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The Magic of Mushrooms

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Fungus in the Ant's Clothing

It's almost as if you have to think of this thing as a single living system, the fungus. We don't really understand quite how responsible they might be for the things that we do. There are plenty of ways that we are influenced by microbes in our behaviors. This is what happens with natural selection. The most successful one is the one that gets the ant on the highest bit of...

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