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what's up lovely people happy Friday
Friday and happy International women's
day we'll start this March 8th by
putting the spotlight on two difference
making women whose lives and actions
Shine Bright To This Day first up civil
rights Pioneer claudet koven at the age
of 15 in the year 1955 she refused to
give up her seat to a white passenger on
a bus in Montgomery Alabama that was 9
months before Rosa Parks famously did
the same for her act of protest claudet
was arrested and accused of violating
the city's segregation rules and
assaulting a police officer she later
petitioned to clear her record and 66
years later her request was granted in
2021 claudet who's now 84 years old
remained an unsung hero of the racial
Justice movement until the book about
her life by Philip who won the national
book awards for young people's
literature in 2009 next we honor the
life of Kate Shepard an activist who
helped New Zealand become the first
country in the world to allow women to
vote back in 1893 originally born in
Liverpool England she immigrated to New
Zealand in her early 20s and became an
activist as a member of the women's
Christian Temperance Union which
advocated for women's suffrage as a way
to fight for liquor prohibition Kate
however took her activism Way Beyond
that become a leader in New Zealand's
suffrage movement fighting for issues
ranging from representation in
Parliament to freedom from wearing the
corset her activism work in New Zealand
and abroad inspired women's rights
movements around the world rise up next
up we examine cutting edged technology
behind a human brain chip that can
translate neural activity into commands
on a computer you may remember Elon Musk
announced about 5 weeks ago that a
person received an implant from his
company neurolink for the first time but
there are other companies like synchron
who have been implanting people in its
clinical trial in the US for years CNN's
chief medical correspondent Dr Sanjay
Gupta goes behind the scenes with the
folks at synchron to learn how this
groundbreaking technology aims at
changing lives for the
better up down left right everything you
are watching happen on this screen right
now is being controlled only with Mark's
thoughts
so that just sent out a health
notification mhm he describes it as
Contracting and then relaxing his brain
it takes concentration it's a pretty
involved process it's it's one I don't
take
lightly this is all been pretty sudden
for Mark he was diagnosed with ALS in
2021 Mark has since lost control of his
hands and arms he will likely lose his
voice Mark didn't hesitate to sign up
for a clinical trial to have this this
placed in his brain it's called a Sten
road to me it gives me the
opportunity to be able to continue to do
things that I'm able to do now just by
thinking about it in the world of brain
computer interfaces or bcis it is still
early days in fact up until recently
it's mostly led to monkeys being able to
play Pong but
syron was one of the first companies in
the world to get FDA approval for human
trial
Y and Mark is one of those first humans
that's awesome yeah it's all the
brainchild of this man Dr Tom Oxley for
people who have got paralysis or motor
impairment but they have that part of
the brain still working then if you can
put a device in get the information get
it out of the brain then you can turn
what previously was a signal control in
your body into a signal that controls a
digital device the Stant road is the
device that Oxley and his team synchron
created it's a cage of thin wired mesh
with electrode sensors that can detect
electrical brain activity translate that
activity and then transmit it to devices
such as a phone or a computer it's
amazing that's all I can say and just
like a stent it doesn't require open
brain surgery instead it's able to
travel through the body's natural
network of veins and sit in a major vein
right in the middle of the brain our
brains have billions of neurons firing
electrical impulses that control our
movements everything from shaking hands
to taking a step each and every one of
those actions is associated with a
specific electrical signature the stod
which again sits right here around that
area of the brain responsible for
movement learns to recognize those
specific electrical patterns and
essentially creates your own
personalized dictionary of movement it's
a hope for patients of the future and
and a chance for Mark to continue living
a full life now brain control interface
pong tournament
exactly Pop Quiz Hot Shot which
president was the first to call his
annual speech to Congress a State of the
Union Address Martin Van Bean George
Washington William Howard Taft Franklin
D
Roosevelt FDR doesn't just stand for
factually definitely right it also
stands for Franklin D Roosevelt the
first president to refer to the annual
address to con con as the State of the
Union it became official in 1947 though
under President Harry Truman President
Joe Biden delivered his State of the
Union speech last night a high stakes
moment as he's preparing to face former
president Donald Trump in a likely
rematch in the general elections in
November Trump and Biden dominated their
respective super Tuesday races this week
while two of their respective party
Rivals former un Ambassador Nikki Haley
on the Republican side and
representative Dean Phillips on the the
Democrats side both ended their
campaigns we'll show you some key points
from President Biden's address and break
down how both sides of the political
aisle are responding to the State of the
Union on Monday's show but there's some
other political news worth touching on
today the US Congress avoiding a partial
government shutdown this week agreeing
to continue funding the government on a
temporary basis until they can vote on
individual spending deals also known as
Appropriations bills top Democrats and
Republicans have already agreed to six
funding bills for various government
agencies and are now working towards
agreements for six others before a new
March 22nd deadline this is the first
time since 2018 that Congress has not
funded the government by tying all
Appropriations bills into a single deal
next up the oldest dead Galaxy ever
observed it was spotted with the James
web Space Telescope and astronomers and
researchers say that this galaxy existed
when the universe was only about 700
million years into it its current age of
about 13.8 billion years so what is a
dead Galaxy it's essentially a Galaxy
that no longer has the ability to form
new stars because there isn't enough gas
that's needed to create them some
factors that can cause the gas to
disappear or dissipate are a super
massive black hole Stars violently
interacting and new stars consuming all
the remaining gas when they're born the
astronomers and researchers observing
this newly discovered dead Galaxy have
been left puzzled and they're still
trying to uncover the reason the stars
there lived fast and died young more
than 13 billion years
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ago today's story getting a 10 out of 10
a clash of competitors creating
cardboard crafts that can Coast across a
snow packed track without crashing our
Jeremy Roth has more on a snowy
Pennsylvania Mountain where teams took
to the powder in a Kookie Contraption
crafting competition cleverly coined the
cardboard classic the creative
competition is simple craft an elaborate
sled from cardboard and try to make it
to the bottom of the mountain easier
said than done but the designs did not
disappoint there was even a giant
cardboard Johnny 5 I'm alive
Stephanie you see kids short circuit was
an 80s sci-fi comedy about a killer
robot named Johnny 5 that gets hit by
lightning so naturally it comes alive
learns to read finds love and hangs out
with Steve Gutenberg it makes sense
right it's science all right lovely
people remember this Sunday starts
daylight saving time so get your minds
right we'll be losing an hour of sleep
got to Rally up and do what we got to do
now what I have to do is show some love
today to all the Brave and the Bold at
parag gold high school all the Rams in
paragold Arkansas we see you and this
shout out goes to the blue streaks
closing out their week shout out to
Warren Hills Regional High School in
Washington New Jersey rise up shine
bright this weekend y'all you never know
who you never know when or how but you
can can be the light that someone needs
I'm KY wire this is CNN 10 it's been a
blessing to spend this week with
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