Zone of Repulsion

pirate wires #42 // lab leak discourse disaster, searching for meaning in chinese propaganda, and an uncomfortable question on the topic of trust

Schooled. In a split second, fifty-thousand shining silver fish in rapid forward motion lift up, pivot sharply to the right, and rocket in a new direction. The turn is so fast, with the shift of each fish so immediate, it looks to the human eye as if the school has taken a single action — as if it were itself a single organism. But a school of fish is n…