October 11, 2024 • 10 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Already and this is this is the Daily This is
the Daily. Ohs oh, now it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning, and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Saturday,
the twelfth of October.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm Zara, I'm Sam.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We are back for another week of good news, talking
you through some of the brightest stories that you might
have missed in the news cycle. And today we're starting
close to home.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
The first thing we're going to talk about is science.
There were some big prizes hounded out.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
This week exactly, so we have the annual Prime Minister's
Prizes for Science announced and if you're not familiar, those
prizes recognize achievements in scientific research, research based innovation, and
excellence in science teaching. Now, there were seven winners that
were announced across those range of areas, so we won't
have time to get into all seven of them, but
(00:56):
I do think that you should look them up because
there's no shortage of inspiration. But I'll just pick out
two of the winners to talk about today. So one
of them was Daniel Edwards, who won the Prime Minister's
Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Primary Schools, and
that's for creating new opportunities for students to learn science, technology,
engineering and mathematics, otherwise known as STEM subjects in school.
(01:20):
He's been able to do that by being the founder
and the CEO of something called Green Stem Education, which
is a charity that gives equitable access to STEM education
for young people, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Wouldn't it be amazing to see where those students are
in twenty or thirty years time that got access to
that sort of education through this program, probably winning a
Prime Minister's Medal in a couple of decades future recipients. Amazing,
Take me through another one.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Another team awarded on the night were Professor Andrew Wilkes
and doctor Chris Burns, who were credited with inventing a
drug to help treat milofibrosis, which is a type of
bone marrow cancer. An announcement of their wins said that
their innovation shows that it's possible to translate Australian academic
life science research into medicines with global impacts. And you know,
(02:09):
so often we hear and we read about all of
these incredible drug discoveries happening across the world, But how
good that it's happening in our own backyard. Too.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It makes me think about the Olympics and how we
overrepresent there on the world stage. I feel like with
scientific research it's the same thing.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's incredible.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Okay, now let's go to another type of good news,
not in science. You're talking to me about a wedding video.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I sure, am, this is such a good video. I
love when we get to talk about social media being
used for good. I think so much of our conversations
are dominated by how bad it is, and this is
the opposite. So today we're talking about an Australian couple
who were reunited with their wedding video fifty seven years
after they got married.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So Aileen and Bill Turnbull got married in Aberdeen in
Scotland back in nineteen sixty seven, and then they later
emigrated to Australia, but they did so san's wedding video.
According to an interview that they did with the BBC,
the video of their special day was captured on equipment
that they borrowed from a work colleague at the time.
(03:10):
Then they apparently watched the video on a borrowed projector,
but when they returned to the projector, they accidentally returned
the video with it and they never really thought much
of it. They'd been able to watch their wedding video
once and you know, thought that that was all they
were going to get. But then decades later, the video
was found by a man in Aberdeen, where I said
(03:31):
the two were married, who got some film developed and
posted a still image from the video on facebooard.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah? And so then months later the Turnbulls, who were
across the world. They're in Brisbane, recognized themselves in the
image from their wedding day, which, as I said, they'd
only ever watched once, and they immediately got in touch
with the person who had posted it and they were
sent the video.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
What are the chances that of the hundreds of millions
of images uploaded every year onto Facebook, that they see
them sell in one?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I know, it's amazing And according to Aileen I'm directly
quoting here, she said, I was just saying to my neighbors,
we've got our wedding album and the majority of people
in that have passed away, so seeing that film was
just surreal. A few of them are still with us.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's beautiful and now they have digital copies. I'm assuming
and I believe they watch it as many times as they.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Like, still happily married. What a success story.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Let's turn out to books. You like books. I'm a
fan and I read one in year eleven, a long
time ago. So there are prizes given out to the
best writers every year. What can you tell me about
who's won it this year?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
So this week Han Kang became the first South Korean
writer to ever win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The
committee said that hann was awarded the prize for her
quote intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes
the fragility of human life. And if you're not familiar
with her work, and is best known for a book
(04:53):
called The Vegetarian, which I did a bit of a
deep dive on. It was released in two thousand and
seven and it tells the story of a South Korean
woman who turns to as the title would insinuate, vegetarianism.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I had a look at that thought I was going
to read it, but there just wasn't enough meat.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
In well done anyway, Moving on, a member of the
Nobel committee said that Han Kang writes intense lyrical prose
that is both tender and brutal. And I should say though,
that Han is not a stranger to Awards season. She's
won the prestigious Booker Prize before. She won that back
in twenty sixteen. And now, like the other Nobel Prize winners,
(05:29):
she's going to be awarded more than one million dollars
for winning this prize. And the Nobel Prize Committee often
calls the winners and engages with these kind of interviews
with them afterwards, and so in one of those interviews,
she was asked how she would be celebrating the win
and hand said, after this phone call, I'd like to
have a tea. I don't drink. I'm going to have
a tea with my son, and I'll celebrate it quietly tonight.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I feel like a lot of people would resonate with that.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
What a winner. That is my version of winning.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
It's the opposite to whatever they do after formula one exactly.
And now, finally, let's bring it right back to home.
Our community story of the week, and this is a
community story that has a higher profile than most. Around
the same time I read the one book, I also
went on one run. This person's done a lot more
than that.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
He sure has we're talking about, of course, the one
and only Ned Brockman. He's the man that makes a
marathon look like a walk in the park. And if
you haven't been keeping up with what Brockman has been doing,
the twenty four year old electrician set himself a goal
to run one thousand, six hundred and ten kilometers over
ten days. Yes, you heard that right. He was aiming
(06:33):
to become the fastest one thousand mile runner in history
and to beat this record he needed to be running
about four marathons a day. And so as we talk
about this today, he's ticked over one thousand kilometers so.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Far, only six hundred to go.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh, it's crazy. After running a seventh day of running
around an athletics track in Sydney. If anyone hasn't watched,
he is live streaming in this and you are literally
watching Ned Brockman run around and around and around the
same track. But every day he appears with more kind
of bandaged up body parts and a bit more of
a limp, but he's just not stopping. He's so committed.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
One of the funniest moments for me was people leaving
the NRL ground Final walking past the athletics track which
is outside the stadium and hanging around there the cheer
in mind.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It's amazing. I mean, he has really galvanized the Australian
spirit in a way I don't know many other people have.
And I think that's because it's not just about the
absurd running that he is doing. It's also of course
that Ned is raising money for charity. He's raising money
for We Are Mobilized, which is the same charity that
he raised money for the last time he ran across
the country, and that's a charity that supports ossies who
(07:42):
are facing homelessness. At the time that we're recording this,
he has just ticked over about seven hundred thousand dollars
raised just from this run alone, which is just unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's incredible. They've set a goal of ten million dollars
for the charity and Ned together for a couple of
different projects. He's not going to stop. I think he
will literally not stop running until he gets there.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's crazy, all right. So, Sam, we've heard inspirational tales
of people like Ned Brockman of Nobel Prize winners, of
scientists who are literally saving our lives. Back to you, though,
the most inspirational of all. What made you happy this week?
What's a recommendation?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I would go and check out Rufus's new album. They
released their fifth studio album. It's a great Australian story
in music. They've gone on to win a Grammy. These
are three guys who are just making so much music.
I was listening to an interview with them. They said
that there's fifteen tracks on the record and they were
the best fifteen of over one hundred, so it's a
(08:45):
really beautiful album worth listening to. Pushes the boundaries of
their music a little bit and it really brought a
smile to my face. What about you, Zara? What made
you giggle?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Well? I if anyone reads the good news that are
actually included this in last week's good news, that are
But the astonishing thing is that it's still my favorite
thing from this week and week later. So my recommendation
is nobody wants this on Netflix. And it's by no
means an original recommendation because everybody in my life is
talking about it. But if you have been under a rock,
(09:15):
nobody wants This is a short series that stars Adam
Brody and Kristen Bell and the basic premise of it
is that Brody's character is a rabbi and he starts
dating Belle's character, who's not Jewish. It's based on the
true story of Aaron Foster's life, but there are a
few kind of creative licenses taken there. It's so funny.
It's really marked the resurgence of rom comms. Everyone's talking
(09:37):
about it and I just loved every single second of
it and couldn't recommend it more.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It's getting so much hype that it might even get
me to watch a rom com. Sounds like it's definitely
worth the time. Zara, thank you for taking us through
that good news rap. And if you're not subscribe to
the good newsletter that Zara just mentioned, you're missing out.
I'll put a link in the show notes. It's definitely
worth a read. That's all we've got for you today.
We'll be back on Monday with regular episodes of TDA,
(10:03):
but we'll make sure that the good news keeps coming.
Have a wonderful weekend, stay safe, and we'll speak to
you later. My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a
proud Arunda Bungelung Cargotin woman from Gadighl Country.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
The Daily oz acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on
the lands of the Gadighl people and pays respect to
all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island and nations. We pay
our respects to the first peoples of these countries, both
past and present.
Already and this is this is the Daily This is
the Daily. Ohs oh, now it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning, and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Saturday,
the twelfth of October.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm Zara, I'm Sam.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We are back for another week of good news, talking
you through some of the brightest stories that you might
have missed in the news cycle. And today we're starting
close to home.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
The first thing we're going to talk about is science.
There were some big prizes hounded out.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
This week exactly, so we have the annual Prime Minister's
Prizes for Science announced and if you're not familiar, those
prizes recognize achievements in scientific research, research based innovation, and
excellence in science teaching. Now, there were seven winners that
were announced across those range of areas, so we won't
have time to get into all seven of them, but
(00:56):
I do think that you should look them up because
there's no shortage of inspiration. But I'll just pick out
two of the winners to talk about today. So one
of them was Daniel Edwards, who won the Prime Minister's
Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Primary Schools, and
that's for creating new opportunities for students to learn science, technology,
engineering and mathematics, otherwise known as STEM subjects in school.
(01:20):
He's been able to do that by being the founder
and the CEO of something called Green Stem Education, which
is a charity that gives equitable access to STEM education
for young people, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Wouldn't it be amazing to see where those students are
in twenty or thirty years time that got access to
that sort of education through this program, probably winning a
Prime Minister's Medal in a couple of decades future recipients. Amazing,
Take me through another one.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Another team awarded on the night were Professor Andrew Wilkes
and doctor Chris Burns, who were credited with inventing a
drug to help treat milofibrosis, which is a type of
bone marrow cancer. An announcement of their wins said that
their innovation shows that it's possible to translate Australian academic
life science research into medicines with global impacts. And you know,
(02:09):
so often we hear and we read about all of
these incredible drug discoveries happening across the world, But how
good that it's happening in our own backyard. Too.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
It makes me think about the Olympics and how we
overrepresent there on the world stage. I feel like with
scientific research it's the same thing.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's incredible.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Okay, now let's go to another type of good news,
not in science. You're talking to me about a wedding video.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I sure, am, this is such a good video. I
love when we get to talk about social media being
used for good. I think so much of our conversations
are dominated by how bad it is, and this is
the opposite. So today we're talking about an Australian couple
who were reunited with their wedding video fifty seven years
after they got married.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So Aileen and Bill Turnbull got married in Aberdeen in
Scotland back in nineteen sixty seven, and then they later
emigrated to Australia, but they did so san's wedding video.
According to an interview that they did with the BBC,
the video of their special day was captured on equipment
that they borrowed from a work colleague at the time.
(03:10):
Then they apparently watched the video on a borrowed projector,
but when they returned to the projector, they accidentally returned
the video with it and they never really thought much
of it. They'd been able to watch their wedding video
once and you know, thought that that was all they
were going to get. But then decades later, the video
was found by a man in Aberdeen, where I said
(03:31):
the two were married, who got some film developed and
posted a still image from the video on facebooard.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah? And so then months later the Turnbulls, who were
across the world. They're in Brisbane, recognized themselves in the
image from their wedding day, which, as I said, they'd
only ever watched once, and they immediately got in touch
with the person who had posted it and they were
sent the video.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
What are the chances that of the hundreds of millions
of images uploaded every year onto Facebook, that they see
them sell in one?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I know, it's amazing And according to Aileen I'm directly
quoting here, she said, I was just saying to my neighbors,
we've got our wedding album and the majority of people
in that have passed away, so seeing that film was
just surreal. A few of them are still with us.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It's beautiful and now they have digital copies. I'm assuming
and I believe they watch it as many times as they.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Like, still happily married. What a success story.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Let's turn out to books. You like books. I'm a
fan and I read one in year eleven, a long
time ago. So there are prizes given out to the
best writers every year. What can you tell me about
who's won it this year?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
So this week Han Kang became the first South Korean
writer to ever win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The
committee said that hann was awarded the prize for her
quote intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes
the fragility of human life. And if you're not familiar
with her work, and is best known for a book
(04:53):
called The Vegetarian, which I did a bit of a
deep dive on. It was released in two thousand and
seven and it tells the story of a South Korean
woman who turns to as the title would insinuate, vegetarianism.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I had a look at that thought I was going
to read it, but there just wasn't enough meat.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
In well done anyway, Moving on, a member of the
Nobel committee said that Han Kang writes intense lyrical prose
that is both tender and brutal. And I should say though,
that Han is not a stranger to Awards season. She's
won the prestigious Booker Prize before. She won that back
in twenty sixteen. And now, like the other Nobel Prize winners,
(05:29):
she's going to be awarded more than one million dollars
for winning this prize. And the Nobel Prize Committee often
calls the winners and engages with these kind of interviews
with them afterwards, and so in one of those interviews,
she was asked how she would be celebrating the win
and hand said, after this phone call, I'd like to
have a tea. I don't drink. I'm going to have
a tea with my son, and I'll celebrate it quietly tonight.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I feel like a lot of people would resonate with that.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
What a winner. That is my version of winning.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
It's the opposite to whatever they do after formula one exactly.
And now, finally, let's bring it right back to home.
Our community story of the week, and this is a
community story that has a higher profile than most. Around
the same time I read the one book, I also
went on one run. This person's done a lot more
than that.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
He sure has we're talking about, of course, the one
and only Ned Brockman. He's the man that makes a
marathon look like a walk in the park. And if
you haven't been keeping up with what Brockman has been doing,
the twenty four year old electrician set himself a goal
to run one thousand, six hundred and ten kilometers over
ten days. Yes, you heard that right. He was aiming
(06:33):
to become the fastest one thousand mile runner in history
and to beat this record he needed to be running
about four marathons a day. And so as we talk
about this today, he's ticked over one thousand kilometers so.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Far, only six hundred to go.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Oh, it's crazy. After running a seventh day of running
around an athletics track in Sydney. If anyone hasn't watched,
he is live streaming in this and you are literally
watching Ned Brockman run around and around and around the
same track. But every day he appears with more kind
of bandaged up body parts and a bit more of
a limp, but he's just not stopping. He's so committed.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
One of the funniest moments for me was people leaving
the NRL ground Final walking past the athletics track which
is outside the stadium and hanging around there the cheer
in mind.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It's amazing. I mean, he has really galvanized the Australian
spirit in a way I don't know many other people have.
And I think that's because it's not just about the
absurd running that he is doing. It's also of course
that Ned is raising money for charity. He's raising money
for We Are Mobilized, which is the same charity that
he raised money for the last time he ran across
the country, and that's a charity that supports ossies who
(07:42):
are facing homelessness. At the time that we're recording this,
he has just ticked over about seven hundred thousand dollars
raised just from this run alone, which is just unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's incredible. They've set a goal of ten million dollars
for the charity and Ned together for a couple of
different projects. He's not going to stop. I think he
will literally not stop running until he gets there.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's crazy, all right. So, Sam, we've heard inspirational tales
of people like Ned Brockman of Nobel Prize winners, of
scientists who are literally saving our lives. Back to you, though,
the most inspirational of all. What made you happy this week?
What's a recommendation?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I would go and check out Rufus's new album. They
released their fifth studio album. It's a great Australian story
in music. They've gone on to win a Grammy. These
are three guys who are just making so much music.
I was listening to an interview with them. They said
that there's fifteen tracks on the record and they were
the best fifteen of over one hundred, so it's a
(08:45):
really beautiful album worth listening to. Pushes the boundaries of
their music a little bit and it really brought a
smile to my face. What about you, Zara? What made
you giggle?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Well? I if anyone reads the good news that are
actually included this in last week's good news, that are
But the astonishing thing is that it's still my favorite
thing from this week and week later. So my recommendation
is nobody wants this on Netflix. And it's by no
means an original recommendation because everybody in my life is
talking about it. But if you have been under a rock,
(09:15):
nobody wants This is a short series that stars Adam
Brody and Kristen Bell and the basic premise of it
is that Brody's character is a rabbi and he starts
dating Belle's character, who's not Jewish. It's based on the
true story of Aaron Foster's life, but there are a
few kind of creative licenses taken there. It's so funny.
It's really marked the resurgence of rom comms. Everyone's talking
(09:37):
about it and I just loved every single second of
it and couldn't recommend it more.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It's getting so much hype that it might even get
me to watch a rom com. Sounds like it's definitely
worth the time. Zara, thank you for taking us through
that good news rap. And if you're not subscribe to
the good newsletter that Zara just mentioned, you're missing out.
I'll put a link in the show notes. It's definitely
worth a read. That's all we've got for you today.
We'll be back on Monday with regular episodes of TDA,
(10:03):
but we'll make sure that the good news keeps coming.
Have a wonderful weekend, stay safe, and we'll speak to
you later. My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a
proud Arunda Bungelung Cargotin woman from Gadighl Country.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
The Daily oz acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on
the lands of the Gadighl people and pays respect to
all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island and nations. We pay
our respects to the first peoples of these countries, both
past and present.
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