Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Chunny Mack with five
good news stories. That's so much fun doing regular stories
Yesterday I'm like, eh, I'm gonna pop back on and
do regular five good news stories again. Not that I
don't like the Christmas. I love the Christmas obviously, but
I just like mixing it up. There's no real rules here,
just trying to make you smile and have a nice day,
all right. Police in New Jersey said reports of monkeys
on the loose. Uh oh, I'm in New Jersey. What
Apparently these monkeys were on the loose in Newark? Oh good?
It was a social media hoax perpetuated by photos and
videos that appear to be AI generated. The public Safety
director of Newark said police received a report of wild
monkeys on the loose in Newark. Now, if you've ever
been to Newark, highly unlikely, And that came a day
after local animal control received similar reports of monkeys loose
on the streets of Newark. Again highly unlikely. The public
safety director said officials have not located any monkeys. Any
photos or videos posted on social media regarding this incident
are likely AI generated, he said likely. He didn't say definitely,
So there may be wild monkeys out there. Be careful. Hey,
good news. If you like a casual walk, just four
thousand steps once or twice a week might help you
live longer, especially if you're a senior. A new study
published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that
older women who took at least four thousand steps on
one or two days a week had a twenty six
percent lower risk of death and a twenty seven percent
lower risk of heart disease compared to those who didn't walk.
The four thousand researchers tracked this for a decade. All right,
so this wasn't a flighty thing. They tracked thirteen thousand
women with an average age of seventy two over the decade.
Those who hit the four thousand step mark did really well.
In Austria, they're turning power lines into public arts. The
Austrian Power Grid teamed up with designers to create Austrian
power Giants. These are massive pylons shaped like animals representing
each of Austria's nine states. Yeah, you know those big
aluminum looking things out I know what they're made out of,
But you know those pictured things with the power lines. Yeah,
you've seen this, John, Why are you try and explain
to us what a power pylon is? I don't know,
all right, what are the nine? Well, there's a stork
and a stag. Those are both prototypes that have already
been tested for stability and high voltage performance. There's plans
to install more. The officials say, if a community sees
a pylon as a landmark rather than an isore, acceptance follows.
That makes sense, all right. More science for you. Engineers
at the University of Surrey have created a plastic eating
robotic fish that powers itself by turning microplastics into energy.
Which sounds great at first, until the robotic fish take
over the world. If they're powering themselves. Let's be careful scientists,
what are you doing using a microbial fuel cell. Gilbert
with two l's feeds on pollution, meaning the more plastic
it eats, the more energy it has to keep swimming.
This sounds like a science fiction movie that is going
to go sideways. I'm not sure this is good news.
This might be apocalyptic news from Johnny Mack today. As
it glides through the water, Gilbert filters out small particles
as small as two millimeters and it glows in the dark,
so researchers can track it. For now, Doctor Roberts says,
we don't know where the vast majority of plastic dumped
in our waterways ends up. We hope the robofish and
its future descendants descendants are the first steps in the
right direction of helping us control this plastic pollution problem. Sure,
but what is your solution to controlling the robofish population? Hey,
good news for Norbert the pig. He set a record.
He was showing off his skateboarding skills. Norbert took a
thirty three foot ride in just over eleven seconds. That
sounds awfully fast. It, of course, is the record for
the fastest ten meters pushing a skateboard by a pig.
Norbert's friend, Vincent the Human, said, I had my board
from when I was a kid. I figured, man, try
the pig on it. I went outside, laid the board
down and took out some unsalted peanuts of streets. In
about fifteen minutes, I had the pig standing on the board.
After a couple more sessions, he was pushing himself down
the street. Norbert even has a new nickname. It is
Tony pork in honor of legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk. Next thing,
you know, they'll be Hawks skateboarding and what will we
nickname them? I don't know, knows your fine good news
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