Intestinal Efficiency Praised

Leave it to a science website to answer those questions one would never ask out loud, or might not really care to know, like “why are feces brown?”  One line jumps out of an explanation at Live Science that is no joke: “Feces are fascinating.  Flush down your initial grade-school scatological silliness and you’ll discover a world of energy efficiency and unparalleled waste management.  If machines, industries and nations ran as well as your stomach, intestines and colon, we could say goodbye to a lot of landfills.”  Writer Ben Mauk continued, “The complex digestion process ensures that almost no useful energy goes unused.”

Maybe our industrial waste management engineers and efficiency experts should learn something from the processes inside.  We live like kings in our own castles, served by highly-trained and efficient servants.  Something to think about on the throne today.