Body Snatchers

Murphy's Body Snatchers Law states that if a body can be snatched, it will be. Watch a wasp turn a cockroach into a zombie by blocking a neurotransmitter and then leading it by its antenna to the dining table to be eaten [via Slashdot]

Reminds me of a recent short story I read. Greg Egan's Steve Fever at MIT Technology Review.

The brain is such a strange playground!

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Leave it to Murphy to get into this area too! He has been working overtime with so many people in so many other areas! LOL!
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