Sept. 18, 2023
Spotless giraffe! Freddie Mercury's Piano! Artificial Kidney Breakthru!
Imagine sharing the ultimate victory in your sports career with a friend, not because you had to, but because you wanted to. That's exactly the warm tale of sportsmanship between pole vaulters Nina Kennedy and Katie Moon at the World Athletics...
Imagine sharing the ultimate victory in your sports career with a friend, not because you had to, but because you wanted to. That's exactly the warm tale of sportsmanship between pole vaulters Nina Kennedy and Katie Moon at the World Athletics Championships, where they chose to split the gold medal.
Also, wrap your ears around the story of how Mary Austin, a dear friend of the late Freddie Mercury, hit a jackpot of $2.2 million from the sale of the Baby Grand Piano used by Mercury himself!
The Kidney Project at the University of California in San Francisco has developed an implantable device that mimics the kidney's functions - a ray of hope for those battling kidney failure. To top it off, we introduce you to Kipiki, the world's rarest living giraffe, who was born without spots at the Bright Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee. This little giraffe is making a significant impact, proving that uniqueness is indeed beautiful.
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Also, wrap your ears around the story of how Mary Austin, a dear friend of the late Freddie Mercury, hit a jackpot of $2.2 million from the sale of the Baby Grand Piano used by Mercury himself!
The Kidney Project at the University of California in San Francisco has developed an implantable device that mimics the kidney's functions - a ray of hope for those battling kidney failure. To top it off, we introduce you to Kipiki, the world's rarest living giraffe, who was born without spots at the Bright Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee. This little giraffe is making a significant impact, proving that uniqueness is indeed beautiful.
This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5747537/advertisement
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The Shark Deck. I'm Jenny Mack
with five good news stories. Two pole
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vaulters agreed to share the golden medal. Well, here's the deal. Nina
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Kennedy and Katie Moon both made it
over the four point nine zero meter bar,
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but neither one could get over the
four point nine five one. This
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happened at the World Athletics Championships.
I didn't think she'd want to share it.
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I thought we might have to keep
jumping, But you know, I
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00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:30.760
kind of looked at her and said, hey, girl, maybe you want
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00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:33.399
to share this. After the relief
on her face and you could see it
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00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:36.560
on my face, it was mutual
and yeah, absolutely incredible to share a
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00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:38.880
medal with Katie Moon. You know, we've been friends for so long.
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00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:42.200
It's super special. Moon agreed,
saying it had been a long battle and
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00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:45.240
that for four jumps that basically done
the same thing, no one was going
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00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:47.960
to make it, so all right, let's move on. Hey, good
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00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.799
news from Mary Austin. She was
a friend of Freddie Mercury's and she's got
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00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:56.280
two point two million dollars. Now
why she sold the baby Grand piano that
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Freddie Mercury used to compose some of
queen's most beloved and claim works, including
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Bohemian Rhapsody. This all at an
auction recently for nearly two point two million
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00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:10.040
dollars. It's a nineteen seventy three
Yamaha G two, and it's part of
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00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:14.480
an auction series in which hundreds of
Freddie Mercury's personal possessions from his Kensington home,
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00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:17.599
including costumes, song, drafts,
art, jewelry, furniture and more,
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00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:21.159
are going up for sale, leaving
fans waiting for another kind of quote
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hammered a fall that was cheesy.
Mercury left his home and all of its
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belongings to Mary Austin, who kept
his residence preserved almost exactly as he left
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it for more than three decades after
Freddy's death in nineteen ninety one. Austin
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said it was important to her that
she handled his belongings in a way that
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Freddy would have loved. Good news, bad news for scientists. A new
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species was discovered, so that was
good, and then they determined it was
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a critically endangered species, so that
was kind of sad. The Kapunji was
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only identified in two thousand and three, living on the slopes and forests of
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Mount Rungway and Livingstone Mountains in Kitsulo
National Park in Tanzania was identified after locals
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told SI there were monkeys there.
Now twenty years later, the monkey has
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been the beneficiary of quote holistic conservation
undertaken by scientists at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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These monkeys are not very big.
They have small black faces and large
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triangular crests of hair like a pompadour. The Tanzanian government quickly established nature reserves
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in the areas of the kampunji's habit
that weren't already protected. When the scientists
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said, it's not perfect by any
means. There's still pressures, and just
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as anywhere in the world of legal
activities, they're still poverty around the edge,
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but it's in a considerably better place
than it used to be. This
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00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:36.599
is really cool. As next one, the sufferers living with kidney failure might
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00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:40.080
have an option. Some folks at
the University of California and San Francisco have
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00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:46.319
produced an implantable device that mimics the
kidney's functions. Their first clinical trials show
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00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:50.240
that kidney sells housed within a device
called a bioreactor can work quietly in the
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00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:53.400
background like a pacemaker and does not
trigger the recipient's immune system to go on
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00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:58.479
the attack. More than five hundred
thousand people in the US required dialysis several
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00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:00.719
times a week. Can you imagine
if they get this thing to work,
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00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:04.960
that would just be literally life changing
for people. Wow, really amazing.
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00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:08.719
The device developed by the university's Kidney
Project has successively been implanted and tested in
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00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:13.000
pigs for seven days. The next
step will be a month long trial,
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00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:15.919
first and animals and then humans.
The scientists plan to fill the bioactor with
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00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:21.280
additional kidney cells that can mimic all
the functions such as balancing the body's fluids
51
00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:24.960
and releasing hormones to regulate blood pressure. Then a full artificial kidney will be
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00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:30.719
born. Wow. Hey, good
news. If you like giraffes but you
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hate spots. A giraffe in Limestone, Tennessee at the Brights Zoo was born
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without spots. They held a contest
to name the spotless giraffe and they went
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with Kapiki. Do you know why
because that's the Swahili name for unique staff
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Say, Kapiki has been fully accepted
into the giraffe heard you see her?
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No differently? Born on July thirty. First, this is the rarest living
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giraffe on the planet. What makes
her so rare, simply put, it's
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00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:58.680
because she was born without a pattern. The last time that was known to
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take place was in Okio in nineteen
seventy two. So if you want to
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see the spotlashterra f, head to
Bright Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee. And
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that's your good news for today.
I follow the show for free on Apple,
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00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:12.520
podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever
you get your shows. You have
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an awesome day.
1
00:00:02.520 --> 00:00:10.080
The Shark Deck. I'm Jenny Mack
with five good news stories. Two pole
2
00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:14.080
vaulters agreed to share the golden medal. Well, here's the deal. Nina
3
00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:18.359
Kennedy and Katie Moon both made it
over the four point nine zero meter bar,
4
00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:22.280
but neither one could get over the
four point nine five one. This
5
00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:26.640
happened at the World Athletics Championships.
I didn't think she'd want to share it.
6
00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:28.600
I thought we might have to keep
jumping, But you know, I
7
00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:30.760
kind of looked at her and said, hey, girl, maybe you want
8
00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:33.399
to share this. After the relief
on her face and you could see it
9
00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:36.560
on my face, it was mutual
and yeah, absolutely incredible to share a
10
00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:38.880
medal with Katie Moon. You know, we've been friends for so long.
11
00:00:38.920 --> 00:00:42.200
It's super special. Moon agreed,
saying it had been a long battle and
12
00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:45.240
that for four jumps that basically done
the same thing, no one was going
13
00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:47.960
to make it, so all right, let's move on. Hey, good
14
00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.799
news from Mary Austin. She was
a friend of Freddie Mercury's and she's got
15
00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:56.280
two point two million dollars. Now
why she sold the baby Grand piano that
16
00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:00.320
Freddie Mercury used to compose some of
queen's most beloved and claim works, including
17
00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:04.920
Bohemian Rhapsody. This all at an
auction recently for nearly two point two million
18
00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:10.040
dollars. It's a nineteen seventy three
Yamaha G two, and it's part of
19
00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:14.480
an auction series in which hundreds of
Freddie Mercury's personal possessions from his Kensington home,
20
00:01:14.519 --> 00:01:17.599
including costumes, song, drafts,
art, jewelry, furniture and more,
21
00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:21.159
are going up for sale, leaving
fans waiting for another kind of quote
22
00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:25.359
hammered a fall that was cheesy.
Mercury left his home and all of its
23
00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:29.680
belongings to Mary Austin, who kept
his residence preserved almost exactly as he left
24
00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:33.599
it for more than three decades after
Freddy's death in nineteen ninety one. Austin
25
00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:36.439
said it was important to her that
she handled his belongings in a way that
26
00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:40.680
Freddy would have loved. Good news, bad news for scientists. A new
27
00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:44.359
species was discovered, so that was
good, and then they determined it was
28
00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:49.079
a critically endangered species, so that
was kind of sad. The Kapunji was
29
00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:52.400
only identified in two thousand and three, living on the slopes and forests of
30
00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:59.439
Mount Rungway and Livingstone Mountains in Kitsulo
National Park in Tanzania was identified after locals
31
00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:01.959
told SI there were monkeys there.
Now twenty years later, the monkey has
32
00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:08.080
been the beneficiary of quote holistic conservation
undertaken by scientists at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
33
00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:12.599
These monkeys are not very big.
They have small black faces and large
34
00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:17.000
triangular crests of hair like a pompadour. The Tanzanian government quickly established nature reserves
35
00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:21.919
in the areas of the kampunji's habit
that weren't already protected. When the scientists
36
00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:24.159
said, it's not perfect by any
means. There's still pressures, and just
37
00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:28.520
as anywhere in the world of legal
activities, they're still poverty around the edge,
38
00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:31.080
but it's in a considerably better place
than it used to be. This
39
00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:36.599
is really cool. As next one, the sufferers living with kidney failure might
40
00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:40.080
have an option. Some folks at
the University of California and San Francisco have
41
00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:46.319
produced an implantable device that mimics the
kidney's functions. Their first clinical trials show
42
00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:50.240
that kidney sells housed within a device
called a bioreactor can work quietly in the
43
00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:53.400
background like a pacemaker and does not
trigger the recipient's immune system to go on
44
00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:58.479
the attack. More than five hundred
thousand people in the US required dialysis several
45
00:02:58.520 --> 00:03:00.719
times a week. Can you imagine
if they get this thing to work,
46
00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:04.960
that would just be literally life changing
for people. Wow, really amazing.
47
00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:08.719
The device developed by the university's Kidney
Project has successively been implanted and tested in
48
00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:13.000
pigs for seven days. The next
step will be a month long trial,
49
00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:15.919
first and animals and then humans.
The scientists plan to fill the bioactor with
50
00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:21.280
additional kidney cells that can mimic all
the functions such as balancing the body's fluids
51
00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:24.960
and releasing hormones to regulate blood pressure. Then a full artificial kidney will be
52
00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:30.719
born. Wow. Hey, good
news. If you like giraffes but you
53
00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:35.879
hate spots. A giraffe in Limestone, Tennessee at the Brights Zoo was born
54
00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:39.479
without spots. They held a contest
to name the spotless giraffe and they went
55
00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:46.000
with Kapiki. Do you know why
because that's the Swahili name for unique staff
56
00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.599
Say, Kapiki has been fully accepted
into the giraffe heard you see her?
57
00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:52.919
No differently? Born on July thirty. First, this is the rarest living
58
00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:54.400
giraffe on the planet. What makes
her so rare, simply put, it's
59
00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:58.680
because she was born without a pattern. The last time that was known to
60
00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.479
take place was in Okio in nineteen
seventy two. So if you want to
61
00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:05.120
see the spotlashterra f, head to
Bright Zoo in Limestone, Tennessee. And
62
00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:09.520
that's your good news for today.
I follow the show for free on Apple,
63
00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:12.520
podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever
you get your shows. You have
64
00:04:12.599 --> 00:04:13.240
an awesome day.