Interesting Links for 16-10-2015

[andrewducker]

• Feel guilty a lot? You're probably really sensitive to other people's emotions
  • (tags: guilt emotion )
• I'm going to "The Humanities in a Post-Human Future: Iain M. Banks’s Theory of Mind" (tickets still available)
  • (tags: IainBanks scifi writing )
• The tantalizing links between gut microbes and the brain
  • (tags: microbiome brain bacteria )
• Mathematicians

Comments

[threegoldfish]

The microbe thing is so interesting to me. In March I ended up on 3 different antibiotics over six weeks and had abdominal surgery. I figure my gut flora was pretty well nuked. I started consuming kombucha pretty much every day after (as I like it better than yogurt) and since have seen better mood stability and weight loss without major diet or exercise changes. Hard to say if that can be linked to a shift in gut flora or because I no longer have an organ trying to choke and die or what. It'll be interesting to see how the research pans out.

[andrewducker]

Ooh, that's fascinating. Thanks!

[strannik01]

First of all, thank you for linking to my post :)

As far as the price of e-books, while covering a library board meeting, I found out that publishers charge public libraries the same prices for e-books as print books, I don't know if the same is true in UK and elsewhere, but in US, that's apparently the reason why libraries don't expand their ebook collections all that aggressively. (especially since, when you weed print books, you can at least get something back for them).

[radiumhead]

Fuck that shit. "Politically correct" is a real fucking thing. Anyone who says it isnt, THATS a red flag.