July 27, 2025 • 5 mins
The episode features a touching act of kindness where a stranger pays for a father's family breakfast; a woman uncovering a creepy hidden book under her floorboards; Caltech's development of a new class of matter with potential applications in robotics and biomedicine; NASA's significant findings from asteroid Benu, revealing organic compounds crucial for life; and an innovative project where scientists use knitted hats on cats to study feline brain activity related to pain.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Caalaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny mag with five
good news stories. In Texas, a man was left in
tears after a stranger paid for his family's breakfast and
wrote a message on the receipt. Yeah. Dad's out with
his wife and three kids. There a Mimi's cafe. They
(00:23):
were getting ready to pay. The waitress said the eighty
five dollars bill had already been settled. She handed him
their re seat. It was a handwritten note on the
bill which said thank you for being a great dad.
He flipped the receipt over. It read from a dad
to dad, thank you for being the dad they need
you to be. Regardless of who's watching, we need more
men like you. Thank you for letting us all see
your love for them all. It was signed from a
(00:45):
retired Army medic. Dad said, I couldn't control my tears.
There was nobody watching. From my reaction, the person was
already gone. It was just pure kindness. The dad, who
had been wearing his hospital scrubs, had been playing a
simple dot game with the kids at the table. I've
no idea somebody was watching, Dad said, I see some
of the most terrible things in the world. At work.
But this reminded me that complete strangers can do miraculous,
(01:08):
beautiful things when you least expected. It was just eighty
five dollars to them, but to me it was so
much more. These random acts of kindness are so powerful.
There minus that despite all the bad in the world,
there's so much good too. Boy, that is awesome. I
love that story. A woman made a creepy discovery. She
looked under the floorboards of her fifty year old house.
That doesn't sound like a good idea. Amelia uploaded a
(01:30):
video to TikTok detailing her eerie discovery. She said, I
noticed there was nothing holding this floorboard down, so when
you walk on it, it rattles a lot. Her curiosity
led her to pry up the board to see if
she could fix it. Instead, she found a hidden object
in the debris. One of the items and Edward the
seventh nineteen oh four penny. Then she found a gold
(01:52):
colored book. It was filthy, she wondered, how long do
you think it's been there. It's definitely a book, but
they're not actual pages. They're really thick. I found other
things like old nails and old paper. I'm tempted to
look and see if I can find anything else. I'm
left with so many questions, like why was this hidden
there in the first place. She did a follow up
video because this is TikTok and this was going viral
and it's kind of fun. She said, it seemed like
(02:14):
a normal book at the start, filled with old portraits,
but things took a creepy turn as I went further
into the book. She was shocked she found an old
photo of her house, followed by images of empty rooms
with a dark shadow present in each one. She said,
I can't help but think what else is buried under
the floorboards. When TikTok user said, what if by opening
(02:34):
the book you've released what was being held in the photos,
another person said it's a vintage postage book. I have
one with some incredible dates and pictures. That's fun. I
love doing the show, all right. Nice job by the
California Technical Institute. They have developed a new class of matter. Yeah,
you can't just do that on any old Tuesday, A
(02:54):
new class of matter. The materials are called I'm gonna
get this wrong, poly atinated architectural materials. No, I think
I got that right. PAMs PAMs when they're compressed, they
act like hard crystalline lattice, work like a solid, but
when they're subjected to sheer force or lateral force, they
behave like a Newtonian liquid, or more specifically, like a
(03:16):
grain of rice or a grain of sand, reorganizing their
structure to accommodate the motion. Guiara is the lab director
and said, we all have a clear distinction of mind
when we think of solid materials. In granule matter with PAMs,
the individual particles are linked as they are in crystalline structures.
And yet because these particles are free to move relative
to one another, they flow, they slide on top of
each other, and they change their relative positions more like
(03:38):
grains of sand. What do you do with all this?
The scientists like the potential it could be for soft robotics,
biomedical tech, and protective gear. All right, we'll keep an
eye on that. Meanwhile, NASA scientists back in twenty eighteen
sent a mission to the near Earth asteroid Benu to
collect pristine samples. It turns out there have never been
more ingredients for life identified in a single extraterrestrial material
(04:01):
of any kind. Benu carried all five DNA and RNA
nucleobases and a ton of amino acids. The sample showed
fourteen of the twenty amino acids contained in life on Earth,
including all nine of the essential amino acids, blended in
quote interesting ways. Benu's parent asteroids seems to have been
(04:22):
home to pockets of liquid water. Benu was also found
to be rich in nitrogen and ammonia bearing compounds, and
the new findings indicate that water evaporated and left behind
brines that resemble salty crusts of dry lake beds on Earth.
What does it mean. It's unclear right now, but it's
pretty cool. Boy. The scientists are out of this episode.
Cats are wearing hats for scids. Scientists are trying to
(04:45):
use brain scans to understand pain and arthritic felines and
how to help the cats. Scientists wanted to create a
non invasive method to study cat brains. In previous studies,
the cats would shake the hat off and chew the wires.
The answer was to incorporate sensors into comfy, crocheted beanies.
Professor Castell said, we have the idea of little knitted
(05:06):
hats that would keep the electrodes in place. They're working
to see if different stimulations would liken people help modulate
the cat brain activity. The report concludes this opens new
avenues for investigating chronic pain mechanisms and developing novel therapeutic strategies.
And those are your five good news stories today. Little
science see no Guinness records, no lost pets, no message
(05:30):
in a bottle trying to mix it up for you.
If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.
They might like it too. If you would like the
program without interruption, no commercials, no fee drops, none of
that stuff, go to caliroga dot com slash plus link
of the show notes, or if you're on Apple Podcast,
click that banner that says uninterrupted listening and they'll take
it from there. All right, you have an awesome day,
Caalaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny mag with five
good news stories. In Texas, a man was left in
tears after a stranger paid for his family's breakfast and
wrote a message on the receipt. Yeah. Dad's out with
his wife and three kids. There a Mimi's cafe. They
(00:23):
were getting ready to pay. The waitress said the eighty
five dollars bill had already been settled. She handed him
their re seat. It was a handwritten note on the
bill which said thank you for being a great dad.
He flipped the receipt over. It read from a dad
to dad, thank you for being the dad they need
you to be. Regardless of who's watching, we need more
men like you. Thank you for letting us all see
your love for them all. It was signed from a
(00:45):
retired Army medic. Dad said, I couldn't control my tears.
There was nobody watching. From my reaction, the person was
already gone. It was just pure kindness. The dad, who
had been wearing his hospital scrubs, had been playing a
simple dot game with the kids at the table. I've
no idea somebody was watching, Dad said, I see some
of the most terrible things in the world. At work.
But this reminded me that complete strangers can do miraculous,
(01:08):
beautiful things when you least expected. It was just eighty
five dollars to them, but to me it was so
much more. These random acts of kindness are so powerful.
There minus that despite all the bad in the world,
there's so much good too. Boy, that is awesome. I
love that story. A woman made a creepy discovery. She
looked under the floorboards of her fifty year old house.
That doesn't sound like a good idea. Amelia uploaded a
(01:30):
video to TikTok detailing her eerie discovery. She said, I
noticed there was nothing holding this floorboard down, so when
you walk on it, it rattles a lot. Her curiosity
led her to pry up the board to see if
she could fix it. Instead, she found a hidden object
in the debris. One of the items and Edward the
seventh nineteen oh four penny. Then she found a gold
(01:52):
colored book. It was filthy, she wondered, how long do
you think it's been there. It's definitely a book, but
they're not actual pages. They're really thick. I found other
things like old nails and old paper. I'm tempted to
look and see if I can find anything else. I'm
left with so many questions, like why was this hidden
there in the first place. She did a follow up
video because this is TikTok and this was going viral
and it's kind of fun. She said, it seemed like
(02:14):
a normal book at the start, filled with old portraits,
but things took a creepy turn as I went further
into the book. She was shocked she found an old
photo of her house, followed by images of empty rooms
with a dark shadow present in each one. She said,
I can't help but think what else is buried under
the floorboards. When TikTok user said, what if by opening
(02:34):
the book you've released what was being held in the photos,
another person said it's a vintage postage book. I have
one with some incredible dates and pictures. That's fun. I
love doing the show, all right. Nice job by the
California Technical Institute. They have developed a new class of matter. Yeah,
you can't just do that on any old Tuesday, A
(02:54):
new class of matter. The materials are called I'm gonna
get this wrong, poly atinated architectural materials. No, I think
I got that right. PAMs PAMs when they're compressed, they
act like hard crystalline lattice, work like a solid, but
when they're subjected to sheer force or lateral force, they
behave like a Newtonian liquid, or more specifically, like a
(03:16):
grain of rice or a grain of sand, reorganizing their
structure to accommodate the motion. Guiara is the lab director
and said, we all have a clear distinction of mind
when we think of solid materials. In granule matter with PAMs,
the individual particles are linked as they are in crystalline structures.
And yet because these particles are free to move relative
to one another, they flow, they slide on top of
each other, and they change their relative positions more like
(03:38):
grains of sand. What do you do with all this?
The scientists like the potential it could be for soft robotics,
biomedical tech, and protective gear. All right, we'll keep an
eye on that. Meanwhile, NASA scientists back in twenty eighteen
sent a mission to the near Earth asteroid Benu to
collect pristine samples. It turns out there have never been
more ingredients for life identified in a single extraterrestrial material
(04:01):
of any kind. Benu carried all five DNA and RNA
nucleobases and a ton of amino acids. The sample showed
fourteen of the twenty amino acids contained in life on Earth,
including all nine of the essential amino acids, blended in
quote interesting ways. Benu's parent asteroids seems to have been
(04:22):
home to pockets of liquid water. Benu was also found
to be rich in nitrogen and ammonia bearing compounds, and
the new findings indicate that water evaporated and left behind
brines that resemble salty crusts of dry lake beds on Earth.
What does it mean. It's unclear right now, but it's
pretty cool. Boy. The scientists are out of this episode.
Cats are wearing hats for scids. Scientists are trying to
(04:45):
use brain scans to understand pain and arthritic felines and
how to help the cats. Scientists wanted to create a
non invasive method to study cat brains. In previous studies,
the cats would shake the hat off and chew the wires.
The answer was to incorporate sensors into comfy, crocheted beanies.
Professor Castell said, we have the idea of little knitted
(05:06):
hats that would keep the electrodes in place. They're working
to see if different stimulations would liken people help modulate
the cat brain activity. The report concludes this opens new
avenues for investigating chronic pain mechanisms and developing novel therapeutic strategies.
And those are your five good news stories today. Little
science see no Guinness records, no lost pets, no message
(05:30):
in a bottle trying to mix it up for you.
If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.
They might like it too. If you would like the
program without interruption, no commercials, no fee drops, none of
that stuff, go to caliroga dot com slash plus link
of the show notes, or if you're on Apple Podcast,
click that banner that says uninterrupted listening and they'll take
it from there. All right, you have an awesome day,
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