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Complexity Digest 2004.52 Next Issue TOP

  1. 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake, Wikipedia
    1. Some Countries Are Betting That A Few Seconds Can Save Lives, Science
    2. Sounding the Alarm, NY Times
  2. Hitchhikers Guide to the Future - A/V Convergence, BBC
    1. Collective Intelligence Quanitifed for Computer-Mediated Group Problem Solving, arXiv
    2. Bucket Brigades Revisited: Are They Always Effective?, European Journal of Operational Research
    3. Online Games Play With Politics, BBC News Online
  3. What Is Good for Children Is Good for Mankind: The Role of Imagination in Discovery, Science
    1. Singapore Leads, U.S. Lags in Science, Math Student Achievement, Science
    2. The Concept Of 'Developing The Brain': A New Natural Science For Learning And Education, Brain & Dev.
    3. Infants, Children Prefer Sounds Over Pictures And Only Slowly Become Visually Oriented, ScienceDaily
    4. The Evolution of Imitation and Mirror Neurons in Adaptive Agents, Cognitive Systems Research
  4. Human Altruism: Economic, Neural, And Evolutionary Perspectives, Current Opin. Neurobiol.
  5. Quantifying The Complexity Of Chaos Of Molecular Systems, Complexity
  6. Natural Selection Acts On The Quantum World, Nature News
    1. Taming the Hyperbolic Jungle by Pruning Its Unruly Edges, Science
  7. China in Line as U.S. Rival for Canada Oil, NY Times
  8. Galactic Baby Factories Snapped, Science Now
  9. New Juggling Tricks Created By Maths, New Scientist
  10. 'Eye In The Sky' Watches Over Air, BBC
  11. Pacemaker Neurons And Neuronal Networks: An Integrative View, Current Opin. Neurobiol.
  12. When Genes Are Out of the Loop, Science Now
    1. New Enzyme is a Turnoff for Genes, Science Now
    2. Toward a Systems Approach to Understanding Plant Cell Walls, Science
  13. MonkeyVocal Ability Investigated, ExpressNewsline.com
    1. Three Gray Mice, Science Now
    2. Love At Any Cost, Science Now
    3. Ecological Versus Climatic Thresholds, Science
    4. Asynchronous Terrestrial and Marine Signals of Climate Change During Heinrich Events, Science
  14. Microbial Life Breathes Deep, Science
    1. Towards an Evolutionary Ecology of Life in Soil, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  15. Foraging In A Complex Environment: From Foraging Strategies To Emergent Spatial Properties, Ecol. Complexity
    1. On The Nature Of Ecodynamics, Ecol. Complexity
  16. Use of Logic Relationships to Decipher Protein Network Organization, Science
    1. Peptide Signals Sense and Destroy Target Cells, Science
    2. Enterococcus faecalis Senses Target Cells and in Response Expresses Cytolysin, Science
  17. Selecting The Signals For A Brain-Machine Interface, Current Opin. Neurobiol.
  18. Near-Earth Asteroid 2004 MN4 Reaches Highest Score To Date On Hazard Scale, JPL
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Jet Is an Open Secret in Terror War, Washington Post
    2. Heightened Security or Neocolonial Science?, Science
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Complexity Digest 2004.51 Next Issue TOP

  1. Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database, NY Times
    1. Google's Plan Prompts a Question: What's on the Web?, NPR TOTN
  2. A Social Network for Societal-Scale Decision-Making Systems, arXiv
    1. One Country, Two Prices? A Study Of The Deflationary Effect Of Price Convergence On Hong Kong, Asian Econ. J.
  3. Rapid Progress Reported in Emerging Field of Molecular Electronics, UCLA News
  4. Device Can Detect Heart Failure Symptoms, Boston Globe/Associated Press
    1. Using Stem Cells for Heart Damage, NPR TOTN
    2. Science Finds A Point To Acupuncture, Times
  5. The Self-organization of Speech Sounds, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  6. Building Programmable Jigsaw Puzzles with RNA, Science
    1. Translation of DNA Signals into Polymer Assembly Instructions, Science
    2. Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology, Science
    3. Screening For Genetic Disorders: Need To Avoid Anxiety, ESRC
  7. The Quantum Perfect Storm, Science
    1. Protein Engineers Go for Gold, Science
    2. Proteins Come Under New Control, Nature News
    3. "Pumping" Iron: The Proteins, Science
    4. Whence Molecular Electronics?, Science
  8. 'Artificial Life' Comes Step Closer, BBC
    1. Digitized and Brought to Life, Washington Post
  9. The Astonishing Micropygmies, Science
  10. Slip Of The Tongue: Word Substitution Mistakes Have More To Do With, ScienceDaily
  11. Freak Storms Kill Six In France, BBC
  12. Bipedal Robot Learns To Run, New Scientist
    1. Ecobot Eats Dead Flies for Fuel, Wired News
  13. State-Dependent Foraging Rules For Social Animals In Selfish Herds, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. The Evolution Of Hippocampus Volume And Brain Size In Relation To Food Hoarding In Birds, Ecol. Lett.
    2. The Collapse Of Cycles In The Dynamics Of North American Grouse Populations, Ecol. Lett.
  14. Breakthrough of the Year, Science
    1. Mars Water Tops Science Honors, BBC News
  15. Forecasters Face Losing Key Tools, BBC News
    1. Eavesdropping on Faults to Anticipate Their Next Move, Science
  16. Singapore Math Method, NPR TOTN
    1. A Finite Discussion of Infinite Numbers, NPR Weekend Edition
    2. Researchers Call For More Materials Science In School, Nature
  17. Sensing Fear, NPR TOTN
    1. Human Amygdala Responsivity to Masked Fearful Eye Whites, Science
  18. Buying Into Failure, NY Times
    1. In Iraq, Less Can Be More, NY Times
    2. Pentagon Blocks MIT Inquiry Into Missile Data Fraud Claims, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Bush Signs Law To Unify Control Over Spy Agencies, Globe and Mail Update
    2. On The Internet, A Web Of Dark Alleys, cnet/NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2004.50 Next Issue TOP

  1. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Complexity Digest Virtual Conference Network
  2. Beating The Lights, Nature News
    1. Self-Organizing Traffic Lights, arXiv
    2. Modeling And Simulating Human Teamwork Behaviors Using Intelligent Agents, Phy. Life Rev.
  3. IBM Reassures Workers After Milestone Deal, The Washington Post
    1. Diverging Fortunes, Tied to the Dollar, NY Times
    2. Real Reform for Social Security, NY Times
    3. Economic Impact Of SARS: The Case Of Hong Kong, Asian Econ. Papers
  4. Europe Presses Ahead On Sat-Nav, BBC News
    1. Patent Prescription, A Radical Cure For The Ailing U.S. Patent System, IEEE Spectrum
    2. Getting Closer Or Drifitng Apart?, Quart. J. Econ.
  5. Laser-Sharp Gamblers Keep Winnings, Agence France-Presse
  6. Sunlight to Fuel Hydrogen Future, Wired News
    1. Energy-Saving Computer Chip, U. Alberta press release
    2. Scheme Simplifies Quantum Chips, Technology Review
    3. Cellphones Spell The End For Pocket TVs, New Scientist
  7. Poppy Seed Bagel Math, NPR Weekend Edition
  8. Genetic Code: Lucky Chance Or Fundamental Law Of Nature?, Phy. Life Rev.
    1. The Behavior of Genes, NY Times
  9. Addiction as a Computational Process Gone Awry, Science
    1. China's Fermented Past: Pottery Yields Signs Of Oldest Known Wine, Science News
    2. Smoking Is Bad For The Brain, New Scientist
    3. Before Using That Shampoo, Read The Label: Common Ingredient Affects Developing Neurons Of Rats, ScienceDaily
  10. Lonely Whale's Song Remains A Mystery, New Scientist
  11. Congo Poachers Leave Bonobo At Risk, BBC News
    1. Bonobos Face Extinction, Nature News
  12. Monkeys May Visualise In Response To Calls, New Scientist
    1. Monkeys Miss Out On Music, Nature News
    2. Hungry Monkeys Can Dig It, Nature News
    3. Tool Use Confirmed In Monkeys, BBC News
  13. New Technique Scans Electrical 'Brainscape', ScienceDaily
  14. Crows May Be Avian Einsteins, NPR ATC
    1. Birds Of A Feather Not Related To Each Other, New Scientist
  15. Coral Reefs May Grow With Global Warming, New Scientist
    1. US Rebuked Over Climate Claims, BBC News
    2. Cheers, and Concern, for New Climate Pact, NY Times
    3. China, Brazil Reveal Climate Plan, BBC News
    4. Slick Trick Could Save Marine Ecosystems, New Scientist
  16. Smog Clogs Arteries: Pollution Does Lasting Harm To Blood Vessels, Science News
  17. Attacks Sabotage Iraq Reconstruction, Washington Post
    1. Inaction's Consequence, The Washington Post
    2. Afghans' Gains Face Big Threat in Drug Traffic, NY Times
    3. Where Democracy's Greatest Enemy Is a Flower, NY Times
  18. Pentagon Weighs Use of Deception in a Broad Arena, NY Times
    1. Democracy's Dilemma: Environment, Social Equity, and the Global Economy, MIT Press
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Dirty Bombs Beware, New Scientist
    2. Cellphone Sniffs Out Dirty Bombs, New Scientist
    3. The Suicide Supply Chain, NY Times
    4. Detainee Hearings Bring New Details, Disputes, The Washington Post
    5. Intelligence and Civil Rights, NY Times
    6. A Hostile Land Foils the Quest for bin Laden, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.49 Next Issue TOP

  1. 'Brainwave' Cap Controls Computer, BBC News Online
    1. Control Of A Two-Dimensional Movement Signal By A Noninvasive, PNAS
    2. Thinking About Moving? Let Brain Waves Do The Walking, ISTweb
  2. Dollar's Fall Tests Nerve of Asia's Central Bankers, NY Times
    1. Consumption And Stock Markets In Asian Economies, Int. Rev. Appl. Econ.
    2. A Field Guide to the Falling Dollar, NY Times
    3. Fly Me to the Moon, NY Times
  3. UCLA Physicist Applies Physics To Best-selling Books, ScienceDaily
    1. At Museums, Computers Get Creative, NY Times
    2. Urgent vs. Important, Darwin Mag
    3. The Hit We Almost Missed, NY Times
  4. Don't Worry, Be Happy--Or Else, Science Now
    1. Study Is First to Confirm That Stress Speeds Aging, Washington Post
    2. Study: Stress Linked to Chromosome Damage, Aging, NPR D2D
    3. Stressed To Death: Mental Tension Ages Cells, Science News
  5. Replicating an Eel's Nerve Circuitry, Johns Hopkins University News Release
    1. The Logic Of Life Brings Order To Our Genes, ScienceDaily
    2. Mutating Bots May Save Lives, Wired
    3. Proof for Water, Hints of Life?, Science
    4. Zapped Human Eggs Divide Without Sperm, New Scientist
  6. DNA Makes Nanotube Transistors, Technology Review
    1. NIST Demonstrates Data 'Repair Kit' for Quantum Computers, NIST News Release
    2. Smart Dust Gets Magnetic, Technology Research News
  7. Cyber Detective Links Up Crimes, New Scientist
    1. Teenagers Fail To See The Consequences, New Scientist
  8. Humans Can Learn To Be Nice, New Scientist
    1. 'Carved in Sand: Why Memory Fades in Midlife', NPR D2D
    2. Corporate Model Proves an Imperfect Fit for School System, Washington Post
    3. Psychotic Symptoms More Likely With Cannabis, New Scientist
    4. Of Reefer and Madness, Science Now
  9. Whale And Dolphin Strandings Fit Predictions, New Scientist
    1. How Do Fish Find And Recognise 'Friends'?, Univ. of Leicester
  10. Grow-Slow Potion: Pheromone Keeps Bee Youngsters Youthful, Science News
    1. Arrested Development Keeps Bees on Task, Science Now
    2. Sex...Only If Really Necessary in a Feminine Monarchy, Science
  11. Ancestral Mammal's Genome Reconstructed, ScienceNOW
    1. U.S. Panel Recommends No Protection for Grouse, NY Times
    2. Competitive Coexistence in a Dynamic Landscape, Theoretical Population Biology
    3. Wolves' Genetic Diversity Worryingly Low, New Scientist
  12. The Deadly Rise Of Urban Malaria, New Scientist
    1. CT Scans Explain Mysterious 9/11 Cough, New Scientist
  13. Drug Safety, NPR TOTN
    1. Americans Relying More On Prescription Drugs, NY Times
    2. Don't Trust the Help, Science Now
    3. Clinical Trials and Public Trust, Science
  14. Global Warming Tied to Heat Wave; Lawsuits Loom, NPR ATC
    1. U.S. Climate Policy Eyed, Washington Post
    2. The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change, Science
  15. Major Satellite In Mystery Shutdown, New Scientist
    1. US Review Rekindles Cold Fusion Debate, Nature News
  16. Star's Pulse Of Radiation Is Strongest Ever, New Scientist
    1. Not-So-Cosmic Microwaves?, Science Now
    2. Aliens Invade Kuiper Belt, Science Now
  17. Detecting Synchronization in Spatially Extended Discrete Systems by Complexity Measurements, arXiv
  18. Greed And Grievance In Civil War, Oxford Econ. Papers
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Big Changes Seen in Choice for Homeland Security, NY Times
    2. For Kerik, a Blunt New Yorker, a Complex Washington Task, NY Times
    3. U.S. Public Concerns In The Aftermath Of 9-11: A Test Of Second Level Agenda-Setting, Int. J. Public Opinion Res.
    4. Deal In Place To Overhaul Intelligence, Boston Globe
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Complexity Digest 2004.48 Next Issue TOP

  1. 11th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Conference Webcast
  2. Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors, HBS Working Knowledge
    1. Disciplined Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan Management Review
    2. Are Animals As Irrational As Humans?, ScienceDaily
  3. The Dream Factory, Wired
  4. The Role Of The State In Evolutionary Economics, Cambridge J. Econ.
    1. Reported And Secret Interventions In The Foreign Exchange Markets, Finance Res. Lett.
    2. Good News About Poverty, NY Times
    3. Two-Factor Model of Income Distribution Dynamics, SFI Working Papers
  5. Vast Borrowing Seen in Altering Social Security, NY Times
    1. When Weakness Is a Strength, NY Times
  6. Computers as Authors? Literary Luddites Unite!, New York Times
    1. Waving Hello, From a Distance, NY Times
    2. Hi, I'm Your Car. Don't Let Me Distract You., NY Times
    3. Transparent Transistor: See-Through Component For Flexible Displays, Science News
  7. Concentration Hampers Simple Tasks, Nature News
    1. Patterns: Pain and the Downsized Brain, New York Times
  8. Protein Mends Broken Hearts, Science Now
    1. Convincing Results: Stopping The Spread Of Cancer In The Body, Alphagalileo
  9. Endurance Running Is In East Africans' Genes, New Scientist
  10. A Two-Way Bioinformatic Street, Science
    1. Building a Medical Data Network, NY Times
    2. The Never-Ending Search, BBC News
  11. Common Signaling Themes, Science
    1. Pheromone Signaling Mechanisms in Yeast: A Prototypical Sex Machine, Science
    2. Jekyll and Hyde in the Microbial World, Science
    3. Emergence of Complex Dynamics in a Simple Model of Signaling Networks, arXiv
  12. Stable and Unstable Attractors in Boolean Networks, arXiv
  13. Magnetic Field Benefits Bacteria, Nature News
    1. A Magnetic Attraction to Home, Science Now
    2. Color At Night: Geckos Can Distinguish Hues By Dim Moonlight, Science News
  14. Complexity And Ecosystem Management: The Theory And Practice Of Multi-Agent Systems, Ecol. Econ.
    1. Bison Shed Light On Big Wipeout, BBC News
    2. Cicada Invasion Feeds Forests, Nature News
    3. Panda Handstand Makes Its Mark, BBC News
  15. Balancing Food And Predator Pressure Induces Chronic Stress In Songbirds, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Identifying The Role That Animals Play In Their Social Networks, Biol. Lett.
    2. Sensor Network Mimics Synchronized Calling By Frogs, ScienceDaily
  16. Crystal-Clear View of Planet Building, Science Now
  17. Law May Prohibit Iraqi Farmers from Replanting Seeds, NPR ME
    1. U.N. Tackles Issue of Imbalance of Power, NY Times
  18. Congress Seeks to Curb International Court, The Washington Post
    1. Was Nov. 2 Realignment -- Or a Tilt?, Washington Post
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. High-Tech Failure Against Terror, Asia Times Online
    2. UN Recommends New Definition Of Terrorism, ABC Online
    3. Terror Case Hinges on a Wobbly Key Player, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.47 Next Issue TOP

  1. Faster Than a Hyena? Running May Make Humans Special, Science
    1. Scientist: Early Humans Ran Wild, The Harvard Crimson
    2. Distance Running 'Shaped Human Evolution', Nature News
    3. The Evolution of Endurance, Science Now
    4. Evolution Made Humans Marathon Runners, New Scientist
  2. Anthropology Update: Spanish Scientists Discover Ape Fossil, NPR TOTN
    1. Spanish Fossil Sheds New Light on the Oldest Great Apes, Science
    2. 'Original' Great Ape Discovered, BBC News
    3. Oldest Great Ape Kin Uncovered in Spain, Science Now
    4. Not All Great Apes Were Swingers, New Scientist
  3. Teaching Evolution, NPR TOTN
    1. Richard Dawkins, 'Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution', NPR TOTN
    2. Evolutionary Biology: Butterfly Mimics Of Ants, Nature
    3. Science Counts Species On Brink, BBC News
  4. New Measurements Reveal How Water-Running Lizards Avoid Tripping, Science Now
    1. Scientists Debate Blending Of Human, Animal Forms, Washington Post
    2. One-Celled Socialites, Science News
  5. Top Scientist Asks: Is Life All Just A Dream?, Times Online
    1. What's Behind Edward C. Prescott's Nobel Prize?
    2. Disciplined Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan Management Review
  6. Scientists Get Their Own Google, Nature News
    1. Citation Analysis Of Research: The Decline And Fall Of The 'Anglo-American Empire'?, Alphagalileo
  7. Benoit Mandelbrot: Father Of Fractals, Nature
    1. Self-Organization and the City [Book Review], Political Geography
  8. New Models for Epileptogenesis, The Scientist
    1. Virus's Plan of Attack Identified, Science Now
  9. Brains and Genes in Perfect Clarity, The Scientist
    1. Clear Pictures of How We Think, Wired News
    2. Tone Language Translates To Perfect Pitch: Mandarin Speakers More Likely To Acquire Rare Musical Ability, ScienceDaily
  10. Cognitive Consonance: Complex Brain Functions In The Fruit Fly And Its Relatives, Trends in Neurosc.
    1. Effects Of Exercise On Pavlovian Fear Conditioning, Behav. Neurosc.
    2. A Theory Of Epineuronal Memory, Neural Networks
  11. Computer Grid To Help The World, BBC News
    1. Explaining Answers From The Semantic Web: The Inference Web Approach, Web Semantics: Sc., Services & Agents on the WWW
  12. Nanotechnology Seen as a Solution to Many of the World's Problems, PRNewswire
    1. Key to Cheaper, Better Nanotubes Comes Out in the Wash, Science
    2. Just Add Water, Science Now
    3. Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Yarns by Downsizing an Ancient Technology, Science
    4. Nano Fabric May Make Computers Thinner, Sci-Tech Today
  13. New Vehicles Will Make Own Decisions Based on Commands, ABC News
    1. Shape-Shifting Robot Shows Off Its Moves, New Scientist
    2. Simple Wire Picks Up Terahertz Waves, Nature News
    3. Simple Technology May Help Harness Terahertz Rays, Science Now
    4. Software Sorts Out Subjectivity, Technology Research News
  14. Induced Innovations And Climate Change Policy, Ener. Econ.
    1. Director James Cameron's Deep Obsessions, NPR TOTN
    2. Climate Change Sceptics 'Wrong', BBC News
    3. Climate: Large-Scale Warming Is Not Urban, Nature
    4. Emissions Trading: The Carbon Game, Nature
    5. Sunspot Activity Impacts On Crop Success, New Scientist
  15. A Titan Of A Mission Parachuting Through Smog To Saturn's Moon, Science News
    1. Huygens Floating In The Titan Night, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    2. Cosmic Question, Washington Post
  16. Standards of Time and Frequency at the Outset of the 21st Century, Science
    1. Metrology And The State: Science, Revenue, And Commerce, Science
    2. Quantum-Enhanced Measurements: Beating the Standard Quantum Limit, Science
    3. Lighthearted Transistor: Electronic Workhorse Moonlights As Laser, Science News
  17. Afghan Poppy Growing Reaches Record Level, U.N. Says, NY Times
    1. US To Tackle Afghan Drugs Trade, BBC News
  18. Rolling Back the Fog of War, The Scientist
    1. Diplomacy and Darfur, Washington Post
    2. Politics and the C.I.A., NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Chirac Says War in Iraq Spreads Terrorism, NY Times
    2. Iraq at the Tipping Point, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.46 Next Issue TOP

  1. Genomic Databases and the Tree of Life, Science
  2. Biodiversity Conservation and the Eradication of Poverty, Science
    1. A Political Economy Model Of Immigration Quotas, Econ. Governance
    2. Why Punish? Social Reciprocity And The Enforcement Of Prosocial Norms, J. Evol. Econ.
    3. The Social Implications Of Winner And Loser Effects, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
  3. What's on the Label?, Science
    1. Search Wars - Which Is the Best?, BBC News
  4. Realistic Species Losses Disproportionately Reduce Grassland Resistance, Science
  5. Seeking the Key to Music, Science
    1. Music Mirrors Tone Patterns In Our Speech, Nature News
    2. Listen, Baby, Science
  6. Dynamics of Human Walking at Steady Speeds, Phys. Rev. Lett
    1. Brain Cells May Pay the Price for a Bad Night's Sleep, Science
  7. Ideas Stolen Right From Nature, Wired
    1. Imitation in Animals and Artifacts [Book review], JASSS
    2. Self-organized Criticality and Scale-free Properties in Emergent Functional Neural Networks, arXiv
  8. A Socially Enforced Signal Of Quality In A Paper Wasp, Nature
    1. Animal Behaviour: Rank Crime And Punishment, Nature
  9. Shots Make Monkeys Shoot Blanks, Science Now
    1. Vaccine Cripples Sperm In Monkeys, Nature News
    2. Reversible Immunocontraception in Male Monkeys Immunized with Eppin, Science
    3. Vaccine Stretch: Smaller Dose Packs Punch Against Flu, Science News
  10. Assault On Autism - Scientists Target Drugs And Other Environmental Agents, Science News
    1. Moving Brain Implant Seeks Out Signals, New Scientist
    2. Monkeys Discriminate Between Knowing And Not Knowing And Collect Information, Animal Cognition
    3. New Brain Cells Develop During Alcohol Abstinence, ScienceDaily
  11. Sea Urchins Reveal Spiky Secret, Nature News
    1. A Bunch Of Leaves, Nature
  12. Big Engine Finds Small Breaks, Nature
  13. Start With Black Hole, Then Add Stars, Science Now
    1. Second Black Hole for the Milky Way, Science Now
    2. Quantum Astronomy: The Double Slit Experiment, Space.com
    3. Quantum Lab Fits On A Chip, Nature News
    4. Spin Current Sighting Ends 35-Year Hunt, Science Now
  14. Making Waves, Nature
    1. Laser Beams: Knotted Threads Of Darkness, Nature
  15. Are Brazil Nuts Attractive?, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  16. A Fast Low-Power Optical Memory Based On Coupled Micro-Ring Lasers, Nature
  17. Earth Tides Can Trigger Shallow Thrust Fault Earthquakes, Science
    1. Deep Ocean Overturning--Then and Now, Science
    2. Honeybees Defy Dino-killing 'Nuclear Winter', ScienceDaily
    3. A Seashore Fight to Harness the Wind, NY Times
  18. Pentagon Envisioning a Costly Internet for War, New York Times
    1. Urban Warfare Deals Harsh Challenge to Troops, NY Times
    2. Trouble Spots Dot Iraqi Landscape, Attacks Erupting Away From Fallujah, Washington Post
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. U.S. Judge Halts War-Crime Trial at Guantanamo, NY Times
    2. Groups, U.S. Battle Over 'Global Terrorist' Label, Washington Post
    3. U.S. Plans Assault On Afghan Heroin, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2004.45 Next Issue TOP

  1. On The Emergence Of Complex Systems On The Basis Of The Coordination Of Complex Behaviors Of Their Elements, Complexity
  2. Europe Still Unhappy With U.S. Tax Subsidy, NY Times
    1. False Friends Are Worse Than Bitter Enemies, Evol. & Human Behav.
  3. Super Searches, Time
  4. Software Helps Singers Find Perfect Pitch, NPR ME
    1. Are Spatial Memories Strengthened In The Human Hippocampus During Slow Wave Sleep?, Evol. & Human Behav.
    2. Anxiety Good For Memory Recall, Bad For Solving Complex Problems, ScienceDaily
    3. Psychologist Finds Instance Where 'Two Wrongs Do Make A Right', ScienceDaily
  5. A Battle Cry to Decipher Immunity, The Scientist
  6. Cardiovascular Biology: How Genes Know Their Place, Nature
    1. Ural Farmers Got Milk Gene First?, Science Now
  7. Immunology and Olfaction, Science
    1. Making Sense, Nature
  8. Spider Webs Untangle Evolution, Nature News
    1. Supernova Debris Found On Earth, Nature News
  9. Fish With Cleft Lip Solves Evolution Riddle, Nature News
    1. Wandering Nostrils, Nature
  10. Stickiness Takes On New Shapes, Nature News
  11. Dynamic Instability of a Bacterial Engine, Science
  12. Land Management: Forests, Fires And Climate, Nature
    1. Biodiversity Effects on Soil Processes Explained by Interspecific Functional Dissimilarity, Science
    2. Hide And See, Conflicting Views Of Reef-Fish Colors, Science News
    3. Marine Conservation: Sink Or Swim, Nature
  13. Stealth Now Old Hat - USAF Looks Into Teleportation, Technovelgy.com
  14. Structured Water Is Changing Models, The Scientist
    1. Biophysics: Water-Repellent Legs Of Water Strider, Nature
  15. Community resilience is key to disaster reduction, AlertNet
    1. Cosmic Doomsday Delayed, Nature News
  16. Democratic Values And Citizen Action: A View From US Ninth Graders, Int. J. Edu. Res.
    1. Students' Concepts And Attitudes Toward Citizenship: The Case Of Hong Kong, Int. J. Edu. Res.
  17. New Standards for Elections, NY Times
    1. You Can Fool Some People Sometimes, arXiv
  18. Dick Morris: Exit Polls Were "Juiced", News Hunds
    1. Report Says Problems Led to Skewed Surveying Data, NY Times
    2. House Dems Seek Election Inquiry, Wired News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Qaeda Now A Global Islamic Insurgency: Ex-CIA Official, Daily Times Monitor
    2. U.S. Judge Halts War-Crime Trial at Guantanamo, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.44 Next Issue TOP

  1. New Human Species Discovered, NPR TOTN
    1. Scientists Discover Species of Small Early Humans, NPR ME
    2. Little Lady Of Flores Forces Rethink Of Human Evolution, Nature
    3. Evolutionary Shrinkage: Stone Age Homo Find Offers Small Surprise, Science News
    4. Palaeoanthropology: Human Evolution Writ Small, Nature
    5. Ancient, Tiny Humans Shed New Light on Evolution, NPR ATC
    6. Small Archaic Human Stuns Paleoanthropologists, Science Now
    7. Eton Or The Zoo?, BBC News
    8. 'Hobbit' Joins Human Family Tree, BBC News
  2. Knowledge-Based Economies, Organizations And The Sociocultural Regulation Of Work, Econ. & Indus.Democ.
    1. Mathematical Models For Explaining The Emergence Of Specialization In Performing Tasks, Complexity
  3. Buzzing the Web on a Meme Machine, NY Times
  4. Black Hole Computers, Scientific American
    1. Computing at the Speed of Light, Scientific American
  5. Organised Chaos Gets Robots Going, New Scientist
    1. Molecular Motors: Smooth Coupling In Salmonella, Nature
  6. Mixing Biology and Electronics to Create Robotic Vision, U Arizona News Release
    1. Single Origin for Eyes?, Science Now
    2. The Eyes Have It, The Feature
  7. Doctors Use Nanotechnology to Improve Health Care, NY Times
    1. Examining Antibiotic Resistance, NPR TOTN
  8. Ultrasound Scans Accused Of Disrupting Brain Development, Nature
    1. Prozac Paradox, Science Now
  9. Daddies, Devotion, And Dollars, Ameri. J. Econ. & Socio.
  10. Researchers Develop Neural Prosthesis Allowing A Monkey To Feed Self Using Only Its Brain, ScienceDaily
    1. Advent of the Robotic Monkeys, Wired
  11. Music and the Brain
    1. Can't Place A Name To The Face You Just Saw?, ScienceDaily
  12. An Explanatory Model for Food-web Structure and Evolution, arXiv
  13. Predation Risk Is An Ecological Constraint For Helper Dispersal In A Cooperatively Breeding Cichlid, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
    1. The Evolutionary Origin of Cooperators and Defectors, Science
    2. Symmetry Breaking and the Evolution of Development, Science
  14. That Familiar Nest Odor, Science Now
    1. 'Smelly' Mates Guide Seabirds, BBC News
    2. Partner-Specific Odor Recognition in an Antarctic Seabird, Science
  15. Evolutionary Biology: Mortality And Lifespan, Nature
    1. Hunted Guppies Live Longer, Science Now
  16. Earthquake Prediction: A Seismic Shift In Thinking, Nature
  17. An Effective Approach to Climate Change, Science
    1. Deluge Of Typhoons May Aid Forecast Models, Nature
    2. Tidal Wave Threat 'Over-hyped', BBC News
    3. Abrupt Climate Change, Scientific American
  18. How Strategists Design the Perfect Candidate, Science
    1. Gambling With Our Votes?, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Bin Laden's October Surprise, BBC News
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  1. Business Simulations Spark Rapid Workplace Renovations, Science News
  2. The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis: Market Efficiency From An Evolutionary Perspective, Journal of Portfolio Management 30
  3. Systems Biology and New Technologies Enable Predictive and Preventative Medicine, Science
    1. All Bio Systems Are Go, Wired
    2. Systems Biology And The Molecular Circuits Of Cancer, ChemBioChem
    3. Preliminary Studies On The In Silico Evolution Of Biochemical Networks, ChemBioChem
    4. Computational Design Of Reduced Metabolic Networks, ChemBioChem
  4. Mice Do Fine Without 'Junk DNA', Nature News
    1. Puffed-Up Genome, Science Now
  5. Solving Gene Expression, Science
    1. Gene Order and Dynamic Domains, Science
    2. Searching for the Genome's Second Code, Science
    3. A Fast and Furious Hunt for Gene Regulators, Science
  6. Obtaining Multiple Separate Food Sources: Behavioural Intelligence In The Physarum Plasmodium, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
    1. Interactivity, Dynamic Symbol Processing, And The Emergence Of Content In Human Communication, The Info. Soc.
  7. Palaeontology: Leg Feathers In An Early Cretaceous Bird, Nature
    1. Early Bird: Fossil Features Hint At Go-Get-'Em Hatchlings, Science News
  8. 'Brain' In A Dish Acts As Autopilot, Living Computer, ScienceDaily
    1. Chips Coming to a Brain Near You, Wired News
    2. Auras May Be Generated In The Brain, Nature News
  9. Can Computers Untangle the Neural Net?, The Scientist
    1. On The Trail Of An Odor Map - Nobel Winning Work Has A Way To Go, The Scientist
  10. Malaria: A Complex New Vaccine Shows Promise, Science
    1. Antibiotics: A Shot In The Arm, Nature
  11. 11, New Scientist
    1. Bridging Light and Matter, Science Now
    2. Researchers Build Quantum Info Bank By Writing on the Clouds, Science
  12. Printers Betray Document Secrets, BBC
  13. Planet Formation Is Violent, Slow And Messy, New Scientist
    1. Messy Findings: Planets Encounter A Violent World, Science News
    2. Rebel Stars, Science Now
  14. Living Planet Report, p2pnet
    1. Water Scarcity: A Looming Crisis?, BBC News
    2. Appreciating Ecological Complexity: Habitat Contours As A Conceptual Landscape Model, Conserv. Biol.
    3. Aid Agencies' Warning On Climate, BBC News
  15. Life-Giving Dead Wood 'At Risk', BBC News
  16. From a Physicist and New Nobel Winner, Some Food for Thought, NY Times
    1. Online Search Universe Is Expanding, The Washington Post
  17. Estimates by U.S. See More Rebels With More Funds, NY Times
  18. Inside Election Science, NPR TOTN
    1. Polls, Votes, and All That..., Knowledge@Wharton
    2. Campaign Column: Make Or Break, BBC
    3. Electorate Is a Key Unknown, Washington Post
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Iraq Called 'Springboard' for Insurgency Figure, Washington Post
    2. After Terror, a Secret Rewriting of Military Law, NY Times
    3. Memo Lets CIA Take Detainees Out of Iraq, Washington Post
    4. Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq, NY Times
    5. What Happened to Missing Iraq Explosives, Guardian
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  1. Macroeconomists Showed Why Good Intentions Go Wrong, Science
    1. A Group Decision Support Approach To Evaluating Journals, Infor. & Manag.
    2. A Marketplace in the Brain?, Science Now
    3. The Importance Of Biodiversity To Global Food Security, FAO Newsroom
  2. Change And Stability In Children's Social Network And Self-Perceptions, Int. Behav. Dev.
  3. Extracting The Trajectory Of Writing Brush In Chinese Character Calligraphy, Engg. Appl. Arti. Intell.
  4. Neuroscience and Neuroethics, Science
    1. Neuroeconomics: The Consilience of Brain and Decision, Science
    2. Paralysed Man Sends E-Mail By Thought, Nature News
  5. Learning Languages 'Boosts Brain', BBC News
    1. Educating Via Analyses Of Science In Movies And TV, Science News
    2. Under the Surface, the Brain Seethes With Undiscovered Activity, Rochester News
    3. Hearing Better In The Dark: Blindness Fuels Ability To Place Distant Sounds, Science News
  6. Embryonic Stem Cells Correct Congenital Heart Defect in Mouse Embryos
    1. Disease Backs Cancer Origin Theory, Science
    2. New Method Identifies Chromosome Changes in Malignant Cells, KurzweilAI.net
    3. Chromosome Instability Tied to Cancer, Science Now
  7. Centenarian Clams Cut Calories, Science Now
    1. Why Beavers Survived In The 19th Century, Alphagalileo
    2. Global Amphibians In Deep Trouble, BBC News
  8. Giant Virus Sequenced, Science Now
    1. Recombination Dramatically Speeds Up Evolution of Finite Populations, arXiv
    2. Trash To Treasure: Junk DNA Influences Eggs, Early Embryos, Science News
  9. With Few Suppliers of Flu Shots, Shortage Was Long in Making, NY Times
  10. People Are Human-Bacteria Hybrid, Wired
  11. Google Search Becomes Personal, BBC News
    1. E-Mail Marketing: How To Do It Lawfully, Interactive Marketing
  12. Nanotubes Form Transparent Film, Technology Review
    1. Water Filters Rely on Nanotech, Wired
    2. Some Assembly Required
  13. Change In The Weather? Wind Farms Might Affect Local Climates, Science News
  14. Development of "Artificial Retina", DOE Press Release
  15. Low Overhead Self-checking Combinatorial and Sequential Circuits Designed by Evolution, CSRP
    1. Purdue Professor Puts New Spin On Quantum Computer Technology, Purdue News
    2. Super Slow Light May Help Speed Optical Communications, NIST Tech Beat
  16. Puppet Government, 'South Park' Creators' Left Jab at Jingoism May Backfire, Washington Post
  17. Block the Vote, NY Times
    1. Gaming the Polls, Science Now
    2. The Great American E-Voting Experiment, New Scientist
    3. Supreme Court Orders Review of Texas Districts, NPR ATC
  18. Spy Chiefs Say Cooperation Should Begin at the Bottom, NY Times
    1. Broad Use of Harsh Tactics Is Described at Cuba Base, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Saudis Blame U.S. and Its Role in Iraq for Rise of Terror, NY Times
    2. Looting Targeted Iraq's Nuclear Equipment, NPR ME
    3. Pentagon: Ex-Detainees Return to Terror
    4. The G7, International Terrorism And Domestic Politics: Modeling Policy Cohesion In Response To Systemic Disturbance, Int. Interactions
    5. University Of Florida Researchers Shine Light On New Explosives Detection Method, ScienceDaily
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Complexity Digest 2004.41 Next Issue TOP

  1. Complexity Perception - Model Development And Analysis, Int. J. Info. Tech. & Deci. Making
    1. Corruption, Growth, And The Environment: A Cross-Country Analysis, Env. & Dev. Econ.
  2. Modelling Strategies For Controlling SARS Outbreaks, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
    1. Health And Politics: Lessons Learned From The Iraq Conflict, Alphagalileo
  3. Why Two Sexes Are Better Than One, Science New
    1. Pleiotropy As A Mechanism To Stabilize Cooperation, Nature
    2. Pair Bonds: Arrival Synchrony In Migratory Birds, Nature
    3. Genome Sequence of a Polydnavirus: Insights into Symbiotic Virus Evolution, Science
  4. Kurzweil's Quest For Eternal Youth Sets Group Abuzz, Washington Post
    1. Stem Cells Pump Out Healing Molecules, Nature News
  5. Synthetic Biology: Starting From Scratch, Nature
    1. Futures Of Artificial Life, Nature
    2. Did Volcanoes Help Create Life?, Nature News
    3. Carbonyl Sulfide-Mediated Prebiotic Formation of Peptides, Science
  6. Developmental Biology: Holding It Together In The Eye, Nature
    1. How to Make a Uterus, Science Now
  7. Extinct Humans Left Louse Legacy, BBC News
    1. Lice Tell Mankind's Story, The Scientist
    2. Tale of Human Origins, Told by Lice, Science News
  8. Protein Breakdown Wins Chemistry Nobel, Science Now
    1. Freeing Up the Strong Force, Science Now
  9. How To Build The Universe, Nature News
    1. Emergence of a 4D World from Causal Quantum Gravity, Phys. Rev. Lett.
    2. How Much Of The Cosmological Timescale Do We Control And Use?, Nature
  10. Study Shows Superior Sound-location Skills In The Blind, ScienceDaily
  11. Social Sciences Are Branches Of Biology, Socio-Econ. Rev.
    1. Biodiversity: The Sixth Great Wave, BBC News
    2. Organic Farming Boosts Biodiversity, NewScientist
    3. Spray Now or Pay Later, NY Times
  12. Tyrannosaurs Evolved Head First, Science Now
    1. 'New' Giant Ape Found In DR Congo, Science New
    2. What's in a Chimp's Toolbox?, Science Now
    3. The Scaling of Animal Space Use, Science
    4. Keeping an Eye on the Neighbors, Science
  13. Human and Computer Learning: An Experimental Study, arXiv
    1. Researchers Manipulate Recognition Mechanism to Detect Small Molecules, Georgia Tech News Release
  14. Visionaries Outline Web's Future, BBC News
    1. Dynamical Networks for Information Processing, Information Sciences
  15. The Active Site in Nanoparticle Gold Catalysis, Science
  16. Pit Stop on the Cocaine Highway, Washington Post
  17. Ignorance Isn't Strength, NY Times
    1. Campaign Security Screening Crowds for Doubters, NPR ME
    2. Bush's Isolation From Reporters Could Be a Hindrance, Washington Post
  18. The Battle of the Pump, NY Times
    1. Nigeria Fuel Price Strike Starts, BBC News
    2. Venezuela Raises Oil Drilling Tax, BBC News
    3. Hydrogen Economy Looks Out Of Reach, Nature News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Mathematicians Offer Help in Terror Fight, China Daily/AP
    2. A Web Wise Terror Network, BBC
    3. After Convictions, the Undoing of a U.S. Terror Prosecution, NY Times
    4. A New C.I.A. Report Casts Doubt on a Key Terrorist's Tie to Iraq, NY Times
    5. Most at Guantanamo to Be Freed or Sent Home, Officer Says, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2004.40 Next Issue TOP

  1. Evolving Eco-system: A Network of Networks, Physica A
  2. Why Giants Change Their Minds, Asian Case Res. J.
    1. The Interplay Of Self-Interest And Equity In Coalition Formation, Euro. J. Social Psycho.
  3. Effective Communication, Darwin Mag
    1. Emotional Ignorance, Darwin Mag
    2. Have People Had Enough Of Silly Love Songs?, Alphagalileo
  4. The First Gasp, Science
    1. Dying to See, sciam.com
    2. Vision In The Deep Sea, Biol. Rev.
  5. Controlling Hurricanes, Scientific American
    1. Earth's 'Hum' Springs From Stormy Seas, NewScientist
    2. Tuning In the Planet's Hum, Science Now
    3. The Parkfield Earthquake, Finally, Science
  6. Heavy Breathing on Mars?, Science Now
    1. Biogeochemistry: Early Options In Photosynthesis, Nature
  7. The Hidden Genetic Program of Complex Organisms, Scientific American
    1. Taxonomy Isn't Black And White, The Scientist
    2. Secret Of Radiation-Proof Bugs Proposed, Nature News
    3. When Bigger Isn't Better, Science Now
  8. Athletics: Momentous Sprint At The 2156 Olympics?, Nature
    1. Will Women Outpace Men In 2156?, Nature News
  9. Human Populations Are Tightly Interwoven, Science News
    1. Human Evolution: Pedigrees For All Humanity, Nature
    2. New Evidence On The Earliest Human Presence At High Northern Latitudes In Northeast Asia, Nature
    3. Has The Combination Of Genetic And Fossil Evidence Solved The Riddle Of Modern Human Origins?, Evol. Anthrop.: Issues, News, & Rev.
    4. Modelling The Recent Common Ancestry Of All Living Humans, Nature
  10. St. Pete Programmers Best in World at Simulation Soccer, St Petersburg Times
    1. Statistical Mechanics of Spatial Evolutionary Games, arXiv
  11. The Internet of Things, Scientific American
    1. Clever Cars Can Read Road Signs, NewScientist
    2. Video Disks Ditch Binary Storage, Nature News
    3. Good Vibrations in the Nanoworld, Max Planck Society Press Release
  12. Accelerator Physics: Electrons Hang Ten On Laser Wake, Nature
    1. Surf's Up for Small Accelerators, Science Now
  13. Clones May Aid Work On Motor Neuron Disease, Nature News
    1. Drugs Delivered By Robots In The Blood, NewScientist
  14. Knock Knock Knocking On Rhythm's Neural Doors, bio.com
  15. Americans Win Nobel for Research on Smell, NPR ME
    1. How the Nose Knows, Science Now
  16. Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science, Book Announcement, Routledge
    1. Open-Source Biology, Nature
  17. How the White House Embraced Disputed Arms Intelligence, NY Times
  18. Playing With the Election Rules, NY Times
    1. Barriers to Student Voting, NY Times
    2. Fixing the Vote, Scientific American
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Playing Nuclear Keepaway, and Losing, NPR ATC
    2. The Threat Of Nuclear Terror, Haaretz
    3. F.B.I. Said to Lag on Translations of Terror Tapes, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.39 Next Issue TOP

  1. ALife 9: Ninth International Conference on Artificial Life, Complexity Digest Virtual Conference Network
    1. Cells By Design, The Potential For Synthetic Biology, The Scientist
  2. New Mars Data Gives Life Clue, BBC News
    1. Martian Methane Hints At Oases Of Life, Nature News
    2. Polar Microbes Get Helping Hand, Nature News
    3. Virus Forms Nano Template, Technology Research News
    4. From Earth's Primitive Atmosphere To Chiral Peptides - The Origin Of Precursors For Life, Chem. & Biodiversity
  3. Evolution's No-Fly Zone, Science Now
    1. Evolution: A Is For Adaptation, Nature
    2. Gene Made Apes Smarter, Science Now
    3. Competition Boosts Chimp Comprehension, Science Now
    4. Men Migrated More, Science Now
    5. Lessons From Snakes: The Better Part Of Valor, ScienceDaily
  4. Mystery From The Deep Creates Elongated Puzzle, China Daily
    1. A Triassic Aquatic Protorosaur with an Extremely Long Neck, Science
  5. Genes From Engineered Grass Spread for Miles, Study Finds, NY Times
    1. Genes from Engineered Grass Spread Far, NPR ME
    2. Omega-3s Without That Fishy Odor, Science Now
  6. Alternative Energy for Biomotors, The Scientist
    1. Smart Biomaterials, Science
    2. Biology and the Inkjets, Science
    3. Enzymes: By Chance, Or By Design?, Nature
  7. A Novel, Safer Strategy for Regulating Gene Expression, Children's Hospital Press Release
    1. Safer Route to Gene Therapy Found, BBC News
    2. Drug Companies on the Defensive, NPR TOTN
  8. Researchers Eliminate Leukemia In Mice, bio.com
    1. New Anti-Inflammatory Strategy For Cancer Therapy, bio.com
    2. Cancer: An Inflammatory Link, Nature
    3. Mending And Malignancy, Nature
    4. Strep Bacteria Uses A Sword And Shield To Win Battle, ScienceDaily
  9. Theory Predicts The Uneven Distribution Of Genetic Diversity Within Species, Nature
    1. Invasion In Space And Time: Non-Native Species Richness And Relative Abundance, Ecol. Lett.
    2. Uncertainty In Integrated Regional Models, Econ. Sys. Res.
    3. Avoiding Brotherly Love, Science Now
    4. 2004 Visualization Challenge, Science
  10. Web Tool May Banish Broken Links, BBC News
    1. How to Compute Using Globally Coupled Oscillators, arXiv
    2. A Domain-Independent Framework for Modeling Emotion, Cognitive Systems Research
  11. Information, Please - Betting On Whether Data Disappear Down Black Holes, Science News
    1. Hubble's Deepest Shot Is A Puzzle, BBC News
  12. A Taylor Vortex Analogy In Granular Flows, Nature
  13. Hurricanes And Markets ..., American Public Media
    1. How Not to Save Social Security, NY Times
    2. A Stubborn Storm Hangs On in a Busy Hurricane Season, NYTimes
  14. Dynamic Footprint-Based Person Recognition Method, Int. J. Intell. Sys.
    1. Chicago Moving to 'Smart' Surveillance Cameras, NY Times
    2. Domestic Surveillance Technology, NPR TOTN
    3. Silicon Sensors Could Save Lives, BBC News
  15. The Wizard's Warning, The Peer-Review Bureaucracy Is Strangling Creativity, The Scientist
    1. Does the Patent System Need an Overhaul?, NY Times
  16. 'A Massive Experiment' In Voting, Washington Post
    1. Still Seeking a Fair Florida Vote, Washington Post
    2. Florida Officials Stand By Ballot, BBC News
    3. To Find Insight, Think Complex, Educator Says, JS Online
  17. Annan Faults Both Sides of Terror War for Eroding Rule of Law, Washington Post
    1. Bush Defends Iraq Policies At UN, BBC News
    2. The Face of Iraqi Democracy, NY Times
  18. Panel Calls U.S. Troop Size Insufficient for Demands, NY Times
    1. Charges for 60 Detainees Ordered, Washington Post
    2. Troubled Unit of Halliburton May Go on Block, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Twisting Dr. Nuke's Arm, NY Times
    2. Election Heightens Terrorism Offensive, Washington Post
    3. Terrorists Have Oil Industry in Cross Hairs, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2004.38 Next Issue TOP

  1. Connecting Science And Global Security, AAAS News Release
    1. Societal Complexity And Diminishing Returns In Security, Int. Security
    2. Knowledge As Power: Science, Military Dominance, And U.S. Security, Int. Security
  2. Let a Thousand Ideas Flower: China Is a New Hotbed of Research, NY Times
  3. Primary State Formation In Mesoamerica, Annual Review of Anthropology
  4. Early Brain Growth In Homo Erectus And Implications For Cognitive Ability, Nature
    1. The Beginning of Violence, Science Now
    2. Humans Not Irrational, Just Wary, ScienceDaily
  5. The Body Beautiful: Symbolism and Agency in the Social World, Annual Review of Anthropology
    1. Anthropological Perspectives on Clothing, Fashion, and Culture, Annual Review of Anthropology
  6. Music And The Global Order, Annual Review of Anthropology
    1. Musical Training Enhances Automatic Encoding Of Melodic Contour, J. Cognitive Neurosc.
    2. From Visualizing To Proving, Teaching Math. & its Appl.
  7. Kids Create New Sign Language, BBC News
    1. New Sign Language, NPR TOTN
    2. Children Creating Core Properties of Language, Science
    3. Language Birth And Death, Annual Review of Anthropology
  8. How Would You Feel Versus How Do You Think She Would Feel?, J. Cognitive Neurosc.
    1. Talk And Interaction Among Children, Annual Review of Anthropology
  9. Novel Mating Strategy: Males Pirate And Fertilize Egg Clutches, ScienceDaily
    1. Post-Mating Clutch Piracy In An Amphibian, Nature
  10. Circadian Rhythms In Microorganisms: New Complexities, Annual Review of Microbiology
    1. Transmission Rates And Adaptive Evolution Of Pathogens In Plant Populations, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
    2. Adaptive Changes May Provide Insight Into The Genetics Of Complex Disease, ScienceDaily
    3. Physical Chemistry: Quantum Mechanics For Plants, Nature
  11. Enter Transfer RNA, Nature
    1. RNA Interference, Nature
    2. Unlocking The Potential Of The Human Genome With RNA Interference, Nature
  12. A Swell Idea for a Warmer Wetsuit, Science Now
    1. To Throw Farther, Waste Some Energy, Science Now
  13. Extreme Impersonations, Science News
  14. Games Blur News And Entertainment, BBC News
    1. Game Sequel Takes Leaps In AI Technology, Mercury News
    2. They're Robots? Those Beasts!, NYTimes
  15. Test of Missile Defense System Delayed Again, Washington Post
  16. Middle Miocene Southern Ocean Cooling and Antarctic Cryosphere Expansion, Science
    1. OPEC to Put Formal Lifting of Output on the Table, NY Times
  17. Ready or Not (and Maybe Not), Electronic Voting Goes National, NY Times
    1. Custody of Voting Machine Argued in Montgomery Court, Washington Post
  18. Amazon to Take Searches on Web to a New Depth, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Back to the U.S.S.R., Christian Science Monitor
    2. A Response to Russia, Washington Post
    3. Bush Concern At Afghan Drug Boom, BBC News
    4. Iraq War Illegal, Says Annan, BBC News
    5. Powell Rebukes Annan On Iraq, Washington Post
    6. Saudis Take a Small Dose of Democracy, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2004.37 Next Issue TOP

  1. How Life Began on Earth: A Status Report, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
    1. Redrafting the Tree of Life, Science
    2. Evolutionary Biology: Early Evolution Comes Full Circle, Nature
  2. Diminishing Returns In Social Evolution: The Not-So-Tragic Commons, J. Evol. Biol.
    1. National Cultural Values And The Evolution Of Process In International Strategic Alliances, J. Appl. Behav. Sc.
  3. China Increases Share Of Global Scientific Publications, Nature
    1. Medical Journals Tackle Biased Reporting Of Results, Nature
    2. How The Globalization Of R&D Competition Affects Trade And Growth, Japanese Econ. Rev.
  4. Decision Station: Situating Decision Support Systems, Decision Support Systems
    1. Metadata? Thesauri? Taxonomies? Topic Maps! Making Sense Of It All, J. Info. Sc.
  5. Epistemic Communities: Description and Hierarchic Categorization, arXiv
    1. Study Finds Stature Not A Factor In Ability To Make Friends, Associated Press
  6. Dreamless Woman Remains Healthy, Nature
    1. Brain Scans Show Hypnosis At Work, Nature
    2. Disruption Of Protein-folding Causes Neurodegeneration, Mental Retardation, ScienceDaily
  7. Open-Federer's 'Beautiful Tennis' Sets The Standard, Reuters
  8. Only Pride Hurt As Predicted Quake Fails To Strike California, Nature
  9. Palaeoclimate: Into An Ice Age, Nature
    1. Scientist: Extreme Weather Will Kill Millions, Reuters
    2. Groups Work on Schemes to Stop Hurricanes, Associated Press
    3. Letters: Stopping a Hurricane Before it Strikes, NPR TOTN
  10. Lightning Research: The Bolt Catcher, Nature
  11. Visualizing the Dynamics of the Onset of Turbulence, Science
    1. Tackling Tubular Turbulence, Science Now
    2. Experimental Observation of Nonlinear Traveling Waves in Turbulent Pipe Flow, Science
  12. Natural Proportions, Nature
    1. Cell Biology: An Unexpected Social Servant, Nature
  13. Palaeontology: Parental Care In An Ornithischian Dinosaur, Nature
    1. Parrots Speak In Tongues, Nature
  14. A New Treaty Strives To Save 10,000 Years Of Plant Breeding, Science News
    1. Noah's Ark Plan From Top Moon Man, BBC News
  15. Do Genes Respond To Global Warming?, ScienceDaily
    1. Local Co-Adaptation Leading To A Geographical Mosaic Of Coevolution In A Social Parasite System, J. Evol. Biol.
  16. Condensed-Matter Physics: The Qubit And The Cavity, Nature
  17. Peer-Reviewed Paper Defends Theory Of Intelligent Design, Nature
  18. The Dynamics Of The Partisan Gender Gap, Ameri. Poli. Sc. Rev.
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, Times Boods
    2. Atomic Activity in North Korea Raises Concerns, NY Times
    3. Graham: Bush Covered Up Saudi Ties to Sept. 11, NPR ME
    4. Hiding Genome Data Won't Protect Us, Experts Say, Reuters
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Complexity Digest 2004.36 Next Issue TOP

  1. Managing Complexity, arXiv
    1. The Next Shock: Not Oil, but Debt, NY Times
    2. Adaptation in Large-Scale Enterprise Systems, Ubiquity
    3. Letting Gamers Play God, and Now Themselves, NY Times
  2. Preferential Exchange: Strengthening Connections In Complex Networks, Phys.
    1. Social Networks And Aggressive Behaviour In Chinese Children, Int. J. Behav. Dev.
    2. Employment, Deterrence, And Crime In A Dynamic Model, Int. Econ. Rev.
    3. Virtual Warfare: The Internet As The New Site For Global Religious Conflict, Asian J. Soc. Sc.
    4. ScheduleNanny: Using GPS to Learn the User's Significant Locations, Travel Times and Schedule, arXiv
  3. Something New In Old Europe?, Innovation: Euro. J. Soc. Sc.
    1. Asian Americans: Achievements Mask Challenges, Asian J. Soc. Sc.
  4. Scientific Method Man, Wired
    1. Biggest Bets in the Universe Unveiled, PhysicsWeb
    2. A World of Glass, Science
    3. The Future Of Nanotechnology, Physics World
  5. Climate Change: Crunch Time For Kyoto, Nature
    1. Disaster Movie Highlights Transatlantic Divide, Nature
    2. The More We Know, The More We See: The Role Of Visuality In Media Literacy, Ameri. Behav. Sc.
  6. Brain May Produce its Own Antipsychotic Drug, New Scientist
    1. Rare Deficit Maps Thinking Circuitry, ScienceDaily
    2. Scientists View 'Dark Side' Of The Body, ScienceDaily
    3. Omega-3 Fatty Acids Protect Mouse Neurons From Deterioration, Science Now
  7. The Emergence of Competition Between Model Protocells, Science
  8. Longevity, Quality, and the One-Hoss Shay, Science
    1. Human Ancestors Quickly Found Their Feet, NewScientist
    2. Humans March To A Faster Genetic "Drummer" Than Primates, bio.com
    3. Evolutionary Biology: Time, Space And Genomes, Nature
  9. Bonemaking Protein Tied To Beak Diversity In Darwin's Finches, Science Now
    1. Molecular Shaping of the Beak, Science
    2. Fossils' Regenerated Appendages Tell A Tale Of Escalating Predation, Science Now
  10. Cell Biology: Regulated Self-Cannibalism, Nature
    1. Cancer: Cell Survival Guide, Nature
    2. MIT Team Explains Yin-Yang Of Ginseng, bio.com
  11. Brain Scans Reveal Differences In Dyslexics Who Speak Different Types Of Languages, Science Now
    1. Pollution Triggers Bizarre Behaviour In Animals, NewScientist
  12. Scattering Poop Around Their Nests Helps Burrowing Owls Lure Tasty Beetles, Science Now
    1. Flying Fox Favours Tunnel Vision, BBC News
  13. Single Gene Removes Sex Differences In Mice Brains, NewScientist
    1. Theoretical Biology: Mushrooms In Cyberspace, Nature
    2. Stem Cells From Hair Follicles Regenerate Skin And Hair In Mice, Science Now
  14. Bending Sound The 'Wrong' Way Sharpens Scans, NewScientist
    1. Finally, a Car That Talks Back, Wired
    2. Software Solutions for Self-organizing Multimedia-Appliances, Computers & Graphics
  15. Physics And Music: Brothers In Art, Nature
    1. Statistical Physics: Hear The Noise, Nature
  16. Earthquake Theory Shaken, Science Now
    1. Mission Inside The Fault Zone, BBC News
    2. Planet Formation: The Core Problem, Nature
  17. Tough Decisions - How And When You Make Them Says A Lot About You, Darwinmag.com
    1. Good Schools or Bad? Conflicting Ratings Leave Parents Baffled, NY Times
  18. Denying the Troops a Secret Ballot, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Mr. Bush and the Truth About Terror, NY Times
    2. Pakistan Dismisses US Contention Of Progress In Bin Laden Hunt, Boston Globe
    3. Putin Refuses To Talk With 'Child Killers', CBC News
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Complexity Digest 2004.35 Next Issue TOP

  1. Emergence of Prime Numbers as the Result of Evolutionary Strategy, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  2. UN Drive To Boost Free Software, BBC News
    1. The ABCs of Linux, NPR TOTN
    2. Microsoft's Linux Ad 'Misleading', BBC News
  3. How Mutual Fund Managers Exploit Opportunities to Maximize Fees, Knowledge@Wharton
  4. The Law of Expanding Immediacy, Darwinmag.com
  5. The Pleasure of Punishment, Science Now
    1. Guilt is Good: A New Approach to Environmental Problems, Knowledge@Wharton
    2. Event Timing Turns Punishment To Reward, Nature
    3. From Schools To Security, A Reluctance To Fix Blame, The Christian Science Monitor
    4. Insect Policing Carries Costs, The Scientist
  6. Surprising Start for Snail Asymmetry, Science Now
    1. Researchers Listen to Yeast Cells, NPR ATC
  7. Earth Warned On 'Tipping Points', BBC News
    1. Impact Of Costal Embankment On The Flash Flood In Bangladesh: A Case Study, Appl. Geography
  8. Neuroscience: While You Were Sleeping, Nature
    1. Contextual Regularity And Complexity Of Neuronal Activity, Complexity
  9. The Hierarchical Backbone of Complex Networks, Phys. Rev. Lett.
    1. Cascade Control and Defense in Complex Networks, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  10. Stem-Cell Gene-Expression Studies Show Little Overlap, Indicate Greater-Than-Expected Complexity, The Scientist
    1. Anoikis: Cancer And The Homeless Cell, Nature
    2. Dedifferentiation: More Than Reversing Fate, The Scientist
  11. German Doctors Grow New Jaw Bone In Man's Back Muscle For Transplant, Canadian Press
    1. Stem Cell Sculpting - Study notes the power of shape on cell differentiation, The Scientist
  12. Sustainability For Nanotechnology - Making Smaller Safer, The Scientist
    1. Tools Design DNA-Nanotube Logic, Technology Research News
    2. The Ups and Downs of Nanobiotech, The Scientist
  13. Identifying Factors Of Comfort In Using Hand Tools, Appl. Ergon.
  14. New Fuel Cell Powered With Poison, Science Now
    1. 'Flower Power' Cars Could Be In Your Future, ScienceDaily
  15. Dynamic Ice: Surface Physics Technique Reveals Complex Chemical Reactions On Icy Surfaces, ScienceDaily
  16. The Emergence Of Dynamical Complexity: An Exploration Using Elementary Cellular Automata, Complexity
    1. Going Into Reverse, Nature
  17. Agent-Based Modeling, Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences
    1. Military Swarm Study 'At The Edge Of Chaos', Mail & Guardian
  18. Free Speech Vs. Paid Speech, Christian Science Monitor
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Intelligence Agencies Pose Complex Conundrum for Administration, Washington Post
    2. Americans Need to Connect the Dots, CommonDreams.org
    3. Crisis Alert in Critical State, Wired
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Complexity Digest 2004.34 Next Issue TOP

  1. Repercussions of Complex Adaptive Systems on Product Design Management, Technovation
  2. Making the Right Mistakes, Darwin Magazine
    1. There Is A Free Lunch After All, Math. Social Sc.
    2. Nation's Charter Schools Lagging Behind, U.S. Test Scores Reveal, NY Times
    3. Raising Europe's Game, Nature
  3. News Analysis: Google Keeps Wall Street At Bay, International Herald Tribune
    1. Internet Heading to Light Speed, Wired
    2. DNA Technique Protects Against 'Evil' Emails, New Scientist
  4. Do Women Really Have More Bilateral Language Representation Than Men?, Brain
    1. First Solid Evidence That The Study Of Music Promotes Intellectual Development, ScienceDaily
    2. Partner's Stress Status Influences Social Buffering Effects In Rats, Behav. Neurosc.
  5. Secessionism In Multicultural States: Does Sharing Power Prevent Or Encourage It?, Ameri. Polit. Sc. Rev.
  6. Listening In On The Whispering Heart, ScienceDaily
    1. Heart 'Repair Kit' - Stem Cells Regenerate Injured Muscle, ScienceDaily
  7. A First-Draft Human Protein-Interaction Map
    1. Structural Biology: Anthrax Hijacks Host Receptor, Nature
    2. Cell Division: Timing The Machine, Nature
  8. Firm Sets Sights On Gene Silencing To Protect Vision, Nature
    1. Demo: Artificial Retina, Technology Review
    2. The Blind Leading The Sighted, Nature
  9. Putting Muscles to the Acid Test, Science Now
    1. Lactic Acid May Not Cause Muscle Fatigue, NPR ME
    2. Marathon Mouse' Doubles Stamina, BBC
    3. GM 'Marathon' Mice Break Distance Records, New Scientist
  10. Medicinal Chemistry: A Worthy Adversary For Malaria, Nature
    1. Less Sleep, Less Stress With Peptide S, Science Now
  11. How Language Shapes Math, Science Now
    1. Numerical Cognition Without Words: Evidence from Amazonia, Science Express Reports
    2. Life Without Googol, NPR TOTN
    3. Math and the Mona Lisa, NPR TOTN
  12. Self-assembling Peptides and Proteins for Nanotechnological Applications, Current Opinion in Structural Biology
    1. How to Assemble Building Blocks for Nanotechnology, U. Michiga News Release
  13. Biomechanics: Hydrodynamic Function Of The Shark's Tail, Nature
  14. Hurricane Intensified Unexpectedly Near Florida, NY Times
    1. Predicting Hurricanes, NPR TOTN
    2. The Dirt on Rain Forecasting, Science
    3. Sewage Waters A Tenth Of World's Irrigated Crops, New Scientist
    4. Palaeoclimatology: Fresh Angle On The Polar Seesaw, Nature
  15. Stars Reveal The Milky Way's Age, BBC News
  16. Condensed-Matter Physics: Vortices Weave A Tangled Web, Nature
  17. Bridging The Gap Between Dynamical Systems Theory And Communication Theory, The British J. for the Phil. of Sc.
  18. The Army and the Halliburton Contract, NPR WE
    1. Voting While Black, NY Times
    2. Retracing the 'Bladensburg Races', NPR WE
    3. $1bn To Build Unmanned Fighter, BBC
    4. Rumsfeld Waits for 'Go' on Missile Defense, Washington Post
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. Sen. Kennedy Flagged by No-Fly List, Washington Post
    2. Al-Qaeda Still Finds Funding, New24.com
    3. 9/11 Commission Co-Chair Defends Finding On Saudis, Staten Island Advance
    4. Treasury Moving To Disrupt Terrorist Financing, GCN
    5. West Africa Investigation of 9/11 Attacks Challenged, Voice of America
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Complexity Digest 2004.33 Next Issue TOP

  1. Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies, Science
    1. Already the Day After Tomorrow?, Science
    2. More Intense, More Frequent, and Longer Lasting Heat Waves in the 21st Century, Science
  2. Climate Change: Models Change Their Tune, Nature
  3. Oceanography: Noah's Flood, Nature
    1. Volcano! Why America's Coast Could Be Toast, Independent
    2. Expert Slams Wave Threat Inertia, BBC News
  4. Did Climate Change Shape the Alps?, Science Now
  5. Sustainable Hydrogen Production, Science
    1. The Hydrogen Backlash, Science
    2. Can the Developing World Skip Petroleum?, Science
  6. Working And Training: A Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis Of Human Capital Development, Japanese Econ. Rev.
  7. Monkeys Test 'Hardworking Gene', BBC News
    1. Cognitive Science: Rank Inferred By Reason, Nature
  8. Intelligence And Culture: How Culture Shapes What Intelligence Means, Phil. Tran.: Biol. Sc.
    1. Group Dynamics: Nature's Complex Relationships, ScienceDaily
  9. Implementing And Avoiding Control: Contemporary Art And The Chinese State, China: An Int. J.
    1. SARS: "Waterloo" Of Chinese Science, China: An Int. J.
  10. Financial Markets, Development And Economic Growth: Tales Of Informational Asymmetries, J. Econ. Surveys
  11. Economics And Complexity, Adv. in Complex Sys.
  12. Understanding Well-Being In The Evolutionary Context Of Brain Development, Phil. Tran.: Biol. Sc.
  13. Complex Social Behaviour Can Select For Variability In Visual Features, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
    1. Locusts Inspire Technology That May Prevent Car Crashes, National Geographic news
    2. Borrowed From the Beetles, Science Now
    3. Terrible T. rex Teens, Science Now
  14. Human Genetics: An Expression Of Interest, Nature
  15. Scientists Help Police Bust Forgers, Institute of Physics
    1. Handwriting Analysis Goes 3D, Science Now
  16. Seeing the Science for the Trees, Science Now
    1. Fighting Oak Death With Fire?, Science Now
  17. The Unruly Power Grid, IEEE Spectrum
    1. Preventing Power Grid Failure, NPR TOTN
    2. The Grid: Defining The Future Of The Internet, Grid Today
  18. Nonlinear Dynamics: Quantizing The Classical Cat, Nature
    1. A New Twist on Black Hole Jets, Science Now
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Al Qaeda Showing New Life, U.S. Surprised by Signs of Regrouping, Washington Post
    2. Police Tactic Against Terror: Let's Network, NY Times
    3. Tyranny in the Name of Freedom, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.32 Next Issue TOP

  1. A Breed Apart - Olympic Athletes Are On The Edge Of Normal Physiology, Nature
    1. Study Suggests Humans Can Speed Evolution, ScienceDaily
  2. What Dreams Are Made Of, Newsweek
    1. Pain In The Brain: It's Not What You Imagine, Alphagalileo
    2. Depression Traced To Overactive Brain Circuit, ScienceDaily
  3. The Pleasure Of Learning, Nature
    1. Science Secret Of Grand Masters Revealed, Nature
    2. Semantic Linking - a Context-Based Approach to Interactivity in Hypermedia, arXiv
  4. Ice Age Cereal - Seeds On A 22,000–Year-Old Grindstone, Science Now
    1. Saving The Whales: Lessons From The Extinction Of The Eastern Arctic Bowhead, J. Econ. History
    2. Expecting the Unexpected, Futures
  5. That's My Hand! Activity in Premotor Cortex Reflects Feeling of Ownership of a Limb, Science
    1. Probing the Neural Basis of Body Ownership, Science
    2. Social Status Influences Brain Structure, Nature
  6. Parasitic Birds 'Happy To Share', BBC News Online
  7. Birds Flew Earlier Than Previously Thought, Scientists Say, NY Times
    1. Flying Dinosaur Had 'Bird Brain', Nature
  8. Salmon Give Birth To Trout, Nature
    1. Cell Swap Could Help Conservation, BBC News
  9. The Ubiquity Of Small Species: Patterns Of Local And Global Diversity, BioScience
  10. A Proposal for Using the Ensemble Approach to Understand Genetic Regulatory Networks, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. Modeling A Synthetic Multicellular Clock: Repressilators Coupled By Quorum Sensing, PNAS
    2. Defibrillators Get Less Shocking, Nature
  11. POEtic: An Electronic Tissue for Bio-inspired Cellular Applications, Biosystems
  12. Separating Internal and External Dynamics of Complex Systems, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  13. Invisible Cities: A Metaphorical Complex Adaptive System, Festina Lente Press
  14. Blown By Wind: Nonlinear Dynamics Of Aeolian Sand Ripples, Physica D
  15. The Assessment Of Social Functioning In Individuals With Mental Retardation: A Review, Behav. Modification
  16. Rolling Down the Highway, Looking Out for Flawed Elections, NY Times
    1. Electronic Voting Still Controversial, NPR TOTN
  17. Diplomacy Fails to Slow Advance of Nuclear Arms, NY Times
    1. Korean Missile Said to Advance; U.S. Is Unworried, NY Times
    2. Washington's Gift to Bomb Makers, NYTimes
    3. US Anti-Drug Campaign 'Failing', BBC News
  18. New Rules on When to Go to War, Financial Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Senate Told 9-11 Reform Devil Is In Detail, UPI
    2. Qaeda Strategy Is Called Cause for New Alarm, NY Times
    3. Road to Al Qaeda runs through Pakistan, Christian Science Monitor
    4. How The Pakistani Double Agent Was ‘Burned’ By The US, Pakistan Daily Times
    5. Defense Dept. Hopes To Enlist AI In War Against Terrorism, Mercury News
    6. f. Impervious Shield Elusive Against Drive-By Terrorists, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2004.31 Next Issue TOP

  1. Do You See a Pattern Here?, Wired
  2. What Is Life? Can We Make It?, Prospect Magazine
    1. Craig Venter's Epic Voyage to Redefine the Origin of the Species, Wired
  3. New Views On Mind-Body Connection, The Scientist
    1. Deception Detection, Psychologists Try To Learn How To Spot A Liar, Science News
  4. Musically Speaking, CBN 60 Minutes
    1. When Remembering Might Mean Forgetting, The Scientist
    2. Crayfish Catch a Nap, Science Now
  5. Does The Brain Oscillate? The Dispute On Neuronal Synchronization, Neurol. Sc.
    1. The Scaling Of Motor Noise With Muscle Strength And Motor Unit Number In Humans, Experi. Brain Res.
  6. Sensorimotor Control of Navigation in Arthropod and Artificial Systems, Arthropod Structure & Development
  7. Synthetic Biology Applies Engineering Approach to Biological Components, MIT News Office
  8. An End to the Prion Debate? Don't Count on It, Science
    1. Synthetic Mammalian Prions, Science
    2. Study Lends Support to Mad Cow Theory, NY Times
    3. Lab-Made Prions Trigger Mad Cow Symptoms, Nature
  9. Pop Goes the Mitochondrion, Science
  10. Building A Cluster Of Intelligent, Adaptive Web Sites, Neural Comp. & Appl.
    1. Filtering Multilingual Web Content Using Fuzzy Logic And Self-Organizing Maps, Neural Comp. & Appl.
    2. Microsoft Deploys Newsbot To Track Down Headlines, Washington Post
  11. An Ensemble Of Neural Networks For Weather Forecasting, Neural Comp. & Appl.
  12. Diversity, Complexity, and Persistence in Large Model Ecosystems, SFI Working Papers
    1. Modeling Food-Web Dynamics: Complexity-Stability Implications, SFI Working Papers
  13. Parasites: Small Players With Crucial Roles In The Ecological Theater, EcoHealth
    1. Insecticide Resistance: A Constraint On Evolutionary Change, ScienceDaily
  14. Objects That Make Objects: The Population Dynamics of Structural Complexity, SFI Working Papers
    1. Electric Fields Assemble Devices, Technology Research News
  15. Photonic Chips Go 3D, Technology Research News
    1. Nanotech Leads Way To Quantum Computing, vnunet.com
    2. IEEE Virtual Museum, HBS Working Knowledge
  16. Stepping on Big Brother's Toes, Wired News
  17. Betting on the President, Science Now
  18. The Faulty Premise of Pre-emption, NYTimes
    1. Taking Action in Darfur, NPR TOTN
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Manipulating US Elections is Not an Al-Qaeda Goal, The Daily Star
    2. Al Qaeda Seeks to Disrupt U.S. Economy, Experts Warn, NY Times
    3. Seriousness of Threat Defended Despite Dated Intelligence, Washington Post
    4. Another F.B.I. Employee Blows Whistle on Agency, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.30 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Impact of Political Advertising on Knowledge, Internet Information Seeking, and Candidate Preference, J. Communication
    1. Social Structure and Opinion Formation, arXiv
    2. Phase Transitions for Rock-Scissors-Paper Game on Different Networks, arXiv
  2. How Love Evolved From Sex And Gave Birth To Intelligence And Human Nature, J. Bioecon.
    1. From Nosy Neighbors to Cultural Evolution, Science
  3. Here Comes The MP3 Revolution, Contra Costa Times
  4. Traffic Forecast In Large Scale Freeway Networks, Int. J. Bifur. & Chaos
    1. The Value Of Snowfall To Skiers And Boarders, Env. & Resource Econ.
  5. Technological Networks and the Spread of Computer Viruses, arXiv
  6. Biodiversity: A Tragedy With Many Players, Nature
    1. Population Variation In Lateralised Eye Use, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
    2. Examining Epignetics, NPR TOTN
  7. Human Intelligence Determined By Volume And Location Of Gray Matter Tissue In Brain, Today@UCI
    1. Epileptic Neurons Go Wireless, Science
  8. Children Think Before They Speak, Nature
    1. Conceptual Precursors To Language, Nature
    2. Stuttering More Than Talk - Research Shows Brain's Role In Disorder, ScienceDaily
  9. Audience Drives Male Songbird Response To Partner's Voice, Nature
    1. Animal Behaviour: A Social Call, Nature
    2. Coalition Among Male Fiddler Crabs, Nature
  10. Toward A 0th Law Of Thermodynamics: Order-Creation Complexity Dynamics, J. Bioecon.
  11. For Doctored Photos, a New Flavor of Digital Truth Serum, NY Times
  12. Quantum Change For Nanotubes, nanotechweb
    1. Physics Enters the Twilight Zone, Science
    2. Designing Optimal Micromixers, Science
  13. Ship-Sinking Monster Waves Revealed By ESA Satellites, ESA News
    1. Freak Waves Spotted From Space, BBC News
  14. Virus 'Harnessed to Kill Cancers', BBC NEWS
  15. How Wounds Heal - Clues From Flies, ScienceDaily
  16. Results of Drug Trials Can Mystify Doctors Through Omission, NY Times
    1. Volatile Chemistry: Children and Antidepressants, Science
  17. Science And The War On Drugs: A Hard Habit To Break, Nature
  18. What's the Presidential Tipping Point?, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. The Terror Web, The New Yorker
    2. Blow To Saudi As Al-Qaeda Chief Evades Net, Financial Times
    3. Honorable Commission, Toothless Report, NY Times
    4. U.S. Cites Progress Against Terror Funds, Guardian
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Complexity Digest 2004.29 Next Issue TOP

  1. Hawking Cracks Black Hole Paradox, NewScientist
    1. Hawking Revises Theory On Escaping Black Holes, CBC.CA News
  2. The Scientific Impact Of Nations, Nature
    1. Science Education: Doing It For The Kid, Nature
    2. Goal Setting And Cheating: Why They Often Go Together In The Workplace, Knowledge@Wharton
  3. Unbinding Biological Autonomy: Francisco Varela’s Contributions to Artificial Life, Artificial Life
  4. Complexity In The Oil Market, Interciencia
  5. Complexity Results For Flow-Shop And Open-Shop Scheduling Problems With Transportation Delays, Annals Op. Res.
    1. Scheduling with Fuzzy Methods, arXiv
  6. Entrepreneurship, Chaos and the Tourism Area Lifecycle, Annals of Tourism Research
    1. On The Computational Complexity Of Consumer Decision Rules, Computational Economics
  7. A Survey Of Publication Bias Within Evolutionary Ecology, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
  8. Simulation and Experiment of Extinction or Adaptation, arXiv
  9. Migrating Birds Offer Insight Into Sleep, ScienceDaily
    1. Hormone Boost That Helps Female Fish Tune In To Males' Love Songs, Cornell News Release
    2. Neural Constraints On The Complexity Of Avian Song, Brain, Behav. & Evol.
  10. Robotics, Motor Learning, And Neurologic Recovery, Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
  11. Honey Bee Nest Thermoregulation: Diversity Promotes Stability, Science
  12. Population Ecology: A Three-Player Solution, Nature
    1. The Combined Effects Of Pathogens And Predators On Insect Outbreaks, Nature
  13. Embryology: Plane Talk, Nature
    1. Plant Biology: Good Neighbours, Nature
  14. Developmental Biology: Heading Away From The Rump, Nature
    1. Fractal Patterns Of Early Life Revealed, NewScientist
  15. Blood Traffic Control, Nature
  16. Robots (Probably) Won’t Turn Against Humanity, Experts Say in Their Defense, The New York Sun
    1. Polite Computers Win Users' Hearts And Minds, NewScientist
  17. Devastated by AIDS, Africa Sees Life Expectancy Plunge, NY Times
    1. An Emerging Catastrophe, NY Times
  18. Reconsidering E-Voting, NY Times
    1. When Elections Threaten Democracy, NY Times
    2. Afghan President Describes Militias as the Top Threat, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Can The C.I.A. Really Be That Bad?, NY Times
    2. Dress Code May Hinder Their Work, Air Marshals Say, NY Times
    3. Al Qaida Evolves Into Regional Networks, Middle East Newsline
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Complexity Digest 2004.28 Next Issue TOP

  1. Infection And Immunity, Nature
    1. Immunology: Another Manifestation Of GOD (Generation Of Diversity), Nature
    2. Superbug Genome Excels At Passing On Drug Resistance, Nature
    3. Cancer Immunotherapy: A Treatment for the Masses, Science
  2. Unique Immune System Found in Lampreys, Science Now
    1. Can Worms Tame the Immune System?, Science
    2. Vaccination Pattern Affects Immunological Response, arXiv
  3. Learning And Knowing Collectively, Ecological Economics
    1. Bacterial Linguistic Communication and Social Intelligence, Trends in Microbiology
    2. Diffusion Of Agricultural Biotechnology And Intellectual Property Rights: Issues In India, Ecological Economics
  4. Actions, Answers, And Uncertainty: A Decision-Making Perspective, Info. Processing & Management
    1. A Model Of Knowledge Activation And Insight In Problem Solving, Complexity
  5. How Surprising Is A Simple Pattern? Quantifying "Eureka!", Cognition
    1. Can Musical Transformations Be Implicitly Learned?, Cognitive Science
    2. Can Computers Argue?, Alphagalileo
  6. Studies Of Prematurely Old Mice Hint That DNA Mutations Underlie Aging, Science News
    1. The RNAi Revolution, Nature
  7. Computing the Meanings of Words in Reading, Psychological Review
  8. Brain Implants 'Read' Monkey Minds, NewScientist
    1. Monkey Research and Prosthetics Controlled by Thought, NPR TOTN
    2. Monkey See, Monkey Think About Doing, Science Now
    3. Cognitive Control Signals for Neural Prosthetics, Science
  9. Old Is Young, Study Finds: Longevity Evolved Late For Humans, ScienceDaily
    1. Elderly Crucial To Evolutionary Success Of Humans, NewScientist
  10. Clearing Up Blurry Vision: Scientists Gaze Toward Causes Of Myopia, Science News
    1. Lifestyle Causes Myopia, Not Genes, NewScientist
  11. Robotic Wheels that Just Keep Rolling, NewScientist.com
  12. Evolution Could Speed Net Downloads, NewScientist
    1. Hide and Seek on Complex Networks, arXiv
  13. Scepticism Greets Pitch To Detect Dark Energy In The Lab, Nature
  14. Braiding Patterns On An Inclined Plan, Nature
  15. Woodpiles for Photons, Science
  16. ALEX3: a Simulation Program to Compare Electoral Systems, JASSS
    1. Has the Time Come for Touchscreen Voting?, NYTimes
  17. Schoolchildren To Be RFID-Chipped, Silicon.com
  18. Force Spies to Work Together, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Homeland Security Requests Election Review, Washington Post
    2. Bin Laden Is Said to Be Organizing for a U.S. Attack, NY Times
    3. Hi-Tech Rays To Aid Terror Fight, BBC News
    4. Pentagon Sets Hearings for 595 Detainees, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2004.27 Next Issue TOP

  1. International Conference on Complex Networks, Conference Videos
  2. The Perils of the Imitation Age, Harvard Business Review
    1. Strategic Investment In Reputation, Behav. Ecol. & Sociobiol.
    2. The Power of Impossible Thinking, Knowledge@Wharton
  3. D.I.Y. Meets N.R.L. (No Record Label), NY Times
    1. 'Magic Ink' That Makes Metal Grow, BBC News Online
  4. Neuroscience: Change Of Mind, Nature
    1. Concepts - A Model For Madness?, Nature
    2. Anesthetics Are Slowly Giving Up The Secrets Of How They Work, Science News
  5. Circadian Rhythms: As Time Glows By In Bacteria, Nature
  6. Neurobiology: Sleep On It, Nature
    1. Local Sleep And Learning, Nature
  7. Fooling The Brain Into Thinking It Sees Both Hands Moving Enhances Bimanual Spatial Coupling, Exp. Brain Res.
    1. That's Not My Hand! How The Brain Can Be Fooled Into Feeling A Fake Limb, Alphagalileo
  8. Natural Selection At Work In Genetic Variation To Taste, ScienceDaily
    1. Skull Fuels Homo Erectus Debate, BBC News Online
    2. Getting To Know Homo Erectus, Science
    3. Neocortex Size Predicts Deception Rate In Primates, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
  9. Evolutionary Genomics: Seeing Double, Nature
    1. Epigenetics: Genome, Meet Your Environment, The Scientist
  10. Performance-Enhancing Drug for Sperm, Science Now
    1. More Data But No Answers on Powers of Adult Stem Cells, Science
  11. 80 Years of Watching the Evolutionary Scenery, Science
  12. Close to Home, Ants Get Angry, Science Now
    1. Path Integration in Desert Ants Controls Aggressiveness, Science
    2. Talking Through the Ground, Science Now
    3. Duet Singing And Repertoire Use In Threat Signalling Of Individuals And Pairs, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
  13. High Complexity Food Webs In Low-Diversity Eastern Pacific Reef-Coral Communities, Ecosystems
    1. Habitat Complexity Reduces The Growth Of Aggressive And Dominant Brown Trout, Behav. Ecol. & Sociobiol.
  14. Urban Wind Power: Breezing Into Town, Nature
    1. Aviation Growth 'Risk To Planet', BBC News
    2. Rice Yields May Suffer as Earth Warms, Science Now
  15. Infinite Beauty, Book Review, Nature
  16. China To Censor Text Messages, BBC News
  17. The Complexity of Agreement, arXiv
  18. In the Wake of a Mess, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
    1. Hussein, in Jail, Reportedly Said Little of Value, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Terrorist Networks
    1. The Nation: Fear Factor; In an Age of Terror, Safety Is Relative, NY Times
    2. Cheney, Bush Tout Gains in Terror War, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2004.26 Next Issue TOP

  1. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Complexity Digest Virtual Conference Network
  2. Critical Brain Networks, Physica A
    1. Neuronal Oscillations in Cortical Networks, Science
  3. Ontological Uncertainty and Innovation, SFI Working Papers
    1. Modelling Selforganization and Innovation Processes in Networks, arXiv
  4. The Intelligent Internet The Promise of Smart Computers and E-Commerce, Government Computer News
    1. Net Pioneer Predicts Web Future, BBC News Online
  5. Microsoft Patents Body-As-Network, IDG News Service
    1. Power Implant Aims To Run On Body Heat, NewScientist
  6. Mr. Universe Jr.: Child's Gene Mutation Confirms Protein's Role In Human-Muscle Growth, Science News
    1. "Mighty Mouse" Gene Found In Humans, NewScientist
  7. De Novo Design of an Enzyme, Science
    1. Computational Design of a Biologically Active Enzyme, Science
    2. Putting Flu on the Map, Science Now
  8. Chaos In A Periodically Forced Chemostat With Algal Mortality, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
  9. Farming Origins Gain 10,000 Years, BBC News
  10. Russians Change Weather For McCartney Concert, Chicago Sun Times
    1. Weather Modification, NPR ATC
  11. Mercury's Capture Into The 3/2 Spin-Orbit Resonance As A Result Of Its Chaotic Dynamics, Nature
    1. Planetary Science: How Mercury Got Its Spin, Nature
  12. Distributed Robustness Versus Redundancy as Causes of Mutational Robustness, SFI Working Papers
  13. Face-Keeping Strategies In Reaction To Complaints: English And Persian, J. Asian Pacific Communi.
  14. Noisy Secret Of Mona Lisa's Smile, NewScientist
  15. Working And Training: A Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis Of Human Capital Development, Jap. Econ. Rev.
  16. Mything The Point: What's Wrong With The Conventional Wisdom About The C.I.A, Intell. & National Security
  17. Out Of Sight But Not Out Of Mind: Home Range Marking In Ants, Animal Behaviour
  18. U.S. Struggled Over How Far to Push Tactics, Washington Post
    1. UN Seeks 'Terror Inmates' Access, BBC News
    2. U.N. Investigators Appeal to U.S., Washington Post
    3. UK Alarm Over Guantanamo Trials, BBC News
  19. Complex Challenges: Terrorist Networks
    1. US Doubles Its Count of 2003 Terrorism Casualties, Reuters
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Complexity Digest 2004.25 Next Issue TOP

  1. Imitation of Life: How Biology Is Inspiring Computing, MIT Press
    1. Inkjet Printing of Viable Mammalian Cells, Biomaterials
  2. Will RFID Spark the Next Revolution in Retailing?, Knowledge@Wharton
    1. Big Bang! Digital Convergence is Finally Happening, Business Week
    2. Who's The Real Mr. Chips?, Business Week
    3. Artificial Intelligence: Animation Finally Gets NextGen Technology, Financial Express
  3. The Ties That Bind, Nature
  4. Matchmaking, Science
    1. Matching Behavior and the Representation of Value in the Parietal Cortex, Science
  5. The Poor Are Always With Us. Why?, Knowledge@Wharton
    1. U.S. Cotton Subsidies Criticized, NPR ATC
  6. Music Lessons Give Kids A Small IQ Advantage, Science News
    1. Tunes Create Context Like Language, Nature
  7. Strange Food For Thought, Christian Science Monitor
    1. My Left Brain And Me: A Dissociation In The Perception Of Self And Others, Neuropsychologia
  8. Brain Plasticity - Whole Cells and Synapses, q-bio arVix
  9. New Technique Developed For Deciphering Brain Recordings Can Capture Thinking As It Happens, ScienceDaily
    1. Electroencephalographic Brain Dynamics Following Visual Targets, Public Library of Science Biology
  10. Molecular Biology: The Loader Of The Rings, Nature
    1. Adding A Chromosome May Treat Disease, NewScientist
    2. Validating the Interactome, The Scientist
    3. The Evolution Of Supertrees, Trends Ecol. & Evol.
    4. Mutation And Selection In A Large Population, Biosystems
  11. Embryonic Stem Cells Work, The Scientist
    1. The Case For Negative Senescence, Theor. Popul. Biol.
    2. Nano Silicon Boosts Tumour Fight, BBC News
  12. How Do You Persist When Your Molecules Don't?, Science & Consciousness
  13. Survival Of The Fastest: Scientists 'Selectively Breed' Winning Formula One Cars, ScienceDaily
    1. Fast Cars Could Be Tuned By Evolution, NewScientist
    2. Computers Chase the Checkered Flag, NY Times
  14. Utah Rocks Help Explain Martian "Blueberries", NewScientist
    1. Mars Rover Spies Pot Of Gold, NewScientist
    2. NASA: Comets Richer Than Previously Thought, NPR ATC
  15. Florida Will Reinstate Voting for Ex-Felons, NPR ATC
    1. Sweeping Stun Guns To Target Crowds, NewScientist
  16. Show Us the Proof, NY Times
    1. Marine Commander Admits Iraqi Unit Has Been Erratic, Washington Post
    2. Mistakes Loom Large as Handover Nears, Washington Post
  17. Rumsfeld Acknowledges Prisoner Held in Secret, NPR ATC
    1. Torture Policy, Washington Post
  18. Report Faults U.S. Action on Nuclear Proliferation, Washington Post
    1. Conspiracy Threat To Anti-Nuke Treaty, NewScientist
    2. Nuclear Politics and Proliferation, NPR TOTN
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Chaotic Civilian, Military Reaction to Attacks Recounted, NPR ATC
    2. US Must Invest In Science Of Dot-Connecting, Christian Science Monitor
    3. Capitol Plane Scare Blamed On Lack of Communication, Washington Post
    4. U.S. Said to Overstate Value of Guantánamo Detainees, NY Times
    5. No Saudi Payment to Qaeda Is Found, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.24 Next Issue TOP

  1. Universe Started With Hiss, Not Bang, NewScientist
  2. How Google Took the Work Out of Selling Advertising, NY Times
    1. Social Networks And Loss Of Capital, Social Networks
    2. Robotic Rock-Climber Takes Its First Steps, NewScientist
  3. Dog's Verbal Tricks Probe Origin Of Language, NewScientist
    1. A Dog of Many Words, Science Now
    2. Collie Dog's Word Power Impresses, BBC News
    3. Old Dog Learns New Tricks, Natue Science update
    4. Word Learning in a Domestic Dog: Evidence for "Fast Mapping", Science
  4. Animal Behavior: Eavesdropping On Bats, Nature
    1. Locust Swarms May Spiral Into Plague, NewScientist
  5. Breaking the Sod: Humankind, History, and Soil, Science
    1. Ecology in the Underworld, Science
    2. Soil Carbon Sequestration Impacts on Global Climate Change and Food Security, Science
    3. Interactions and Self-Organization in the Soil-Microbe Complex, Science
  6. Multi-agent Simulations and Ecosystem Management: A Review, Ecological Modelling
    1. Ecology Drives The Worldwide Distribution Of Human Diseases, Alphagalileo
    2. Universal Mortality Law and Immortality, arXiv
  7. Brain Learns Like A Robot, Nature
    1. The Wholes That Are Greater Than The Sum Of Their Parts In Mathematics Education, J. Math. Behav.
    2. Why Do U.S. And Chinese Students Think Differently In Mathematical Problem Solving?, J. Math. Behav.
  8. Human Subjects Play Mind Games, Washington University in St. Louis News & Information
    1. An Eye On The Tongue, ScienceDaily
  9. Some Brain Areas May Doze More Deeply Than Others, Science Now
    1. The Sleeping Brain, NPR TOTN
    2. Memory Fails You After Severe Stress, NewScientist
  10. Loss Of Circadian Genes Results In Epilepsy, ScienceDaily
  11. Complex Machine Carved Ancient Rings, Nature
    1. China Had First Complex Machines, BBC News
    2. New Ways To Evaluate Innovative Ventures, MIT Sloan Management Review
  12. Self-Assembly Made Easy, Physics Web
    1. Nanophysics: A Step Up To Self-Assembly, Nature
    2. Molecular Medicine: The Writing Is On The Vessel Wall, Nature
  13. Venezuelan Recall Is in Dispute Even Before the Vote, NY Times
    1. Gambling on Voting, NY Times
    2. Gambling on Voting, NY Times
  14. Appealing a Death Sentence Based on Future Danger, NY Times
    1. Meager Evaluations Make It Hard to Find Out What Works, Science
    2. Ruined Moments In Your Life: How Good Are The Approximations?, Insurance: Math.& Econ.
  15. Choice, Consent, And The Legitimacy Of Market Transactions, Econ. & Phil.
  16. An Oil Enigma: Production Falls Even as Reserves Rise, NY Times
  17. This Spy for Rent, NY Times
  18. Memos on Torture Conflict with Bush Legal Policies, NPR
    1. Iraq Abuse 'Came From US Policy', BBC News
    2. Use of Dogs to Scare Prisoners Was Approved, Washington Post
    3. A Look Behind the 'Wire' At Guantanamo, Washington Post
    4. Iraq Tactics Have Long History With U.S. Interrogators, Washington Post
    5. Guantanamo List Details Approved Interrogation Methods, Washington Post
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. The War on Terrorism: The Big Picture, Parameters
    2. U.S. Wrongly Reported Drop in World Terrorism in 2003, NY Times
    3. Isolation Is Not The Answer, Nature
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Complexity Digest 2004.23 Next Issue TOP

  1. Send In the Swarm, Fortune
    1. The Emergence of Complexity, Kassel University Press
    2. Proceed With Caution, NY Times
    3. Concepts, When Symmetry Breaks Down, Nature
  2. Ion Entanglement in Quantum Information Processing, Science
  3. Designer Nanotubes by Molecular Self-Assembly, Science
    1. Dancing Lasers Levitate Carbon Nanotubes, NewScientist
    2. Study: Self-Replicating Nanomachines Feasible, SmallTimes
  4. Genetically-Modified Virus Explodes Cancer Cells, NewScientist
    1. Theoretical Immunology: Parasitic Turncoat, Nature
    2. Are HIV Vaccines Fighting Fire with Gasoline?, The Scientist
  5. ECOLOGY - Lessons From The Wolf, Scientific American
    1. Challenges of Modeling Ocean Basin Ecosystems, Science
    2. Dead Waters, Science News
    3. Flexibility in Algal Endosymbioses Shapes Growth in Reef Corals, Science
  6. Controversial Fossil Could Shed Light on Early Animals' Blueprint, Science
    1. Fossils Hint At Early Complexity, BBC News
  7. Young World: NASA Telescope Reveals Clues To Newborn Planet, Science News
    1. Youngest Extrasolar Planet Reported, Science
  8. Gene Expression Is Noisy, The Scientist
    1. Gene Regulation: A Reason For Reading Nonsense, Nature
    2. Scientists Find New Type of Gene in Junk DNA, Reuters
  9. Neurobiology: A Matter Of Balance, Nature
    1. Neuroscience: Crossing The Midline, Science
  10. Genes Promoting Nerve, Other Cell Communications May Have Come From Bacteria, ScienceDaily
  11. Flock Density, Social Foraging, And Scanning: An Experiment With Starlings, Behav. Ecol.
  12. Behold the Talking Chimp, The Scientist
  13. Colour And The Mind: Do You See What I See?, Alphagalileo
  14. From Collective Mind To Communication, Com. Sys.
  15. Modeling The Movement Of Crowds In A City, Com. Sys.
  16. Brain Disease Research, Particle Physics Meet In The Middle(Ware), ScienceDaily
  17. What's Google's Secret Weapon? An Army of Ph.D.'s, NY Times
    1. Net Brings Activists Out In Force, BBC News
    2. How Web Site Organization Influences Free Recall, Factual Knowledge, Human Comm. Res.
  18. Following The Afghan Drugs Trail, BBC News
    1. The Preemptive-War Doctrine has Met an Early Death in Iraq, Los Angeles Times
    2. Measuring Saud Family's Hold on Saudi Arabia, NPR ATC
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Spain and U.S. at Odds on Mistaken Terror Arrest, NY Times
    2. Saudi Arabian Oil, NPR ME
    3. Saudi Arabia Dissolves Muslim Charity, NPR ATC
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Complexity Digest 2004.22 Next Issue TOP

  1. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Conference Webcast
  2. When Things Get Complicated, Boston Globe
    1. Puckish Robots Pull Together, Natue Science update
  3. Building In The Sand, Darwinmag.com
    1. The New "Molecular Economy", Business Week
  4. Is the U.S. Brain Gain Faltering?, Science
    1. A Foot in Each Country, Science
    2. The Rise Of Café Culture, Nature
  5. Automata Make Antisense, Nature
  6. Citizens, Slaves, And Foreigners: Aristotle On Human Nature, Amer. Pol. Sc. Rev.
    1. Minority Voices In The American States: Do Social And Institutional Context Matter?, British J. Pol. Sc.
  7. What Are Elections For? Conferring The Median Mandate, British J. Pol. Sc.
    1. Who Tests Voting Machines?, NY Times
  8. Ecology for a Crowded Planet, Science
    1. Evolving Eco-system: a Network of Networks, arXiv
    2. Consumption Pattern, Trade, And Greenhouse Gas Leakage In India, Env. & Dev. Econ.
    3. Global Vineyard, Can Technology Take On A Warming Climate?, Science News
  9. Characterization Of Dendrites As Nonlinear Computation Devices, Neurocomputing
    1. Does A Dendritic Democracy Need A Ruler?, Neurocomputing
    2. Networks Of Neurons That Emit And Recognize Signatures, Neurocomputing
  10. Ageing: Mice And Mitochondria, Nature
  11. An Autonomous Molecular Computer For Logical Control Of Gene Expression, Nature
    1. Epigenetics In Human Disease And Prospects For Epigenetic Therapy, Nature
    2. Moving Towards Individualized Medicine With Pharmacogenomics, Nature
  12. Are Humans Seasonally Photoperiodic?, J. Biol. Rhythms
  13. Remembrance Of Smells Past: How The Brain Stores Those Meaningful Memories, ScienceDaily
    1. Small World Networks Key To Memory, NewScientist
  14. Path Integration In Desert Ants: How To Make A Homing Ant Run Away From Home, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Birds Use Herbs To Protect Their Nests, ScienceDaily
  15. Playing Pig, Optimally, Science News
  16. The Large-Scale Organization of Chemical Reaction Networks in Astrophysics, SFI Working Papers
    1. A Heavenly Example of Scale-free Networks and Self-organized Criticality, Physica A
  17. Soft Computing Data Mining, Information Sciences
    1. Reductions of Hidden Information Sources, SFI Working Papers
  18. Internet’s Critical Path Horizon, SFI Working Papers
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. U.S. Refocusing Military Strategy for War on Terror, Rumsfeld Says, The Information Warfare Site
    2. Terror's Next Target, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
    3. Americans Are Turning To BBC For News, Cox News Service
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Complexity Digest 2004.21 Next Issue TOP

  1. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Video Summaries
    1. In the Era of Cheap DVD's, Anyone Can Be a Producer, NY Times
  2. Machine Failure Forewarning Via Phase-Space Dissimilarity Measures, Chaos
    1. Mimicking Humpback Whale Flippers May Improve Airplane Wing Design, ScienceDaily
  3. Sex-Linked Inheritance Of Hearing And Song In The Belgian Waterslager Canary, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
    1. Species Interactions and the Evolution of Sex, Science
  4. Do Airborne Particles Induce Heritable Mutations?, Science
    1. Reduction of Particulate Air Pollution Lowers the Risk of Heritable Mutations in Mice, Science
  5. Advantageous Indirect Interactions In Systems Of Competition, J. Theo. Biol.
  6. Storm-in-a-Box Forecasting, Science
    1. No End Yet to Forecast Advances, Science
  7. Oscillating Global Regulators Control the Genetic Circuit, Science
    1. Evidence For Ecology's Role In Speciation, Nature
    2. Asphalt Volcanism and Chemosynthetic Life, Science
  8. Big Buzz As Cicadas Arrive After 17-Year Gap, Nature
    1. Treetop Opera, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
  9. Are Bacteria Turning Our Own Weapons Against Us?, Alphagalileo
  10. Exclusive Consolidated Memory Phases in Drosophila, Science
    1. Imaging Study Shows Brain Maturing, ScienceDaily
    2. Scale Errors Offer Evidence for a Perception-Action Dissociation Early in Life, Science
    3. At Times, Children Play With The Impossible, Science News
  11. A Puzzle That Archimedes Pondered, Science News
  12. The Parental Investment Conflict In Continuous Time: St. Peter's Fish As An Example, J. Theo. Biol.
  13. Controlling the Ups and Downs of Synaptic Strength, Science
  14. Perceived Threats and Real Killers, Science
  15. Growth, Poverty And The IMF, J. Int. Development
  16. Smart Glasses Detect Eye Contact, NewScientist
  17. Religion and Science, Futures
    1. Nobility and Stupidity: Modeling the Evolution of Class Endogamy, arXiv
  18. Turning Friend Into Foe in Baghdad, NY Times
    1. Poor Security Has Undermined Iraq's Reconstruction Effort, Knight Ridder Newspapers
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Reveal the Rules, Washington Post
    2. U.S. Nearing Deal on Way to Track Foreign Visitors, NY Times
    3. Database Tagged 120,000 as Possible Terrorist Suspects, NY Times
    4. Evidence Is Cited Linking Koreans to Libya Uranium, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.20 Next Issue TOP

  1. Natural-Born Dualists, Edge.org
  2. Where the Jobs Are, NY Times
    1. The Power of Why, Darwin Observer
    2. No More Meetings!, Darwin Observer
  3. The Measurement Of Intellectual Influence, Econometrica
  4. Universal Ideals And Particular Constraints Of Social Citizenship: The Chinese Experience, Int. J. Social Welfare
  5. In the Arts, Tech for Tech's Sake Can't Compete With Originality, NY Times
  6. Social Protection: Values To Be Defended!, Int. Social Security Rev.
  7. The Antisocial Hormone, NewScientist
    1. Cognitive Inflexibility After Prefrontal Serotonin Depletion, Science
    2. Periodic Signaling Controlled by an Oscillatory Circuit, Science
  8. Advantages Of Having A Lateralized Brain, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
    1. Words In The Brain: Reading Program Spurs Neural Rewrite In Kids, Science News
  9. Zif and the Survival of Memory, Science
    1. Locating a New Step in Pain's Pathway, Science
    2. Memory Consolidation And Forgetting During Sleep: A Neural Network, Neural Proce. Lett.
  10. A Visualisation Concept of Dynamic Signalling Networks, Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology
  11. The Complexity Of Symmetry-Breaking Formulas, Math. & Artificial Intell.
  12. Building Character, Wrinkle by Wrinkle, in a 3-D World, NY Times
    1. Computerized Clothes, NY Times
    2. Robot to Hubble's Rescue?, NPR ME
  13. Human Genetics: An Inflammatory Issue, Nature
    1. Genomics in the Immune System, Clinical Immunology
  14. Essence of Life and Multiformity of its Realization: Expected Signatures of Life, Advances in Space Research
  15. Domains of Diversity
    1. Biomechanics: Fast Fish, Nature
  16. Colloids as Big Atoms, Science
  17. Candidates Face Sprawling and Complex Electoral Map, NY Times
    1. Voting Technology Update, NPR TOTN
  18. A 'Clear ... System Failure', Christian Science Monitor
    1. Commanders Share Blame in Iraq Prisoner Abuse, NPR ME
    2. Abuse Of Iraqis 'Well Thought Through', NewScientist
    3. Harsh C.I.A. Methods Cited in Top Qaeda Interrogations, NY Times
    4. General Took Guantánamo Rules to Iraq for Handling of Prisoners, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Terror in the Name of God', c-span
    2. Judge Allows Peek Into Challenge to Antiterrorism Law, NYTimes
    3. From '9-11' to the Iraq War - Intl Law in An Age of Complexity, Oxford
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Complexity Digest 2004.19 Next Issue TOP

  1. Life, a Nobel Story, Symposium Report
  2. Is U.S. Science Dominance Fading?, Star-Telegram.com
    1. A Look at the State of U.S. Science, NPR Audio
    2. Losing Our Technical Dominance, NY Times
    3. Toward a New Policy for Scientific and Technical Communication: the Case of Kyrgyz Republic, arXiv
  3. Facing the Global Water Crisis, The Scientist
    1. Super Organics, Wired
  4. Economic Scene - How Much Does Information Technology Matter?, NY Times
    1. Does Globalization Hurt The Poor?, Int. Econ. & Econ. Policy
    2. The Case Against Intellectual Monopoly, Int. Econ. Rev.
  5. Comparative Learning Dynamics, Int. Econ. Rev.
  6. Bribes In A Supply Line, Economica
  7. Information Theory in Molecular biology, arXiv
  8. Where Art Studio Meets Science Lab, NY Times
  9. How Did Natural Selection Shape Human Genes?, The Scientist
    1. Landmarks of Human Variations, The Scientist
    2. Evolutionary Teamwork, The Scientist
    3. Illuminating the Evolutionary History of Chlamydiae, Science
  10. Why a New Cancer Drug Works Well, In Some Patients, Science
    1. Coffee, Spices, Wine, New Dietary Ammo Against Diabetes?, Science News
  11. Mechanism That Enables Stem Cells To Track Migrating Brain Tumor Cells, ScienceDaily
  12. Fractal Balls, Appl. Math. Modelling
  13. Playing Old Records (No Needle Required), NY Times
  14. Planetary Exploration: A Job For The Droids?, Nature
    1. Injectable Medibots: Programmable DNA Could Diagnose And Treat Cancer, Science News
    2. The Bionic Running Shoe, NY Times
  15. The Myth of the Beginning of Time, Scientific American
    1. Solar Flare Puzzler, Science Now
  16. Neuroscience - Freud Returns, Scientific American
    1. The Mysteries of Myelin Unwrapped, Science
  17. Human Brain Works Heavy Statistics Learning Language, ScienceDaily
    1. Mental Relaxation Improves Long-Term Incidental Visual Memory, Neurobiol. Learning & Mem.
  18. Mistreatment of Prisoners Is Called Routine in U.S., NY Times
    1. Iraq Abuse: US Policy or Anomaly?, BBC News
    2. Mental Aspects of Abuse and War, NPR
    3. My Life as a Guard, NY Times
    4. US Powerless To Halt Iraq Net Images, BBC News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Islamic Terrorist Threats On The Rise Worldwide, Knight Ridder
    2. A President Beyond the Law, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.18 Next Issue TOP

  1. Science Education Forum for Chinese Language Culture, Panel Discussion
    1. Undergrad Education Review Released, Harvard University Gazette
  2. Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics Days, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  3. The Multiplier Effect Of Globalization, Econ. Lett.
  4. Organic: Is It The Future Of Farming?, Nature
    1. Plant Science: Tall Storeys, Nature
    2. Tree Height, NPR TOTN
  5. Cancer: Enzymes Play Molecular Tag, Nature
    1. Secret Of Eternal Life May Give Cancer Cure, New Scientist
    2. Bone Marrow Stem Cells Help Mend Broken Hearts, Natue Science update
  6. Probabilistic Integrated Assessment of "Dangerous" Climate Change, Science
    1. Prediction Of A Global Climate Change On Jupiter, Nature
  7. Faster Circuits Go For Gold, Natue Science update
    1. A Conveyor Belt for the Nano-Age, Berkeley Lab Research News
    2. Baby Buckyballs Hold Unusual Promise, NewScientist
  8. Coupling Qubits by Waves on the Electron Sea, Science
    1. Quantum Computers Are A Quantum Leap Closer, ScienceDaily
  9. Protocol Requirements for Self-organizing Artifacts: Towards an Ambient Intelligence, arXiv
    1. Innovation in Manufacturing as an Evolutionary Complex System, Technovation
  10. A Glimpse at the Future of DNA: M.D.'s Inside the Body, NY Times
    1. Could Nanomachines Be Tomorrow's Doctors?, Natue Science update
    2. Double Vision, Hollywood Grapples With Human Cloning., Natue Science update
  11. 'Pacemaker' For Stomach, ScienceDaily
  12. Brain-Watching Helps Suppress Pain, New Scientist
    1. Time Is Precious, Science
    2. Synfire Chains and Cortical Songs: Temporal Modules of Cortical Activity, Science
    3. A Unified Theory For Systems And Cellular Memory Consolidation, Brain Res. Rev.
    4. The Neural Representation Of Time, Current Opin. Neurobiol.
  13. A Mixture Of Simple Chemicals Produces Fungus-Like Structure., Natue Science update
  14. Tug-Of-War Over Reproduction In A Social Bee, Nature
    1. Answer, but No Cure, for a Social Disorder That Isolates Many, NY Times
  15. Predicting Crashes In A Model Of Evolving Networks, Complexity
    1. Technological Networks and the Spread of Computer Viruses, Science
    2. Noise In Neural Networks - In Terms Of Relations, Fluct. & Noise Lett.
  16. Logic From Chaos?, The Economist
    1. U of I Makes Computer Science Cool, Chicago Business
    2. Dueling Visions of a High-Definition DVD, NY Times
    3. Robotic Traffic Cones Swarm Onto Highways, NewScientist
  17. How Famous is a Scientist? -- Famous to Those Who Know Us, arXiv
  18. Democracy Takes a Hit, NY Times
    1. Who Hacked the Voting System? The Teacher, NY Times
    2. Book Traces Military-Industrial Complex, NPR ATC
    3. In Front of Your Nose, NY Times
    4. Torture At Abu Ghraib, New Yorker
    5. Rough Justice in Iraq, Rod Nordland and John Barry Newsweek
    6. Prisoner Abuse Probe Widened, Washington Post
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Airports to Test New Defenses Against Terrorist Infiltration, Washington Post
    2. The Hunt For Bin Laden, USNews.com
    3. Mark Mazzetti, Senior Editor of U.S. News & World Report, c-span
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Complexity Digest 2004.17 Next Issue TOP

  1. Social Presence And Children: Praise, Intrinsic Motivation, And Learning With Computers, J. Communication
    1. Trade Flows: A Facet Of Regionalism Or Globalisation?, Cambridge J. Econ.
    2. Near Rationality and Competitive Equilibria in Networked Systems, arXiv
    3. The Productivity Of Failures, Nature
    4. Variation In Behaviour Promotes Cooperation In The Prisoner's Dilemma Game, Nature
  2. The Truth About Lying, Nature
  3. Get Mellow, Fellow: Male Baboons Cooperate After Cultural Prodding, Science Now
  4. Come Together: The Mystery of Collective Intelligence, WIE Magazine
    1. Empathy May Not Be Uniquely Human Quality, NewScientist
  5. 'Virgin Birth' Mammal Rewrites Rules Of Biology, NewScientist.com
    1. Mice Created Without Fathers, BBC News Online
  6. Food Hoarding: Future Value In Optimal Foraging Decisions, Ecol. Modelling
    1. Songbirds Check Compass Against Sunset to Stay on Course, Science
    2. Migrating Songbirds Recalibrate Their Magnetic Compass Daily from Twilight Cues, Science
  7. Even Redwoods Can't Grow Forever, Science Now
  8. Beyond Nature and Nurture, Science
    1. RNAi Takes Evo-Devo World by Storm, Science
    2. The Coevolution Theory Of Autumn Colours, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
    3. Variable Female Preferences Drive Complex Male Displays, Nature
  9. Early Life Thrived In Lava Flows, BBC News
  10. Neural Basis of Solving Problems with Insight, plosbiology
    1. Molecular Basis For Mozart Effect Revealed, NewScientist
  11. Unpublished Data Reverses Risk-Benefit Of Drugs, NewScientist
  12. Testosterone Gets You Thinking, Alphagalileo
    1. Brain Areas Identified That 'Decode' Emotions Of Others, ScienceDaily
  13. Global Warming and the Next Ice Age, Science
    1. A Slowing Cog in the North Atlantic Ocean's Climate Machine, Science
    2. The Effects of Iron Fertilization on Carbon Sequestration in the Southern Ocean, Science
    3. Ironing Out Algal Issues in the Southern Ocean, Science
  14. Devilish Dust Packs a Charge, Science Now
  15. A Simple Model Of Propulsive Oscillating Foils, Ocean Engineering
    1. Wrappers Smarten Up To Protect Food, NewScientist
  16. Enzyme "Ink" Shows Potential for Nanomanufacturing, NSF
    1. Getting Molecules To Do The Work, Business Week
    2. Coupling Qubits by Waves on the Electron Sea, Science
  17. A Compromised Voting System, NYTimes
  18. Security Companies: Shadow Soldiers in Iraq, NYTimes
    1. Privatizing Warfare, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. The Real Nuclear Danger, NYTimes
    2. Trying To Push Terror Off The Grid, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    3. World Powers Try To Squeeze Terrorist Financing, AFP/channelnewsasia.com
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Complexity Digest 2004.16 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Search Engine Wars, NPR
    1. Old School Search, NPR
    2. The Breakthrough, NPR
    3. What's Next?, NPR
  2. Hive Computing Is A Cluster Technology, InformationWeek
    1. Phase Transition From The Unconscious Social Mind, Blog of Collective Intelligence
  3. Behavioural Evolution: Cooperate With Thy Neighbour?, Nature
    1. Spatial Structure Often Inhibits The Evolution Of Cooperation, Nature
    2. Emergence Of Cooperation And Evolutionary Stability In Finite Populations, Nature
  4. Political Uncertainty, Public Expenditure And Growth, Euro. J. Poli. Econ.
    1. Will Equity Evolve?: An Indirect Evolutionary Approach, Euro. J. Poli. Econ.
  5. Ancient Jewellery Found In African Cave, Nature
    1. Oldest Beads Hint at Early Art, Science Now
  6. Slow to Adapt, Nokia Loses Market Share in Latest Cellphones, NY Times
  7. Googling The Genome, The Guardian
  8. For Children Being Left Behind, Private Tutors Face Rocky Start, NY Times
    1. Girl Chimps Learn Faster Than Boys, Nature Science update
  9. The Three Attentional Networks: On Their Independence And Interactions, Brain & Cognition
    1. Scale-free Trees: The Skeletons of Complex Networks, arXiv
    2. A Neural Simulation System Based On Biologically Realistic Electronic Neurons, Info. Sc.
    3. Neuronal Activity Related to Reward Value and Motivation in Primate Frontal Cortex, Science
    4. The Brain's Calendar: Neural Mechanisms Of Seasonal Timing, Biol. Rev.
  10. Ancient Invasions: From Endosymbionts to Organelles, Science
    1. The Roots of Plant-Microbe Collaborations, Science
    2. Biologist's Find Alters The Bacteria Family Tree, ScienceDaily
    3. Male-Female Conflict: Failure To Confirm Predictions In Insects And Spiders, Biol. Rev.
  11. Ecolab, Webworld and Self-organisation, arXiv
  12. Big Bang Glow Hints At Funnel-Shaped Universe, NewScientist
  13. Saturn Probe Sights Mystery Moons, BBC News
  14. UCLA Geophysicist Warns 6.4 Quake To Hit LA By Sept 5', SpaceDaily
    1. Model May Give Two-Year Warning Of El Nińo, Natue Science update
  15. Carbon Nanotube Fibers from Chemical Vapor Deposition, Science
  16. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Internet-First University Press
  17. An Error Catastrophe in Cancer?, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  18. New Support for 'Hygiene Hypothesis', Science Now
    1. Cell Therapy: Renovating the Heart, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. 9/11 Panel Calls Policies on Immigration Ineffective, NY Times
    2. Why Didn't We Stop 9/11?, NY Times
    3. Detention Cases Before Supreme Court Will Test Limits of Presidential Power, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.15 Next Issue TOP

  1. The New Soul of a Wealth Machine, Fortune
    1. Spotlight On Richard T. Pascale About The Relevance Of Complexity Science To Management, Emerald Now Spotlight, Emerald Now Spotlight
  2. Internet2 May Change The Way Scientists Conduct Research, ScienceDaily
    1. Turning Search Into a Science, Wired
  3. What's Stopping You?: The Sources Of Political Constraints On International Conflict Behavior, Int. Interactions
    1. The Determinants Of Japanese Official Development Assistance In Africa, Int. Interactions
    2. The Economic Basis Of Cooperation: Tradeoffs Between Selfishness And Generosity, Behav. Ecol.
  4. Out of Hollywood, Rising Fascination With Video Games, NY Times
  5. Learning to Forget, Science
  6. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) Speech on Domestic Policy Issues, Brookings Institution
  7. Human Origins from Afar, The Scientist
  8. The Other Half of the Brain, Scientific American
  9. The Tyranny of Choice, Scientific American
  10. Contextually Evoked Object-Specific Responses in Human Visual Cortex, Science
  11. Study Finds Link Between Television Viewing and Attention Problems in Children, Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle
    1. The Role Of Human Parietal Cortex In Attention Networks, Brain
  12. Neuroprotection Requires A Paradigm Shift In Drug Development, Nature
  13. Fruit Fly Courtship Puts Neurons to Work, Science Now
    1. Long-Term Persistence Of Song Performance Rules In Nightingales, Behaviour
  14. Monkey Business, Science News
  15. Researchers Develop Electronic Nose For Multimedia, ScienceDaily
  16. The Role Of Conformity In Foraging When Personal And Social Information Conflict, Behav. Ecol.
  17. Harnessing Nonlinearity: Predicting Chaotic Systems and Saving Energy in Wireless Communication, Science
  18. Nanomechanical Quantum Limits, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Germans Free Moroccan Convicted of a 9/11 Role, NY Times
    2. When U.S. Aided Insurgents, Did It Breed Future Terrorists?, NY Times
    3. Inquiry Into Attack on the Cole in 2000 Missed 9/11 Clues, NY Times
    4. Connecting the Dots -- Tracking Two Identified Terrorists, Orgnet.com
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Complexity Digest 2004.14 Next Issue TOP

  1. Braving Bullying Hecklers, Simulants Run for President, NY Times
  2. Modelling Learning and R&D in Innovative Environments: a Cognitive Multi-Agent Approach, JASSS
    1. Knowledge Creation Facing Hierarchy: the Dynamics of groups inside the Firm, JASSS
    2. Small World Dynamics and The Process of Knowledge Diffusion: The Case of The Metropolitan Area of Greater Santiago De Chile, JASSS
  3. Pricing Less Competitive Online, NPR Audio
  4. Phase Shifts, J Investment Management
  5. Human Evolution: The Primate Bite: Brawn Versus Brain?, Science
    1. Evolution's Lost Bite: Gene Change Tied To Ancestral Brain Gains, Science News
  6. Learning Theory: Past Performance And Future Results, Nature
    1. General Conditions For Predictivity In Learning Theory, Nature
  7. Neuroscience: The Sweet Smell Of Success, Nature
    1. It's Time! Fetal Lungs Tell Mom When To Deliver Baby, Science News
  8. Cell Bodies In A Cage, Nature
  9. Mathematicians Predict Patterns In Fingerprints And Cacti, ScienceDaily
  10. Signal Processing: Neural Coding By Correlation?, Nature
  11. Quantum Optimally Controlled Transition Landscapes, Science
  12. The Perfect Pitch of Blue Whales, NPR Audio
    1. The Social Lives of Snakes, Science News
    2. A Conceptual Framework For Nonkin Food Sharing: Timing And Currency Of Benefits, Animal Behaviour
    3. Complexity Of Behavioural Sequences And Their Relation To Stress Conditions In Chickens, Appl. Animal Behav. Sc.
  13. Ferns Younger, 'Smarter' Than Believed, NPR Audio
  14. Fossil Illuminates Evolution of Limbs from Fins, Scientific American
  15. New Ways to Control Malaria, Science
  16. Mimicking Viruses May Provide New Way To Defeat Them, ScienceDaily
  17. Unravelling Migrations In The Steppe: Mitochondrial DNA Sequences From Ancient Central Asians, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
  18. The 'Snowball Effect' and Intel on Iraq's WMDs, NPR ATC
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Simulation of The Dynamic Interactions Between Terror and Anti-Terror Organizational Structures, JASSS
    2. Top Focus Before 9/11 Wasn't on Terrorism, Washington Post
    3. The Iraq War and Global Terrorism, NPR Audio
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Complexity Digest 2004.13 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Cultural Wealth Of Nations, Nature
    1. Geneticists Study Chimp–Human Divergence, Nature
    2. RNA Finds A Simpler Way, Nature
    3. Parallel Evolution Is in the Genes, Science
  2. Agent-based Model Construction In Financial Economic System, arXiv
  3. EU Enlargement And Immigration, J. Common Market Studies
  4. Methane Poses Mars Life Puzzle, BBC News Online
  5. Quantum Channel Capacities, Science
    1. Bell's Inequalities and Quantum Communication Complexity, Physical Review Letters
    2. Complexity is Elusive, Phys. Rev. Focus
  6. Turning Points, From 'Not Wrong' To (Maybe Right), Nature
    1. Thou Shalt Not Make Scientific Progress, Salon.com
  7. Pentagon Attempts To Bend Light To Its Will, Nature
  8. Molecular Logic Proposed, Technology Research News
  9. Buckminsterfullerenes: A Non-Metal System For Nitrogen Fixation, Nature
    1. Health Concerns in Nanotechnology, NY Times
  10. The Many Roles of Computation in Drug Discovery, Science
    1. Mosquitoes Could Fight Malaria, Natue Science update
  11. Rare Stem Cells Appear To Drive Cancers, Science News
    1. Cancer: Survival Pathways Meet Their End, Nature
    2. Cancer: Dangerous Liaisons, Nature
  12. How And Why Brains Create Meaning From Sensory Information, Int. J. Bifur. & Chaos
    1. The Brain? It's A Jungle in There, NY Times
    2. Entropy And Complexity Analysis Of Intracranially Recorded EEG, Int. J. Bifur. & Chaos
    3. Information Processing In Brain And Behavior, Int. J. Bifur. & Chaos
  13. Complexity Of Eye Movements In Reading, Int. J. Bifur. & Chaos
  14. A 'Snowball Earth' Climate Triggered By Continental Break-Up, Nature
    1. On the Cause of the 1930s Dust Bowl, Science
    2. Society and Sea Level Rise, Science
    3. Laboratory Earthquakes, Science
  15. Identifying the Role that Individual Animals Play in their Social Network, arXiv
    1. Sticklebacks Exploit The Most Reliable Source When Public And Private Information Conflict, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
    2. Self-organization of Collaboration Networks, arXiv
    3. Networks, Fields, and Organizations: Micro-Dynamics, Scale and Cohesive Embeddings, SFI Working Papers
  16. Adaptations For Nothing In Particular, J. Theor. Social Behav.
    1. What Happened To The "Social" In Social Psychology?, J. Theor. Social Behav.
  17. L.A. Sheriff Frees Inmates, Cites Budget, NPR ATC
  18. A 21st-Century Protest, The Guardian
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Europe, U.S. Diverge on How to Fight Terrorism, Washington Post
    2. Analysis: Politics Played a Role in Sept. 11 Attacks, NPR ATC
    3. Clarke's Contradictions, The Washington Times
    4. Bush's War -- Against Richard Clarke, Salon.com
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Complexity Digest 2004.12 Next Issue TOP

  1. Cultural Reflections, Nature
    1. Making An Impact, Nature
    2. An Embryonic Nation, Nature
  2. Managing in Complex Business Networks, Industrial Marketing Management
    1. Altruism May Arise from Individual Selection, arXiv
  3. Three (Marginal?) Questions Regarding Convergence, J. Econ. Studies
    1. Development And Freedom, J. Econ. Studies
  4. Precociousness Has Its Rewards, Science Now
    1. Work on Big Questions Yields Big Bucks, Science Now
  5. Ancient Indians Made 'Rock Music', BBC News
  6. Edge Vulnerability in Neural and Metabolic Networks, arXiv
  7. Wireless Internet Stumbles Ahead, BBC News
  8. Controlling Synchronization in an Ensemble of Globally Coupled Oscillators, Physical Review Letters
  9. Seeing the World in the Same Way, Science
    1. Intersubject Synchronization of Cortical Activity During Natural Vision, Science
    2. Hidden Neuronal Correlations in Cultured Networks, Physical Review Letters
  10. Dynamical Resetting Of The Human Brain: Application Of Nonlinear Dynamics, Neural Sys. & Rehab. Engg., IEEE Tran.
    1. Are You Slow In Coordinating Your Thoughts?, ScienceDaily
    2. Memories Are Harder To Forget Than Currently Thought, ScienceDaily
  11. Rapid Population Decline In Red Knots: Fitness Consequences, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
  12. No Moon, No Life On Earth, Suggests Theory, New Scientist
    1. How The Moon Gave Life On Earth, Alphagalileo & New Scientist
    2. Mobile Elements: Drivers of Genome Evolution, Science News
  13. Planetary Science: Secrets Of The Deep, Nature
    1. Cause Of Uranus' And Neptune's Unusual Magnetic Fields, Nature
  14. Hurricanes And Butterflies
    1. British Butterflies Are Going, Going ..., Science Now
  15. Quantum Information: Flight Of The Qubit, Nature
    1. Characterizing Entanglement via Uncertainty Relations, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  16. Stem Cells: More Like A Man, Nature
    1. Adult Mammals May Produce Eggs After All, Science
    2. Immune Cells Grown In A Dish, Nature Science update
    3. Human Breasts Grown On Mice, Nature Science update
  17. The Dynamic Life of Natural Killer Cells, Annual Review of Immunology
  18. The Relevance of Chaos Theory to Operations, Australian Defense Force Journal
    1. Killing Iraq With Kindness, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Political Impact of Al Qaeda, NPR
    2. Clinton Aides Plan to Tell Panel of Warning Bush Team on Qaeda, NY Times
    3. Experts Fear Terrorists Are Seeking Fuel-Air Bombs, New Scientist
    4. Defusing Fertiliser May Make Bomb-Building Harder, New Scientist
    5. Weak on Terror, NY Times
    6. Al Qaeda's Wish List, NY Times
    7. A Leaner, Meaner Jihad, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.11 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Evolution Of Social Geometry: General Principles Of The Evolution Of Complex Systems, Complexity
    1. Using Artificial Life To Teach Evolutionary Biology, Cognitive Processing
  2. Beyond The Ivory Tower: Constructing Complexity in the Digital Age, Science
    1. Study Finds a Nation of Polarized Readers, NY Times
  3. Superfamilies of Evolved and Designed Networks, Science
  4. The Tangled Webs That Neutrophils Weave, Science
    1. Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Kill Bacteria, Science
  5. Cell Biology: A Cellular Choreographer, Nature
  6. Ovaries May Replenish Eggs, NPR Audio
    1. Lotion Speeds DNA Repair, Protects Mice From Skin Cancer, Science News
  7. UCI Study Identifies How New Neurons Grow In Adult Brain, ScienceDaily
    1. Watching Genes In Action: Method Is First To Show Three Genes At Once In Higher Animals, ScienceDaily
  8. Quantum Computing Gets A Step Closer, Natue Science update
    1. Physics: "Putting The Weirdness To Work", Business Week
    2. Multilevel Molecular Memory, Physics News update
  9. Method Produces Uniform, Self-Assembled Nanocells, Eureka Alert
    1. 100-Metre Nanotube Thread Pulled From Furnace, New Scientist
  10. Superconductivity: Turn Up The Temperature, Nature
    1. An Explanation For A Universality Of Transition Temperatures In Families Of Copper Oxide Superconductors, Nature
  11. Mount Fuji: A Sleeping Giant Stirs, Nature
  12. From The Tallest To (One Of) The Fattest: Fate Of The American Population, Econ. & Human Biol.
  13. Intermingled Basins In A Two Species System, J. Math. Biol.
  14. Optimal Traffic Organization In Ants Under Crowded Conditions, Nature
    1. Fitness Consequences Of Avian Personalities In A Fluctuating Environment, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
  15. Apparent Competition And Recovery From Infection, J. Theor. Biol.
  16. Calm Mind Creates Complex Tunes, BBC News Online
  17. Pointed Questions on Missile Defense System, NY Times
    1. The Internet and Political Campaigns, NY Times
    2. Egypt rebuffs US over regional reform, The Guardian
  18. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Analysis: Madrid Terrorism Probe, NPR Audio
      1. Britain Frees Citizens Sent Home from Cuba, NPR Audio
    2. Guantanamo Update, NPR TON
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Complexity Digest 2004.10 Next Issue TOP

  1. Inside the Idea Factory, Santa Fe New Mexican
    1. Analyzing The Analysts, Darwin Magazine
  2. The Origin Of Speech, Science
    1. Evolution of Language, Science
    2. The First Language?, Science
    3. Why Anatolia?, Science
    4. Continuing The Debate On Words And Seeds, Science
    5. The Future Of Language, Science
    6. Towards a New Functional Anatomy of Language, Cognition
  3. Emergent Properties Of CNS Neuronal Networks As Targets For Pharmacology, Progress in Neurobiology
    1. Cortical processing of complex sound: a way forward?, Trends in Neurosciences
    2. Memories Light Up The Corners Of Our Minds, ScienceDaily
  4. Understanding Environmental Complexity Through A Distributed Knowledge Network, BioScience
    1. Evolving a Stigmergic Self-Organized Data-Mining, arXiv
    2. Learning User Similarity And Rating Style For Collaborative Recommendation, Info. Retrieval
  5. Cancer Without Disease, Nature
  6. A Move To Sort Life From Death, Nature
  7. Shotgun Sequencing Of The Ocean Reveals 1.2 Million New Genes, The Scientist
    1. Genetically Engineered Organisms, NPR Audio
    2. DNA Chip Will Catch Beefed Up Chicken, NewScientist
    3. Rich Genes Travel More, ScienceDaily
  8. Gulf Stream Probed For Early Warnings Of System Failure, Nature
    1. The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare, Fortune
    2. US Military Creates Second Earth, BBC News
  9. The Complex Interaction Of Aerosols And Clouds, Science
    1. Measurement Of The Effect Of Amazon Smoke On Inhibition Of Cloud Formation, Science
  10. Unification In The Century Of Biology, Science
    1. Ants Avoid Traffic Jams, Natue Science update
    2. Mucus Good for the Local Economy, Science Now
    3. Phylogenetic Constraints And Adaptation Explain Food-Web Structure, Nature
  11. Why Are Mobile Phones Annoying?, Behav. & Info. Tech.
    1. Comparative Usability Evaluation, Behav. & Info. Tech.
  12. Long-Term Working Memory And Interrupting Messages In Human - Computer Interaction, Behav. & Info. Tech.
  13. The Minority Game: An Introductory Guide, arXiv
  14. Tragedy Of The Commons In Melipona Bees, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
    1. Patterns And Coevolutionary Consequences Of Repeated Brood Parasitism, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
  15. Self-Coiling Nanoribbons, Science
    1. Superconductivity: Symmetry Not Required, Nature
  16. Criminals Follow Laws Of Statistics, Natue Science update
    1. Disease Control: Virtual Plagues Get Real, Nature
    2. Haitians Again Relying On U.S. Military To Bring Order, NY Times
  17. Toss Out The Toss-Up: Bias In Heads-Or-Tails, Science News
    1. Opinion Polling: Taking The Voters' Pulse, Nature
  18. Why Is Washington Going Easy On Pakistan’s Nuclear Black Marketers?, The New Yorker
    1. Nukes 'R' Us, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. U.S.-Pakistan Struck Deal On Bin Laden, NPR
    2. German Judges Order A Retrial For 9/11 Figure, NY Times
    3. How Tiny Swiss Cellphone Chips Helped Track Global Terror Web, NY Times
    4. As U.S. Detains Iraqis, Families Plead For News, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.09 Next Issue TOP

  1. Science, Complexity, and the Ethics of Global Governance, Conference Videos
  2. The Evolution of the Golden Rule, Science
    1. How Can We Think the Complex?, arXiv
  3. On the Emergence of Complex Systems on the Basis of the Coordination of Complex Behavior of Their Elements, SFI Working Papers
  4. What Really Causes Large Price Changes?, SFI Working Papers
  5. Scaling Laws and Urban Systems, SFI Working Papers
  6. Genetically Induced Communication Network Fault Tolerance, Complexity
    1. Complexity Estimates For Detection Of Viruses In Biologically Inspired Security Systems, Complexity
  7. Testing Transnational Networked Cooperation, Alphagalileo
    1. Spontaneous Emergence of Complex Optimal Networks through Evolutionary Adaptation, arXiv
    2. Business Intelligence From Web Usage Mining, J. Info. & Knowledge Manag.
  8. Computation's New Leaf, Science News
  9. Catching Waves: Ocean-Surface Changes May Mark Tsunamis, Science News
  10. Decoherence Of Matter Waves By Thermal Emission Of Radiation, Nature
  11. Particle Physics: Two Is The Magic Number, Nature
    1. Superconductivity: Shine A Light, Nature
  12. Origins Of Life: Born In A Watery Commune, Nature
    1. Transcription: Origins Of Licensing Control, Nature
    2. Evidence Of A "Lost World": Antarctica Yields Two Unknown Dinosaur Species, ScienceDaily
  13. Adolescent Brains Show Reduced Reward Anticipation, ScienceDaily
    1. New Findings On Memory Could Enhance Learning, ScienceDaily
  14. Use Of Information Technology And Music Learning In The Search For Quality Education, British J. Edu. Tech.
  15. Smoking Out the Rain, Science Now
    1. Sing a Song to Save the Species, Science Now
    2. Uses And Abuses Of Fractal Methodology In Ecology, Ecol. Lett.
    3. Coexistence Of Cryptic Species, Ecol. Lett.
  16. Filling Gaps in Genome Organization, Science
  17. Neuroscience: Immigration Denied, Nature
    1. Imaging Studies Show How Brain Thinks About Pain, Science
  18. The Where and When of Intention, Science
    1. Attention to Intention, Science
    2. Synthetic Thought, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. On The Pedagogy Of 'Small Wars', Int. Affairs
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Complexity Digest 2004.08 Next Issue TOP

  1. Creative Education Exposition, Taiwan, Video Notes
  2. The Evolution Of Modern Educational Systems: Distributional Conflict, And Growth, J. Dev. Econ.
  3. Video Game To Help Flood Planners, BBC News
    1. Learning To Play Bayesian Games, Games & Econ. Behav.
  4. Transitions From Nonliving To Living Matter, Science
    1. Evolutionary Ecology of the Prezygotic Stage, Science
  5. Avalanche Forecasting Stymied By Unpredictability Of Snow, Natue Science update
  6. Test May Lower Antibiotic Use, Natue Science update
  7. The Impact Of Cognitive Complexity On Project Leadership Performance, Info. & Software Tech.
    1. Conflict and Cognitive Control, Science
  8. Stem Cells Found In Adults May Repair Nerves, ScienceDaily
  9. Maybe It Takes A Bird Brain To Find The Car Keys, Science News
    1. Brain Asymmetry And Long-Term Memory, Nature
  10. Evaluation Of The Impact Of Prey Behavioural And Ecological Characteristics On Predator Diet, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
  11. Where To Start To Launch The 'Butterfly Effect', ScienceDaily
    1. From Football Conferences To Food Webs: Patterns In Complicated Networks, ScienceDaily
  12. Effect Of Habitat Complexity On Biological Control By The Red Imported Fire Ant, Biol. Control
  13. Predator-Induced Plasticity In Web-Building Behaviour, Animal Behav.
  14. Candy Science: M&Ms Pack More Tightly Than Spheres, Science News
    1. Improving the Density of Jammed Disordered Packings Using Ellipsoids, Science
  15. Caustic Comments Get Girls A Date, Natue Science update
  16. In Politics, the Web Is a Parallel World With Its Own Rules, NYTimes
    1. The Search Engine That Isn't a Verb, Yet, NY Times
    2. Sorting E-Mail Friends From Foes, Natue Science update
  17. Don't Skew The Science, The Globe and Mall
    1. Uses and Abuses of Science, NY Times
  18. Concerns Over US Computer Voting, BBC News
    1. U.S. May Veto Islamic Law In Iraq, USA Today
    2. A Third Way for Iraq, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. U.S. Agency Sees Global Network for Bomb Making, NY Times
    2. A Dynamic Model Of Production And Traffic Of Drugs, Econ. Lett.
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Complexity Digest 2004.07 Next Issue TOP

  1. Solutions for the Adaptive Enterprise, HP.com
    1. Managing in Complex Business Networks, Industrial Marketing Management
  2. 'J- CHART' at Traders EXPO in New York, Yahoo Finance
  3. Intelligent Advertising, AI & Society
  4. Noise Management: Sound And Vision, Nature
  5. Competition-Induced Preferential Attachment, arXiv
  6. Intel Makes Light Work For Chips, BBC News
    1. Living Machines, Wired
  7. Slaves To Rhythm - Oscillations, Cycling And The Pace Of Life, The Biochemist
    1. Central And Peripheral Oscillators In Mammals - A Guided Tour Through A Network Of Clocks, The Biochemist
  8. Photosynthesis Inspires Molecular-Assembly Process, EE Times
    1. Oxygen, NPR Audio
  9. Life's Patterns: No Need to Spell It Out?, Science
    1. Evolutionary Dynamics of Biological Games, Science
    2. Turning Points Prisoners Of The Dilemma, Nature
    3. Making Sense of a Heart Gone Wild, Science
    4. Introductory Science and Mathematics Education for 21st-Century Biologists, Science
    5. Inferring Cellular Networks Using Probabilistic Graphical Models, Science
  10. The Brain's Word Act: Reading Verbs Revs Up Motor Cortex Areas, Science News
    1. Ion Channels: Shake, Rattle Or Roll?, Nature
    2. Soul Made Flesh Today On Fresh Air, NPR Audio
    3. MIT Team Discovers Memory Mechanism, ScienceDaily
  11. Cloned Human Embryos Yield Stem Cells, Nature
    1. Scientists Claim Cloning Success, NY Times
    2. Cloned Embryo, NPR Audio
  12. Pigeons Take The Highway, Nature
    1. Curious Mice Need Room To Run, Natue Science update
    2. Talking To Bacteria, Natue Science update
  13. Companies Hope Profits Run From Clean Water, NYTimes
  14. Talking Simplicity, Building a Maze, NY Times
    1. Four Ways That Conventional Wisdom Can Go Astray, NY Times
  15. Halliburton Accused of Wasting Tax Money, NYTimes
    1. Halliburton Likely to Be a Campaign Issue This Fall, NY Times
  16. Freedom To Veto, Social Choice & Welfare
  17. Human Insecurity In A Global World, Harvard Univ. Press
  18. Mid-East 'Democracy' Plan Raises Questions, BBC News Online
    1. How America Doesn't Vote, NYTimes
    2. U.N. Envoy, Visiting Iraq, Backs Cleric on Elections, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. A Tale of Nuclear Proliferation: How Pakistani Built His Network, NYTimes
    2. Cuba Detentions May Last Years, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.06 Next Issue TOP

  1. Engineering Complex Systems, Nature
    1. Life-Like Self-Reproducers, Complexity
  2. Four Keys to Cosmology, Scientific American
    1. The Cosmic Symphony, Scientific American
    2. Out of the Darkness, Scientific American
    3. From Slowdown to Speedup, Scientific American
    4. Reading the Blueprints of Creation, Scientific American
    5. Are Galaxy Clusters Corrupting The Echoes From The Big Bang?, Alphagalileo
  3. The Neural Bases Of Complex Tool Use In Humans, Trends in Cog Sci
    1. Becoming Symbol-Minded, Trends in Cog Sci
  4. Water Can Induce Better Spatial Memory Performance Than Food, Japanese Psycho. Res.
  5. Brain Development: The Most Important Sexual Organ, Nature
    1. Chaos And Language, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
  6. Neural-Chaos Team Boosts Security, Technology Research News
  7. An Alternative Education, Tech Rev
    1. Teaching Evolution, NPR Audio
    2. Reconsidering No Child Left Behind, NPR Audio
  8. The Physics Of Haute Couture, Natue Science update
  9. The Challenge Of Managing Multiple Species At Multiple Scales, J. Appl. Ecol.
    1. The Speed of Adaptation in Large Asexual Populations, arXiv
  10. Plants Give Up Their Secret of Splitting Water, Reuters
  11. Disease Transmission Between And Within Species, And The Implications For Disease Control, J. Appl. Ecol.
  12. Way to Biologically Confine Transgenic Organisms, National Academies News
    1. Designer Mice Make Heart-Friendly Nutrients, Natue Science update
  13. Accurately Modeling the Internet Topology, arXiv
  14. The Role of Signaling Action Tendencies in Conflict Resolution, JASSS
    1. Reciprocity, Normative Reputation, and the Development of Mutual Obligation in Gift-Giving Societies, JASSS
  15. That Big Fat Budget Deficit. Yawn, NYTimes
  16. The Nixon Recovery, NYTimes
  17. Electronic Voting Technology, NPR Audio
  18. Topic: Iraqi Interim Constitution, NPR Audio
    1. Secret Obsessions at the Top, NYTimes
    2. Making the Facts Fit the Case for War, NY Times
    3. Live from Virginia, It's Alhurra, NPR ATC Audio
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Faulting U.S., Germany Frees a 9/11 Suspect, NY Times
    2. Regional Terrorist Groups Pose Growing Threat, Experts Warn, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2004.05 Next Issue TOP

  1. Effective Complexity, SFI Working Papers
    1. External and Internal Complexity of Complex Adaptive Systems, SFI Working Papers
    2. The Physics of Time and Dimension in the Economics of Financial Control In memory of Per Bak, SFI Working Papers
  2. The Waterwheel in the Waterfall, arXiv
  3. Complex Systems In Language Evolution: The Cultural Emergence, Adv. in Complex Sys.
    1. Language, Biology, And The Mind, Edge.org
  4. Decision Spread In The Corporate Board Network, Adv. in Complex Sys.
  5. "Look At Me When I'm Talking To You", Alphagalileo
  6. Rare Ant May Help Solve Some Mysteries Of Social Evolution, ScienceDaily
  7. Economic Development By The Creation Of New Sectors, J. Evol. Econ.
  8. Data, Information And Knowledge: Have We Got It Right?, J. Evol. Econ.
  9. The Coming Search Wars, NY Times
  10. Agent Models And Different User Ontologies For An Electronic Market Place, Knowl. & Info. Sys.
  11. The Role Of Increasing Temperature Variability In European Summer Heatwaves, Nature
    1. Global Chilling, NYTimes
    2. Nitric Acid Increases Relative Humidity in Low-Temperature Cirrus Clouds, Science
  12. Budgets of Mass Destruction, NYTimes
    1. Pres. Bush in Discussion on the Economy, c-span Video
  13. Drug May Give Cells A Fresh Start, Natue Science update
  14. UTA Researchers Develop Sensors To Think Smart, Fort Worth Business Press
  15. Nanotech Spy Eyes Life Inside The Cell, New Scientist
    1. Cell Division: Burning The Spindle At Both Ends, Nature
  16. Insight And The Sleep Committee, Nature
    1. Slumber May Fortify Memory, Stir Insight, Science News
  17. Advanced Motion-tracking Camera For Surveillance, Security, ScienceDaily
    1. Smart Cellphone Antennas Boost Coverage, New Scientist
  18. How to Hack an Election, NY Times
    1. Divided We Stand... Still, Orgnet
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. 9/11 Commission Report, NPR Audio
    2. 9/11 and the Bush Administration - Is Ignorance Bliss?, The Progressive Trail
    3. Pakistan Warns U.S. About Crossing Border, AP/Newsday
    4. Family Bonds Strengthen Terrorism Networks, NPR Audio
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      1. Strategic Thinking in a Complex World, Smithsonian Resident Associates Program

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  1. A Recovery Unlike Others Seems to Alter Fed Rate View, NYTimes
    1. One Factor The Fed Ignores - We Hope, The Christian Science Monitor
    2. Even for Experts, Analyzing the Job Market Is an Adventure, NYTimes
  2. Economic Geography And International Inequality, J. Int. Economics
  3. Baby Arithmetic: One Object Plus One Tone, Cognition
  4. Is Language the Key to Human Intelligence?, Science
    1. Computational Constraints on Syntactic Processing in a Nonhuman Primate, Science
  5. The Machine That Invents, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    1. Does Observation Influence Learning?, Games and Economic Behavior
  6. Engineering Google Results to Make a Point, NYTimes
    1. For a Fee, Wind Up Atop the Search Heap, NYTimes
    2. A Memory Model For Internet Hits After Media Exposure, Physica A
    3. Measuring User Perceptions Of Web Site Reputation, Info. Processing & Manag.
    4. A Day In The Life Of Web Searching: An Exploratory Study, Info. Processing & Manag.
  7. Mutating Software Could Predict Hacker Attacks, NewScientist
    1. Device 'Quarantines' Infected Network Computers, NewScientist
  8. Cascade Control in Complex Networks, arXiv
    1. Internet's Critical Path Horizon, arXiv
  9. Making Way for Designer Insects, Washington Post
    1. Do Plants Act Like Computers?, Natue Science update
  10. Tumour Suppression: Putting On The Brakes, Nature
  11. Stem Cells React - Cell Lineages As Complex Adaptive Systems, Experimental Hematology
    1. Self-Assembling Scaffold For Spinal-Cord Repair, Natue Science update
  12. Big Chill Killed Off The Neanderthals, NewScientist
    1. Climate Test Sets Sail, Natue Science update
    2. The Architecture Of The Climate Network, Physica A
  13. Self-Organized Pedestrian Crowd Dynamics and Design Solutions, Traffic Forum
  14. Quantum Computing in Neural Networks, arXiv
  15. Action, Illusion, and Perception, Science
    1. Don't Imitate the Robot, Science Now
  16. 'Sleeping On It' Really Can Solve Problems, NewScientist
    1. Sleep Boosts Lateral Thinking, Natue Science update
    2. Evidence That Memories Are Consolidated During Sleep, ScienceDaily
    3. For A Bigger Brain, Juggle, The Age
  17. Achieving Balance in Body, Soul and Trigger Finger, NY Times
  18. Democracy at Risk, NY Times
    1. Arabs Slam U.S. Over Democracy, Reuters
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Has U.S. War in Iraq Slowed War on Terror?, Brookings/The Baltimore Sun
    2. Lie-Detector Glasses Offer Peek At Future Of Security, EE Times
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  1. Kutcher Shows Serious Side in 'Butterfly Effect', Reuters
    1. The Butterfly Effect - Change One Thing Change Everything, ButterflyEffectMovie.com
  2. Toward An Integrative Science Of The Person, Ann Rev Psychology
    1. Self-Knowledge, Annual Review of Psychology
    2. On Building A Bridge Between Brain And Behavior, Annual Review of Psychology
    3. The Psychology And Neuroscience Of Forgetting, Annual Review of Psychology
    4. Group Performance And Decision Making, Annual Review of Psychology
    5. Creativity, Annual Review of Psychology
  3. Wound-Healing Genes Influence Cancer Progression, Bio.com
    1. The Integration Of Pharmacokinetics And Pharmacodynamics: Understanding Dose-Response, Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology
    2. How Enzymes Work: Analysis by Modern Rate Theory and Computer Simulations, Science
    3. Stem Cells: How To Make Eggs And Sperm, Nature
  4. What Does A Molecule Want? The Myth Of The Self-Replicating Molecule, Biosystems
  5. Climate Change Science: Adapt, Mitigate, or Ignore?, Science
    1. Widespread Intense Turbulent Mixing in the Southern Ocean, Science
    2. To Avoid Fuel Limits, Subaru Is Turning a Sedan Into a Truck, NY Times
    3. Ecology: Clouded Futures, Nature
  6. Virus-Based Toolkit for the Directed Synthesis of Magnetic and Semiconducting Nanowires, Nature
    1. Synthetic Biology: Microbes Made to Order, Science
    2. Pig-Human Chimeras Contain Cell Surprise, NewScientist
  7. Power Laws in Biological Networks, arXiv
  8. Self-organized Patterns and Traffic Flow in Colonies of Organisms: From Bacteria and Social Insects to Vertebrates, arXiv
  9. Brain Architecture And Social Complexity In Modern And Ancient Birds, Brain, Behav. & Evol.
    1. Cortical Orofacial Motor Representation In Old World Monkeys, Great Apes, And Humans, Brain, Behav. & Evol.
  10. Complexities Of A Simple System: New Lessons, Old Challenges And Peripheral Questions, Brain Res. Rev.
  11. Transitions to Synchrony in Coupled Bursting Neurons, PRL
    1. Developmental Biology: Asymmetric Fixation, Nature
  12. Computation In Gene Networks, Chaos
  13. Multimedia PC With Instant Start-Up Launches, NewScientist
    1. Wireless Lamp Posts Take Over World!, Newswireless.net
  14. Puzzled Monkeys Reveal Key Language Step, NewScientist
  15. Closing a Window on the Universe, Washington Post
    1. NASA Cancels Trip to Supply Hubble, Sealing Early Doom, NYTimes
    2. Why Hubble Is Being Dropped, BBC News Online
  16. Reflectins: The Unusual Proteins of Squid Reflective Tissues, Science
  17. A Short-Order Revolutionary, NYTimes
  18. Greeting Big Brother With Open Arms, NY Times
    1. A Classic Tale Updated: Cleric vs. President, Toronto Star
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Mad Cow As Bioterrorism?, The Scientist
    2. Deep Repositories: Out of Sight, Out of Terrorists' Reach, Science
    3. Bush's Power to Plan Trial of Detainees Is Challenged, NY Times
    4. The Justices Take On the President, NYTimes
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  1. Optimising Multiple Channels, Interactive Marketing
  2. Historian Reveals Spiralling Debt Has Shaped Consumer Culture For Centuries, Alphagalileo
  3. A Simulation Of The Impact Of Media On Social Cohesion, Adv. in Complex Sys.
  4. Can Emotional Intelligence Be Developed?, Int. J. Human Resource Manag.
  5. Cultural Niche Construction And The Evolution Of Small Family Size, Theor. Population Biol.
  6. A Document Management Methodology Based On Similarity Contents, Info. Sc.
  7. Global Warming Threatens Millions Of Species, NewScientist
  8. Biologist Studies Birds To Learn How Our Stomachs Convey Thoughts Of Hunger, ScienceDaily
  9. New Insight Into How Anthrax Bacteria Can Evade A Host's Immune Response, ScienceDaily
    1. Mad Cow Case Heightens Debate on Food Labeling, NYTimes
  10. Amoeba Warning To Contact Lens Wearers, NewScientist
    1. Coffee May Lower Diabetes Risk, Seattle Times/AP
  11. Virtual Plant Models Of Predatory Mite Movement In Complex Plant Canopies, Ecol. Modelling
  12. What Saved The Whales? An Economic Analysis Of 20th Century Whaling, Biodiver. & Conserv.
    1. Whale Haunt: Nursing, Feeding Spot Found Off South Chile, Science News
  13. Cosmic Microwave Background And Large-Scale Structure In The Universe, Nature
  14. The Galactic Habitable Zone and the Age Distribution of Complex Life in the Milky Way, Science
    1. Are Most Life-Friendly Stars Older Than the Sun?, Science
  15. Mobile Robots Take Baby Steps, Wired
    1. Partitioning the Energetics of Walking and Running, Science
    2. Running a-Fowl of the Law, Science
  16. Power to the Edge: Command...Control...in the Information Age, Command and Control Research Program, DoD
  17. I.M.F. Says Rise in U.S. Debts Is Threat to World's Economy, NY Times
    1. IMF Continues Warning On US Deficit, UPI
    2. US Rejects IMF Warning that Debts Could Affect Global Economy, Voice of America News
  18. Texas G.O.P. Is Victorious in Remapping, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. From Rogue Nuclear Programs, Web of Trails Leads to Pakistan, NYTimes
    2. Plugging Nuclear Leaks, NYTimes
    3. U.S. Reasserts Right to Declare Citizens to Be Enemy Combatants, NYTimes
    4. War of Ideas, Part 1, NY Times
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  1. E-Learning – Predictions, DarwinMag.com
    1. Bringing the Historical Confucius to Life, NYTimes
  2. How to Measure Student Proficiency?, NYTimes
    1. Wins, Losses and Algorithms, NYTimes
  3. Increase Of Complexity From Classical Greek To Latin Poetry, Complex Systems
  4. Corporate Pensions Face Pressure Despite Stock Rally, NYTimes
    1. An Operation to Ease Back Pain Bolsters the Bottom Line, Too, NYTimes
    2. Is Your Future Written?, CIO Magazine
  5. Way to Track U.S. Cattle Isn't Ready for Quick Use, NYTimes
  6. Therapeutic Approaches To Protein-Misfolding Diseases, Nature
    1. Protein Folding And Misfolding, Nature
  7. Squaring The Circle: South African Fruit Exports, J. Int. Development
    1. Vietnam In The Global Economy: Trade, Employment And Poverty, J. Int. Development
  8. Workplace: The Bad Apples Do Spoil The Whole Barrel, J. Org. Behavior
    1. Mapping Weblog Communities, arXiv
  9. Songbird Duets Resonate To Beat, Natue Science update
  10. Are Viruses Driving Microbial Diversification And Diversity?, Env. Microbiol.
    1. A Computational Algebra Approach to the Reverse Engineering of Gene Regulatory Networks, arXiv
  11. Evolution Of Spatial Expression Pattern, Evol. & Development
    1. Structure Trees And Species Trees: What They Say, Evol. & Development
    2. Coral Reveals Ancient Origins Of Human Genes, Nature
  12. 'Reverse Genetics' Could Offer Forward-Thinking Flu Vaccine, Nature
    1. Modelling of SARS for Hong Kong, arXiv
  13. Midlife Crisis In Brain Circuitry As Key To Brain Aging, ScienceDaily
    1. Young Nerve Cells Can Rewind Their Developmental Clocks, Eurekalert
    2. MIT Helps Unlock Life-extending Secrets Of Calorie Restriction, ScienceDaily
  14. Scientists Grapple with 'Dark Energy' Theory, NPR Audio
    1. The Time We Thought We Knew, NYTimes
  15. Gaia: The living Earth, Nature
    1. Planetary Science: Icy Martian Mysteries, Nature
    2. Ships' Logs Uncover Past Climate, BBC News
  16. Heavyweights Are Choosing Sides in Battle Over Next DVD Format, NYTimes
    1. Computer Hardware 2004's Top Technology Trends, Forbes
  17. What We Will Do in 2004, NYTimes
    1. The Fantasy and Reality of 2004, Wired
  18. How the Internet has Changed Our Lives, Nielsen-Netratings.com
    1. The Battle Against Junk Mail and Spyware on the Web, NYTimes
    2. Viruses Make Criminal Move, BBC News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Freeze On Terror Cash Not Working, Associated Press
    2. A Nuclear Headache: What if the Radicals Oust Musharraf?, NYTimes
    3. FBI Warns of Potential Almanac Terror Link, NPR Audio
    4. Guarding Incoming Airliners, NYTimes
    5. Bus Thief's Trip to Kennedy Raises Alarm, and Questions, NY Times
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