Parasites That Control Minds
A fungal spore drills into an ant and rewrites the mission statement
A fungal spore drills into an ant's exoskeleton. A wasp performs brain surgery on a cockroach. A single-celled organism rewires a rat's sexual arousal — and might be nudging two billion humans toward riskier lives. This is the story of nature's puppet masters and the deeply uncomfortable question they force us to ask: who's really in control?
One story, one sitting.
Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.