Peoria Quotes

“Bacteriologist Mary Hunt found one [a mold] on a cantaloupe in a Peoria, IL grocery store. That strain became even more productive after being exposed to X-rays and ultraviolet radiation, essentially all the penicillin in the world descends from the mold from that one cantaloupe in Peoria.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet