Speaker 1: Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
good news stories. A simple childhood experiment turned into something
out of a storybook after a message in a bottle
traveled more than four thousand miles across the Atlantic. Amy
and her ten year old son Lorenzo tossed a message
in a bottle from their hometown and Fort Old Bay.
Amy said, when we first threw it in, we were
excited to imagine what might become of the bottle and
where would go. In my adult mind, I knew it
was highly unlikely to be found. Lorenzo the boy, included
a few details on the note, including their What's app numbers,
the date, and their location. They had it out on
a jet ski and threw the bottle into the ocean.
They forgot about it. A year later, it showed up
in Portugal. Maria, the schoolteacher, was walking her dog. It
seems everybody finds these things while walking dogs. At first,
she assumed it must be local because it said twenty
twenty five. It was so new I thought it was
from the area. But then she realized how far it
had traveled. It was from the Bahamas and a year
had passed. Maria called the number. Back in the Bahamas,
Amy was getting ready for her bed. The phone lit
up with a call from Portugal. She ignored it, but
then a message came through with a photo. It was
somebody saying I got your bottle. She recognized Lorenzo's handwriting
in the photo. She shouted upstairs at the boy, someone
found our bottle. It had been so long. He didn't
know what she was talking about. Amy said, I started
to communicate with Maria, and she sent voice notes and videos,
and very quickly I realized this woman was kind and lovely.
I never thought it'd be found, let alone almost to
the year exactly, let alone go so far, and also
to be found by the perfect person. A missing page
from one of the most important scientific manuscripts in history,
containing the work of Archimedes, has been rediscovered at a
French museum. Victor identified the page. She recognized it as
a long lost leaf from Archimedes. The medieval manuscript preserves
some of the greatest mathematical work of antiquity. It's from
archimedes Treatise on the Sphere and the Cylinder, specifically Propositions
thirty nine through forty one. Much of the writing is
still legible. One side of the page includes Greek prayers
layered over faint geometric designs, while the other side has
a much later illustration of the profit Daniel with two
lions beneath that artwork. Scientists believe more of Archimedes' original
text still exists, but is currently invisible to the naked eye.
To uncover it, researchers or planning advanced imaging techniques including
X ray and multi spectral analysis. The original works of Archimedes,
who lived between two eighty seven and two twelve BC,
were copied into a codex around nine fifty a d.
The manuscript itself traveled to a monastery in Palestine ahead
of the twenty four sack of Constantinople. It was photographed
in the early nineteen hundreds and later partially lost due
to complications from World War One. The newly rediscovered page
is believed to be one that went missing around nineteen
twenty two before ending up in a private French collection,
where it remained unnoticed until now. Good news for hedgehogs,
scientists may have found an unexpected way to help save
you guys from extinction. Researchers at the U S University
of Oxford to have noticed that European hedgehogs can hear
ultrasonic frequencies up to eighty five thousand hertz, far beyond
what humans can. You humans can only hear to about
twenty thousand hertz. The eighty five thousand is even higher
than dogs or cats. Now here's the deal. One of
the biggest threats to hedgehogs today are cars. Researchers are
now exploring whether ultrasonic sound admitters could be installed on cars, lawnmowers,
and other equipment. The idea is simple, amid a high
frequency warning sound that humans can hear but hedgehogs can.
In Tennessee, a routine food delivery turned into a life
changing moment for an elderly man. A viral video has
helped to raise one million dollars so the man can
finally retire. Brittany notice something a little a typical when
she checked the doorbell camera and saw an older DoorDash driver.
He's Richard. Richard was making his way up her steps,
gripping the handrail for support. She said, this poor guy
is struggling to get up my stairs to deliver my
very capable daughter her Starbucks. She tried to leave a
big tip, but the apple to allow it, so instead
she posted the video from her ring camera on social media,
hoping somebody might recognize the man. It didn't take long.
Somebody on Facebook said that's Richard. She went to his
house and gave him a two hundred dollars tip. Richard
explained why he was still working. His wife had lost
her job, their savings drained by expenses, and they were
struggling to afford a medication. She launched a GoFundMe and
went viral. It eventually reached nine hundred and forty thousand dollars,
fueled by thirty two thousand individual contributions. She said Richard
has not slept in two days because he can't quit
watching the GoFundMe. If you're of a certain age, you
recognize the phone number eight six seven five three oh nine, right,
you know that one? If you're younger, there was a
hit song in nineteen eighty one with the title eight
six seven five three oh nine. Well, now if you
call that number, which people of a certain age have memorized,
it connects callers to the nonprofit cancer Support Community, and
there you can receive free guidance, information and emotional support.
Tommy Heath aka Tommy twotone, singer of eight six seventy
five three oh nine, said the idea it came for
witnessing how widespread and personal cancer has become in his life.
He said, I have some family members who are struggling
with cancer. I'm out on tour with a lot of
bands and suddenly somebody's not there. When somebody's depressed and confused,
they'll go, hey, I'll call eight six seven five three
oh nine. Somebody's waiting there to help me, and I
hope they smile at that point. Specifically, you need the
area code c SC, which is two seven two eight
six seven five three O nine two seven two your
area code, and those are your five good news stories
for today.