The Gowanus Canal Doesn't Just Give You Gonorrhea...It Cures It Too

Wow...this is may be slightly outdated, but it's news to me: apparently the Gowanus Canal (the inspiration for The Canal) is so polluted that, in some bizarre paradox, it actually harbors microbes with potentially life saving properties. Yeah, I think my head just exploded. Or as the blog Gowanus Lounge puts it -- Holy Crap: "Gowanus Canal May Be Source of New Antibiotics". Here's a quote from a Newswise story dated July 29, 2008, from a biology professor researching the canal's microbes:

“Despi