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A probiotic paradox

The story of MIT’s most notorious milk carton begins, as many good stories do, in a college dorm. The milk in question was purchased in 1994 and rediscovered in 1995 by an undergrad named Justin Cave. By that point, the reportedly lactose-intolerant Cave had even less use for the milk he had abandoned in his fridge ten months earlier. For reasons lost to history, he did not throw the milk away. He threw it a birthday party. The Milk lived the rest of its life unrefrigerated, stored in a tall, single-walled jar. For twenty-seven years, the residents of Random Hall dorm gathered faithfully…

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