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🗓️ 10 December 2014
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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 yawcult.co. |
0:22.7 | .j.p. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.J-P. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.4 | This is Scientific American 60-second science. I'm Christopher Ndallata. Got a minute? |
0:39.4 | The Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be the most infamous of the world's floating trash dumps, |
0:44.7 | but it's far from the only one. |
0:46.7 | There's plastic trash littering. |
0:48.2 | The Bay of Bengal, the Mediterranean Sea, the coast of Indonesia, all five subtropical gyres, |
0:53.9 | coastal regions, enclosed bay, seas, and golfs. Marcus Erickson, Director of Indonesia, all five subtropical gyres, coastal regions, and closed bay, seas, and golfs. |
0:56.5 | Marcus Erickson, director of research at the Five Gyers Institute. |
1:00.4 | Erickson surveyed those areas, along with his seafaring colleagues. |
1:04.3 | Collectively, they spent some 900 hours logging every large piece of plastic they could spot from their boats. |
1:10.0 | And they trawled for plastic nearly 700 times along the way, |
1:13.5 | picking through their nets and cataloging the debris. |
1:16.2 | I find the necks of bottle. |
1:17.5 | I find fragments of toothbrushes and combs. |
1:20.6 | Action figure parts. |
1:21.8 | Army man. |
1:22.3 | I find a lot of army men. |
1:23.8 | The researchers plugged that trash census data into ocean models, |
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