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Right - Left Agreement Conversation, Insults Notwithstanding [ This is another post on "talking with Breitbartians." This one is an example of "substantive agreement with insults" kind of exchange.] There was a Breitbart report on the approaching Irma. 9.14. I dropped in one of my earth shaking observations in "comments."  Not sure why. * I suggested the U.S. ignores big Pacific storms Breitbart    Irma approaching  9.4.17 seniorjunior (scooter duff) • a few seconds ago Huge, all time record breaking typhoons have been hitting the Pacific for the last several years... We don't pay attention, because they rarely if ever hit the U.S. We had a lull in the Atlantic (where typhoons are called hurricanes), using the lull to rock ourselves into denial. God help us now (unless you believe He is punishing us for our LGBT behavior, etc. making it unlikely He will help much). Hang in there, Irma victims-to-be. Get the attempted humor

Our Co-Brain   What are all those little guys thinking? More and more discoveries are pooping popping out about our enormous, complex, co-evolved microbiomes. One of the most exciting (to excitable me) discoveries is how much our gut biomes affect out brains, particularly our moods.   There's this  How gut bacteria may affect anxiety  (Click if you're anxious) And this: Microbes can play games with the mind ... And in the scientific journal Microbiome, there are more research articles than you can shake a fecal transplant at! (See below) BOTTOM LINE (Ahem)... All this and more about the role of the microbiome in our health and sanity is (careful here) flowing out of the science/medicine community. It is, IMHO, a monster discovery zone, clearly one of the most  important  areas of scientific pursuit, right up there with the findings coming from the Large Hadron Collider, NASA, LIGO, Altacama, et al, and will have more impact on you and me per