Morteza Karami

“In fact, gastrointestinal symptoms are surprisingly common in people with mental health and neurological conditions, though they are usually seen as unimportant compared with the altered behaviour.”
― Alanna Collen, 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

“When they stressed the mice by placing them in a tube, both groups produced stress hormones, but in the germ-free mice the hormone concentrations were twice as high. Without their microbiota, the mice had found the situation much more stressful.”
― Alanna Collen, 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

“I always like to imagine being a South African policeman who likely couldn’t tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese but whose job was to make sure that people of the wrong color weren’t doing the wrong thing. If he saw an Asian person sitting on a whites-only bench, what would he say? “Hey, get off that bench, you Chinaman!” “Excuse me. I’m Japanese.” “Oh, I apologize, sir. I didn’t mean to be racist. Have a lovely afternoon.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Yes, it was horrific. But I often wonder, with African atrocities like in the Congo, how horrific were they?”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood