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🗓️ 7 April 2015
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
0:22.7 | .j.p. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.J-P. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacult. |
0:33.3 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Larry Greenmeyer. Got a minute? |
0:39.8 | Imagine being able to instantly see what a location you happened to be at looked like 50, 75, or 100 years ago. |
0:47.4 | A team of app developers wants to use today's ubiquitous digital camera culture to make such peering into the past possible. The app, called Pivot, |
0:56.0 | will match GPS data from your mobile device with geolocation data tags on images in a database. |
1:02.0 | The system will let you alternate between real-time and archived images of a place with the swipe of your touch screen. |
1:08.0 | Two Palestinian-Americans are developing Pivot. |
1:11.7 | One has a background in public policy |
1:13.7 | and the other in cultural anthropology. |
1:16.8 | The app will focus on two geographic locations to start, |
1:20.5 | historic Palestine and Boston, Massachusetts. |
1:23.6 | In Israeli nonprofit is helping the project |
1:25.7 | by sharing its database of historic photos. |
1:28.3 | Pivot's developers plan to roll out a beta version shortly |
1:32.3 | with a more complete version of the app available by the end of the year. |
1:35.3 | It's likely that users will receive a push notification to their device |
1:39.3 | when they're near a site that can already be viewed through Pivot. |
1:42.3 | Assuming all goes is planned, |
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