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🗓️ 19 February 2025
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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 | Yachtold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:20.1 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
0:22.6 | .jp. |
0:23.6 | That's Y-A-K-U-Lt.C-O.jp. |
0:27.6 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:31.6 | For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Theltenman. |
0:43.3 | You probably don't spend too much time thinking about the air you breathe, at least relative |
0:48.2 | to the amount of time you spend actually breathing it, which, unless you do a lot of free |
0:52.1 | diving, should be pretty much always. |
0:55.0 | But there's a whole lot going on in every inhalation and exhalation. |
1:00.3 | Here to tell us more is science journalist Carl Zimmer. |
1:03.7 | He's the author of a new book called Airborne, the Hidden History of the Life We Breathe. |
1:17.1 | Thanks so much for coming on to chat today, Carl. |
1:18.1 | Thanks for having me. |
1:20.5 | Let's start with an overview of the book. |
1:22.5 | Would you tell us a little bit about it? |
1:29.5 | When I was reporting on the COVID pandemic at the New York Times, like a lot of my colleagues, one of the most puzzling things about it was that there was this long drawn-out argument about |
1:36.3 | how COVID spread. And the consensus now is that COVID is airborne, but at the time, |
1:43.0 | there was a lot of back and forth about that. |
1:45.1 | And it seemed to me, like to other reporters, this shouldn't be that hard to figure out, |
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