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🗓️ 14 June 2017
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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 dot C-O.J-P. 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're a savvy traveler, when you hunt for a hotel, you probably search TripAdvisor |
0:43.1 | for any mention of bedbugs, but here's the dirty secret behind those bedbug sightings. |
0:48.2 | I mean, the fact that roughly two-thirds of travelers can't pick a bedbug out of a lineup |
0:52.2 | tells you that probably in some cases these are |
0:54.7 | unsubstantiated reports. Mike Potter, an entomology professor at the University of Kentucky. |
1:01.0 | He and his colleagues quizzed 2,000 business and leisure travelers on their bedbug ID skills |
1:05.6 | through an online survey, asking them to select the bedbug silhouette from a lineup that also |
1:10.5 | included ants, |
1:11.7 | termites, lice, and ticks. And only a third of the respondents correctly nailed the bedbug. |
1:17.6 | And those incorrect insect IDs could hit hotel owners hard, because more than half the survey |
1:23.0 | takers said they'd book a different hotel if they saw just one review mentioning the bloodsuckers. |
1:28.6 | Potter's co-author Jared Penn, an economist. |
1:31.1 | The implications, again, of not knowing what a bed bug really is and just kind of jumping to the |
1:36.5 | worst conclusion, it can be costly for people. |
1:40.7 | The studies in the journal American entomologist. |
1:43.8 | Some cities like New York already |
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