Your next house could be built with dirty diapers

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Choinning Mack with five good news stories.

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Sciences are pumped. They have discovered
a new shape. It's a new Einstein

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shape, a thirteen sided shape called
the hat. Lots of copies of the

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shape can be used to cover a
flat surface without ever overlapping or leaving any

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gaps. Also, the patterns never
repeat. Mathematicians have been looking for shape

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like this for fifty years. They
call it an Einstein. It doesn't have

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anything to do with Albert Einstein,
though. Huh see, I thought the

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same thing. I was stricked as
well. Einstein means one stone in German,

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and in this case, Einstein means
a single shape that doesn't cause repeating

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patterns. I bet a lot of
people will get that wrong in the future.

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Good trivia question, isn't it?
Yes. In fact, I'm going

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to take that and use that as
one of the questions. We have a

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new podcast. It's called five Daily
Trivia Questions. I'm gonna throw that in

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so when that shows up, you'll
know the answer. If you look at

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most tiled patterns, you'll see that
the pattern pizza after a while, But

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this one no. In nineteen sixty
one, one mathematician suggested there was no

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way to cover surface without tiles without
creating a repeating pattern. That person obviously

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wrong. Then his student created a
set of tiles that didn't create a repeating

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pattern, but there were twenty four
and twenty six shapes in that set.

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Later, the same student got the
number down to one hundred and four shapes.

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In the nineteen seventies, mathematician Roger
Penrose found two shapes could cover a

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surface with no repeating pattern. Last
November, David Smith discovered it could be

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done. How does it work well? First, they figured out that the

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hat shapes can group together to form
a bigger shape called a metatile. The

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metatiles can then form even bigger shapes
called supertiles, and so on. Since

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the medatiles, supertiles, super supertitles, etc. Never repeat, had is

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able to cover any flat surface without
repeating. Smith later found a second Einstein

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shape. He calls that one the
turtle, But careful study showed that both

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the hat and the turtle belonged to
a family of similar shapes that could be

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created by slightly changing the sizes of
the hat. By studying the different shapes

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in the family, experts prove that
the hat could never form a repeating pattern.

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As for the turtle, still needs
to be double checked by experts.

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So before you rush out and tile
your whole house in turtle shapes and then

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start bragging your friends, might not
be true yet. Petra Jenny has a

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nineteen seventy three Cherokee Piper airplane inside
creates to hold seventeen dogs. Petra's flying

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the dogs to turn them over to
Laura LaBelle, co founder of the LaBelle

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Foundation Rescue in Los Angeles. Petra's
helping to move the dogs around because a

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lot of shelters are full. There
are also some buses who take bigger dogs

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up to Washington State. Some donors
are paying for chihuahuas to fly to Connecticut.

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As for Petra, she operates Amelia
Air and all volunteer nonprofit animal rescue

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organizations she found in twenty nineteen.
Private pilots need regular flight hours to maintain

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their licenses, so why not put
all that time and expense towards a mission.

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See that's super smart. Amelia Air
has rescued thirteen hundred dogs, cats,

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and even a few ferrets. She
herself has two eleven year old pit

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balls at home and no space for
any more dogs. She says, if

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I took home every dog I transported, I couldn't fly anymore. Daniel Dorik

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has a pottery studio in his single
car garage in Echo Park. He started

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this as a social media experiment on
Instagram. He said, I had thirty

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vases sitting in my garage and I
decided to throw them up on my personal

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Instagram account. I sold three thousand
dollars worth of pottery in half a day.

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He ended up spending seven hundred dollars
to ship the vasis because he didn't

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know what he was doing at the
start of the business. Following the surprise

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success of the Instagram sale, he
quit his downtown La hotel job spent two

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weeks in Mexico City, where he
created a business plan with the help of

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a friend. He made a website, a logo on branding, and he

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set up Danny D's Mud Shop and
his Echo Park garage the slogan turning mud

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into really nice ceramics. He jokes, I left my forty hour week job

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to work ninety hours a week.
I feel you. Meanwhile, in Ventura,

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eight months after her husband Chad was
diagnosed with stage four lung cancer.

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Stacy planted eleven hundred flower seeds in
her backyard. She said something called me

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to do it. I needed a
sanctuary. They were already growing vegetables and

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tending to a flock of free roaming
chickens and three cats, and dreaming of

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building an urban farm. Chad said
he's grateful that Stacy can walk outside and

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tend to her flowers if his mood
turns dark, especially when his depression becomes

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overwhelming some days. Stacy says,
there's resilience seeds he plants. It's a

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language in itself. Stacey had no
gardening experience and says the biggest thing was

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taking the leap of faith by reading
the back of the seed packet and trusting

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the process. It's easy to get
caught up in all the planting logistics and

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never get started with it. Chad
says cancer has taught me that people are

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good. I appreciate people more now
than ever before, and I give a

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lot more hugs. Good news.
I've got a solution for all those dirty

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diapers you've got. We're gonna build
a house. Yeah no, really.

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A group of scientists from the University
of kid a qu in Japan have come

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up with a solution. You see, concrete is one of the most common

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building materials in the world to use
to construct many things roads, sidewalks,

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buildings. It's usually made by mixing
together sand, water, and cement.

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But what if we didn't have to
mind for the sand. What if we

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took dirty diapers and use them to
replace the sand. In the US alone,

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over eight billion pounds of dirty diapers
and thrown away eg here. So

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the scientists collect them, used diapers, clean them up, treated the diapers

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with chemicals to get rid of any
bad germs. The diapers were dried and

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shredded into small pieces that could be
added to concrete. They found diaper concrete

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is just as safe and strong as
a regular concrete. It also doesn't have

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any harmful germs. And they point
out sand needs to be mined, which

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costs money. Use diapers are basically
free and there's no shortage of them.

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You know someone's going to turn this
into a business and actually make money off

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dirty diapers. Just give it some
time. I trust innovators. And that's

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your five good news stories for two
day. If you enjoy the program,

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tell a friend about it. They
might like it too, and you have

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a great day,