These are my undigested internets for February 17th from 12:30 to 18:45:
- Brainwashed by a parasite « Neurophilosophy – The spores of the fungus attach themselves to the external surface of the ant, where they germinate. They then enter the ant’s body through the tracheae (the tubes through which insects breathe), via holes in the exoskeleton called spiracles. Fine fungal filaments called mycelia then start to grow inside the ant’s body cavity, absorbing the host’s soft tissues but avoiding its vital organs.
- Parasite Makes Ants Resemble Berries – Fruit pickers beware. That red berry might actually be an infested ant’s rear end.
- Philip K Dick’s FBI file and the bizarre story of a neo-Nazi plot to start a Third World War | Technoccult – “Undoubtedly, one of the prime reasons why Dick attracted attention from the FBI was a series of bizarre letters he penned to the Bureau in the early 1970s, in which he described his personal knowledge of an alleged underground Nazi cabal that was attempting to covertly manipulate science fiction writers to further advance its hidden cause.”
- Evo Morales launches ‘Coca Colla’ – Telegraph – Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president and known for chewing coca leaves at UN meetings, has launched a drink featuring the leaf called “Coca Colla”.
