The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mac with five good news stories. Hey,
good news if you'd like to eat mammoth meat, because they've brought back mammoth
meatballs. It's been a couple of thousand years since you've been able to have
mammoth meatballs. But on Australian Cultivated Meat company is resurrecting the flesh of the
long extinct animals. Is this a good idea at all? Maybe what they're
trying to do is to remove the need for animal slaughter and meat production by
creating new kinds of meats in the process. To do this, they've created
lab grown, edible meats from cells, including a meatball made from mammoths.
Tim who works at the company, said, we chose the wooly mammoth because
it's a symbol of diversity loss and a symbol of climate change. They took
a DNA sequence from a mammoth myoglobin, which is a key muscle protein for
flavor. Any gaps were filled in by elephant DNA. Obviously it tastes like
chicken. Hey, good news for Amanda. Your boyfriend Chris, you know
he's over there on the rugby field. Looks like he broke his leg.
He's fine. You see what happened was Chris choreographed a rugby tackle with his
whole team. So he goes down on the pitch. Amanda, newly trained
in first aid, thought it was serious, so she came over on the
field, and then Chris rolled over on one knee and pulled out and engage
her ring. Amanda thought Chris had a broken leg when it got up.
I thought he must have been in shock. But then he got on one
knee. I was very, very surprised, Chris said a man. I
knew something was coming I wanted to do in a way she wouldn't expect.
If I'd booked a trip somewhere, she would have guessed what was going on.
I was a bit nervous. I was worried about what the other team
would say. But we were winning by lots. I wasn't a close game.
I wouldn't have done it otherwise. Imagine that if it was a close
game and they didn't get engaged. Good news for fish. A fish doorbell
is saving thousands of fish during migration season. So the fish Doorbell is a
website featuring a live stream camera on a year round damn that keeps migrating fish
in the rivers and canals, and you trek from being captured by predators.
Volunteer viewers can watch the fish Doorbell live stream for mannywhere in the world.
When you see a fish, you ring the doorbell that sends a I am
lockkeeper, a signal that fish are trying to swim through. Last year,
thanks to volunteers, over ten thousand fish were let through the dam. Do
you like Lego? An artist has made an interpretation of water lilies by Monet
out of six hundred and fifty thousand Lego bricks. Titled water Lilies Number One.
You can see it at the Design Museum in London through July thirtieth.
It's fifty feet long it takes up a whole wall at the museum. The
artist says, toy Brooks is the material, with their quality of solidity and
potential for deconstruction, reflect the attributes of language and our rapidly developing era where
human consciousness is constantly dividing. I am Patty Callahan, Henry, I am
Mary kay Andrews, I'm Kristin Harmel, and I'm Kristy Woodson Harvey. Friends
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on any major streaming platform. Well, five year old Parker has taken up
baking. He practices baking three times a week at the family bakery. Mom
Nicole says they bake at nighttime. They were baking for the next day.
They always have dill left. So Parker likes to make something. And he
did and he said, hey, Mom, I made a mushroom. Mom
started laughing. The kid was like, why are you laughing? He said,
stop laughing. It's a mushroom. It's a good mushroom. The dad
tried to snip some of the mushroom off the end and make it appear less
rude didn't work. Parker had the mushroom with a bowl of tomato soup the
next day and he said it tasted like mushrooms. That's your five could news
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