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Is Tap Water Better for You Than Bottled Water? Mar's Atmosphere May Be in Its Soil, and TDIH - As an Underdog, America Wins What Becomes the Leech Cup

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Scientists say drink more TAP WATER – it’s better for you than its store-bought, bottled counterpart, and Mars soil may be hiding the planet’s ancient atmosphere in plain sight – and it could one day be used as rocket fuel. We’ve got the details. Plus, on This Day in History; Bullseye! America wins what becomes the Leech Cup – the oldest trophy in shooting competition – on the final shot over the heavily favored Irish. Drinking bottled water is much worse for you than tap, scientists find | BBC Science Focus Magazine Mars' missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight | ScienceDaily THE GREAT RIFLE MATCH - Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com The Great 1874 International Match | An NRA Shooting Sports Journal (ssusa.org) The Leech Cup | An NRA Shooting Sports Journal (ssusa.org) Contact the show - [email protected] Sponsored By Acorns - Head to at acorns.com/cool or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome, welcome to Cool Stuff Ride Home, Marcus Path, along with Reggie Rizzou. On today's episode,

0:37.0

scientists say, drink more tap water.

0:40.3

It's better for you than its store-bought bottled counterpart. And Mars soil may be hiding the

0:46.0

planet's ancient atmosphere in plain sight, and it could one day be used as rocket fuel. We've got the

0:52.4

details. Plus, on this day in history, Bullseye.

0:55.5

America wins what becomes the Litch Cup, the oldest trophy in shooting competition on the final

1:00.4

shot over the heavily favored Irish. All right, I'll give up my 1940-style radio broadcaster.

1:05.5

Let's all come it up on cool stuff. Well, turning to the team at BBC Science Focus this morning, and author Alex Hughes,

1:12.5

when it comes to getting your daily fill of water, the safest option is often thought to be

1:17.4

the store-bought bottled variety. Well, new research suggests that's not actually the case.

1:23.8

In fact, tap water could actually be the much safer option of the two in most areas of the

1:29.5

world. This, according to a commentary published in the journal BMJ Global Health. According to researchers

1:35.9

from Wild Cornell Medicine in Qatar, bottled water in the U.S. is often not subject to the same

1:42.1

rigorous quality and safety checks as tap water,

1:45.3

meaning it can carry more harmful chemicals leaching in from the plastic bottles.

1:49.7

While acknowledging there's a wide disparity in the percentages here,

1:53.0

it's estimated that between 10 and 78% of bottled water samples contain contaminants,

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