Education
This is a podcast which picks up a few interesting things that have appeared in the news in recent weeks. In this episode we have something on sport, science, and the environment. In sport, we find that a group of Sumo wrestlers saved a woman from drowning in Tokyo. You learn more about this story here: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200611/p2a/00m/0na/019000c In science, we learn about the wonderful ways that lasers are being used to learn more about the world around us. You can read more about this story here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/03/maya-structure-discovered-mexico-lidar-aguada-fenix https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/science/ocean-biology-larvaceans-lasers.html And finally, in the environment, we see that pangolins, which are on the brink of extinction, are being saved from poachers and re-introduced to the wild. You can read about it here: https://theconversation.com/back-from-extinction-a-world-first-effort-to-return-threatened-pangolins-to-the-wild-138621