Yeesh, I just reread this article on a whim two years later, and I was immediately struck by the awfulness of that error.

But think about how amazing that is. Fungus doesn't have a brain. It doesn't have a nervous system. What chemical relays have adapted over how many countless years that make it able to infect a spider, then tell the spider's brain, "GO TO SOMEPLACE DAMP/WARM!" It's really amazing.