung around your

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neck would be pretty uncomfortable. Or
they precision measuring instruments. No, The

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authority say, how could you measure
things accurately with a tool that's always a

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different size. The most recent one
is the size of a grapefruit. Good

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news If you like tall buildings,
well, move to Oklahoma City. They

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might soon have the tallest building in
America. Developers have submitted plans for a

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Legends Tower. It would surpass one
World Trade Center in New York City,

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which is currently the seventh highest building
in the world. Legends Tower would hit

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nineteen hundred and seven feet that honors
the year in nineteen oh seven, when

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Oklahoma was admitted as the forty sixth
state. The plan would have a public

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observatory at the top, the restaurant
and a bar, a hotel, some

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condos seventeen hundred and seventy six residential
units. One of the developers says,

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hope to see it as the pride
of Oklahoma City. Those of your five

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good News stories for today. If
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about it. They might like it
too. Have an awesome day.