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🗓️ 25 April 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. |
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 yawcp.co.j.jot.com.j, that's y-A-K-U-L-T-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.7 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:39.0 | Before the Internet or cell phones, radio, or telegraph, |
0:43.0 | long-distance communication meant riders on horseback, carrier pigeons, or semaphore. |
0:48.5 | But various cultures also devised ways to produce audio messages that travel miles, |
0:53.2 | like the sounds of the Mangoire drums, |
0:55.4 | of the Bora people in the northwestern Amazon. |
0:58.1 | The drums look like wooden cannons, with a slit on top. |
1:01.7 | A player stands between two of them and beats out a rhythm, either purely musical |
1:06.0 | or a Morse code-like message. |
1:08.1 | For example, bring the coca leaves for toasting. |
1:14.6 | They have this fantastic sound which resounds through the jungle and can be heard up to 15 or 20 kilometers away. |
1:24.1 | Frank Seifard is a linguist at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Cologne. |
1:28.5 | That extends the range of the human voice by about 100. |
1:33.8 | There's a drinking game in Bora culture, who can drink the most kohana, a non-alcoholic |
1:38.5 | cassava drink. The winner might declare, I am finishing the kohana. |
1:44.9 | Or broadcast that boast on the drums. |
1:49.7 | Zayfard and his team analyzed those beats and the corresponding spoken phrases |
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