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Pigeons wearing tiny backpacks are monitoring London's air quality (Tomorrow Daily 332)

2016-03-16
greetings citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best speak talk show in the known universe I'm ashley Esqueda jeff cannata is up at GDC checking out all the newest latest best things happening in video gaming so for now let's hit some rapid-fire headlines scientists over at the Mayo Clinic are testing an idea that could someday change the way spinal tumors are treated the concept reminds us a little bit of those capsules that expand into spongy dinosaurs and stuff when you drop them into water they consist of hydrogel bone grafts made of a special polymer that expands into a custom shape once it's put in place the graphs are biodegradable and meant to close gaps caused by spinal tumor removal in cancer patients the researchers feel confident that they have the best composition of material for the graphs and will likely begin cadaver trial soon if the cadaver trials go well and the graphs proved to be able to hold the weight of a human body researchers think that they can move on to human clinical trials within the next few years our next story is about air quality if you live in London and you're wondering what the air quality is for the next few days you might be able to find out from a few pigeons this is the pigeon air patrol a 10 bird strong crew of domesticated racing pigeons their current mission is to fly around the neighborhoods in London equipped with tiny adorable backpacks that monitor the quality of air Londoners are breathing they'll be spending the next few days flapping around town and the idea is to make air pollution problems more apparent to Londoners who might not be aware of how it impacts the city you can actually follow the pigeons air quality checks on Twitter over at Pigeon air the next plan study involves giving devices that measure air quality to do 100 people to carry around London but honestly i think i like the pigeon idea a little bit better so we're going to talk about the pigeon idea on tomorrow's deep dive when Jeff returns triumphantly from GDC so if you want to get in on that conversation please feel free to jump in on twitter and use the hashtag hey TV talk about the show and all of the topics we're discussing and if we like your tweet we will include it in our long-form episode tomorrow all that being said let's check out our phone tog refer the day our phone tog refer the day today is Christian who took this amazing picture with his Galaxy s7 edge he wrote chosen said caught this hilarious picture of my English Bulldog yawning I took it with my brand new Galaxy s7 edge and would love if y'all put it on the show so that is christian's english bulldog unfortunately Kristen did not include the name of set English Bulldog so I'm going to name the dog Pam I don't know that just seemed like the right name for that dog it's totally not that name but if you guys want to send in your photogra fee to be considered for the show you can email us tomorrow at cnet com give us permission tell us what device you took it on and of course tell us a story we love that as always find us on social media share the show if you like it we always love new viewers tomorrow daily com is the easiest place to send people we will be back officially Jeff and I and a guest tomorrow on the show for our long for episode but until then vegan humans see you guys next time you
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