The Hobby Horse Championships

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Let's take a look at some of the winners of this year's ig Nobel Prizes, the prize for Comical Scientific Achievement. Some of the winners included a study exploring the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles, another that looked at the swimming abilities of dead fish. Winners were honored in ten categories, including for peace and anatomy. Some more winners. One showed a vine from Chile that imitates the shapes of artificial plants nearby. Another study examined where their hair on people's heads in the Northern Hemisphere swirled in the same direction as someone's hair in the Southern hemisphere. Now what's really annoying is I don't know what the results showed. I can't tell you. The awards ceremony was broken up by an international song competition inspired by Murphy's Law, including one song about coleslaw and another about the legal system. Meanwhile, in Germany, it was the first hobby horsing championship in Frankfurt. Hundreds of young riders competed in time jumping and style jumping on their wooden stick horses. Roughly three hundred riders, mostly kids, although twenty adults enrolled were watched by fifteen hundred spectators. Max Is fifteen He said, hobby horsing just gives me self confidence and I just enjoyed doing it with other people. Andreas is the managing director of public relations of the German Hobby Horsing Association. He says they're currently about five thousand active hobby horsers in Germany and two hundred and thirty clubs and adds, of course, when you see it it looks funny at first. In fact, it's a really strenuous sport.

1:33 It's a mixture of athletics and gymnastics and you need to be in good shape for it. Flesh Is eighteen and said, it used to be we were laughed at for it, but when you're part of a larger group, I think it always works, and especially now, when you see something like that, you get a feeling of togetherness. Style jumpers were judged on their posture as well as jumping over the center of the obstacles, sticking the landing and keeping a steady pace. Meanwhile, in Taiwan, live performances by wild animals held in captivity, including performance by dolphins, tigers, and other non domesticated mammals, no longer permitted. Nice Job, Ministry of Agriculture. The Animal Performance Management Measures will forbid companies from forcing wild animals to perform or interact with people.

2:13 Two private operators in Taiwan are still conducting performances involving dolphins. Their licenses expire in twenty twenty six, unless they're granted an extension. The Ocean Conservation Administration is advising them on how to eliminate inappropriate performances. Well, good news for a bargain hunter, bad news for Cardier. The bargain hunter got a pair of twenty eight thousand dollars earrings for twenty eight dollars after Cardier miss priced its jewelry online. Virgilio couldn't believe his eyes. Cardier refused to deliver. When they realized what had happened, they had dropped three zeros from the price. They offered Rgilio a refund for the twenty eight bucks and a bottle of champagne. He said, nodok them to Mexico's Consumer Protection agency, and he won. He posted on Twitter with the earrings war is Overdio is complying, all right. Remember I told you about the bronze era jar that was accidentally smashed by a four year old and they were gonna try and put it back together.

3:08 They put it back together. The director of the museum said, he's just a kid. I think it somehow touches the heart of the people in Israel and around the world. Experts to use three D technology, high res videos, and special glue to reconstruct the large jar. Less than two weeks after it broke, the jar went back on display at the museum. There are a few hairline cracks, few pieces are missing, and there's a new sign that says please don't touch. Those are your five news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like this program commercial free, there's a link in the show notes, and please check out our sister show, five Minutes of Gratitude Number five Minutes of Gratitude. You have an awesome day.