{"id":164,"date":"2005-09-04T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2005-09-04T22:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=164"},"modified":"2005-09-04T14:33:01","modified_gmt":"2005-09-04T22:33:01","slug":"parasites-that-perform-chemical-mind-control-see-im-not-just-paranoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Parasites that perform chemical &#8216;mind control&#8217; .. (See, I&#8217;m not just paranoid ;-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Scientist article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn7927\" title=\"my sources say 'ewww'\">Parasites brainwash grasshoppers into death dive<\/a>. There is also a video link in this article, but the dialogue is in French.<\/p>\n<p>More detailed: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erin.utoronto.ca\/~w3behav\/Thomasetal2002.pdf\" title=\"sources say John Denver's plane was infected with them, too\">Do hairworms (Nematomorpha) manipulate the water seeking<br \/>\nbehaviour of their terrestrial hosts?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Anyone able to find more info about these behavior-altering &#8216;enslaver&#8217; fungi? Even Google&#8217;s drawing a blank&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Scientist article: Parasites brainwash grasshoppers into death dive. There is also a video link in this article, but the dialogue is in French. More detailed: Do hairworms (Nematomorpha) manipulate the water seeking behaviour of their terrestrial hosts? (Anyone able to find more info about these behavior-altering &#8216;enslaver&#8217; fungi? Even Google&#8217;s drawing a blank&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim.cexx.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}