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🗓️ 18 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 yawcp.co.j.jot.com.j. 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. I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:42.5 | Happy birthday. Ever noticed how when a big group sings happy birthday? The beginning is a jumbled |
0:50.8 | mess with everyone singing a slightly different pitch, but then near the end, |
0:55.2 | it all sort of comes together. That's because we tend to adjust our own singing pitch to accommodate |
1:00.2 | others, and now scientists in the UK have found that even trained choral singers will follow |
1:05.9 | their fellow choir members, but not necessarily in the right direction. The researchers asked eight pairs of musically trained amateur singers, all women for this study, |
1:15.4 | to sing a cappella the melody of either silent night, |
1:23.2 | or another classic choir tune, O Sacred Head Now Wounded. |
1:36.3 | Individual volunteers all sang in their own separate studios, under four different scenarios. |
1:40.3 | Each singer was completely isolated, hearing only themselves, or singer one got to hear singer two, |
1:43.3 | or singer two got to hear singer two, or singer two got to hear singer one, or finally, |
1:52.5 | both singers could hear each other. |
1:58.2 | Then the researchers used software to extract pitch information from the recordings. |
2:03.7 | And what they found was that singers stayed more on tune with the pitch written in the musical score |
2:08.0 | when singing solo versus singing with a partner. |
2:11.5 | And when one partner veered off pitch, the other singer followed her, perhaps to compensate for the error. |
2:17.2 | Meaning, even though they |
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