A Home COVID Test ⁉️
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Who did TIME Magazine name its first ever Kid of the Year in 2020? 🧪 Discover how the FDA is making home COVID testing easier (with correspondents Jacob & Olivia Rozencwaig from the Curious Kid Podcast) 👾 Pac-Man turns 40! Let's celebrate with Five Fast Facts about the classic arcade game. 🤶 Get festive with The Ten News Screen Report: the holiday edition! (with correspondent Ryan Nerz) 🐧 See if you can guess the answer to the Trivia Question of the Day: How did scientists discover new penguin colonies in Antarctica?
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👩🏽🔬 Learn more about TIME's first ever Kid of the Year, 15-year-old Gitanjali Rao
🧪 Explore the future of at home Covid-19 and coronavirus testing as approved by the FDA
🐧 Want to know more about the poopy penguins in Antarctica?
💌 We love email! Email us at hello@thetennews.com
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Bethany Van Delft: [00:00:00] How did scientists discover new penguin colonies in Antarctica? Can you believe Pac-Man is 40 years old? I'm Bethany Van Delft and we'll get into all this and more on today's The Ten News. The show where in the time it takes to eat all the dots inside a maze, while avoiding four pesky ghost, we find out what's up in the world.
[00:00:24] Okay, let's get into The Ten News. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
[00:00:34] Earlier this month, Time magazine, which famously names one influential figure in it's annual person of the year edition, announced its first ever kid of the year, 15 year old Gitanjali Rao. She was selected from thousands of nominees for her work using technology to address big problems, ranging from contaminated drinking water, to cyber bullying and for working to [00:01:00] create a global network of young innovators, just like her, all dedicated to making the world a better, safer place.
[00:01:08] Congratulations Gitanjali.
[00:01:13] Speaking of helpful innovations, the food and drug administration, or FDA recently approved a new COVID test that could make getting tested a lot easier. To find out more let's go to the always curious father-daughter podcasting team, Jacob and Olivia Rozencwaig.
Jacob Rozencwaig: [00:01:33] The Coronavirus started to change our lives in a big way about 300 days ago. In that time, about 300 tests have been approved by the food and drug administration to test for COVID. But there is a new COVID 19 test that truly sets itself apart from the others.
Olivia: [00:01:49] And that's because you can do the test at home by yourself and get results in just 30 minutes. Oh, wow, man.
Jacob Rozencwaig: [00:01:58] So this is how it works. [00:02:00] First. The test has to be prescribed by a doctor or other healthcare provider. You won't be able to get the test without a prescription. For the test you just use a swab in the nose to get a sample. The sample is then mixed with the special lab solution. The mixture is then put into a portable device that will give you results in about 30 minutes.
Olivia: [00:02:22] That sounds easier than any test I've ever taken at school.
Jacob Rozencwaig: [00:02:26] It is super easy. Unlike the tests you take at school you would want the results of the COVID-19 test to be negative. That means that the sample you provided is negative for COVID-19, which means you don't have the Coronavirus.
Olivia: [00:02:42] If the test results say positive, that means you have COVID-19. Uh Oh.
Jacob Rozencwaig: [00:02:47] If that happens, the best thing to do would be to quarantine so you don't spread the virus to others. You would also want to reach out to anyone you've come into close contact with recently to let them know that you tested positive for [00:03:00] COVID-19 so that they could get tested to see if they have it too.
Olivia: [00:03:04] The test is intended for people at least 14 years old.
Jacob Rozencwaig: [00:03:08] That's true, but that doesn't mean you can't use the test if you are younger than 14. For all the kiddos out there, the test can still be done as long as a medical professional, like a doctor or nurse, does the nasal swab. Being able to quickly identify whether or not you have the virus in an easy and painless way, is going to be a big step in preventing the spread of the Coronavirus.
Olivia: [00:03:31] We hope everyone has a very happy and safe holiday season.
Bethany Van Delft: [00:03:36] Thanks Jacob and Olivia to learn more from them. Check out their Curious Kid podcast.
[00:03:46] We live in a world where you can download the latest video game releases directly to your console in seconds. But this old arcade game released in 1980 is still relevant in 2020. That's [00:04:00] special. To celebrate cultural icon Pac-Man's 40th anniversary. Here's our friend 11 year old Carter with five fast facts about the classic arcade game we bet you didn't know.
Carter: [00:04:14] Number one. The game was created by Japanese video game designer Toru Iwatani, when he was 24. He said the idea came to him after he took a slice from a pizza.
[00:04:28] Number two, the highest possible score in Pac-Man is drum roll, please. 3 million, 333,000,306. Gamer Billy Mitchell became the first person to ever achieve that high score back in 1999, nearly 20 years after it was released.
[00:04:50] Talk about a hard game. Number three, all four ghosts have both English and Japanese names. In English, they're Inky, [00:05:00] Blinky, Clyde, and Pinky. And in Japan, they're Chaser, Fickly, Ambusher and Stupid. Number four. There were only three people involved in making the game. Toru worked on design and planning.
[00:05:16] Another person worked on programming and development and the other did the music. Number five- Pac-Man was originally called Puck Man, a play on the Japanese onomatopoeia paku paku or “chomp chomp” in English. And there you have it. Not to brag, but my mom's pretty good at Pac-Man.
Bethany Van Delft: [00:05:38] Thanks Carter. Have you ever played Pac-Man before?
[00:05:43] I bet there are some parents out there who would love to play it with you.
[00:05:52] Hello, parents, caregivers, guardians on behalf of The Ten News here is a heartfelt thanks [00:06:00] for listening. We are so grateful to be sharing news stories for the whole family with you. If you are enjoying the show, you have the teenist littlest favor to ask. All you have to do is go to Apple podcasts and give us a rating and a review.
[00:06:17] Five stars. Fingers crossed, no pressure.
[00:06:22] Do you know what time it is? It's time for your trivia question of the day
[00:06:29] And here to help us out is our favorite nature nerd lane Farber.
Laine Farber: [00:06:34] It's the holiday season. So you know what that means. Time to pay homage to everyone's favorite flightless bird, the penguin. There are 18 species of penguin. Most of which live in places where it's cold, like really cold. One of such penguins is the Emperor penguin, which lives in Antarctica.
[00:06:56] Emperor penguins are the biggest species. They can weigh [00:07:00] up to almost a hundred pounds and stand around four and a half feet tall. That's roughly the size of a fifth grader. Even though they're quite large, many colonies of Emperor penguin went undiscovered until now that is. So how did scientists find these well hidden penguin colonies?
[00:07:23] Was it a) satellites track trails of black feathers left on the white snow. B) satellites tracked poop stains left on the white snow or c) satellites tracked a penguin tap dancing on a mountain. If you guessed B, you're correct. Scientists use satellite images to track and locate these poopy penguins. Strange, but true.
Bethany Van Delft: [00:07:56] Um, that's kinda gross, but also pretty [00:08:00] fascinating to learn more from Laine. Check out her Nature Nerds podcast. Time is up. It's the end of The Ten for today. You can catch new episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The Ten News is a co-production of Small, But Mighty Media in collaboration with Next Chapter Podcasts and distributed by iHeartRadio.
[00:08:22] The Ten News writing team is led by Editorial Director Tracey Crooks, with contributions from Stephen Tompkins, Jacob Rozencwaig and Laine Farber. The creative producer is Jenner Pascua Marketing is led by Jacob Bronstein with social media and web support by Stephen Tompkins and Adam Pharr. Editing and sound design by Pete Musto under the production direction of Jeremiah Tittle. Executive Producer, Donald Albright and show creator Tracy Leeds Kaplan round out the team. If you have questions about the show, a story idea, or a fun fact you want to share it? Email us at [00:09:00] hello at the tennews.com and. Forget to subscribe, rate and review The Ten News on Apple podcasts, iHeartRadio, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm Bethany Van Delft and thanks for listening to The Ten News. Now go try to beat that Pac-Man high score. Hey, it only took 20 years for the first guy to do.
