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🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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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. |
0:22.6 | .jp. That's Y-A-K-U-Lt.C-O.jp. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:31.6 | For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Felton. |
0:39.1 | You know that feeling when you just can't get a song out of your head, just a short part |
0:44.0 | of it playing over and over. |
0:46.8 | Right now, my brain is chewing on the Muppet Show theme because I just watched a live stream |
0:53.0 | charity event where a bunch of my favorite comedians, |
0:56.2 | including some from Dropout, which longtime listeners know I'm a huge fan of, did a onstage |
1:02.1 | reading of The Muppet Show. So right now it's just, you know, it's time to play the music. |
1:08.0 | It's time to light the lights over and over again. So thanks for that, folks. |
1:13.3 | A lot of people call those annoying little ditties earworms, fragments of songs that crawl into |
1:19.3 | your mind and just don't want to leave. And scientists have actually done quite a bit of research |
1:24.4 | to figure out why some tunes wriggle their way into our heads better |
1:28.1 | than others. You've probably dealt with your own share of earworms. In fact, in a few previous |
1:33.3 | episodes, I asked all of you to send in some of your favorite or most infuriating examples, |
1:39.0 | and a whole bunch of you were kind enough to sing into your phones for us. Here's Carrie from New Orleans. |
1:50.8 | I have had this airworn in my head for literally, at least 20 years before I go to bed at night. |
1:51.6 | Whitney Houston. |
1:54.6 | Hey, I want to dance with somebody. |
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