Saving Time, Changing Lives: From Daylight to Kindness

🎙️Hey Blurtstars!

Get ready, because we're serving up a jam-packed episode today, so let's get crackin' and dive right in!

🖋️ Homework: Deep Dives and Debates

Kegsta

• Correction on the US Marines firing during the LA Riots from our show last week. It was the LAPD, not the Marines.

🌍 Blurt Around the World: Global Hot Takes

We're globetrotting to bring you the latest:

• Polly want a cracker? How about tap water?

  • Guardian AUS | Cockatoos start sipping from Sydney’s drinking fountains after mastering series of complex moves

  • Western Sydney University News Centre | Polly want a drink of water: clever cockatoos learning to drink from public water fountains

• Plants on the moon?

  • ABC News | Australian scientists aiming to grow plants on the moon prepare for launch of Lunaria One

• New data shows daylight savings is good for the economy and for society.

  • Guardian AUS | Daylight saving shapes how we spend, socialise and travel, NSW data reveals

💩 Asshole Of The Week

• Seriously, who else? How much does Trump owe the courts in his numerous cases?

  • Lawfare Media | Trump Administration Litigation Tracker

  • REAL-TIME TRUMP DEBT COUNTER

🥇Great People That Did Stuff

• Good Samaritan, Josie Street, helping the homeless in Hervey Bay.

  • ABC News | Volunteers stretched thin as rough sleepers left hopeless amid 'undersupply' of Queensland homes

• Lise Meitner: The woman behind the bomb

  • Wikipedia | Lise Meitner

  • USA Environmental Protection Agency | Women in Radiation History: Lise Meitner

  • Cautionary Tales Podcast | The Nazis, the Bomb, and the Woman that Science Forgot

  • The Conversation | Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize

🐑 Across The Dutch

• NZ housing crisis and what's happening now.

  • Stuff NZ | Ohakune rental crisis: Ngāti Rangi’s whānau housing push

• Auckland launches fully electric ferry.

  • Radio New Zealand | Auckland's new electric ferries set to make waves worldwide

Ready to hit play? This episode’s bursting at the seams with fun, facts, and flavour. Let’s blurt it out!

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IMAGE: Courtesy The Guardian AU News.