I went to the library to look up two topics, amino acids and spinal injuries. And I came back with papers on:

• sudden cardiac death
• mechanisms of implantation of the blastocyst
• electric fish
• memory in electrosensory systems
• a primer on health economics
• magnetoreception
• proteonomics
• demyelinating disease
• axonal transport
• gamma-secretase (enzyme involved in generating protein deposited in Alzheimer’s Disease
• astrobiology
• postmodern health care
• medicine and SF

And that was me being restrained! All of those have relevance to something I am either actively working on or imminently working on, or are general worldbuildings/lifebuilding references. I could easily have come home with three times that amount. I am an intellectual glutton!