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As seen in: WIRED, American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
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A Decade of Streptococcus thermophilus Phage Evolution in an Irish Dairy Plant

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By Katherine LaVelle, James Murphy, Brian Fitzgerald, Gabriele A. Lugli
| American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
A Decade of Streptococcus thermophilus Phage Evolution in an Irish Dairy Plant
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A decade of Streptococcus thermophilus phage evolution in an Irish dairy plant

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By Katherine LaVelle, James Murphy, Brian Fitzgerald, Gabriele A. Lugli
| American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Phages of Streptococcus thermophilus present a major threat to the production of many fermented dairy products. To date, only a handful of studies have assessed the biodiversity of S. thermophilus phages in dairy fermentations. In order to develop strategies to limit phage predation in this important industrial environment, it is imperative that such studies are undertaken and that phage-host interactions of this species are better defined.
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Casa Jasmina (with images, tweets) · brianfit · Storify

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By Brian Fitzgerald
| storify.com
A few years back at #SXSW , I heard Bruce Sterling talk about the Casa Jasmina: an open source makers playground in the same refurbished Fiat factory in Torino that houses the folks who make the Arduino / Genuino. The idea is to create an alternative, artistic, Internet-of-things and open-source-design populated space, eventually to list on AirBnB, but for now hosting makers-in-residence who build things for the house and publish the plans on github.
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My Quest to Bring Hippie Mysticism to the Apple Watch

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By Brian Fitzgerald
| WIRED Verified
I’ve come to terms with an essential contradiction in my nature. I’m a hippie-mystic. And I code. In the same way that I found on my third attempt at reading Gravity’s Rainbow that you simply have to give up trying to resolve all the characters and plots, I had to give up trying to resolve these facts. I had to release the brake and, Slothrop-like, just ride the crazy double-helix roller coaster.
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