It's time for strange science. Strange it's like weird science, but strange. I referred to bonobos as a monkey. They are an ape and there is a difference. But this is the fun story. So a few captive bonobos seen have faced this task locate this tasty little snack hidden under one of three cups. It's the shell game. Because they are brainiacs, they should have no problem finding the sweet treat, right. But here's the wrinkle. They were relying on a human being, not a member of their own species,
to flip over the correct cup. And what's even worse is the human being sometimes didn't see where the food was, so the bonobos had to somehow communicate to the human being where the correct what cup was with the little sweet treat underneath it. Christopher Krupenny is an evolutionary cognitive scientist. JOHNS.
Hopkins helped run this experiment and said the bonobos knew when their partner was ignorant, and they communicated proactively to make sure that their ignorant partner still made the correct choice. They described the bonobos behavior in a paper that came out Proceedings of the National Academy of Science as USA and it says, it provides compelling evidence that apes like the bonobos can infer someone's ignorance and then also act
to help clear up the confusion. They refer to this the ability to infer someone else's mental state is referred to as theory of mind, and we talk about it. We humans can use it to communicate and coordinate with other people, like if if I figure out that you don't have the kind of information that you need, it helps me. He determined when and how to share specific information with you to give you that information that you
would need. And they have proposed that chimpanzees and bonobos apes may possess theory of mind, but few of them
have actually figured out this idea. In a controlled experiment, they took three male bonobos living at Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative, which is in Des Moines, Isle, and during the experiment, one of them would sit across from one of the researchers as a treat like a grape or a peanut or something like that was put under one of the three cups, and if he flipped over the correct cup, then the bonobol would be would get the reward get the little treat In some of the trials,
the researcher could see the treat put under the cup. In others, he didn't know which cup it was put under, and then he would wait ten seconds before he flipped
over the cup. The bonobos appeared to know when he had his eye on the correct cup, and in the trials where he had observed the placement, they just wigh for him to flip over the right cup, But when they knew that his view was blocked, they would try to point towards the correct cup in an effort to give him that information that he didn't already have, to
fill him in on what he had missed. What he had missed, and the researcher said that they immediately understood the game that was being played and immediately knew where to point. And somewhat interestingly, they said the oldest of these apes, named Kanzie, was particularly demonstrative in his gestures. Would point aggressively at the cup that had the treat under it. He's forty four years old now and said
he's always on the lookout for a tasty treat. Repeatedly would point and tap to get the human's attention and secure that treat. It's kind of interesting. There is a heart pump that has been developed that is no larger than a fountain pen, just approved by the FDA for use in children. It's already been saving adults live in this red of revolutionary way. Cardiologists said they don't even need to open the chest cavity to install this heart pump.
It's called Impella five point five. The world's smallest heart pump can keep a heart going during critical moments of heart failure or cardiogenic shock. Twenty one year old Katrina Penny, for example, born with congenital heart defects, but the transplant she got when she was nineteen also failed. For five weeks, she was using this artificial heart pump, again as small as a fountain pen, to keep the failed heart pumping while a second heart transplant was secured. She said, it
did save my life. It's very useful, according to one of the doctors. It's very useful in the sense that it can actually be implantable without cracking open the chest, and they're very excited. Doctors referred to this as a game changer. The pump component on the Impella only consists of the very tip of this thing, so it's the size of a not a fingertip, which of course makes
the whole thing seem pretty futuristic. And then we talked I talked earlier about this whole bird flu thing and price of chickens, you know, is going to be going up, Eggs is already up. What do we do? Is there a way to get our chicken without you know, actual chicken? And here's a new development. Lab grown chicken meat is now on store shelves in the UK. They said it's a the world's first. They said it's an innovative product.
It's produced without traditional farming, without animal slaughter, obviously, and they say it tastes exactly like chicken. But it's not currently available. It's only a limited addition, a limited location. I should say. It's called chick Bites. The product was recently introduced as at a Pets at Home store in London. Plant based ingredients, cultivated chicken grown in a laboratory setting. Here's how they do it. They take a single egg,
one egg. Meatly Is, the company that's behind this thing, emphasizes the health benefits of their product. It contains all the essential amino acids, the fatty acids, the vitamins and minerals found in traditional chicken without the environmental impact or ethical concerns. One of the CEOs, or Thus CEO, said, just two years ago it felt like a moonshot, and said today we take off with a giant leap forward toward a significant market for which meat is healthy, sustainable
and kind to our planet. Europe has approached this old lab grown meat with some caution, but other nations have shown greater enthusiasm for this. The first fully cultivated hamburger was developed almost eleven years twelve years ago, and since then an Israeli company is pioneered by opening multiple lab to fork restaurants which sound was disgusting offering consumers. They said the first hand experience of this innovative food solution, oh, not ready for lab grown meats. Not ready for it,