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Food Preservation and the Accidental History of Extremophile Research

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IMAGE: Thermophiles, a type of extremophile that can exist in superheated environments, are responsible for the bright colors of Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park. Photograph by Jim Peaco, National Park Service. Last night at Studio-X NYC, NASA astrobiologist Lynn Rothschild said several extraordinary things. Over the course of a live interview discussing her research into extremophiles, synthetic biology, and the origins of life, we also learned that the oyster’s early ancestors used to have a brain but discarded it through evolution, that a quarter of the world’s copper mining is conducted by microbes (and that urban bio-mining could help tomorrow’s cities remediate brownfield sites and reduce their recycling rates), and that there might be some sort of intergalactic communications highway powered by gravitational lensing, but we’d have to get out to near Pluto to use it. However, Rothschild’s most mind-blowing insight, at least for an edible geographer, was that the

Food Preservation and the Accidental History of Extremophile Research by Nicola | May 8, 2012 IMAGE: Thermophiles, a type of extremophile that can exist in superheated environments, are responsible for the bright colors of Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park. Photograph by Jim Peaco, National Park Service. Last night at Studio-X NYC , NASA astrobiologist Lynn Rothschild said several extraordinary things. Over the course of a live interview discussing her research into extremophiles, synthetic biology, and the origins of life, we also learned that the oyster’s early ancestor

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