There’s been a pretty gnarly turn of events in the whole microplastics saga. And to illustrate how much of a potential 180 this could be, I want to just briefly mention one of my favorite stories from the field of astronomy which this whole thing reminds me of very much. In 1998, the Australian Parkes Radio Telescope picked up a series of fast radio bursts, or FRBs for short. The signals they found were new and unique and mysterious, and the team named them perytons. This was