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Bacteria Behaviour Can Shed Light On How Financial Markets Work 91

notscientific writes "Bacteria invest in proteins in an attempt to reduce stress or increase energy intake, while humans invest in cash. In both cases, better tradeoffs pay off. The similarities in tradeoffs faced by both bacteria and humans during investment are actually quite similar. Now, using synthetic biology, a group of scientists has shown that the outcomes of investment decisions in bacteria can be precisely defined, alluding to the idea that human investment activities, such as financial markets, can be thoroughly understood as well, and even modelled."

Comment Re:For the sake of saving time, (Score 1) 417

>Somehow it seems as if our own politicians hate our freedom more than the terrorists supposedly do...

As one of the "terrorists" (read, Muslims who worth a grain of salt), this is because those are completely different freedoms: spying on your own citizens is prohibited in Islam (hadith of "poking the eye"), while your government enjoys it.

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