Complexity Digest 2005.47 - 10.01

05/11/25

Two Most Recent Web Cast + Podcast :

European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS05)

Paris, France, Paris, 05/11/14-18
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[b][green]Illuminating the Shadow of the Future

Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
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The Food You Eat May Change Your Genes For Life, New Scientist Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: It sounds like science fiction: simply swallowing a pill, or eating a specific food supplement, could permanently change your behaviour for the better, or reverse diseases such as schizophrenia, Huntington's or cancer.

Yet such treatments are looking increasingly plausible. In the latest development, normal rats have been made to behave differently just by injecting them with a specific amino acid. The change to their behaviour was permanent.