Stannous Flouride's Book of Truthiness

This is old but seems to be going viral. Unfortunately it is rarely credited to funny cartoonist Mark Parisi:

http://www.offthemark.com/cartoons/2013-05-06

from who- or whatever is chasing you:

If just to see how long it lasted.

Genes are important, but diet may be even more important in determining the relative abundance of the hundreds of health-shaping bacterial species comprising an individual’s gut microbiota, according to UC San Francisco scientists whose latest mouse experiments to probe this nature-versus-nurture balance were published online December 18, 2014 in Cell Host and Microbe.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-12-bacteria-gut-diet-genes.html

In case you haven’t watched this, please do. An amazing variety of Stephen’s guests, from the Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to George Lucas to Big Bird show up to say good-bye.