The Octopus that Plays Piano

0:03 Caalaroka Shark Media. A Swedish musician has spent six months teaching an octopus how to play piano. I am Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Matthias Still the Washington Post that he bought Taco the octopus from a Portuguese fishery. He says it took time to earn Taco's trust, and longer still until he could convince the octopus into using the keyboard he designed with levers for the octopus to pull with his tentacles. He said Taco started a plateau, only playing one or two notes at a time, but a breakthrough came when Matthias installed a crab elevator in the tank. The device would lower a crab, which, as you know, is Taco's favorite treat, a small amount of tube for every note the octopus played, Matthias started accompanying Taco on the guitar. Mattia says it was probably the worst thing I've ever done, and maybe the coolest thing, but also the worst ever. I can't believe I sit here and play with an octopus. Marine scientists Jenny said the octopus is not perceiving rhythm. It's not perceiving tempo.

1:07 It wants to do the steps it has to do to get the crab bittersweet one here. Claire was diagnosed in twenty twenty two facing terminal battle cancer. She had posted on Facebook asking anyone writing Christmas cards this year to pop one in the mail for her as well. Hundreds of cards arrived, many containing gifts such as movie tickets, chocolates, vouchers for camping holiday. Her post was shared more than ten thousand times, with common shifting from friends and family to people sh'd never met, many in beginning with phrases like even though I don't know you. One of the offerings came from the Cambrian Flying Club. They offered her a free thirty minute flight. Scientists are getting it done. They say harvesting fog could bring drinking water to some of the driest cities in the world. Research in Chili have figured out that they can capture fog water. What they do is fine mesh is suspended between sets of polls, allowing clouds to flow through and droplets to form. Water can then be stored in the tanks. They're working on this with one particular desert city. Those citizens currently have to rely on water delivered by truck. In California, wildlife officials accidentally captured the wrong bear. They were trying to capture the bear that's been living under a man's home.

2:18 Ken discovered in November that a bear was living under his house. He called the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for some help. Those guys said, yeah, bears often looked for secured, sheltered places, especially during the winter, so the wildlife biologists placed a metal trap on the property. They baited it with caramel and cherry. Sense that would have worked on me, by the way, And the officials were like, hey, we caught the bear. Okay, everybody's good there. However, they realized, oh, this is a different bear that happened to walk by and was like, hey, caramel and cherry, I'm in. Meanwhile, the original bear still underneath the house. The captured bear was removed to a more appropriate habitat The bear still under the house has been identified as Yellow twenty one twenty, and so far Yellow twenty one to twenty has avoided removal. Ken, who lives in the house that he's tried to encourage Yellow twenty one twenty to move by playing loud noises, including recordings of barking dogs, but the bears like I'm good. If you like the program, if it makes your day a little better, and you want a support it, what you can do is go to Apple Podcast and there you see a little banner says uninterrupted listening. You click that and then for thirty days you'll get the show without commercial interruption. And then if you like that, what you can do is you stay subscribed, and then for five bucks a month, you'll get the show without commercial interruption, and you'll get a bunch of other shows on the network as well, it says channel on the apps there, so you'll see daily comedy news which I host in palace, intrigue about the royals, and a bunch of others, and all that is part of the same five bucks. If you want to try that out, much appreciated. Good news if you've been waiting to take out the book Harry the Dirty Dog. It

3:49 was checked out on November sixth, nineteen eighty nine by diplomats living in Washington, d C. The diplomat's son Demetrius, has returned it. He explained, the diplomats are now retired in Greece, and I found this book on the shelves. It's traveled the world and was well taken care of as you could see, and now could find its way home. It is now back in the Fairfax County Library System. They posted on social they get to Demetrius parents for taking such good care of our book, and to Demetrius for helping the book find its way back to our shelves. I kind of want to like take it out and not return it, you know, But I'm a rascal. And those are your five good news stories for the day. Like my son can return it like fifty years and then somebody else hosting this podcast can tell that story. All Right, you have an awesome day.