May 4, 2025

Wild Chimps Drink, Beer Hunts, Marathon Pickleball, and New Color

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Researchers from the University of Exeter recorded wild chimps sharing fermented fruit, suggesting social bonding through alcohol. In Belgium, the fifth annual beer hunt featured a prize of the winner's weight in beer. A team of pickleball enthusiasts broke the Guinness World Record by playing for 36 consecutive hours and raised $18,000 for a charity supporting organ donation. A dog named Buford helped locate a missing 2-year-old in the Arizona desert. Lastly, scientists from UC Berkeley and the University of Washington discovered a new color, Olo, a bluish-green hue with unprecedented saturation, made visible through advanced laser technology.

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Calaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm shunning back with your

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five good news stories. For the first time, some wild

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chimps have been recorded indulging in alcohol together. Yeah, they

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were shown sharing fermented bread fruits in the wild. According

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to the scientists who documented this on video, the behavior

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opens up the possibility of the primates could also be

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using alcohol to bond socially, as one does. The scientists

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are from England's University of Exeter. They think the sharing

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of alcoholish food is likely to be widespread among chimpanzees.

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The exact reason chimps are sharing the alcohol lace spread

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fruit is not yet known. I'm going to theorize either

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they had a bad day at work or they're on

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a date. Using hidden cameras, they saw this doing this

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ten times. Anna Boland is a cologist, to explain mean

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sharing is linked to social bonding, but also alcohol intake

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is linked to social bonding, at least in humans. Speaking

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of beer, we're missing out. You know, a lot of

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us did an Easter egg hunt for Easter. What we

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should have done is gone to Belgium. They did a

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beer hunt. It was the fifth annual beer hunt. One

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thousand humans searched for twelve thousand hidden bottles of beer.

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Hidden among the beers was a special golden bottle. If

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you found the golden bottle, you want a prize. The

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prize your weight in beer now. The event began with

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a chocolate egg hunt for children, then the beer hunt

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started at twelve thirty PM. There was a barbecue one thirty.

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No chimpanzees were invited, but maybe next year we should

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invite them. A team of four pickleball enthusiasts broke a

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Guinness World record. What did they do? They played thirty

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six consecutive hours of matches. I feel like you guys

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out there could break this record. You'll have to take

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on the pickle Breakers. That's what they call themselves. They

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went for their record for four longest marathon playing pickleball.

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Where'd they do this? Pickler Universe in Carrollton. The previous

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record was a force and who played for thirty four hours,

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five minutes and fifty five seconds back in twenty twenty four.

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At the time of this recording, the video of the

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thirty six hour attempt was being looked over. They did

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raise over eighteen thousand dollars for the Tailor's Gift Foundation,

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a charity supporting organ donation and providing aid to families

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who decided to donate the organs of their loved ones.

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I'm an organ donor. I'd encourage you to do the same.

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Here's an amazing story. A two year old was reported

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missing in the Arizona Desert and was found thanks to

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a dog named Beuford. Bowden had wandered off his parents' property.

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Ranger Scottie ran into Boden and asked him did you

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walk all night long? And the boy said no, I

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slept under a tree. And the ranger said, well, did

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my dog find you? And he goes, yeah, and he

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said he followed the dog back to the house. The

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ranger knew that the child had been reported missing and

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was grateful to be able to find him. The ranger

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points out there were about one thousand ways for that

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to go really really bad and one good way, and

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luckily it turned out to be the good way. Buford

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was rewarded with a steak dinner and good news. If

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you like colors, there's a new color. It's called Olo

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Olo and it's bluish green. Now, unfortunately, it's imperceptible by

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the human eye. Now I'm no scientists. I'll try and

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explain this. As a team at UC Berkeley and the

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University of Washington, they used laser technology they called oz

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to quote directly control the human eyes photoreceptor activity via

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cell by cell light delivery. They explain a normal color vision,

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any light that stimulates an M cone cell must also

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stimulate its neighboring L and or S cones because the

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M cone special response function lies between that of the

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L and S cones. He's still with me because I'm

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barely with me that they said. However, oz and stimulation

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can target light only to m cones. So what's the

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new color, John? It's described as a blue green with

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unprecedented saturation. If you ask me, it's just a matter

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of time until somebody figures that out and every sports

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team is wearing it. Remember when teal wasn't a thing.

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Are you old like me? Teal didn't exist. Then suddenly,

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in like nineteen ninety two, they invented teal and every

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sports team went teal And teal was really cool when

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it first came out, But like that didn't exist in

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the seventies. Now you think I'm kidding here, Well, it

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did exist in the seventies. But a little background here

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Bonus six that could do stories for you. The first

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recorded use of the word teal describe a color, was

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in nineteen seventeen in the book A Dictionary of Color.

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Although it looks like the Egyptians used it as well,

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they just didn't call it teal. I'm going home, Well,

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I am home. I record at home. Enjoy your new

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color by