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🗓️ 24 November 2019
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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. Yacold also |
0:11.5 | partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for |
0:16.6 | gut health, an investigator-led research program. To learn more about Yachtold, visit yawcult.co. |
0:22.6 | .jp. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.JP. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacult. |
0:33.8 | This is Scientific American 60 Second Science. I'm Suzanne Bard. |
0:41.7 | Would you drink water that had once been flushed down a toilet? |
0:45.4 | After it's been clean, that is. |
0:47.5 | The climate is warming and the population of drought-prone states like California continues to grow. |
0:53.2 | So recycling wastewater into drinking water |
0:56.1 | may become a necessity, but... |
0:58.6 | People are grossed out by recycled water because it was once wastewater. You know, the stuff |
1:03.1 | that goes down your kitchen drains, your showers, your toilets, and even though it's cleaned |
1:08.0 | up to a standard that is identical, if not better, than commercially bottled water, |
1:12.9 | the key barrier to recycled water acceptance is people's disgust regarding it. |
1:17.8 | University of California Riverside psychologist Daniel Harmon. |
1:22.0 | In a recent set of experiments, Harmon and his colleague Mary Govain learned just how difficult it can be for people to get |
1:29.1 | over their disgust at the thought of drinking recycled water. Our study was aimed at investigating |
1:33.8 | whether the media messages that we see, you know, commercials or brief internet videos, these |
1:40.2 | pro-environmental messages, whether they actually work, whether they can get people |
1:45.0 | to accept recycled water and consume recycled water. In one experiment, the researchers had some |
1:50.2 | participants watch a short video promoting water conservation, and in another experiment, they added |
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