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🗓️ 24 August 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.j.p. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.5 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. |
0:36.7 | I'm Diana Kwan. Got a minute? |
0:39.5 | And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you. |
0:47.4 | Ask what you can do for your country. |
0:51.7 | What makes a successful politician? |
0:54.9 | Experience, skill, charisma? |
0:58.0 | Perhaps you were searching for these traits while watching the recent Republican presidential debate. |
1:03.2 | But what you might not have thought about was how your perception of the candidates could be influenced by their voices. |
1:08.5 | And we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place. |
1:12.2 | In two recently published studies, researchers looked at how the pitch of a candidate's voice |
1:17.2 | affected their chances in an election. |
1:19.7 | The first study found that in the 2012 U.S. House elections, candidates with lower voices |
1:24.7 | were more likely than a higher-pitched opponent to win, with one exception. |
1:29.5 | When running against a female opponent, candidates with higher voices were more popular, especially if they were men. |
1:35.8 | That study is in the journal Political Psychology. |
1:38.9 | In the second study, researchers wanted to know why a deep voice was a potent political tool. |
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