What the *hell*?

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/227013_toxics03.html

This is going to have to rattle around in my brain a bit before the dust clears.

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Heh, no, this will truly be under the Future Work chapter... which at this rate will be > 50% of the entire dissertation. (I've got a neat methodology for showing that design patterns are successful because they adhere to a minimum description length principle from information theory, and an approach to optimize an architecture automatically (with automated refactoring step generation) but on a global basis instead of a local minima... that alone is going to take a few pages.)

The detail I'm trying to wrap my brain around is the multiple generational effect.

Meta-control for genetic processes have been identified for years (protein folding, anyone?), but this is the first time I've heard of one propagating to subsequent generations that were never exposed to the original toxin, nor in utero at the time of exposure of the mother. That's just wacky. I can more easily understand cascading effects ala flinx's example, but the *same* effect propagating?? *twitch*