🌞 13yo hero swims to save his family

It’s my favourite time of every two years: the Olympics are back.

In honour of the Winter Olympics kicking off this weekend, I’m sharing one of my all-time favourite Olympic moments, from the ice dance event at the 2018 games.

Full body chills, every time.

Bad Bunny has become the first artist to win Album of the Year at the Grammys with an album entirely recorded in a language other than English.

The all-Spanish album ‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS’ is the Puerto Rican artist’s sixth.

If you missed Bad Bunny at the Grammys, don’t worry: he’s headlining the Super Bowl halftime show tomorrow.

According to Rolling Stone, it’ll be more firsts for Bad Bunny - becoming the first Latino male artist to headline the halftime show and the first headliner to perform a set in Spanish.

In some very heartening local news, a 13-year-old boy swam four kilometres off the coast of Western Australia to save his family.

Austin Appelbee’s family were swept out to sea while kayaking and paddleboarding in Geographe Bay. 

The 13-year-old headed for shore, first paddling his kayak before it took on water, and then swimming four kilometres in rough waters to alert authorities, who then found his mother and siblings.

Police Inspector James Bradley said his actions “cannot be praised highly enough – his determination and courage ultimately saved the lives of his mother and siblings.” 

Austin told the ABC he spent the swim trying to get the “happiest things in his head”. 

Australian snowboarder Valentino Guseli reacts to his top-scoring third run in the men’s Big Air snowboarding qualifiers at the Winter Olympics. The 20-year-old was handed a wildcard entry after Canada’s Mark McMorris withdrew injured. Needing to finish within the top 12 to qualify for the final, Guseli landed a huge final run to finish 12th and advance.

UNSW researchers have helped design a wearable patch that provides up-to-the-minute information of medication levels in a body.

It was designed with a particular antibiotic - vancomycin - in mind. Vancomycin is used for drug-resistant infections, but it can be hard to dose correctly, risking kidney damage or worse.

While dosage levels can be monitored through blood tests, this process can be invasive and slow. 

As a solution, UNSW, international researchers and Australian diagnostics company Nutromics have designed a “minimally invasive” patch that measures the antibiotic in the body every five minutes. It uses DNA-based sensors to measure dosage levels, which can also be modified for other illnesses and medication. 

They’ve published the results of a clinical trial in scientific journal ‘Nature Biotechnology,’ with trials of the patch underway in hospitals across Australia. 

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A marine ecology researcher has rediscovered an extremely rare fish.

How rare, you ask? The sub-8cm Braun’s Wrasse fish is only found in Australia in a tiny range off WA’s south-west coast.

It was spotted and described for the first time in 1996, and for the second and most recent time in 2009. Fishes of Australia describes it as “very shy.” 

A University of Western Australia PhD candidate, the aptly named Océane Attlan, was conducting fish surveys recently when she encountered the fish.

As Murphy’s Law would have it, she happened to see it during her one dive without a camera. Luckily, fellow researcher Dr Albert Pessarrodona was able to take two photos.

“When it appeared it took me a few seconds to register what I was seeing, because the species is so rarely encountered. Within moments I realised it was something special,” she said.

Okay, this isn’t an account per se, but stay with me.

77-year-old museum curator Alison Luchs has shared pieces at the U.S’ National Gallery of Art, educating and connecting with younger audiences through Gen Z slang.

While I’ve seen some brands try (and fail) at using Gen Z vocabulary to appeal to the demographic, trust me, a Gen Z, when I say she gets this right. 

Do yourself a favour, and watch the video here.

By Anju Dhanushkodi.