Now initially you might think you don't need or even want to know about
butyrate (ˈbjuːtɪˌreɪt) noun,
any salt or ester of butyric acid, containing the monovalent group C3H7COO- or ion C3H7COO–, and when you then bumped into this, having first found out it is in butter, you might well panic:
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Clear plastic screwdriver handles are usually made from cellulose acetate butyrate, a material developed in the 1930s.
— Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, "Why Do My Old Plastic Screwdriver Handles Stink?," 8 Oct. 2017
But then you would realize that lately it has had a great rise in reputation and helps maintain your biodome and aids in the production of key neurotransmitters that help both our gut and our brains to work. Apparently we make it when bacteria in our bellies ferment high fibre carbohydrates, but it is also, and here is the punchline, found in butter! The highest food source for it. I am relieved, and think I will just butter up everything!
At least these verbose scientist think so:
The neuropharmacology of butyrate: The bread and butter of the microbiota-gut-brain axis?
Let me know when you finish “Les Miserables” (I won’t hold my breath).
I will recommend one book from that list though- “The Brothers Karamazov”.
That will be a re-torturing. But I think I will endure it. Something about the title The Miserables makes me inclined to skip it … as you can see my first two picks were pretty safe and definitely fit into the “you should have read this”, and I surely hadn’t.
I like Alice in Wonderland but am pretty convinced that Lewis Carol, or Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, was a pedophile, which makes the whole thing very creepy as he tells a young girl a story about drugs and losing control of yourself. But for some reason society tolerates some strange shit … and it has always irritated me that that isn’t part of the discussion of the book. Actually, it is, but honestly, he was an avid photographer who liked taking pictures of nude girls. Yes, well.
So it could be a minefield out there. But it sure is a compact way to have a book to read.
OK, so we have a closing high on the S&P of 1987, and so far a closing low of 1920. A 3.4% drop. Big F’ing Deal. If a 3.4% drop is enough to get your juices flowing, then you shouldn’t be in stocks in the first place. Go get yourself a nice Certificate of Deposit somewhere.
That is cute [was … I moved EO’s comment to the next thread, making these comments inexplicable]. I am going to copy it to my photo thread.
Moved, I should have said, as that was my only really useful option.