4.2 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2017
⏱️ 3 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
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 yawcot.co.j.j.p. 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 | If you've ever pulled a rolling suitcase through the airport, |
0:42.1 | chances are you've also been annoyed by this common occurrence. |
0:45.3 | The suitcase starts rocking back and forth on each wheel, |
0:48.3 | and finally tips over. |
0:49.9 | It's a very classic phenomena in physics. |
0:53.0 | Sovain Koreschupon, a physicist at the University of Paris, Didero. |
0:56.8 | So if you perturb the system, it goes very easily unstable. |
1:01.0 | This is shared by many, many phenomena in nature. |
1:04.6 | Koreshtapon and his students wanted to get to the bottom of wide luggage tips. |
1:08.4 | So they built what looks like the skeleton of a wheeled suitcase and |
1:11.5 | filmed it rolling on a treadmill. And then they modeled what they saw mathematically. And here's |
1:16.5 | what they found. Under normal rolling conditions, the forward motion of the suitcase is perpendicular |
1:21.7 | to the wheel's axis of rotation. All good. But when you hit a bump or jerk the handle, |
1:28.8 | one wheel lifts up. |
1:33.6 | All of a sudden, the pulling motion is no longer perpendicular to the still rolling wheels rotation, and the wheel corrects that by drifting towards the center. But by that time, the other |
1:39.0 | wheel is coming down. The same thing happens, and now the suitcase is really rocking. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Scientific American, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Scientific American and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.