Speaker 1: Calaruga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Juddie Mack with five
good news stories. Caritas, the global Catholic charity, has transformed
one of Pope Francis's former popemobiles into a mobile medical
clinic for children in Gaza. That's an idea that the
late Pope personally approved. The vehicle, originally a Mitsubishi pickup
converted into a popemobile for Francis' twenty fourteen visit to Bethlehem,
has been refitted by Caritas Sweeten to function as a
pediatric clinic capable of treating up to two hundred children
a day. One of the cardinals said that the converted
vehicle stands as a symbol that the world has not
forgotten the children of Gaza. Meanwhile, at the Australian Institute
of Marine Science, artificial intelligence is being leveraged to help
restore coral reefs after recent bleaching events following the autumn
spawning season on the Great Barrier Reef. Scientists or looking
to give the corals a helping hand by dropping coral
large down onto degraded reef segments, but in an effort
that would be near impossible to achieve with humans, making
the decisions. A robotic assistant called the Deployment Guidance System
DGS scans the seafloor and determines the best place for
the coral to spawn before dropping small ceramic coral analogs
down within three feet of the targeted area. Coral seating
has become an urgently targeted, science based practice around the world,
with the last twenty years seeing marine scientists finally figure
out how to time spawning events, capture coral larvae, and
breathe them in aquarium tanks. The ceramic analogs are designed
to offer protection to juvenile coral while they grow to adulthood.
Doctor Ben says the technology is not about machines replacing humans,
it's about humans working with machines. A recent election in
Virginia had not only a surprise result, but people were
surprised at how civil everybody was. Cameron is nineteen. He
decided to run against the incumbent Conservative for seat on
the county Board of Supervisors. But here's the catch. He
had a campaign against his beloved, ice cool Civics teacher
mister Bell, who was currently holding the seat. Cameron called
mister Bell's favorite teacher. Mister Bell described Cameron as a
wonderful young man and in a refreshing political twist, mister
Bell often defended his opponent's age on the campaign trail,
rather than going to easy attack. He said, yes, he's young,
but he's really invested in trying to make a difference.
The race was neck and neck until the end. Cameron
won by ten votes. Mister Bell conceded and said he
would have been formidable against any opponent against whom he
would have run. A man in Portland became homeless after
a series of personal tragedies. He's been reunited with his family. Meanwhile,
his two hundred and fifty pound pet pig has found
safety at Oregon's largest farm animal sanctuary. Tony lost his
job after burst appendix and then lost his wife. He
wound up living out of his car with his dog
and Roscoe, the pig that his wife had adopted three
years earlier. The community identified Tony as somebody needing help.
Within day, the sanctuary agreed to take the pig. Executive
director Gwen personally transported Roscoe the pig and witnessed an
emotional farewell between James and the pig. Rosco the pig
is now settling into sanctuary life. Living with one hundred
and thirty other pigs, Roscoe will have access to open
forest areas, mudwallows, and seasonal acorns. When James gets back
on his feet, they plan to arrange a reunion. Mit
engineers have developed a faster way to extract drinking water
from aer harvesting materials, using ultrasonic waves instead of heat
you see. Traditional atmospheric water harvesting systems rely on the
sun to evaporate water that could take hours or even days.
The new method uses a high, frequently ultrasonic device that
vibrates the material and shakes the water molecules free within minutes.
Lead researcher Sevet Lana says the breakthrough salms one of
the biggest bottlenecks in atmospheric water harvesting, recovering water quickly
enough for real world use. And those are your five
good news stories for today. You have an awesome day.