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🗓️ 28 April 2023
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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 | .jp. That's Y-A-K-U-Lt.C-O.jp. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:32.2 | This is a 600-foot floating slaughterhouse capable of processing an entire whale in less than half an hour. |
0:39.3 | In June of 1975, several Greenpeace activists set sail under a banner which would become a famous slogan. |
0:49.3 | We were left with no alternative but to carry out our pledge to use our bodies as shields. Save the whales. |
0:56.0 | We have stopped one chaser boat already and saved one pot of whales, which is not bad for |
1:05.0 | our first morning's work. |
1:08.0 | Greenpeace's constant campaigning against commercial whaling worked. |
1:11.6 | The International Whaling Commission issued a moratorium on whale hunting in 1985. |
1:17.6 | Humpback whales, a population once decimated by more than 95%, started making a comeback. |
1:25.6 | But something's recently happened. |
1:29.3 | Concern at the Jersey Shore after yet another whale washed up on an Atlantic City beach. |
1:36.3 | Dead whales have started washing up on shores again many over the last winter. |
1:43.3 | More whales are dying along the East Coast this weekend. |
1:46.5 | Now marine conservation groups are trying to figure out why it's happening. And it begs the question, |
1:52.3 | do we need to save the whales again? For Scientific Americans, science quickly, I'm Talika Bose. |
2:03.4 | But what's happening right now is what's called an unusual mortality event. That is the |
2:09.6 | official name for an unusual number of dead animals washing up of a particular species. |
2:15.4 | That's Joy Reidenberg. She's a comparative anatomist and a scientist that also does whale necropsies, |
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