Dec. 30, 2024

Space, Health, and the snake at Chili's

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The Voyager One spacecraft, launched in 1977, overcomes a communications blackout. A four-year-old girl defies medical expectations and takes her first steps despite being misdiagnosed with a severe disorder. A Penn State study shows that positive attitudes toward aging can improve cognitive function. AI technology successfully detects breast cancer missed by human evaluation, potentially saving a woman's life. Lastly, a large python missing for two months is found in a Chili's parking lot and reunited with its owner.

00:12 Voyager One's Communication Blackout
01:15 Miraculous Recovery of a Four-Year-Old Girl
01:51 Positive Attitudes Towards Aging
02:30 AI Detects Breast Cancer Early
03:08 Lost Python Found at Chili's

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

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good news stories. Good news if you've been trying to

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get in touch with Voyager one. Yeah, I know that

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Voyager one launched in nineteen seventy seven, but it is

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an incredible machine, currently fifteen billion miles from Earth, well

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beyond the heliosphere. Well. Recently a communications blackout which triggered

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after radio command sent by Earth to turn on the

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probe's heaters messed up for some reason. The heating command

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activated a failsafe that shut off all non essential functions

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to conserve power. One of those functions the radio transmitter.

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Uh oh, so they tried the backup radio band. Now,

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if you want to get into radio band weeds. They've

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been using the X band, which takes twenty three hours

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for a message to arrive. They switched back to the

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S band, which they hadn't used since nineteen eighty one.

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Bruce Wagoner is the Voyager mission are EN's manager, and

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said the S band signal is two weeks to use

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long term. So they sent some commands out and everything restarted.

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Suzanne Dodd is Voyager's project manager, and told CNN we

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never know for sure what's going to happen with the voyagers,

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but it constantly amazes me when they just keep going.

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Good news for a four year old girl who doctor

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said would never walk, she was diagnosed with Angelman syndrome,

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a genetic condition that causes severe physical and learning disabilities.

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Her parents were told to expect that her daughter wouldn't

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be able to walk. A year later, they received a

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call from doctors reporting that the child had been misdiagnosed.

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She actually had a similar, but less severe disorder. Mom

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said seeing her take her first steps felt so good,

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like seeing all the work pay off. Having a physical

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therapist who believes in her and knows her potential has

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made a huge difference. We know the day is coming

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when we can confidently let her walk completely on her own.

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A new study from Penn State suggests that your attitudes

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about aging, whether positive or negative, can lead to that result.

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The Penn State team found the people who had positive

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expectations of aging tended to report less frequent cognitive problems.

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Nicki Hill is an associate professor and said aging expectations

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are malleable and influence in individual's perceptions of their cognitive functioning.

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Do people's perceptions of what they expect asan to be

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in the future affect the way they perceive their cognitive performance.

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Hill says, if it does, then that gives us more

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clues about how to interpret people's reports of cognitive changes

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and potentially how to intervene earlier to support people to

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maximize the reaching outcomes. It's a good episode for science.

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On today's show, AI has successfully detected a woman's breast

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cancer after routine scan evaluated by humans came back as normal.

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Sheila was given the all clear after her recent memo. However,

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the place where she had her appointment was participating in

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research to see if AI could improve early detection, and

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it did. The AI spotted cancer cells which were undetectable

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by the human eye. They were able to find the

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cancer so early she was able to have a lumpectomy

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and didn't need any further treatment, She says, being sixty eight,

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this may have been my last mammogram, so any early

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cancer might have developed into invasive cancer in my seventies.

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So I'm deeply grateful for it. I've been caught so early.

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Good news. We found your lost snake, you know, the

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one that's been out for two months. We found it

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at Chili's. I love these stories. A large python was

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found in the Chilies parking lot in North Carolina. Oh

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it wasn't a random python. It was the one that

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the police department had been looking for for two months.

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On social media, the police wrote, we believe this may

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have been someone's bet and got loose. The police were right.

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It was Kristen's. She told the local TV. This beautiful

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snake is my beautiful girl Una. She's the best snake

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anyone could ever have, and I've been missing her deeply

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for the past two months. Seems like the snake had

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a bit of a rough outing. Kristen tells us she

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has rubs or burns on her, which I'm going to

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treat tonight with some idin and polysporn. And she was

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very dehydrated. I had to give her a little bath

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with electrolytes in it, and she was just chugging water.

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But other than that, she's a happy girl. I just

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wanted chicken figures. That's true. I'm Kidneys Stories for today.

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