Long reads

Another excellent one: https://eidolon.pub/heroes-are-a-virus-from-outer-space-6909d85e2731

Take a breather from the virulent rhetoric on display in the news and our annual conference and let me show you how we harbor and honor the mental infections that kill us, from the first epic to First Man. This is how outbreaks keep populations in check; this is how hydrophobia concentrates contagion in a rabid animal’s dying bite; this is not, I hope, how the world ends.