Speaker 1: Already and this is the Daily This is the Daily OS.
Speaker 1: Oh now it makes sense.
Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily OS. It's the
Speaker 2: Good News Podcast. On Saturday, the fifteenth of March. I'm Sam,
Speaker 2: I'm billy.
Speaker 1: Wait before we start, Happy birthday to Will I Am
Speaker 1: and Eva Longoria. I mean, what an incredible day to
Speaker 1: celebrate a birthday.
Speaker 2: Two visionaries.
Speaker 1: Thought I'd just throw it in there.
Speaker 2: I feel like you're a sucker for a celebrity birthday.
Speaker 1: I love a celebrity birthday. Yesterday it was Albert Einstein.
Speaker 1: Today it's Eva Longoria and Will I Am.
Speaker 2: We will get to today's good News stories in a minute,
Speaker 2: but just let's just remind ourselves that Albert Einstein's birthday
Speaker 2: is also on International Pie Day.
Speaker 1: I love that you're telling me this, as though I
Speaker 1: didn't tell you this.
Speaker 2: This was a billy.
Speaker 1: It's such a good fun fact. So his birthday, he
Speaker 1: was born on the fourteenth of March, which in the US,
Speaker 1: because of how they do their dates, is three point
Speaker 1: one four which math nerds out there will note that
Speaker 1: that is how the number of pie starts.
Speaker 2: And I guess that makes sense because if you think
Speaker 2: about my birthday I share it with Taylor Swift to
Speaker 2: Rocks Days. So you know, birthdays tell us a lot
Speaker 2: about who these people.
Speaker 1: Are who said that Destiny doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: Destiny and her children. Now, let's go Destiny's child shocker. Aha,
Speaker 2: let's leave that. We're gonna leave that.
Speaker 1: It's gone very row.
Speaker 2: Billy. Let's go to some good news stories first. Now, Billy,
Speaker 2: you're gonna tell us this first story, and it's about
Speaker 2: an Australian man who's become the first in the world
Speaker 2: to be discharged from hospital with a mechanical harsh implant.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, so just to repeat that, So there is
Speaker 1: an Australian man in Sydney who has become the first
Speaker 1: in the world to be discharged from hospital with a
Speaker 1: mechanical heart implant. To be clear, Sam, you and I
Speaker 1: had a quick chat off Mike and you said that
Speaker 1: you were expecting this man in New South Wales to
Speaker 1: be walking around.
Speaker 2: Like a robot, like fully beeping at the Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: my vision.
Speaker 1: No, that's not happening. So the artificial heart, to be clear,
Speaker 1: it was only temporary. So the implant took place in
Speaker 1: November last year and he was discharged with the artificial
Speaker 1: heart in early February, but then the patient he received
Speaker 1: a real heart transplant in early March. So the idea
Speaker 1: was that the artificial heart was only in his body
Speaker 1: whilst they waited for a real heart to be ready
Speaker 1: to go in him. Hoes, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And we know how hard it can be for
Speaker 2: organ donation and the limited time periods and the travel
Speaker 2: and the ways that it needs to be kind of
Speaker 2: the perfect medical match. Yes, so it's quite amazing that
Speaker 2: they've found a way to almost kind of extend that
Speaker 2: time frame with this sort of technology. Yes.
Speaker 1: So it stayed in him for one hundred and five days,
Speaker 1: which is the longest period in the world for a
Speaker 1: total artificial heart to be in a patient while again
Speaker 1: they wait for a heart transplant. Now by the Core,
Speaker 1: the American company that developed the total artificial heart, which
Speaker 1: is what it's called, said that the heart is a
Speaker 1: bridge to keep patients alive until a donor heart transplant
Speaker 1: becomes available.
Speaker 2: So the technology isn't built to be a permanent heart.
Speaker 2: We're not quite at that stage just yet, but you
Speaker 2: imagine that that's probably only a couple of decades away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I imagine that is the long term goal, but
Speaker 1: at the moment it's a way to make sure that
Speaker 1: when there is a shortage that a person obviously can
Speaker 1: still live with an artificial heart in their body, because
Speaker 1: there are only six thousand donor hearts available globally each year.
Speaker 2: It would have been amazing to understand how he felt
Speaker 2: with that artificial heart in that one hundred and six
Speaker 2: day period. You know, what the rest of his body
Speaker 2: would feel like, how he would feel like when he
Speaker 2: was walking and talking. What a fascinating medical innovation. And
Speaker 2: I do think that if there has been a successful
Speaker 2: experience here, that we're going to see more and more
Speaker 2: of it. And how cool that it's all coming out
Speaker 2: of Australia.
Speaker 1: All coming out not just Australia, but New South Wales.
Speaker 2: I mean, wow, what a medical system.
Speaker 1: We are biased towards our own city, our own state,
Speaker 1: but that's okay, we can forgive ourselves for that. Okay,
Speaker 1: we are going to space. What do you have to
Speaker 1: tell us about what's happened in space this week?
Speaker 2: Well, there's nothing like discovering a new moon. There's nothing better,
Speaker 2: I'd say, But you know what is better? Discovering one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty eight of them, and Saturn now has
Speaker 2: a total of two hundred and seventy four moons after
Speaker 2: astronomers discovered one hundred and twenty eight new moons orbiting
Speaker 2: the planet this week, and that means there is a
Speaker 2: new moon king. It was previously Jupiter, it is now Saturn.
Speaker 2: Astronomers from France, Canada, Taiwan, and the US we're monitoring
Speaker 2: the sky around Saturn for a couple of years between
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen to twenty twenty one and then again in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. And they released this discovery to the
Speaker 2: public last week, and they said these moons are only
Speaker 2: a few kilometers in size and are likely all fragments
Speaker 2: of a smaller number of original moons that were broken
Speaker 2: apart by violent collisions. Regardless of how we got there,
Speaker 2: Saturn is the new moon king. It now has almost
Speaker 2: twice as many moons than all the other planets combined.
Speaker 2: And Jupiter is now going to have to get used
Speaker 2: to being in second place.
Speaker 1: Wow, and what's Earth last place? We only have one?
Speaker 2: I do just have to stop you right there. Fact
Speaker 2: checking is a really important part of what we do
Speaker 2: here at TDA Astronomy. Not so much so I did
Speaker 2: just want to do a live Google search on that,
Speaker 2: and it does turn out that Mercury and Venus don't
Speaker 2: actually have a moon. So we're sitting not at the
Speaker 2: bottom here on Earth. We've got our moon. It's something
Speaker 2: to be proud of.
Speaker 1: Blessings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not as many as Saturn, but that's okay. Now, Billy,
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk to you about a new index
Speaker 2: that has come out this week, and it was the
Speaker 2: search for the world's most family country. And the inaugural
Speaker 2: winner of this title is Sri Lanka. So the index
Speaker 2: assessed twenty four different factors and the factors that they
Speaker 2: gave high priority to in creating this list was the
Speaker 2: cost of childcare and schooling, the average number of years
Speaker 2: of education completed, then some more general factors like social support, freedom,
Speaker 2: life expectancy, crime rates are the happiness indexes and Sri
Speaker 2: Lanka ranked first because it has a really low cost
Speaker 2: childcare and schooling system that produces some incredible outcomes. Just
Speaker 2: for the record, Australia ranked in ninth place, and essentially
Speaker 2: we dropped those places because of the relatively high cost
Speaker 2: of childcare and schooling. Here, Sri Lanka has achieved near
Speaker 2: universal enrollment at primary and lower secondary school levels, So
Speaker 2: basically any kid in Sri Lanka is part of the
Speaker 2: education system. Ninety two percent of the population aged fifteen
Speaker 2: above is literate, and when you take all of that
Speaker 2: into context with the lower socio economic status of the country,
Speaker 2: it really is a remarkable indication of the strength of
Speaker 2: the education system there. I do think it's important to note,
Speaker 2: even though this is a good news podcast, that Shri
Speaker 2: Lanka is a country that has endured a number of
Speaker 2: years of economic insecurity and conflict. This index really emphasized
Speaker 2: the education system elements of the country. Interestingly, the one
Speaker 2: thing that the Sri Lankan education system is struggling with
Speaker 2: when I was doing a little bit more reading, was
Speaker 2: the fact that they are not as strong at a
Speaker 2: university level because a lot of their university professors end
Speaker 2: up moving to other countries. And so that's the area
Speaker 2: they've really seemed to have nailed this kind of childcare
Speaker 2: and lower school age system, and now they're really working
Speaker 2: on enhancing their university system.
Speaker 1: And needing to incentivize teachers or professors to stay in
Speaker 1: the country and not book elsewhere exactly. Okay, so that
Speaker 1: is the wrap up of the good news that you
Speaker 1: might have missed from the week. Sam. We always end
Speaker 1: this by looking at recommendations. Do you have one for
Speaker 1: this week?
Speaker 2: Do footy is well and truly back AFL, which is
Speaker 2: my sport of choice, but you know NRL is back
Speaker 2: as well, and both games deserve love and respect, and
Speaker 2: you're viewing. But the thing that's made me really smile
Speaker 2: this week is watching all the clubs put up videos
Speaker 2: of players being told they're about to play their first games.
Speaker 2: And it is just every club tries to do something
Speaker 2: a little bit cute, whether it's you know, a surprise
Speaker 2: announcement in the middle of a training session or some
Speaker 2: fun challenge that the player has to do in front
Speaker 2: of the team, and if they win that challenge, they
Speaker 2: get to play their first game. But then it's always
Speaker 2: followed up with a video of the player then calling
Speaker 2: their parents and telling their parents they're about to play
Speaker 2: their first AFL game. And I'm not, you know, the
Speaker 2: most emotional of men, and that.
Speaker 1: I believe you haven't cried since time.
Speaker 2: That brings a slice, not a tear.
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 2: Do you have anything for us?
Speaker 1: I do? This week? In my life has been defined
Speaker 1: by documentaries. I have fallen in love again with documentaries,
Speaker 1: and my favorite one that I've watched I am about
Speaker 1: two years late. But have you seen The Deepest Breath
Speaker 1: on Netflix?
Speaker 2: Free diving?
Speaker 1: Right, it's all about free diving, and it follows the
Speaker 1: story of the woman who holds the world record for
Speaker 1: free diving. She dives I'm not going to ruin it,
Speaker 1: but around the one hundred meter mark. It is the
Speaker 1: most extraordinary story. The storytelling of this documentary is just unmatched.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely exceptional. Just you cannot look away from this documentary.
Speaker 1: It was so good. In my opinion, there's nothing better
Speaker 1: than a really good documentary, and this one was just
Speaker 1: one of the best ones I've ever watched.
Speaker 2: We'll throw a link to that in the show notes.
Speaker 2: That's an incredible review of a doco.
Speaker 1: Well, it was something I knew nothing about.
Speaker 2: I feel like you were the type of kid who
Speaker 2: would have said, hey, mum, look at me, and then
Speaker 2: I'm going to hold my breath underwater. And then when
Speaker 2: you bobbed your head up, your mum goes, that's gray, sweetie.
Speaker 1: And then I had a full dance routine.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe this is exactly what happened. To the subject
Speaker 2: of that documentary, and here we are decades later and
Speaker 2: she's diving one hundred meters just to try and settle
Speaker 2: a score.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's definitely a very very competitive person.
Speaker 2: We're all looking at her now.
Speaker 1: In a very dangerous spot. But yet I cannot recommend
Speaker 1: highly enough.
Speaker 2: That's all we've got for today's episode of the Good
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Speaker 2: get away some of those Sundays scaries. We'll be back
Speaker 2: with the regular news though on Monday morning with a
Speaker 2: bit of a deep dive and then your headlines as
Speaker 2: always in the afternoon. Have a wonderful weekend. We'll speak
Speaker 2: to you next week. See you later.
Speaker 1: Bye.
Speaker 2: My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda
Speaker 2: Bungelung Calcottin woman from Gadigol Country.
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