today I learned that rain forest fungi hack an ants brain and cause the ant to spread the fungus further on. We live in a wonderous world. Here it says the fun

today I learned that rain forest fungi hack an ants brain and cause the ant to spread the fungus further on. We live in a wonderous world. Here it says the fungus is pulling this trick only on its favorite ant species, amazing: https://www.livescience.com/47751-zombie-fungus-picky-about-ant-brains.html https://www.livescience.com/47751-zombie-fungus-picky-about-... https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140825142124.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140825142124.h... Wikipedia has a list of mind altering parasites; it turns out that this not a unique hack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mind-altering_parasites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mind-altering_parasit... Scary stuff, don't read HN past bedtime! It's probably more tricky to pull of this trick with complicated brains, but who really knows how we tick and who is running us.