Let’s eat all the cicadas!
Harnessing the paperclip machine for good?
5 min readMay 11, 2021
Brood 17 — the unbelievable large swarm of 17-year cicadas — is already emerging in parts of America. This summer, Americans in the brood’s path will experience a plague(ish) of locusts(ish), as the skies darken and the roads run slick with bug-guts.