NOW THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS HOPING FOR: Drug which makes human blood ‘lethal’ to mosquitoes can reduce malaria spread, study shows.

In a very-slightly-related topic, I woke up in the middle of the night a few weeks back with the introduction to a fantasy novel in my head and wrote it down. Called “Poison Soul,” it was about a guy who, when his soul was eaten by the Great Old Ones, forced them to vomit it back up, along with all the others they’d eaten. Sort of the Lovecraftian version of a bad shrimp. Don’t know if I’ll ever get anywhere with it, but it was weird to wake up with several paragraphs written in my head. And, frankly, if you’re going to deal with soul-eaters, something like that just makes sense.