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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Zombie Ant Fungus


There is a type of fungus that attacks ants and makes them behave very oddly before killing them.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110302/sc_livescience/newzombieantfungifound

Oddly, at the end, the scientist says he's worried that climate change may eradicate one type of zombie ant fungus.  Because somehow we WANT zombie ant fungi?

Scientists are weird.

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