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🗓️ 30 November 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 | .jp. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.J-P. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacult. |
0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski. |
0:38.3 | I think it's really important for us to use this magical power of invention and innovation to change the lives of people who really needed their lives changed. |
0:50.1 | Nathan Mirvald, co-founder of the technology development company Intellectual Ventures. |
0:55.3 | He was formerly chief technology officer at Microsoft. |
0:58.3 | He spoke at the World Conference of Science Journalists in San Francisco, October, October 28th. |
1:04.2 | People at the bottom billion in the world from any perspective. |
1:12.5 | You can look at the bottom billion from health care or from poverty. |
1:15.6 | It's pretty much the same folks. |
1:17.6 | And those are people who need their lives transformed. |
1:21.1 | But the iPhone 10 isn't how to do that. |
1:24.5 | You need to have other kinds of technology that will focus and try to make a magical |
1:29.7 | solution to what's otherwise an intractable social problem. Now, when I say this to people |
1:38.0 | in the world of global development, they often say, oh yeah, we tried a high-tech thing and |
1:41.4 | it failed. And I always laugh when I hear this because high-tech things always fail. |
1:48.5 | For example, there were 33 search engines launched before one of them was successful. |
1:57.5 | The world didn't say, oh, search engines, yeah, we tried that, it failed. |
2:01.6 | Technology world is all about failure. |
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