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“We now know that gut microbes are part of this axis, in both directions. Since the 1970s, a trickle of studies have shown that any kind of stress – starvation, sleeplessness, being separated from one’s mother, the sudden arrival of an aggressive individual, uncomfortable temperatures, overcrowding, even loud noises – can change a mouse’s gut microbiome. The opposite is also true: the microbiome can affect a host’s behaviour, including its social attitudes and its ability to deal with stress.40”
― Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“Mediocrity has become something that’s acceptable,” Keller says, “and in many cases, something that is aspirational.” To”
― Dan Charnas, Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind

“Increased immigration and diversity are not only inevitable, but over the long run they are also desirable. Ethnic diversity is, on balance, an important social asset, as the history of my own country demonstrates.”
― Len Fisher, Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life