“Life is simple. Only the intellect looks for complexity. A jazz musician plays complicated notes on his guitar and intellectuals gather around him in coffee houses. Then along comes a Zen master playing only three notes on a flute to enlighten you.”

Scientists also proved it destroyed retinol (vitamin A) in 1937 …

“Soybean Flour Destroys Vitamin A,” Scientific American, Aug. 1937

It’s also capable of shape-shifting.

The following were common spleen medicines (over a century ago) …

Acorn water at Large Intestine Time (or Stomach Time).

Redroot (Ceanothus americanus) leaf tea at Urinary Bladder Time (or Small Intestine Time).

Sea onion (Drimia maritima) root at Triple Heater Time (or Circulation-Sex Time).

“With the invention of photosynthesis, life learned how to plug into a star. The battle against entropy had been won.”

“Three or four days after the moon is new or full, the band of frequencies that can be used to get shortwave broadcasts through to distant stations is slightly narrower [a megacycle or two lower] in some parts of the world than at other times.”