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🗓️ 26 March 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. |
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. |
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0:33.5 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:39.0 | One of the ugliest sites in Great Britain is a small power station outside Plymouth, England, |
0:44.4 | its electrical lines and towers surrounded by a drab-colored fence. I know this not because I've |
0:49.4 | been there, but because a photo of it has scored a measly one out of ten on an online game called |
0:54.7 | scenic or not. The game has viewers rate photos from all over the UK on their scenic beauty. |
1:00.1 | After a million and a half ratings of more than 200,000 photos, the site has classified more than |
1:05.3 | 93% of Great Britain as scenic or not or somewhere in between. And now a study in the journal's scientific |
1:12.1 | reports has used that data to show that our happiness increases in line with the scenic beauty |
1:17.4 | around us, which might sound kind of obvious. But what was, I think, surprising is that we find |
1:22.6 | that connection in built-up areas as well. So it's not just a natural area that might have an impact on happiness, |
1:29.2 | but we might also feel happier in more beautiful areas in our cities. |
1:33.5 | Januki Sarasina, a data scientist at the Warwick Business School and the Allen Turing Institute. |
1:38.8 | Saracina and her team used data from the mappiness iPhone app, which po pulled some 15,000 participants about their well-being |
1:45.8 | a few times a day over a three-year period. The app also pulled GPS data, which allowed Saracena |
1:51.9 | and her team to correlate happiness ratings with the scenic or not rating of where a participant |
1:56.6 | happened to be. The team found that as scenic beauty goes up, so does self-reported well-being. |
2:02.6 | And that held true for areas featuring picturesque human-built structures, such as bridges and |
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