Jan. 22, 2026

The World's Fastest Garden Shed

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Johnny Mac shares five feel-good stories, starting with new research indicating everyday activities, labeled as VIPA, can boost health and longevity. Conde Nast bans new animal fur in its fashion content, aligning with industry trends. Ireland makes its Basic Income for the Arts program permanent, benefiting artists' productivity and mental health. 14-year-old Miles wins $25,000 by using origami for a foldable structure capable of holding 10,000 times its weight. Lastly, Brian sets a new Guinness World Record with the world's fastest motorized garden shed, reaching speeds over 123 mph.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there good news. If you're fat

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and lazy like me, I'm Johnny Mack with five good

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news stories. New research suggests you don't need to hit

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the gym or even do ten thousand steps to boost

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your health and longevity. Nope. Everyday activity is done with

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more energy, like running up the stairs or power walking

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through the house, or playing vigorously with kids or pets

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can deliver meaningful benefits. Scientists call this vigorous intermittent lifestyle

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physical activity luckily shortened down as VILPA or VLPA. Sometimes

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they call VILPA exercise snacking or activity microbursts. Professor Mark

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says VILPA works because even tiny spikes of exertion can

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improve markers like blood sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure, and body fat.

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Conde Nast has updated its fashion guidelines to prohibit the

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use of new animal fur in all editorial content and

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advertising across its publications, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ in

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The New York The spokesperson told CNN that the company's

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values had been moving in this direction for many years,

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reflecting the broader industry trend away from fur. Animal welfare

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groups note that millions of animals were still killed for

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pelts worldwide each year, but they welcomed condenass updated rules

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as a significant step towards reducing the fashion industry's reliance

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on animal fur. In Ireland, they have made their basic

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income program for artists permanent. The Basic Income for the Arts,

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launched as a three year pilot in twenty twenty two,

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provided two thousand artists and creative workers with a weekly

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payment of three hundred and twenty five euros. A study

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found the program significantly improved participants financial stability, mental health,

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and productivity. Recipients spent up to four extra hours per

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week on creative work and generated a social return of

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one euro thirty nine for every one euro invested. There's

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still controversy. Eighty two hundred people applied, two thousand were selected.

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Policymakers and researchers say the BIA could become a model

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for future targeted basic income programs. Nice job by Miles

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whose four fourteen he won twenty five thousand dollars at

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the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator's Challenge after using origami

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to create a foldable structure that can hold ten thousand

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times its own weight. We're told Miles is a long

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time Oregami enthusiast. Miles had noticed how Oregami inspired designs

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were being used for medical and emergency applications. After seeing

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the California wildfires, he wondered if the folds could improve

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deployable disaster shelters. He ran one hundred and eight trials

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using fifty four variations of materials and fold angles. His

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strongest model can support the equivalent of a New York

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City taxi cab supporting four thousand elephants, and I don't

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think he can fit four thousand elephants in a New

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York City cab. And a man has set the record

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for the world's fastest garden shed. Yeah, there's a record

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for everything. This Gordon shed topped out at one hundred

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and twenty three point four to three miles per hour.

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Brian decided to take on the challenge of breaking a

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Guinness World Record after watching the TV series Record Breaker.

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As he told The Sun newspaper, I always had the

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idea to do a record of Champ. That thought, what

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can I do. I'm a builder and I love classic cars.

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Let's put the two together. So he motorized his garden shed.

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Brian says He plans to continue to tinker with a

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shed to make it even faster, with a goal of

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one day making it street legal. Those your five good

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news stories for today, have a great day.