The Scrapple Champion

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny mag with five good news stories in England. At the Royal Botanic Gardens, scientists and volunteers have collected over two billion seeds from forty thousand species of plants from across more than one hundred countries. It's the Millennium Seed Bank. Seeds are cleaned, dried and stored at minus twenty degrees celsius just in case we need them. Biologist Dale Sanders said, within species there's incredible genetic diversity which protects against disease, climate change, and other threats, maintaining that diversity is essential if we want to preserve the diversity of life itself. The team is trying to do some fundraising. They even got Cate Blanchett to tell their story in a new podcast called Unearthed The Need for Seed Like that title, Ian as a fisherman, he got tired of seeing discarded nylon fishing nets all over the place, so he figured out how to recycle them. He explains, a skipper will replace his nylon fishing that every six months, and most of the time they're buried in the landfill, burned or abandoned in the ocean. A strangle fish and other wildlife. He started a company called Orca with a zero at the front.

1:10 He can now turn old nets into raw plastic again, used for everything from lampshades to razor handles. He says the beauty of it is it all fits in a shipping container and pretty much anyone can operate it, so he could have one of these at every harbor around the world, converting a costly and hazardous waste into a profitable raw material. Good news if you're heading to Rome and the Colosseum. I was there about sixteen months ago and loved it. They have opened up the commonest passage, the passage used to allow Roman emperors to slip into the Colosseum unseen, getting them straight to their skybox. Commonist who is the same emperor from the movie Gladiator, And apparently one time he was trying to get to the skybox and someone tried and failed to assassinate him. Barbara and azarro Is, the architect who oversaw the restoration, said visitors can now have a taste of what it was like to be an emperor entering the arena with a little effort of imagination and the help with virtual reconstruction.

2:01 They can appreciate the decorations stuccos, frescoes and marbles to cover the walls. When I was there, I was amazed how similar it is to a modern stadium. Just absolutely amazing. In Philadelphia, contestants tried to win best scrapple sculpture. It was the mush pushed Patrick was the winner. He did a tribute to the Philadelphia Eagles, toush push. You know where they line up and they just move forward one yard. Yeah, everybody met up at the reading terminal market. He had to make something out of five pounds of scrapple in ninety minutes. The lump of indistinguishable football players won a trophy and a one hundred dollars gift card. And sad news, Leela's Hair Museum has come to an end. The hair Museum was filled floor to ceiling with Reith's jewelry and artwork made entirely from human hair. There were necklaces and watch bands made from the hair of the dead, hair from past presidents, hair from Marilyn Monroe. The collection was more than three thousand pieces strong. Unfortunately, the museum's founder and a lifelong hair addresser, Layla passed away a year ago at age ninety two. Granddaughter Lindsay rehomed the pieces to places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Lindsay said, this place is her and I feel the process of rehoming her collection has helped me grieve in a way that I didn't even realize it really needed. It all started back in nineteen fifty six. Leela was shopping for Easter shoes and spotted an antique gold frame filled with hair twisted and flowers. Leela then became a rescuer of forgotten art, including the style from the eighteen when women made jewelry and reads from their loved one's hair as memorials. Her

3:33 granddaughter said, if it had hair, she got it. And those are your five good news stories for today. You have a great day.