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Something You Should Know

Why Parking is Such a Problem & How Microbes Influence Our Lives - SYSK Choice

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Science, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Are you one of the many people who enjoys a morning cup of coffee? If so, listen to the beginning of this episode which explains why you should smell your coffee when you drink it because it can help you think better and be more productive. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6881620/ In many urban areas, the number one use of land is for – parking. In fact, the United States has 4 parking spaces for every car. So, it makes you wonder then why it is so hard to find a parking spot when you need one. You are about to find out why from my guest Henry Grabar. He is a staff writer at Slate, and author of the book Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (https://amzn.to/3RyHcbq). Listen and you will understand why parking is such a big deal. Microbes are those tiny organisms you can’t see without using a microscope. This includes things such as germs, bacteria, and fungi. Microbes have a reputation of being something dangerous – that can cause illness. While that is true for some microbes, most of them don’t cause harm and some are even good for you. This should come as good news since you have trillions of microbes on you and inside of you. Here to take us on a journey through the invisible world of microbes is Jake Robinson. He is a microbial ecologist and author of the book Invisible Friends: How Microbes Shape our Lives and the World Around Us (https://amzn.to/44pGRwR) Many people claim to have food allergies – that actually don’t have them. They just think they do. What they really have is a food intolerance and there is a big difference. Listen as I explain. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/food-allergy/expert-answers/food-allergy/faq-20058538 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Kate's just off to work after sleeping in the best bed in the business.

0:05.0

And my word, doesn't she look ready for anything?

0:08.0

Something about her smile is just brighter.

0:10.0

Her eyes seem glintier, and she just feels so much more...

0:15.0

Kateier?

0:16.0

Of course it's no surprise really, because last night she slept at Premier Inn,

0:20.0

and she got up to

0:21.5

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0:28.8

see is apply today on something you should know if you drink coffee in the morning you might

0:35.7

want to take a whiff of it too.

0:40.0

Then, parking your car.

0:44.5

Parking has changed the way we live and taken up a lot of our space.

0:49.3

You know, we could pave a small state with the amount of land we have dedicated for parking.

0:54.5

There are between four and nine parking spaces per vehicle in this country.

0:59.3

There is more space for parking each car than there is for housing each person.

1:04.5

Also, the important difference between a food allergy and a food intolerance.

1:10.9

And microbes, those little invisible organisms like germs and bacteria, they get a bad rap.

1:16.8

We've had this quite negative demonizing view of microbes that microscopic organisms cause diseases and a few microbes do cause disease, but many of them, over 99% are actually harmless to us

1:22.9

or really beneficial and vital for our survival.

1:26.1

All this today on Something You Should Know.

1:30.4

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