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🗓️ 18 August 2023
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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 | Yachtold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:20.1 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
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0:32.9 | Actually seeing migration is tough, right? I didn't see migration, but I heard it that night. |
0:38.3 | And that I'll always stay with me. |
0:44.3 | There's no denying it. |
0:47.3 | We humans largely operate under the light of the sun. |
0:51.3 | But as the sun sets and we go to bed, another shift begins. While we sleep, |
0:56.9 | depending on the time of the year, the skies come alive and they have a story to tell. Are you |
1:02.5 | ready to listen? I'm Jacob Job and you're listening to Scientific Americans Science Quickly. American science quickly. |
1:28.7 | Each spring, billions of migratory birds take wing in an annual ritual that carries them from their wintering grounds to their breeding grounds. |
1:31.7 | Come fall, adult birds with offspring reverse course and head back to their winter homes. |
1:38.2 | Birds have been migrating for at least hundreds of thousands of years. |
1:41.9 | Our understanding of this phenomenon is relatively recent, however. |
1:46.8 | Early speculation suggested that the seasonal exodus of birds was best explained by some |
1:51.8 | pretty far out there hypotheses. |
1:56.4 | Dating back to at least the 11th century was the idea that some geese temporarily transformed themselves |
2:02.4 | into barnacles that clung to the sides of ships. A 16th century Swedish priest hypothesized |
2:09.7 | that some birds dove down underwater only to pass the winter in the relatively warm mud at the |
2:15.2 | bottom of lakes. A century later, another member of the clergy even suggested that birds escape the cold of winter |
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