ANTIFRAGILE- Cutting the blood supply episodically lowers damage in the event of a subsequent heart attack. Interestingly this works even if the supply is cut from a part (say an arm) remote from the heart.

Another application of increase in variability (Jensen’s inequality).

(Thanks Dean Dobbert)

http://cpt.sagepub.com/content/16/3-4/304.abstract

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