Will the bananas appear again on February 2nd?

0:03 Callaroga Shark media. All right, this first was ridiculous. I'm shutting back with five good stories. With February second approaching, let's keep an eye on beast in England. You see over there, someone's been leaving a plate of peel bananas on a street corner on the second day of each month for over a year. Residents are trying to solve the mystery who's been doing this. Claire figured this out that the banana plates were being left on the second day of each month and put up a sign reading please respectfully, no more bananas. The uncollected plates and rodny bananas leave such a mess. Happy New Year. Despite the sign, someone still left a plate of bananas on January second, Claire said, I've asked all around the local community, but no one really knows, and no one could tell me anything.

0:54 I think it's a special thing for someone. I wish them well, but if they could come back and clean up the mess a few days later, that'd be lo Hey, good news. If you don't like to get sick, you gotta move to Italy. You see. The mayor of bel Castro has issued a proclamation banning local residents from getting sick you're not allowed to get sick. The mayor issued a proclamation ordering residents not to contract any serious illnesses that could lead to the need for emergency medical attention. Residents were also ordered not to engage in activities that could lead to serious injuries, and were advised to instead spend the majority of their time resting why it was meant to be a tongue in cheek way to draw attention to the shortcomings of local healthcare infrastructure. The mayor said about half the village's twelve hundred residents are over the age of sixty five. The nearest er is thirty miles away. It is only accessible via a road with an eighteen mile an hour speed limit. The village has an on call doctor, but the service is not available during nights, weekends, or holidays. Nice job by Bear, the retired police dog. Bear is a twelve year old German shepherd and receive the Lifesaver Award from the Thin Blue Poff Foundation, a charity that helps police dogs, and that same charity had previously partially paid for one of Bear's surgeries.

2:06 You see, Bear was out for a walk. The walk was aimed at rehabilitating Bear's stamina following surgery to remove some tumors. During the walk, Bear led Julia and husband Ian into the deep brush where a man had fallen down. The guy was immobile and confused, and the authorities were already out looking for the guy. Julia says, for Bear to get this award now in his retirement is very special. We're all super proud of him. A camp for kids with HIV is closing after thirty years. Well, why is that good news, John? Well, because HIV treatment has improved so significantly. The number of babies contracting the viers through their mothers through pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding has declined so much that the camp no longer needs to exist. There aren't enough kids in need. That's great. In the US, the perinatal HIV transmission rate is now less than one percent thanks to anti retroviral medications. One Heartland in northern Minnesota had welcomed young camp mp is living with or affected by HIV AIDS for thirty years. The eighty acre site is going up for sale. Good news for Charlotte, the green sea turtle. Charlotte can now swim again thanks to an innovative three D printed harness. Poor Charlotte was struck by a boat back in two thousand and eight.

3:18 The incident caused Charlotte to have what biologists call positive buoyancy syndrome or bubble butt syndrome, a condition that traps air in the back of the turtle's shell and still it's it's rear end up at a forty five degree angle, you know, so you can't really swim. Claire is an aquarist at Mystic Aquarium and said when turtles get hit by boats, their shells can deform slightly, and that deformity causes air to get trapped on the back of their shells. Instead of sitting naturally buoyant like turtles do, they sit with their butts up in the air. Mystic reached out to a three D printing company to create a weighted harness that would allow Charlotte to swim more easily. Nick works for the three D printing company and said they probably we've been trying to solve is essentially putting weights on the back of Charlotte, which sounds very simple but ended up being a very challenging process. The only way to really get something to stick to Charlotte was to build a custom device to help create a customized harness that would fit comfortably and snugly to Charlotte's unique geometry.

4:09 So far, so good. Congratulations Charlotte, nice job, scientists and everybody involved there. And those are five good news stories for today. If you like the program, tell a friend about it. They might look at too, might make their day a little bit brighter. And if you like the program without commercial interruption, there's a link of the show notes tell how that works. Or if you're an Apple podcast, click that bendor there to find out more. You have an awesome day.