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January 2, 2012 06:16 pm PST
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Virulent, extremophile whiskey-drinking fungus
Writing in Wired, Adam Rogers tells the story of how Canadian mycologist James Scott started his career by tracking down an ancient fungus that had adapted to growing on whiskey fumes and had infested a town around a Hiram Walker warehouse. Relatives of the fungus had been found around Cognac distilleries in 1872, but it [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/csjCnmjyXvk/virulent-extremophile-whiskey.html
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