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This is Andrew Peach in London with the happy pot, including fast runners,

giant pumpkins, fat bears, and a man who thinks just like we do, Bill Gates.

Human condition, over the last several hundred years, has improved a lot.

And so that kind of progress, that's going to continue.

So strap in for half an hour of positive news.

Hi, I'm Travis in California, and you're listening to the happy pod.

Hello, I'm Christina from Barcelona, and this is happy pod.

Hi, everyone.

My name is Janela Bracher from the beautiful islands of Antigobar,

you that Ann Redonda, and you're listening to the happy pod.

On the way, winning win big at the Nobel Prize Awards.

I was in a class when I heard the news.

I was getting lots of congratulation messages, and I was really, really proud

that my mom had won the Nobel Prize.

A Caribbean island brought back to life.

The Redonda of yesterday was one that was dying.

Scientists in Spain on a new way of testing for breast cancer.

Perhaps this could help your future wife or your future child.

So we love to work in this kind of project.

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