Tl;dr, good storytellers get laid more
I love me a good Ed Yong piece — if you’re into swimming dinosaurs and coral reefs and zombie fungi, check out his work for Famlantic — because he always makes these kind of obscure studies into something that peels back the curtain on how truly ~wondrous~ and not literal/figurative flame-scorched the world can be.
The latest case in point: The Desira…
