Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth finds horror in fungi
An unsettling film that evades the genre’s usual tropes
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The way that we segment history can be divided into two eras: before the advent of penicillin and after or, in other words, pre-antibiotics and post-antibiotics.
Penicillin, the first antibiotic, was discovered in 1928 by Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming, who found that the juices from the
Penicillium fungi were able to destroy harmful bacteria. Medicine was transformed forever, and to this day, penicillin is prescribed for everything from lung infections to sexually transmitted illnesses. This extraordinary elixir was by no means produced by fungi by chance, for in some ways fungi operate more akin to humans and animals than plants. One of the reasons that we derive so many antibiotics from fungi is because we are more closely related to them than any other kingdom of organism, according to a 2008 TED Talk by famed American mycologist Paul S
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