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Speaker 3: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Saturday,
Speaker 3: the thirtieth of November. I'm Zara, I'm Sam Sam. It's
Speaker 3: been a long week, and what better way to end
Speaker 3: the week than to talk about some of the brightness
Speaker 3: that exists in the world. And I want to start
Speaker 3: somewhere very personal for you.
Speaker 2: This is a story I couldn't be more excited by.
Speaker 2: I have asthma. I carry my paffa with me everywhere.
Speaker 1: It has been a weird one because it was really
Speaker 1: bad when I was a little kid, and then it
Speaker 1: kind of got better when I was an adolescent, and
Speaker 1: now it's gotten a bit.
Speaker 2: Tricky again, fully grown adult.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so there's nothing cooler than having a puffer
Speaker 1: in my pocket. But there's big news this week which
Speaker 1: actually could be one of the biggest developments in asthma
Speaker 1: medicine in over fifty years, and that is from the
Speaker 1: results of a trial that was experimenting different ways to
Speaker 1: give people steroids, so medicine after that experienced a severe
Speaker 1: asthma attack, and so currently the way that you're given
Speaker 1: steroids after a severe asthma attack is over a long
Speaker 1: course of tablets and each tablet has a tiny part
Speaker 1: of the recommended dose of the steroid in it. You
Speaker 1: take it for a couple of weeks, sometimes a couple
Speaker 1: of months and recover. What the study was trying to
Speaker 1: figure out is is there a difference if you give
Speaker 1: the person experiencing the attack all the steroid dosage in
Speaker 1: one vaccine as they're almost experiencing the attack. And what
Speaker 1: the study found, and the study was published in the
Speaker 1: Lancet Respiratory Medicine Journal, it found that it actually has
Speaker 1: a major difference in the speed of the recovery and
Speaker 1: how quickly you can bounce back to full fitness after
Speaker 1: an attack when you get that vaccine.
Speaker 3: So scientific discovery could make it a lot quicker and
Speaker 3: faster for people who are experiencing asthma attacks to come
Speaker 3: out the other side of it exactly.
Speaker 1: And it can also be administered from home potentially, So
Speaker 1: it really could change the way that we think about
Speaker 1: asthma treatment. Asthma is a condition that affects about three
Speaker 1: hundred and forty million people all around the world, and this,
Speaker 1: as I said, is the first major development in the
Speaker 1: treatment of asthma in over fifty years.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's pretty incredible and also kind of shocking
Speaker 3: that there hasn't been a major development in fifty years,
Speaker 3: given how widespread and how common it is. But you know,
Speaker 3: that's I guess what happened.
Speaker 1: Doctors always say it's a really easy one to try
Speaker 1: and manage. It's a hard one to try and get
Speaker 1: on top of, and so maybe this could make a difference.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 3: Well, we're going to stick on the theme of medicine,
Speaker 3: and that's because this week Lifeblood confirmed that almost five
Speaker 3: eighteen year olds have become blood donors in Australia over
Speaker 3: the past year. See the youth are okay, I know
Speaker 3: they are more than okay. It actually means that this
Speaker 3: group's so this group of eighteen year olds are the
Speaker 3: largest new donor group by age in the country, which
Speaker 3: I just think is so wonderful.
Speaker 1: It's an incredible achievement from a group that would have
Speaker 1: just finished their HSC or VC.
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, that a school is they're rolling up
Speaker 3: their sleeves and Lifeblood said that together the eighteen year
Speaker 3: olds have made more than ten six hundred donations, which
Speaker 3: we know would go so far in helping the lives
Speaker 3: of other Australians and they said in a media release
Speaker 3: young adults are essential to Lifeblood's mission to gain an
Speaker 3: additional one hundred thousand new donors in the next year
Speaker 3: to meet increased patient demand.
Speaker 1: And it's not much of the population that actually donates
Speaker 1: blood right.
Speaker 3: No, it's around three percent of the eligible population who
Speaker 3: currently donates. So Lifeblood are really pushing for more donors,
Speaker 3: and especially more donors from the next generation so that
Speaker 3: they can roll up their sleeves and they can get involved.
Speaker 1: I remember a bit of work we did with Lifeblood
Speaker 1: trying to help educate people on why it's so important
Speaker 1: to donate blood, and they said one of the key
Speaker 1: reasons people don't is for the snacks and that people
Speaker 1: love the chalky milk.
Speaker 3: And was thinking it was just altruism, but actually it
Speaker 3: was about the snacks.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a muslibar can fix everything. Nazara, I want to
Speaker 1: bring you a story from the cinema, and the movie
Speaker 1: is changing pace a bit.
Speaker 2: Here yeah, it is. It is slightly different.
Speaker 1: The movie in cinema business hasn't really had much good
Speaker 1: news over the past couple of years.
Speaker 2: Called Barbie good news.
Speaker 1: That was good news, but you know, the rise of
Speaker 1: streaming services a pandemic. The movie landscape has changed, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people listening could probably think
Speaker 1: of a local or independent cinema at least that might
Speaker 1: have show up shop in the last five years. But
Speaker 1: in good news for cinemas, the release of Moana TiO
Speaker 1: is bucking the trend and it's predicted to bring in
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five million US dollars, So that's
Speaker 1: about two hundred and sixty nine million Aussie dollars in
Speaker 1: ticket sales in the US alone over this weekend. And
Speaker 1: it's the Thanksgiving weekend, which is a big weekend for
Speaker 1: the release of movies. But this could be the most
Speaker 1: successful one ever. It's going to overtake Frozen two, which
Speaker 1: Charlie holds the record. One other bit of good news
Speaker 1: I wanted to highlight when I was reading about Moana
Speaker 1: Io is it's one of the first films to feature
Speaker 1: film composers that rose to fame via TikTok fascinating. The
Speaker 1: composers are Abigail Barlow twenty three and Emily Bear twenty six.
Speaker 1: Their kind of duo name is Barlow and Bear and
Speaker 1: oh I've seen that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: They rose to fame on TikTok because they made an unofficial.
Speaker 2: Musical for Bridgeton.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They won the Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album for
Speaker 1: the release of this unofficial musical. They had a little
Speaker 1: issue where they kind of got sued by Netflix and
Speaker 1: then they sorted it out. Now they're composing for Disney.
Speaker 1: They're also working on a musical for Broadway, and I
Speaker 1: guess there's no saying how far they'll go.
Speaker 3: I see what you did there, though I have not
Speaker 3: seen Moana too. But two people where we went around
Speaker 3: the office and said our highs and loads of the week,
Speaker 3: said that seeing it was their high. So I don't
Speaker 3: know if you need much more of an endorsement than that.
Speaker 3: But moving on, what is the news from sea life?
Speaker 1: This is a nice one to talk about from the
Speaker 1: conservation world. So you know, a macaroni penguin, so think
Speaker 1: about happy feet, a macaroni in happy Feet, the penguins
Speaker 1: with the bitty yellow. So the average lifespan of a
Speaker 1: Macaroni penguin in the wild is eight to fifteen years.
Speaker 1: If they're in zoo or a conservation environment, it's about
Speaker 1: thirty years. And that's why the fortieth birthday celebration this
Speaker 1: week of the celebrity of SeaWorld San Diego, a Macaroni
Speaker 1: penguin called best Friend.
Speaker 2: Is such a remarkable, bizarre name for anything. I don't
Speaker 2: mind it. I think it's a cool name. Best Friend
Speaker 2: the Macaroni penguin exactly. So.
Speaker 1: Best Friend was born in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: He's currently SeaWorld's oldest penguin, and he's thought to be
Speaker 1: one of the oldest penguins in the entire continent of
Speaker 1: North America. Macaroni penguin populations in the wild have stagnated
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, namely because of climate
Speaker 1: change and human activity, and they are the most abundant
Speaker 1: penguin species. So the ability to study best Friend as
Speaker 1: he gets older is really really special for the staff
Speaker 1: at San Diego Zoo. Have a listened to how they
Speaker 1: reacted on his birthday. I think you'll sense the excitement.
Speaker 4: He is the.
Speaker 1: Sweetest sort man in the floor world you can't see
Speaker 1: very well, but of.
Speaker 2: Course due to that ball.
Speaker 4: Friend, we love you so much.
Speaker 2: Every single we have used it.
Speaker 1: And now is there a one more story? And it's
Speaker 1: something that's close to your heart. Not quite the same
Speaker 1: as asthma, but tell us something about something you.
Speaker 2: Love a lot.
Speaker 3: I love air friers. It's look, I'm not a chef
Speaker 3: by any stretch of the imagination. I actually very rarely cook,
Speaker 3: but when I do cook, it's always with an air fryer.
Speaker 3: And that's why I was so pleased to read. I
Speaker 3: don't know if this is like a backhanded good news,
Speaker 3: but that's okay, I'll go with it. I was really
Speaker 3: excited to read that air friers have been confirmed as
Speaker 3: the least polluting cooking method.
Speaker 2: You've always been one for the planet.
Speaker 3: Just doing it for the people. So according to new
Speaker 3: research that was published by the University of Birmingham, air
Speaker 3: fryers produce a tiny fraction of the indoor air pollution
Speaker 3: emitted by other cooking methods, so things like pan and
Speaker 3: deep frying, and I'd argue get a better outcome because
Speaker 3: your meal is just slightly charred and excellently crunchy.
Speaker 2: Is this a direct call out to Brevel or.
Speaker 3: Whoever you make Hello, please send me one and I'll
Speaker 3: just keep talking about how great they are. So the researchers,
Speaker 3: in doing this experiment, cooked chicken breast using five different
Speaker 3: methods pan frying, sturf frying, deep fat frying, boiling, and
Speaker 3: air frying. And they did it in this controlled kitchen setting.
Speaker 3: And then they measured the level of two different things,
Speaker 3: something called particulate matter and volatile organic compounds. Don't know
Speaker 3: what either of those two things are. What I do know, though,
Speaker 3: is that by both of these metrics, the pollution was
Speaker 3: the lowest for air frying.
Speaker 1: I feel like I could have told you the result
Speaker 1: of that purely based on how much oil would have
Speaker 1: splash everywhere for those five methods.
Speaker 3: Yes, you don't use oil, Well, I don't use oil
Speaker 3: when I air fry.
Speaker 1: That would be a competitive advantage, Zara, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for that. Yeah, that was a really cool, good
Speaker 1: news episode. We covered something both close to our hearts.
Speaker 1: For me it was a debilitating respiratory condition and for
Speaker 1: you it was a way to cook the single meal
Speaker 1: you cook a month. That's all we got time for
Speaker 1: on today's edition. Of the Daily os a special good
Speaker 1: News edition for you. We're going to be back again
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