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🗓️ 5 December 2018
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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. |
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0:33.6 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:38.4 | If you go by ticket sales, the most popular film of all time is gone with the wind. |
0:43.8 | Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. |
0:46.6 | That is adjusting for inflation, by the way. |
0:49.0 | But a movie's take at the box office is influenced by ad budgets, distribution, reviews, so box office may not be the best |
0:56.0 | measure of a movie's cultural influence. To address that question, researchers gave movies |
1:01.1 | the big data treatment by analyzing the complex network of connections among 47,000 movies on the |
1:07.4 | internet movie database, IMDB. The popular movie site tracks every time a film has been |
1:12.6 | referenced or spoofed, featured, or remade, all factors that indicate a movie's influence |
1:17.7 | on subsequent films. And by analyzing those connections with a handful of algorithms, including |
1:23.3 | Google's page rank algorithm, the data scientist came up with a new number one. |
1:28.0 | It's another 1939 flick by the same directors as Gone with the Wind, which has been |
1:32.8 | spoofed more than 300 times and referenced by nearly 3,000 movies. |
1:37.9 | Total? |
1:38.6 | It's the Wizard of Oz. |
1:40.1 | I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. |
1:43.7 | Dorothy's adventure was followed by the original Star Wars, the original Psycho, King Kong, and 2001, A Space Odyssey. |
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