Science - Swearing is Good For You!

0:03 Caloroca Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Now good news for me when I'm not hosting the show and trying to keep things clean. Scientists tell us dropping an F bomb can boost your performance by helping you feel stronger, more focused, and disinhibited. A study published by American psychologists shows that swearing can boost people's physical performance by helping them overcome their inhibitions and pushing themselves harder in strength and endurance tests. Doctor Richard Stevens says, in many situations, people hold themselves back, consciously or unconsciously from using their full strength. Swearing is an easily available way to help yourself feel focused, confident, less distracted, and go for it a little more. But the real question is I was swearing helping us? What's the psychological mechanism? Doctor Stevens explains, by swearing, we throw off social constraint and allow ourselves to push harder in different situations. They even did a study they ask participants to repeat either a swear word of their choice or a neutral word every two seconds while doing a chair push up. The team found that participants who swore during the chair push up task were able to support their body weights significantly longer than those who repeated a neutral word.

1:16 So if my kids are listening the next time we're in the car and Dad gets a little frustrated with the other drivers, I'm just staying strong. Okay. Good news if you're a white stork. Sam Davenport is the director of Nature Recovery at London Wildlife Trust and says the white storks are coming back. Following the successful reintroduction of white storks at the NEP estate in West Sussex, white storks are now returning to London. The same project will also see beavers released into flooded formal gravel pits at eastbrook End County Park. White storks have been spotted regularly on Thames Side wetlands since their return at NEP, where chicks successfully hatched for the first time in twenty twenty.

1:58 White storks are known for nesting on chimney rooftops and had been extinct as breeding birds in Britain since fourteen sixteen. WOW. The white storks will be placed in a large aviary hidden within grassland and scrub behind the data center. The birds will be allowed time to climatize before the roof of the AVIARYA is gradually rolled back, enabling them to come and go and forge for themselves. Nice job by Beth. She's a tattooist helping breast cancer survivors regain their confidence by giving them free three D effect nipple tattoos. Beth had specialist training and creating a realistic areolas and spends up to twenty minutes on each nipple to prevent overworking the skin. One woman, Anne, had a doublemasectomy and said she felt put back together after the work by Beth.

2:42 Nice job there. This would be great if they can figure this out. Samsung says they're moving closer to commercializing solid state battery technology. The batteries boast an energy density of about five hundred watt hours per kilogram, roughly double that of today's lithium ion batteries. So what does that actually mean? Johnny Max Samsung says this could mean electric vehicles with up to six hundred miles of range and charging times as short as nine minutes. Now that eliminates you know, Like I used to drive to Chicago from New Jersey a lot, and I would sometimes think, boy, if I had to stop for an hour to charge this thing up. The new batteries are smaller, lighter, and for safer because they replace flammable liquid electrolytes with a solid electrolyte. Samsung estimates a lifespan of up to twenty years, or around two thousand charging cycles, which could equal more than a million miles of driving in an EV. Let's hope that all works out. That'd be neat If you enjoy this program, if it makes your day a little better, and you would like to support it. One thing you can do is on the Apple podcast app, click that button that says uninterrupted listening long term. For five bucks a month, you can get the show commercial free, and you also get a bunch of other things on the network, including Daily Comedy News, which I host seven days a week.

3:54 But that also comes with a thirty day free trial if you want to test it out and see how you like to show without commercials. In christ Church, pedestrians have been puzzled and amused by a series of official looking street signs with absurd messages. One says don't that's it, just don't. Another says this area is slightly haunted, but manageable. This is from a guy named Cameron who attributes the signs to christ Church City Confusion. Cameron says the goal was to mimic official signage closely enough to stop people in their tracks that surprise them with something completely illogical. He describes the effect as a moment of confusion followed by joy. The project has intended to encourage people to slow down, notice the environment, and rethink everything that usually take for granted. I love it. Those are your five good news stories for today. You have an awesome one.