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3: Mind Controlling Parasites, Are Elephants Right Handed, and Naruto AMVs

Nov 4, 2021

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Is It a Marker of Intelligence or a Natural Thing?

02:08

Hitachi and Sasuke Bohemian Rapsody AMV

04:00

The Evolution of Parasites

01:35

Introduction

5min

Let's Learn Everything pod.com - Slash Socks to Support Your Feet

3min

Is This Fungus Infecting Ants?

4min

Do Ants Have Brains?

3min

The Fungus That Colonizes Ghost Moth Caterpillars

3min

Cicada Infection

4min

What's So Amazing About Psilocybin?

3min

Toxoplasmagondii, Spino Cordotis Telini

3min

Rabies

4min

10.

Is There a Middle Ground Between Dumb and Furious?

6min

11.

Toxoplasma Gondi - I Love It!

2min

12.

Toxoplasmosis Gondi Can Only Replicate in the Guts of Cats

2min

13.

Is Toxoplasma Gondi Overriding Neophobia?

4min

14.

The Evolution of Parasites

2min

15.

Are Elephants Left-Handed or Right Handed?

3min

16.

Do Elephants Have a Preference?

2min

17.

Is It a Marker of Intelligence or a Natural Thing?

2min

18.

Tusk Preference in African Elephants

2min

19.

Is There a Genetic Component to It?

2min

20.

Is There a Left Side of Our Brain Controlling Language?

2min

21.

Do Bees Have a Preference?

2min

22.

Do You Think Bees Are a Sign of Intelligence?

2min

23.

Left Handed Sherpa - Is That a Sign of Intelligence?

2min

24.

Naruto, Bohemian Rhapsody, AMVs

3min

25.

The Art Form of the AMV

5min

26.

Do You Own Naruto or Queen?

5min

27.

Hitachi and Sasuke Bohemian Rapsody AMV

4min

28.

I Love It, and I Love Them All the Time

5min

29.

Let's Learn Everything Podcast

3min

How do mind controlling (or rather, behavior controlling) parasites work? Are elephants right or left handed? And what is so great about Naruto Bohemian Rhapsody AMVs?

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Sources:

Mind Control: How Parasites Manipulate Cognitive Functions in Their Insect Hosts

Ophiocordyceps unilateralis

How a parasitic fungus turns ants into zombies

A specialized fungal parasite

This Parasite Drugs Its Hosts With the Psychedelic Chemical in Shrooms

Parasites brainwash grasshoppers into death dive

How does rabies cause aggression?

Rabies virus modifies host behaviour through a snake-toxin

Parasite makes mice lose fear of cats permanently

Brain parasite may strip away rodents' fear of predators, not just of cats

Parasites - Toxoplasmosis