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Complexity Digest 2006.52 Next Issue TOP

  1. Crowd Wisdom vs. Google's Genius, Business Week
    1. Google Searches U.S. Patent Database, IDG News Service
    2. Social Networking Tops 2006 Search Rankings, vnunet.com
  2. Reclaiming The Human Stratum, Acknowledging The Complexity Of Social Behaviour, J. Theo. Soc.Behav.
  3. Complexity Dynamics of Nascent Entrepreneurship, Journal of Business Venturing
  4. A Methodology for Developing Simulation Models of Complex Systems, Ecological Modelling
  5. Better, Faster - And Easier To Use, Nature
  6. Human Evolution: How Africa Learned To Love The Cow, Nature
    1. Physiology: Freaks Of Nature?, Nature
    2. Physiology: Obesity And Gut Flora, Nature
  7. This Party Doesn't Start Until The Hosts Arrive: Parasite Invasions May Depend On Host Invasions, Innovations-report
  8. Ageing: Too Fast By Mistake, Nature
    1. Exercise Appears To Improve Brain Function Among Younger People, ScienceDaily
  9. Controlling Confusion: Researchers Make Insight Into Memory, Forgetting, ScienceDaily
  10. Axonal Site Of Spike Initiation Enhances Auditory Coincidence Detection, Nature
    1. Structural Biology: Dangerous Liaisons On Neurons, Nature
  11. Biomechanics: Rubber Bands Reduce The Cost Of Carrying Loads, Nature
  12. No-Dad Dragons: Komodos Reproduce Without Males, Science News
    1. Parthenogenesis In Komodo Dragons, Nature
  13. Intrasexual Competition And Sexual Selection In Cooperative Mammals, Nature
    1. Biocomplexity And Conservation Of Biodiversity Hotspots, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  14. Climate Credits, Nature
  15. What Happens When Two Nations Battle With Nukes?, News@Nature
  16. What A Flake - Computers Get The Hang Of Ice-Crystal Growth, Science News
  17. Oceanography: Creating The Perfect Wave, Nature
  18. Mathematics: Proof At A Roll Of The Dice, Nature
    1. Crafty Geometry - Mathematicians Are Knitting And Crocheting To Visualize Complex Surfaces, Science News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. U.S. Policy In The Horn Of Africa May Aid Al-Qaida, Experts Warn, McClatchy Newspapers
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Complexity Digest 2006.51 Next Issue TOP

  1. Tech Lessons Learned From The Wisdom Of Crowds, CNET News.com
    1. Why Is Open Access Development So Successful? Stigmergic Organization and the Economics of Information, arXiv
    2. The Social Cognitive Actor, Cogprints
  2. Comets Hold Life Chemistry Clues, BBC News
    1. Planetary Science: A Dry View of Enceladus Puts a Damper on Chances for Life There, Science
  3. Dynamical Evolution Of Ecosystems, Nature
    1. Balancing Robustness and Evolvability, PLoS Biol
    2. On the Physics of Ecology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  4. Nonlinear Dynamics And Pattern Bifurcations In A Model For Vegetation Stripes In Semi-Arid Environments, Theor. Population Biol.
  5. Neurobiology: A Channel Sets The Gain On Pain, Nature
    1. Neuroscience: The Impact of Invisible Stimuli, Science
    2. Greater Disruption Due to Failure of Inhibitory Control on an Ambiguous Distractor, Science
  6. Researchers Demonstrate Direct Brain Control Of Humanoid Robot, ScienceDaily
  7. Helping Young Students To Model Complex Problems, Innovations-report
  8. In Memory-Bank 'Dialogue,' the Brain Is Talking to Itself, NY Times
    1. Why People 'Never Forget A Face': Are You One Of Those People Who Never Forgets A Face?, Innovations-report
  9. Malaria: A Protective Paradox, Nature
  10. How Plug-In Hybrids Will Save The Grid - The Use Of Vehicles That Run On Electricity Could Be A Boon To The Ailing Electrical Grid, Technology Review
  11. Sea Level Rise 'Under-Estimated', BBC News
  12. Physics: A New Spin on the Insulating State, Science
  13. Optics: Momentum In An Uncertain Light, Nature
  14. Optogenetics: Shining New Light on Neural Circuits, Science
  15. Chemistry: Generating a Photocurrent on the Nanometer Scale, Science
  16. Butterfly Wing Scales Provide Template For Complex Photonic Structures, Innovations-report
  17. The Dynamics Of Nacre Self-Assembly, Interface
  18. Pluggd: A Google for Podcasts, Wired
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Agency Set Up To Tackle Bioterror, Nature
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Complexity Digest 2006.50 Next Issue TOP

  1. From Reuters, Automatic Trading Linked to News Events, NY Times
    1. And Now a Syllabus for the Service Economy, NY Times
  2. The Predator's Gaze - Scientists Explore The Frightening World Of Psychopaths, Science
  3. Self-organizing Social Hierarchy and Villages in a Challenging Society, Physica A
    1. Designing Complex Networks, arXiv
    2. Correlations Between Structure and Dynamics in Complex Networks, arXiv
  4. Priming Effects In Complex Information Environments, J. Politics
  5. Mileage From Megawatts: Study Finds Enough Electric Capacity To 'Fill Up' Plug-In Vehicles Across Much Of The Nation, Physorg.com
    1. Why A Hydrogen Economy Doesn't Make Sense, Physorg.com
  6. Personalized Weather Forecasts, Technology Review
  7. NASA Plans Permanent Moon Base: Wants New, Self-Sustaining Colony As A Stepping Stone To Mars, vnunet.com
  8. Do Galaxies Follow Darwinian Evolution?, Innovations-report
  9. Pocket Projectors, Technology Review
  10. Structure Essential For Brain Remodeling Identified, Innovations-report
    1. Tracing The Formation Of Long-Term Memory, ScienceDaily
    2. Brain Wave Changes In Adolescence Signal Reorganization Of The Brain, ScienceDaily
  11. Why Bonobos Make Love, Not War, New Scientist
  12. Study Detects Recent Instance of Human Evolution, NY Time
  13. Understanding The Swing Of Things, New Scientist
  14. Scientists Learning To Create Nanomaterials Based On Micro-Algae Patterns, Spacemart.com
    1. NYU Chemists Create 'Nanorobotic' Arm To Operate Within DNA Sequence, EurekAlert
  15. Milk Therapy - Breast-Milk Compounds Could Be A Tonic For Adult Ills, Science News
    1. Natural Protein Stops Deadly Human Brain Cancer In Mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine News
  16. Silica Particle Sparks Life In Protein, Physorg.com
  17. Bio-Ink Printer Makes Stem Cells Differentiate, New Scientist
  18. This Is Your Country on a Blue State Binge, NY Times
    1. Changes Are Expected in Voting by 2008 Election, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. U.S. to Expand Cargo Scans to Detect Nuclear Material, NY Times
    2. Open-Source Spying, NY Times
    3. Annan Urges U.S. to Reject Unilateralism, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2006.49 Next Issue TOP

  1. Systems Biology: Many Things From One, Nature
    1. Developmental Biology: The Turing Model Comes Of Molecular Age, Science
  2. Dynamics on Complex Networks and Applications, Physica D
  3. Minsky Talks About Life, Love In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence, Boston Globe
  4. Learning From Incidents: From Normal Accidents To High Reliability, Sys. Dynamics Rev.
  5. Oenology: Red Wine Procyanidins And Vascular Health, Nature
  6. Water Flowed 'Recently' On Mars, BBC News
  7. Meteorite Yields Life Origin Clue, BBC News
    1. New Clues to How Sex Evolves, Bio.com
  8. Phytoplankton And Cloudiness In The Southern Ocean, Science
    1. Gulf Stream Density Structure And Transport During The Past Millennium, Nature
  9. Past Drought Hints At Africa's Future, Nature
    1. Methane Quashes Green Credentials Of Hydropower, Nature
    2. China's Sunshine Boys, NY Times
  10. Plantecology: The Cost Of Leafing, Nature
  11. New Finding Points Way To Foiling Anthrax's Tricks, Innovations-report
  12. Virtual Pals 'Soar In Importance', BBC News
  13. For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs Big Debate, NY Times
    1. Amazon Puts Network Power Online, Nature
  14. Preprint Analysis Quantifies Scientific Plagiarism, Nature
    1. Scientific Conduct: China's Fraud Buster Hit by Libel Judgments, Science
  15. The Election Is in the Mail, NY Times
  16. Scientists Identify Part Of Hummingbird's Tiny Bird Brain That Helps It Hover, ScienceDaily
  17. Neuroscience: A Memory Boost While You Sleep, Nature
    1. Boosting Slow Oscillations During Sleep Potentiates Memory, Nature
  18. Variability And Memory Of Protein Levels In Human Cells, Nature
    1. Protein Shown To Rally Biological Clock: 'Pony Express' Protein, Innovations-report
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. US Warns Of Online Al Qaeda Attack, vnunet.com
    2. Terror And Trade Of Individual Investors, J. Socio-Econ.
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Complexity Digest 2006.48 Next Issue TOP

  1. Paleoecology: Life's Complexity Cast in Stone, Science
  2. Genetic Jot That Makes Us Unique, Times
    1. Humans Show Big DNA Differences, BBC News
  3. Developmental Biology: Teams Identify Cardiac 'Stem Cell', Science
  4. Chinese Gene Therapy: Gendicine's Efficacy: Hard to Translate, Sciece
    1. The Glimmering Promise of Gene Therapy, Technology Review
  5. Immunity-based Autonomous Guided Vehicles Control, Applied Soft Computing
    1. Robustness And Fragility In Immunosenescence, PLoS Comput Biol
  6. Evolution: Two Rapidly Evolving Genes Spell Trouble for Hybrids, Science
  7. Humpback Whales Have Brain Cells Also Found In Humans, Eurekalert
    1. Predictive Codes for Forthcoming Perception in the Frontal Cortex, Science
  8. Mentoring: Volunteers Bring Passion To Science Outreach, Science
  9. Physics: Superconductivity with a Twist, Science
    1. Atom Spied Interfering With Electron Flow, New Scientist
  10. Social Cues And Illusion: There's More To Magic Than Meets The Eye, Innovations-report
    1. Acoustic Sensors Make Surfaces Interactive, New Scientist
    2. Touch Tracking Bypasses Mind Control, ScienceDaily
  11. Design Approaches in Technology Enhanced Learning, arXiv
    1. Artificial Intelligence Applied Heavily To Picking Stocks, IHT
    2. Networks Could Self-Organise Sooner Than We Think, Innovations-report
  12. On The Conflict-Poverty Nexus, Econ. & Politics
    1. The Economics Of Cybercrime, Computerworld
  13. Souls Of A New Machine, Boston Globe
    1. Well-Being Research: A Measure Of Happiness, Nature
  14. Synaesthesia: The Taste Of Words On The Tip Of The Tongue, Nature
  15. Toxin Buster: New Technique Makes Cottonseeds Edible, Science News
  16. Global Warming: U.N. Conference Puts Spotlight on Reducing Impact of Climate Change, Science
    1. Supreme Court to Take Up Global Warming, Washington Post
    2. Supreme Court Takes Up Global Warming Case, NYTimes
  17. Atmosphere: Global Change in the Upper Atmosphere, Science
    1. Icelandic Volcano Caused Historic Famine In Egypt, ScienceDaily
    2. Carbon Emissions Show Sharp Rise, BBC News
  18. The End of Ingenuity, NY Times
    1. Army Game Proves U.S. Can't Lose, Wired News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Significant Terrorist Incidents, 1961-2003: A Brief Chronology, US Dept of State
    2. Islamist Websites Succeed in Recruiting Muslims for Jihad, Global Terrorism Analysis, DC
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Complexity Digest 2006.47 Next Issue TOP

  1. Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation, HBS Working Knowledge
  2. High Tc: The Mystery That Defies Solution, Science
    1. How Random is a Coin Toss? Bayesian Inference and the Symbolic Dynamics of Deterministic Chaos, SFI Working Papers
    2. The Origin Of Allometric Scaling Laws In Biology, J. Theor. Biol.
    3. Explaining A Complex Living System: Dynamics, Multi-Scaling And Emergence, Interface
  3. Psychology: Money Is Material, Science
  4. Falls Leading Cause Of Death For Elderly, UPI
    1. Age 65 and Up: Fatal Falls Increasing, WebMD Medical News
  5. Does Natural Selection Drive The Evolution Of Cancer?, ScienceDaily
    1. Genetic Information: Codes And Enigmas, Nature
  6. Ancient Gene Yield: New Methods Retrieve Neandertals' DNA, Science News
    1. Evolutionary Biology: Ancient Genomics Is Born, Nature
  7. Brain, Behavior May Have Changed As Social Insect Colonies Evolved, ScienceDaily
    1. Romantic Love: A Mammalian Brain System For Mate Choice, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  8. Cell Biology: Brief Encounters Bolster Contacts, Nature
  9. The Plant Immune System, Nature
  10. Electronic Nuisance Changes Its Ways, Science
    1. Solid-State Thermal Rectifier, Science
  11. City Approves 'Carbon Tax' in Effort to Reduce Gas Emissions, NY Times
    1. False Alarm: Atlantic Conveyor Belt Hasn't Slowed Down After All, Science
  12. Dashing Rogues - Freak Ocean Waves Pose Threat To Ships, Deep-Sea Oil Platforms, Science News
  13. Scientists Examine 'Dark Energy' of Antigravity, NY Times
  14. What Will Wii Controller Unlock?, Wired
  15. Brilliant Minds on the Next 50 Years: Instant Expert, New Scientist
    1. Thinking Machines - Danny Hillis Talks About The Real-World Challenges Of Creating Artificially Intelligent Machines, Technology Review
  16. Unstoppable Bot: Armed With Self-Scrutiny, A Mangled Robot Moves On, Science News
  17. Resilient Machines Through Continuous Self-Modeling, Science
  18. Generator Men Let Baghdad See the Light, but at a Price, Washington Post
    1. Perfect Killing Method, but Clear Targets Are Few, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Topological Vulnerability of the European Power Grid under Errors and Attacks, SFI Working Papers
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Complexity Digest 2006.46 Next Issue TOP

  1. Sustainable Developments: The Challenge of Sustainable Water, Scientific American
    1. Dirty Water Kills 5,000 Children A Day, The Guardian
    2. Study Hopeful For World's Forests, BBC News
  2. Entrepreneurs See a Web Guided by Common Sense, NY Times
    1. Group Decisions: From Compromise To Leadership In Pigeon Homing, ScienceDaily
  3. Autonomous Choices And Patriotic Professionalism: On Governmentality In Late-Socialist China, Econ. & Soc.
    1. Cultural Differences and Economic Incentives: an Agent-Based Study of Their Impact on the Emergence of Regional Autonomy Movements, JASSS
  4. Agent-Based Participatory Simulations: Merging Multi-Agent Systems and Role-Playing Games, JASSS
  5. Strange Circulations: The Blood Economy In Rural China, Econ. & Soc.
    1. Self-Organizing Traffic at a Malfunctioning Intersection, JASSS
  6. Cell Biology: A Clean Energy Programme, Nature
  7. What's That Disease? Ask Google, WebMD Medical News
    1. The Antibiotic Vitamin, Science News
  8. Malaria Reversal: Drug Regains Potency In African Nation, Science News
  9. Study Reveals That Odor Discrimination Is Linked To The Timing At Which Neurons Fire, Innovations-report
    1. How The Brain Weaves A Memory, ScienceDaily
  10. Neurobiology: Right Timing For Retina Repair, Nature
    1. Natural-Born Painkiller Found In Human Saliva, New Scientist
  11. Selecting Life: Scientists Find New Way To Search For Origin Of Life, ScienceDaily
    1. Was Life On Earth Inevitable, Nature News
  12. It's The Junk That Makes Us Human, Nature
    1. Could Our Big Brains Come From Neanderthals?, Reuters
  13. From Fins to Wings, National Geographic Magazine
    1. An Exceptional Devonian Fish From Australia Sheds Light On Tetrapod Origins, Nature
  14. Comprehensive Model Is First To Map Protein Folding At Atomic Level, Physorg.com
  15. Up Your Memory Bank, Nature
  16. Gravity's Secret, New Scientist
  17. Quantum Physics: Information On Heat, Nature
    1. Single-Mode Heat Conduction By Photons, Nature
  18. Electron Beams Shrink Carbon Nanotubes To Order, New Scientist
    1. Physics Promises Wireless Power, BBC News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Administration: Detainees Have No Rights, AP/Forbes
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Complexity Digest 2006.45 Next Issue TOP

  1. A Science of the Web Begins, Scientific American
    1. Berners-Lee Launches Web Science Initiative: Wants To Make It An Object Of Scientific Inquiry, vnunet.com
    2. Internet Swells To 100 Million Sites: Dramatic Growth Attributed To New Blogs And Small Business Sites, vnunet.com
  2. Greenhouse Gases Hit Record High, BBC News
    1. Africa Needs Help To Avert Climate Change Catastrophe, Warns UN, The Guardian
    2. How Much Will It Cost To Save The World?, Nature
    3. CLIMATE CHANGE: An Ambitious, Centrist Approach to Global Warming Legislation, Science
  3. Engineers Develop Revolutionary Nanotech Water Desalination Membrane, Physorg.com
    1. Global Loss of Biodiversity Harming Ocean Bounty, Science
  4. Physicists Observe New Property Of Matter, Physorg.com
  5. Plan To Create Human-Cow Embryos, BBC News
  6. How To Mend A Broken Heart: Zebrafish Hold Key To Regeneration, ScienceDaily
    1. Bizarre Bacterial Creations, Technology Review
  7. Cool Down - You May Live Longer, New Scientist
  8. Zapping Sleepers' Brains Boosts Memory, New Scientist
    1. It May Come As A Shock, NY Times
    2. The Brain Near the Edge, arXiv
  9. Rerouting Brain Circuits with Implanted Chips, Technology Review
    1. Two Nerve Cells In Direct Contact, Physorg.com
    2. Long-Term Motor Cortex Plasticity Induced By An Electronic Neural Implant, Nature
  10. New Sequential Decision Making Model Could Be Key To Artificial Intelligence, Physorg.com
  11. Researchers Teach Computers How To Name Images By 'Thinking', Physorg.com
  12. Emergence of Human Cooperation and Altruism by Evolutionary Feedback Selection, arXiv
    1. Spread Of Arbitrary Conventions Among Chimpanzees: A Controlled Experiment, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    2. Diminishing Reciprocal Fairness by Disrupting the Right Prefrontal Cortex, Science
    3. Evolutionary Biology: To Work Or Not To Work, Nature
  13. 'Silent Aircraft': How It Works, BBC News
  14. 'Nanoporous' Material Gobbles Up Hydrogen Fuel, New Scientist
    1. Physical Chemistry: Porous Solids Get Organized, Nature
  15. Building Theories of Economic Process, SFI Working Papers
  16. Intimate Strangers, Time
  17. Complexity, Coarse-Graining and Symbolic Description, SFI Working Papers
  18. Ballot Roulette - Computer Scientists And Mathematicians Look For Better Ways To Vote, Science News
    1. Grey Matter: Ambiguities And Complexities Of Ethics In Research, J. Acad. Ethics
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Iraq Receives Poor Marks In Survey Of Corruption - U.S. Slips In International Group's Ratings, International Herald Tribune
    2. This Curve Spells Trouble for Iraq, Business Week
    3. The Quantitative Analysis Of Terrorism And Immigration: An Initial Exploration, Terrorism & Polit. Violence
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Complexity Digest 2006.44 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Economics of Information Security, Science
    1. Computing, 2016: What Won't Be Possible?, NY Times
  2. Laws Of Physics, Math Debunk Hollywood Portrayals Of Ghosts, Vampires, Innovations-report
  3. From Hive Minds To Humans, Nature
    1. Genome Buzz: Honeybee DNA Raises Social Questions, Science News
    2. Honey Bee Genome Holds Clues To Social Behavior, Innovations-report
    3. Michigan State Researcher Traces The Evolution Of Honey Bee Gender, ScienceDaily
  4. Genomics: How To Make A Social Insect, Nature
  5. Groups And Grumps: Study Identifies 'Sociality' Neurons, Innovations-report
  6. One for the Ages: A Prescription That May Extend Life, NY Times
    1. Wine 'Allows Guilt-Free Gluttony', BBC News
  7. Palaeontology: Modern Look For Ancient Lamprey, Nature
  8. Genomics: Blueprints For Partnerships, Nature
  9. Unraveling Pain's DNA, Science
  10. Elephants Recognize Selves in Mirror, Study Says, National Geographic News
    1. Elephants Pass Mirror Test Of Self-Awareness, Guardian
  11. Developmental Biology: Red-Eye Redirected, Nature
  12. Cooperation Prevails When Individuals Adjust Their Social Ties, PLoS Comput Biol
  13. Why Play Dead? Rethinking What Used To Be Obvious, Science News
  14. Mapping Information Flow in Sensorimotor Networks, PLoS Comput Biol
  15. Cell Biology: Power Games, Nature
    1. Directing Biosynthesis, Science
  16. Titan Lives--Geologically, at Least, Science
    1. The Kuiper Belt Loses Some of Its Mystery, Science
  17. Nanotube Computing Breakthrough, Technology Review
  18. Pentagon Boosts 'Media War' Unit, BBC News
    1. The Scorched-Earth Satire Of Sacha Baron Cohen, Edmonton Sun
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Terrorism's Roots More Local Than Global, Say Experts, The Brunei Times
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Complexity Digest 2006.43 Next Issue TOP

  1. Human v2.0, BBC2
    1. Software Generates Video News Bulletins, New Scientist
  2. 'Smart Growth': Innovating to Meet the Needs of the Market without Feeding the Beast of Complexity, Knowledge@Wharton
  3. Self-organizing Traffic Lights: A Realistic Simulation, arXiv
  4. Future Forecast: Extreme Weather Study Outlines a Climate Shift Caused by Global Warming, Washington Post
    1. Pollute the Planet for Climate's Sake?, Science
    2. A Combined Mitigation/Geoengineering Approach to Climate Stabilization, Science
  5. Climate Water Threat To Millions, BBC News
    1. Climate Change 'Serious Threat To Global Security', Politics.co.uk
  6. Gold Mine Holds Life Untouched By The Sun, New Scientist
    1. Smallest Genome Clocks in at 182 Genes, News@Nature
  7. How Ants Find Their Way, ScienceDaily
    1. Blue Tail And Striped Body: Why Do Lizards Change Their Infant Costume When Growing Up?, Behav. Ecol.
  8. Evolutionary Biology: A Kingdom Revised, Nature
  9. Theoretical Analysis and Multi-agent Simulation of the Ecosystem in Tibet, arXiv
  10. Structural Biology: Enzyme Target To Latch On To, Nature
  11. Vegetables, Not Fruit, Help Fight Memory Problems in Old Age, Rush U. Medical Center Press Release
  12. Making The Connection Between A Sound And A Reward Changes Brain And Behavior, ScienceDaily
  13. Neurodegeneration, Nature
    1. Prions And Their Partners In Crime, Nature
    2. Autism's DNA Trail: Gene Variant Tied To Developmental Disorder, Science News
  14. Do Cell Phones Affect Sperm Quality?, WebMD Medical News
  15. Listening To The Sound Of Skin Cancer, Innovations-report
  16. Swirling Seas, Crystal Balls, Science News
  17. Believing Falsely Makes It So, Mind
  18. Idle Contractors Add Millions to Iraq Rebuilding, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. U.N. Says Human Rights Violators Cite U.S., Washington Post
    2. U.S. Rank on Press Freedom Slides Lower, Washington Post
    3. Red Cross Lambasts US Terror Law, BBC News
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Complexity Digest 2006.42 Next Issue TOP

  1. Peace Prize to Pioneer of Loans to Poor No Bank Would Touch, NY Times
    1. The Evolution of Future Wealth - Technologies Evolve Much As Species Do, Scientific American
  2. Business-as-Usual on Climate Change is Not an Option, AAAS News Release
    1. Assessing the Vulnerability of Social-Environmental Systems, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
    2. Water Markets and Trading, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  3. Environment and Security, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  4. Energy-Technology Innovation, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
    1. Technology Development And Energy Productivity In China, Energy Econ.
    2. Beyond Fossil Fuels, NY Times
  5. Stepping Stones Towards A New Prokaryotic Taxonomy, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    1. Allopatric Origins Of Microbial Species, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  6. Is There Room for the Soul?, U.S.News & World Report
    1. Tracking Information Flow in the Brain, Technology Review
  7. Warming Up To Hyperthermia - Heat Therapy Could Improve Existing Cancer Treatments, Science News
  8. Liquid To Seal Open Wounds Fast, BBC News
    1. A Physical Theory of the Competition that Allows HIV to Escape from the Immune System, arXiv
    2. Technique May Help Revive Head-Injury Victims, Washington Post
  9. Engineering Food at Level of Molecules, New York Times
  10. Abrupt Change in Earth's Climate System, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
    1. Trying To Lasso Climate Uncertainty, Science
  11. Earth Sciences: Ups And Downs Of Ancient Oxygen, Nature
    1. Bistability Of Atmospheric Oxygen And The Great Oxidation, Nature
  12. Evolutionary Biology: Fly Eyes Get The Whole Picture, Nature
    1. Tiny Fossils Reveal Inner Secrets, BBC News
  13. Hello, Solar, New Scientist
  14. Messiness Rules: In High Dimensions, Disorder Packs Tightest, Science News
    1. Structural Inference of Hierarchies in Networks, arXiv
    2. Nanosheets Made By Mimicking Protein Formation, NewScientist.com
  15. Annihilation Omens, Washington Times
  16. NRC Team Uses New Quantum Technology To Control Molecular Pathways, National Research Council Canada Press Release
    1. 'DNA Computer' Is Unbeatable At Tic-Tac-Toe, New Scientist
  17. Databases That Learn, Technology Review
  18. MoD To Launch 'Urban Challenge', BBC News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. After North Korea Test, What Can Be Done To Reduce The Growing Nuclear Threat?, ScienceDaily
    2. 'No End' To Terror Threat, Daily Telegraph
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Complexity Digest 2006.41 Next Issue TOP

  1. Complex Systems: Network Thinking, SFI Working Papers
    1. Deconstructing Complexity, Computerworld
    2. Using Graph Concepts to Understand the Organization of Complex Systems, arXiv
    3. AI Re-Emerging As Research In Complex Systems, Ubiquity
  2. The Dynamics of Machiavellian Intelligence, arXiv
  3. The Hidden Power Of Play, The Boston Globe
    1. New AAP Report Stresses Play For Healthy Development, AAP Press Release
  4. American Wins Nobel Prize In Chemistry, NY Times
  5. U.S. Economist Wins Nobel For Work On Inflation, Jobs, Reuters
  6. Mind Games - What Neuroeconomics Tells Us About Money And The Brain, New Yorker
  7. The Misbehavior Of Value And The Discipline Of The Will, Neural Networks
  8. Building Bridges Between Neural Models And Complex Decision Making Behaviour, Neural Networks
  9. Fractal Analysis Of Different Eastern And Western Musical Instruments, Fractals
  10. Delay Between Online And Offline Issue Of Journals: A Critical Analysis, Lib. & Info. Sc. Res.
  11. Planning For Robust Reserve Networks Using Uncertainty Analysis, Ecol. Modelling
  12. Naked Mole-Rat Unfazed By Oxidative Stress, Bio.com
  13. Cell Cycle: Complex Evolution, Nature
  14. Genetics: Junk Dna As An Evolutionary Force, Nature
  15. Making Water From Thin Air, Wired
  16. Single-Pixel Camera Could Simplify Imaging, New Scientist
  17. Teens: E-Mail Is For Old People, ars technica
  18. Software Being Developed To Monitor Opinions Of U.S., NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. For U.S., A Strategic Jolt After North Korea's Test, NY Times
    2. Blast May Be Only A Partial Success, Experts Say, NY Times
    3. Biodefence Special: Fortress America?, New Scientist
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Complexity Digest 2006.40 Next Issue TOP

  1. 'Ancient Light' Takes Nobel Prize, BBC News
    1. Nobel Prize For Genetic Discovery, BBC News
  2. UC Berkeley Offers Courses And Symposia Through Google Video, Physorg.com
    1. Video Games Have 'Role In School', BBC News
    2. The Long Zoom, NY Times
  3. Dot-Com Bubble, Part Ii? Why It's So Hard To Value Social Networking Sites, Knowledge@Wharton
  4. The Social Network Benefit: Losing An Employee Doesn't Have To Mean Losing Knowledge, Knowledge@Wharton
  5. Nationalism And The Cultivation Of Culture, Nations & Nationalism
  6. Beauty And The Brain, ScienceDaily
    1. Multitasking Is No Problem, But Double Talk Overwhelms Us, ScienceDaily
  7. Professor-Turned-Pope Leads A Seminar On Evolution, NY Times
    1. Casting A Genetic Light On The Evolution Of Eyes, Science
  8. How General Are Positive Relationships Between Plant Population Size, Fitness And Genetic Variation?, J. Ecol.
  9. Approaches For Testing Herbivore Effects On Plant Population Dynamics, J. Appl. Ecol.
  10. Are Apes Really Inequity Averse?, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. An Elephant Crackup?, NY Times
  11. 'Google Of The Brain': Atlas Maps Brain's Genetic Activity, Science
    1. Brain Map Wraps Up, Science Now
  12. Ageing: Balancing Regeneration And Cancer, Nature
  13. How Nature Tinkers With The Cellular Clock, Innovations-report
  14. Supersizing Stars, Science Now
    1. Move Into Space, But Where?, Wired News
  15. Future Flooding Disasters To Be Averted By Maths, Innovations-report
    1. China, Wetlands Driving Global Warming, Science Now
  16. Attack Of The Killer Prototype Robots, CNET News.com
  17. Powerful Batteries That Assemble Themselves, Technology Review
  18. New Power Suit Amplifies Human Strength, LiveScience
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Blinded By Hindsight, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2006.39 Next Issue TOP

  1. Complexity Dynamics of Nascent Entrepreneurship, Journal of Business Venturing
  2. Symmetry and Self-Organization in Complex Systems, arXiv
  3. The Complex Links Between Governance And Biodiversity, Conserv. Biol.
  4. Is The U.S. Losing Its Competitive Edge?, Business Week online
  5. Major Changes Needed To Boost K-8 Science Achievement, National Academy of Science Press Release
    1. Taking Science To School: Learning And Teaching Science In Grades K-8, Committee on Science Learning
    2. On Not Becoming A Scientist, ScienceNow Daily
  6. Copper Circuits Help Brain Function; Could Tweaking The Circuits Make Us Smarter?, PhysOrg.com
    1. Induction Of An Illusory Shadow Person, Nature
    2. Brain Stimulation Creates Shadow Person, PhysOrg.com
  7. Brain's Action Center Is All Talk, Innovations-report
  8. Emotional Control Circuit Of Brain's Fear Response Discovered, ScienceDaily
  9. Central Nervous System Control Of Food Intake And Body Weight, Nature
    1. Medicine: Sleep It Off, Nature
    2. Special Mechanisms For Symmetry Preferences In Human Face Perception, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  10. Evolution's Child: Fossil Puts Youthful Twist On Lucy's Kind, Science News
    1. Palaeoanthropology: A Precious Little Bundle, Nature
  11. Grow Your Own Limbs, Wired News
  12. Stem Cells: A New Route To Rejuvenation, Nature
  13. Why Does The Songbird Sing?, Science Now
  14. Massive Stars May Slim Down In Eruptive Bursts, Science News
  15. King Of The Chatbots, Agence France-Presse
  16. Virtual Bees Help Robots See In 3d, New Scientist
  17. Mathematical Physics: Search Research, Nature
  18. The Big Gamble On Electronic Voting, NY Times
    1. Forging Democracy At Gunpoint, Int. Studies Quart.
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Pull Up Terrorism By The Roots, Toronto Globe and Mail
    2. Mozart Sacrificed To Muslims, The Australian
    3. Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat, NY Times
    4. Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Fuels Terror, LA Times
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Complexity Digest 2006.38 Next Issue TOP

  1. Big Brother Is Shouting At You, Daily Mail
    1. This Is Your Space, New Scientist
    2. I'll Have To Ask My Friends, New Scientist
  2. A Unifying Framework for Complexity Measures of Finite Systems, SFI Working Papers
    1. Mechanical vs. Informational Components of Price Impact, SFI Working Papers
    2. A Rational Indicator of Scientific Creativity, arXiv
  3. Scripted Stone: Ancient Block May Bear Americas' Oldest Writing, Science News
    1. Old Olmec Writing, Science
  4. Mild Climate, Lack Of Moderns Let Last Neandertals Linger In Gibraltar
  5. The Amazing Fossil Of 'Lucy's Little Sister', New Scientist
    1. 'Lucy's Baby' Found In Ethiopia, BBC News
  6. Evolutionary Biology: Human Brain Gene Wins Genome Race, Nature
    1. An Rna Gene Expressed During Cortical Development Evolved Rapidly In Humans, Nature
  7. Microglial Senescence: Does The Brain's Immune System Have An Expiration Date?, Trends Neurosc.
  8. High Gamma Power Is Phase-Locked to Theta Oscillations in Human Neocortex, Science
    1. Anemia Affects Body And Maybe The Mind, ScienceDaily
  9. Battle Of The Hermaphrodites Sexes Clash Even When Sharing The Same Body, Science News
  10. Fatty Fish Consumption Reduces Kidney Cancer Risk By 44%, Medical News Today
  11. Survival of Species in Patchy Landscapes: Percolation in Space and Time, SFI Working Papers
    1. Who Backs Ddt For Malaria Control, BBC News
  12. Beating The Diffraction Barrier, Science
  13. Oversize Orb: Puffy Planet Poses Puzzle, Science
  14. Rare Evolutionary Example Of 'Recent' Embosymbiont Offers Clues To How Plants Came To Be, ScienceDaily
    1. Synthetic Protocell Biology: From Reproduction to Computation, SFI Working Papers
  15. Self-Assembly Processes In The Prebiotic Environment, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    1. Energy Flow and the Organization of Life, SFI Working Papers
  16. Climate Change: A Cosmic Connection, Nature
    1. Nitrous Oxide - No Laughing Matter For Forests, New Scientist
    2. Land-Atmosphere Coupling And Climate Change In Europe, Nature
    3. Tiny Uncrewed Aircraft To Fly Into Hurricanes, New Scientist
  17. A Chip That Can Transfer Data Using Laser Light, NY Times
    1. Double Disc Might End Hi-Def War, BBC News
    2. The Bootless Pc And Terabytes On A Dime, Computerworld
    3. Antisocial Robots Go To Finishing School, New Scientist
    4. How To Be Human
  18. Teaching Math, Singapore Style, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. U.N. Inspectors Dispute Iran Report By House Panel, Washington Post
    2. a. Us Nuclear Study Of Iran Called Dishonest, Sidney Morning Herald
    3. Iraq War 'Disaster For Mid-East', BBC News
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Complexity Digest 2006.37 Next Issue TOP

  1. First Pass at Cancer Genome Reveals Complex Landscape, Science
    1. Genetic Map Identifies Close To 200 Cancer Genes, Reuters
  2. Peacekeepers Of The Immune System, Scientific American Magazine
    1. Digestive Decoys, Scientific American Magazine
  3. Food For Thought, The New Mexican
  4. For First Time, Doctors Communicate With Patient In Persistent Vegetative State, The Guardian
    1. Is She Conscious?, Science
    2. Detecting Awareness In The Vegetative State, Science
  5. Anticipation Plays A Powerful Role In Human Memory, Brain Study Finds, Innovations-report
  6. Scientists Explore How Complex Organs Develop From A Simple Bud, ScienceDaily
  7. Tectonic Uplift And Eastern Africa Aridification, Science
    1. Colourful Beginning For Humanity, BBC News
  8. The Carbon Cycle On Early Earth-And On Mars?, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  9. Neanderthals And Humans Lived Side By Side, New Scientist
  10. Temporal And Spatial Enumeration Processes In The Primate Parietal Cortex, Science
    1. How Animals Learn From Each Other, Appl. Animal Behav. Sc.
    2. Into The Brains Of Whales, Appl. Animal Behav. Sc.
  11. Washing Away Your Sins: Threatened Morality And Physical Cleansing, Science
    1. Hybrid Elections Broaden Complexity-Theoretic Resistance to Control, arXiv
  12. Bad-News Beauties Poison-Spined Fish From Asia Have Invaded U.S. Waters, Science
  13. The Art Of The Possible, Technology Review
    1. Top Prize For 'Light' Inventor, BBC News
    2. Inpaint By Numbers, Scientific American Magazine
    3. Ballbots, Scientific American Magazine
    4. Artificial Arrays Could Help Submarines Make Like A Fish
  14. Simple Rules For A Complex Quantum World; The Edge Of Physics, Scientific American
  15. Emergence Is Coupled To Scope, Not Level, arXiv
  16. Discovering Functional Communities in Dynamical Networks, arXiv
  17. Sea Animals Get Tagged For Double-Duty Research, Science
  18. Catalyst Hosts Forum On Complexity And Economic Policy, Yahoo! Finance
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold', Washington Post
    2. Saddam 'Had No Link To Al-Qaeda', BBC News
    3. 'War On Terror' Loses Clear Direction, BBC News
    4. Worried Cia Officers Buy Legal Insurance Plans Fund Defense In Anti-Terror Cases, Washington Post
    5. Bush Tells Group He Sees A 'Third Awakening', Washinton Post
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Complexity Digest 2006.36 Next Issue TOP

  1. Behavior: The Power of Social Psychological Interventions, Science
    1. Reducing the Racial Achievement Gap: A Social-Psychological Intervention, Science
  2. Artificial Intelligence Meets The Video Game, Globe and Mail
    1. Students Given Free MP3 Players, BBC News
  3. Engineering A Cure: Genetically Modified Cells Fight Cancer, Science
    1. Epigenetics: DNA Methylation in Cancer, Bio.com
  4. Harvard Scientists Identify Compounds That Stimulate Stem Cell Growth In The Brain, EurekAlert
  5. Escalated Conflict In A Social Hierarchy, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  6. Chimpanzees Can Transmit Cultural Behavior To Multiple 'Generations', ScienceDaily
  7. Mental Leap - What Apes Can Teach Us About The Human Mind, Science News
  8. Study To Investigate How Fear And Anxiety Are Formed In The Brain, Innovations-report
    1. Cognitive Modulation Of Emotion Anticipation, Euro. J. Neurosc.
  9. Genetics: Genomes Highlight Plant Pathogens' Powerful Arsenal, Science
  10. Corridors Increase Plant Species Richness at Large Scales, Science
    1. Host Propagation Permits Extreme Local Adaptation In A Social Parasite Of Ants, Ecol. Lett.
  11. Chemistry: Controlling Biological Functions, Science
  12. Anomalous Spiral Motion of Steps Near Dislocations on Silicon Surfaces, Science
  13. Energy: Enhanced: A Road Map to U.S. Decarbonization, Science
    1. Methane Bubbles Climate Trouble, BBC News
  14. Meteorology: A Hurricane's Punch Still Knocks Out Forecasters, Science
  15. The Death of the Scientific Paper, The Scientist
  16. Wheel Of Life: Bacteria Provide Horsepower For Tiny Motor, Science News
  17. Implantable Heart Device Receives F.D.A. Approval, NY Times
  18. Software Learns New Words From Wikipedia, New Scientist
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. IT Versus Terror, Cio.com
    2. Q&A: Bush And CIA Secret Prisons, BBC News
    3. Bush Expands On 'Plot Details', BBC News
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Complexity Digest 2006.35 Next Issue TOP

  1. Prediction Markets for Promoting the Progress of Science and the Useful Arts, George Mason Law Review
    1. Fingers of Instability, Frontlinethoughts.com
  2. Social Evolution: Kin Preference In A Social Microbe, Nature
  3. Parochial Altruism In Humans, Nature
  4. Scientists Find Molecule That Tricks Cancer Cells Into Dying, The Guardian
    1. Do Cancer Cells Cooperate With Each Other?, New Scientist
  5. Saving Lives With Tailor-Made Medication, NY Times
    1. Placebo Predictions, Science News
  6. Viruses Can Jump Between Primates And Humans, Innovations-report
    1. First Study To Show How Immune Cells 'Speak' To Each Other In Vivo, ScienceDaily
  7. Neurodevelopment: How Does The Teenage Brain Work?, Nature
  8. Daytime Light Exposure Dynamically Enhances Brain Responses, ScienceDaily
  9. Scientists Find Memory Molecule, Physorg.com
    1. Learning Induces Long-Term Potentiation in the Hippocampus, Science
    2. NEUROSCIENCE: Enhanced: ZAP and ZIP, a Story to Forget, Science
    3. Storage of Spatial Information by the Maintenance Mechanism of LTP, Science
  10. INQUIRY LEARNING: Teaching and Assessing Knowledge Integration in Science, Science
    1. Use Of Stone Hammers Sheds Light On Geographic Patterns Of Chimpanzee Tool Use, Innovations-report
  11. Digital Cameras Focus On Revised Reality, CNET News.com
  12. Early Embryos Can Yield Stem Cells... And Survive, Nature
  13. Enlightened: Dark Matter Spotted After Cosmic Crash, Science News
  14. METEOROLOGY: Sharpening Up Models for a Better View of the Atmosphere, Science
    1. Oceans Cool Off In Hottest Years, Nature
  15. Running Out of Water--and Time, Science
    1. Global Hydrological Cycles and World Water Resources, Science
    2. Controversial Rivers Project Aims to Turn India's Fierce Monsoon Into a Friend, Science
  16. The Challenge of Micropollutants in Aquatic Systems, Science
  17. CHEMISTRY: New in Nanotech: Self-Folding Delivery Boxes, Science
    1. Solid-State-Chemistry: Framework For A Molecular Prison, Nature
  18. Appropriate Technology: Make Anything, Anywhere, Nature
    1. Smart Fabrics Are Back In Fashion, BBC News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Rumsfeld Says War Critics Haven't Learned Lessons of History, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2006.34 Next Issue TOP

  1. U.S. SCIENCE POLICY: Congress Quietly Tries to Craft Bill To Maintain U.S. Lead in Science, Science
  2. Born to Be Good, NYTimes Book Review
    1. Global Poverty And Desert, Politics
  3. Cancer Biology: A Game Of Subversion, Nature
    1. Mutations That Increase the Life Span of C. elegans Inhibit Tumor Growth, Science
  4. Watching The Brain In Action, Technology Review
    1. Your Brain Boots Up Like a Computer, Live Science
  5. NEUROSCIENCE: No More Cortical Neurons for You, Science
    1. Adult Brain Cells Made To Multiply And Regenerate, New Scientist
    2. Healing Potential Discovered In Everyday Human Brain Cells, ScienceDaily
    3. New Brain Cells Die Without A Job To Do, New Scientist
  6. Research Reveals Inner Workings Of Immune System 'Thermostat', ScienceDaily
  7. Genomics: Predictable Packaging, Nature
  8. Ferocious Ants Bite Like A Bullet, BBC News
  9. EVOLUTION: Traversing the Adaptive Landscape in Snapdragons, Science
  10. No Hobbits In This Shire: Researchers Say Skeletal Remains Are Pygmy Ancestors, Penn State Live
  11. Team Finds 'Proof' Of Dark Matter, BBC News
    1. Colliding Clusters Shed Light on Dark Matter, Scientific American
  12. The First Stars in the Universe and Cosmic Reionization, Science
  13. Ozone Hole Stable, Say Scientists, BBC News
  14. The Robots Are Coming!, Forbes
  15. Artificial Muscles Light Up Tvs, BBC News
    1. Artificial Muscles May Enable More Lifelike Color Displays, ScienceDaily
  16. New 'Supercapacitor' Promises to Pack More Electrical Punch, Science
    1. Solid-State Physics: Resistance Is Futile, Nature
  17. Quantum Physics: A Spin Solo, Nature
  18. Computers Write News At Thomson, Financial Times
    1. Joke Generator Raises A Chuckle, BBC News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. US Food Supply 'Vulnerable To Attack', BBC News
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Complexity Digest 2006.33 Next Issue TOP

  1. Water Shortage 'A Global Problem', BBC News
    1. Plant Breeding: Rice In Deep Water, Nature
  2. As the Seas Warm, Science
    1. Capturing Carbon, Nature
  3. Bad Vibrations? Ultrasound Disturbs Mouse Brains, Science News
    1. Ultrasound Affects Embryonic Mouse Brain Development, Innovations-report
  4. The Shape Of Life: Research Sheds Light On How Cells Take Shape, Innovations-report
  5. Silent Running: The Race To The Clinic, Nature
  6. Going East: New Genetic and Archaeological Perspectives on the Modern Human Colonization of Eurasia, Science
  7. Does Mobility Decrease Cooperation?, arXiv
    1. Sound Sightings, Science
  8. Inching Toward Movement Ecology, Science
    1. Long-Distance Dispersal of Plants, Science
  9. Conflicting Evidence About Long-Distance Animal Navigation, Science
    1. How and Why Do Insects Migrate?, Science
    2. Crouching Scientist, Hidden Dragonfly - Monitoring Insect Lifestyles In The Air And The Mud, Science News
  10. Resilience: The Emergence of a Perspective for Social–ecological Systems Analyses, Global Environmental Change
    1. Order To Chaos And Vice Versa In An Aquatic Ecosystem, Ecol. Modelling
    2. Evolution: Native Mussel Quickly Evolves Fear of Invasive Crab, Science
  11. Molecular Imaging: New Optics Strategies Cut Through Diffraction Barrier, Science
  12. Systems Interface Biology, Interface
  13. Theoretical Physics: A 'Landscape' Too Far?, Science
  14. Computer Science: Enhanced: Creating a Science of the Web, Science
    1. An Experimental Study of the Coloring Problem on Human Subject Networks, Science
    2. The Best Model Is Not Always The Correct Model, Chaos
  15. Neuroscience: An Extra Dimension To Olfaction, Nature
    1. Neuroscience: Making Faces In The Brain, Nature
    2. Language, Embodiment, and the Cognitive Niche, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  16. How The Adrenal 'Clock' Keeps The Body In Synch, ScienceDaily
  17. Assembly Dynamics Of Microtubules At Molecular Resolution, Nature
    1. Self-Replication and Self-Assembly for Manufacturing, arXiv
  18. Materials Science: Organosilica The Conciliator, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. No Terror Ties Reported In Cellphone Arrests, Boston Globe/AP
    2. Watching Lebanon - Washington's Interests In Israel's War, The New Yorker
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Complexity Digest 2006.32 Next Issue TOP

  1. Bird Flu Not Set For Pandemic, Says US Team, Nature
  2. Britain's Digital Tribes Revealed, BBC News
  3. Measures Of International Collaboration In Scientific Literature, Info. Processing & Manag.
    1. The Creation Of 'Best Practice' Software: Myth, Reality And Ethics, Info. & Org.
  4. Digital World Reveals Architecture of Evolution, U Chicago News
    1. Breakthrough Gives 3-D Vision Of Life's Dawn, MSNBC
  5. From Snapshot To Cover Model In A Single Click, New Scientist
  6. Maths 'Nobel' Rumoured For Russian Recluse, Nature
  7. Remote-Controlled Humans, Technology Review
  8. Study Provides New Insights Into Brain Organisation, Innovations-report
    1. Patients With Parkinson's Disease Learn To Control Complex Systems, Neuropsychologia
  9. Apes -- Not Monkeys -- Ace IQ Tests, Innovations-report
  10. Brain's 'Gambling Circuitry' Identified, ScienceDaily
    1. Quick -- What's That Smell? Time Needed To Identify Odors Reveals Much About Olfaction, ScienceDaily
  11. Mouse Data Hint At Human Pheromones, Nature
  12. Gartner Names Hot Technologies With Greatest Potential Impact, Information Week
  13. Bacteria In Oil Sludge Blamed For Prudhoe Bay Shutdown, Times
  14. Adaptive Liquid Microlenses Activated By Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels, Nature
  15. Underwater Robots Work Together Without Human Input, Innovations-report
  16. Superhydrophobicity: Drying Transition Of Confined Water, Nature
  17. Superconductivity: Hot Vibes, Nature
  18. Big Bang Pushed Back Two Billion Years, NewScientist
    1. Big Crunches Wipe The Slate Clean, New Scientist
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Terrorist Plot To Blow Up 10 Aircraft Over Atlantic Thwarted, British Say, The Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2006.31 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Trouble With Replication, Nature
    1. Let's Replicate, Nature
  2. Biomedical Research: States, Foundations Lead the Way After Bush Vetoes, Science
  3. Professional Development: Enhanced: Who Is Responsible for Preparing Science Teachers?, Science
    1. Gender Differences In Smiling: An Evolutionary Neuroandrogenic Theory, Physiol. & Behav.
  4. Infrastructure: Can Grid Computing Help Us Work Together?, Science
    1. Surfing The Web With Nothing But Brainwaves, Business
    2. Quantum Leap: A Futurist's Vision Of Where Quantum Computers Will Take Us., Fortune
    3. Coming Soon: Google On Your Brain, Fortune
    4. Computer Science: New Life for Neural Networks, Science
  5. The Overlooked Epidemic, Science
    1. Origins of HIV and the Evolution of Resistance to AIDS, Science
    2. Immunology: Mast Cells Defang Snake and Bee Venom, Science
  6. Code Beyond Genetics in DNA, NYTimes
  7. How Much To Eat? Food Unit Size Determines Quantity Consumed, NewsTarget
    1. Doctors Offer To Maim Beggars In TV Sting, Reuters
  8. System Simulates Fault Tolerance Of The Brain, vnunet.com
    1. MIT Researchers Watch Brain In Action, Innovations-report
    2. Researchers Show How The Brain Turns On Innate Behavior, ScienceDaily
  9. Developmental Neurobiology: A Destructive Switch For Neurons, Nature
  10. Carbon Nanotubes You Can Live With, Science
    1. Protein Folding: Inside The Cage, Nature
    2. To Heal A Wound, Turn Up The Voltage, New Scientist
  11. Developmental Biology: The Hole Picture, Nature
  12. Semiconductor Physics: Magnetic Manipulations, Nature
    1. Camera System Creates Sophisticated 3-D Effects, NYTimes
    2. Calculating The Speed Of Sight, NewScientist
  13. The Origins And The Future Of Microfluidics, Nature
  14. Oceans Teem With Bacteria, Many Unknown-Study, Reuters
  15. Extinction Risk and Conservation Priorities, Science
  16. Climate Change: Politicians Attack, But Evidence for Global Warming Doesn't Wilt, Science
    1. Meteorology: Rivers in the Sky Are Flooding the World With Tropical Waters, Science
    2. Climate Change: Can We Detect Trends in Extreme Tropical Cyclones?, Science
    3. Atmosphere: What Drives the Ice Age Cycle?, Science
  17. A Visual Exploration of Complex Networks, Seed Magazine
  18. Newfound Blob is Biggest Thing in the Universe, Space
    1. Mysterious Quasar Casts Doubt On Black Holes, NewScientist
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. A New Enemy Gains on the U.S., NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2006.30 Next Issue TOP

  1. Awash In A Sea Of Debt, Barrons Online
  2. Chaotic Chomp - The Mathematics Of Crystal Growth Sheds Light On A Tantalizing Game, Science News
  3. Ecological Complexity Untangled, Nature
    1. Ecology: Asymmetry And Stability, Nature
    2. Ecological Networks And Their Fragility, Nature
    3. Ecology: Pollinator Diversity Declining in Europe, Science
  4. Diversity Without Representation, Nature
  5. From Systems Biology to Dynamical Neuropharmacology: Proposal for a New Methodology, arXiv
  6. Evolution: Darwin for All Seasons, Science
    1. Evolution of the Molecular Machines for Protein Import into Mitochondria, Science
    2. Evolutionary Games on Graphs, arXiv
  7. Palaeoanthropology: Decoding Our Cousins, Nature
    1. Ancient Humans 'Followed Rains', BBC News
  8. Grow Fast, Learn Slow, Innovations-report
    1. Study Offers New Clues About Memory, ScienceDaily
    2. Anxious Adults Judge Facial Cues Faster, But Less Accurately, Innovations-report
  9. Molecular Biology: A New RNA Dimension to Genome Control, Science
    1. Immunology: Considering Therapeutic Antibodies, Science
  10. Plate Tectonics: Magma Does The Splits, Nature
  11. Recurrent Eruption: Explosive Stellar Saga, Science News
    1. Astronomy: Near-Field Cosmology, Science
  12. Granular Materials: Packing Grains By Thermal Cycling, Nature
  13. Memory Chip Threat To Hard Discs, BBC
  14. Moving Towards A Graphene World, Nature
    1. Terrific Timekeeper: Optical Atomic Clock Beats World Standard, Science News
    2. Microfluids: Clicks And Chips, Nature
  15. Chemistry: Selective Hydrocarbon Oxidation In Zeolites, Science
    1. Structural Biology: Proteins Downhill All The Way, Nature
  16. Citation as a Representation Process, arXiv
  17. Concerns Grow Over Secrecy Of Bubble-Fusion Inquiry, Nature
  18. Dinosaurs And The Democratic Peace: Paleontological Lessons For Avoiding The Extinction Of Theory In Political Science, Int. Studies Perspectives
    1. An Imminent Threat (to the Constitution), Washingtonpost.com
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Endless War?: Hidden Functions Of The War On Terror, Pluto Press
    2. Beyond The Realist Theories: "Neo-Conservative Realism" And The American Invasion Of Iraq, Int. Studies Perspectives
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Complexity Digest 2006.29 Next Issue TOP

  1. Maybe We Should Leave That Up to the Computer, NYTimes
  2. Increasing Consumer Preferences By Manipulating Memory, ScienceDaily
  3. Science Education: A Strategy That Works: Hook 'Em While They're Young, Science
  4. Gadgets Get The Feel Of The Tactile World, NewScientist
    1. Geoethical Nanotechnology Workshop To Explore Uploading, Mind-Machine Interfaces, KurzweilAI
  5. Neuroprosthetics: In Search Of The Sixth Sense, Nature
    1. Neuroscience: Converting Thoughts Into Action, Nature
    2. Neuronal Ensemble Control Of Prosthetic Devices By A Human With Tetraplegia, Nature
    3. A High-Performance Brain-Computer Interface, Nature
  6. Music: Calculated Tones, Nature
  7. Putting Your Computer To Work To Fight Against Malaria In Africa, Innovations-report
  8. Better Be Convincing or Better Be Stylish?, JASSS
  9. Brainy Robots Start Stepping Into Daily Life, NYTimes
  10. Evolution: Competition Drives Big Beaks Out Of Business, Science
    1. Live Prey For Dummies: Meerkats Coach Pups On Hunting, Science News
  11. Plight Of The Native Bumble Bee, Newscientist
    1. Flying In Tune: Buzz Brings Mosquito Pairs Together, ScienceDaily
    2. Stuck Pig, Wired
  12. Palaeontology: A Ghost With A Bite, Nature
  13. Van Gogh Painted Perfect Turbulence, News@Nature
  14. Quantum Engineering: An Atom-Sorting Machine, Nature
    1. Solid-State Physics: Supersolid Simulations, Nature
  15. Physics: Controlling Friction, Science
  16. Self-Cooling Soda Bottles?, Innovations-report
  17. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another, by Philip Ball, JASSS
  18. Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems, by R. Keith Sawyer, JASSS
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Wisdom on Detainees, The Washington Post
    2. Off-Target on Terror, The Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2006.28 Next Issue TOP

  1. How a Computer Knows What Many Managers Don't, NYTimes
    1. Seeking Answers From The Cosmic Consciousness, AP/Boston Globe
    2. What Kind of Genius Are You?, Wired
  2. Are You Reading The News?, PhysicsWeb
    1. Length Of Residence And Media Usage, Social Sc. J.
  3. Self-organization of Price Fluctuation Distribution in Evolving Markets, arXiv
  4. I, Nanobot, Salon.com
    1. 'Smart' Spacecraft Makes Its Own Decisions, NYTimes
    2. On Space Station, Droids Get A Workout, Christian Science Monitor
  5. Computers Learn Common Sense, The Engineer
  6. High-Tech Prosthetics: Out On A Limb, TheDeal.com
  7. Mushroom Drug Produces Mystical Experience, AP/Forbes.com
    1. Magic Mushrooms Really Cause 'Spiritual' Experiences, NewScientist.com
  8. Look Into My Mind, NewScientist Blogs
  9. Mathematics: Enhanced: Exploring Musical Space, Science
    1. The Geometry of Musical Chords, Science
  10. Catching Seizures Before They Occur, Technologyreview.com
  11. Medical Entomology: Keeping the Bugs at Bay, Science
  12. Was There Life On Mars? Shiny Rock Coating May Hold The Answer, ScienceDaily
    1. Medium Is The Message For Stem Cells In Search Of Identities, ScienceDaily
  13. Developmental Biology: Morphing into Shape, Science
  14. Chemistry: Self-Assembly in Action, Science
    1. Bacteria Made To Sprout Conducting Nanowires, NewScientist
  15. Evolutionary Games And Population Dynamics: Maintenance Of Cooperation In Public Goods Games, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. A Killer Whale Social Network Is Vulnerable To Targeted Removals, Biol. Lett.
  16. Global Biodiversity Conservation Priorities, Science
  17. Condensed-Matter Physics: Superfluidity In The Picture, Nature
  18. Population and Warfare: A Test of the Turchin Model in Puebloan Societies, SFI Working Papers
    1. Corporate Warriors: The State and Changing Forms of Private Armed Force in America, Current Perspectives in Social Theory
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Terrorist Had Been Trying To Set Up Global Network: Experts, Sidney Morning Herald
    2. Pakistan Rejects Mumbai Bomb Link, BBC News
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Complexity Digest 2006.27 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Internet Knows What You'll Do Next, NYTimes
  2. Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children, Science
    1. Would You Be Happier If You Were Richer? A Focusing Illusion, Science
  3. The Influence of a Sense of Time on Human Development, Science
    1. Detecting Prejudice In The Brain, ScienceDaily
    2. Research On Mysterious Music Phenomenon, Innovations-report
  4. Ecology: Climate Change and Crop Yields: Beyond Cassandra, Science
    1. Academy Affirms Hockey-Stick Graph, Nature
  5. Animal Behavior: Signs of Empathy Seen in Mice, Science
    1. Review. Cuckoos, Cowbirds And Hosts: Adaptations, Trade-Offs And Constraints, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  6. The Ant Odometer: Stepping on Stilts and Stumps, Science
    1. Ants 'Use an Internal Pedometer', BBC News
    2. Ecological Consequences of Traffic Organisation in Ant Societies, Physica A
  7. Man's Brain Rewired Itself After Crash Severed Nerve Connections, CNN
    1. Brain Can Be Made to Self-repair, News@Nature
    2. Neurodegenerative Disease: Pink, Parkin And The Brain, Nature
  8. Mature Sperm and Eggs Grown from Same Stem Cells, News@Nature
    1. Asymmetric And Symmetric Stem-Cell Divisions In Development And Cancer, Nature
  9. Generation Of Neuronal Variability And Complexity, Nature
    1. Crucial Immune Cells Derived From Stem Cells, NewScientist
  10. Cell Signaling: H2O2, a Necessary Evil for Cell Signaling, Science
    1. Killer Tomatoes Attack Human Diseases, NewScientist
  11. Sunshade To Look For Distant Life, BBC News
  12. Mother Nature's Design Workshop, Businessweek
  13. Toward Robots As Embodied Knowledge Media, IEICE Tran. Info. & Sys.
    1. I Robot, Your Companion, ScienceDaily
  14. Time Scales in Evolutionary Dynamics, arXiv
  15. Sight For 'Saur Eyes: T. Rex Vision Was Among Nature's Best, Sciencenews
  16. Legacies In Life Histories, Integr. & Compar. Biol.
  17. Identifying Systems' New Initial Conditions As Influence Points For The Future, Foresight
  18. Quantum Physics: Atomic Gas In Flatland, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. CIA Disbands Bin Laden Hunt Unit, China View
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Complexity Digest 2006.26 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Value of the Stick: Punishment Was a Driver of Altruism, Science
    1. Costly Punishment Across Human Societies, Science
  2. Why Are Uniforms Uniform? Because Color Helps Us Track Objects, Innovations-report
    1. Consumption As A Basis For Social Solidarity, Innovations-report
    2. Do Gains In Test Scores Explain Labor Market Outcomes?, Econ. Edu. Rev.
  3. When Robots Learn Social Skills, Innovations-report
  4. Older But Mellower: Aging Brain Shifts Gears To Emotional Advantage, Science News
    1. Our Grip On Reality Is Slim, Says Scientist, ScienceDaily
  5. From The Left To The Right: How The Brain Compensates Progressive Loss Of Language Function, Brain & Lang.
  6. Archaeology: First Jewelry? Old Shell Beads Suggest Early Use of Symbols, Science
  7. Naked and Not [Mole Rats,Ed.], Science News
  8. The Other Intelligent Design Theories, Skeptic
    1. Evolution: Spider Genes and Fossils Spin Tales of the Original Worldwide Web, Science
  9. Last Chance For China's Dolphin, BBC News
    1. Conservation Biology: The Tiger's Retreat, Nature
  10. Animal Cognition: Social Animals Prove Their Smarts, Science
    1. Animal Cognition: Man's Best Friend(s) Reveal the Possible Roots of Social Intelligence, Science
    2. Animal Behaviour: Trust In Fish, Nature
    3. Image Scoring And Cooperation In A Cleaner Fish Mutualism, Nature
  11. Self-organizing Neural Projections, Neural Networks
  12. Three Gene Variants Boost Diabetes Risk, Science News
    1. Cell Signaling: A New Way to Burn Fat, Science
  13. Plant Biology: Designs On Rubisco, Nature
    1. Pollination: Self-Fertilization Strategy In An Orchid, Nature
  14. Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping Boosts Iron in Infants, UCDavis News
  15. Earth's Climate Warming Abruptly, Scientist Says, Washington Post
  16. The Spiral Structure of the Outer Milky Way in Hydrogen, Science
  17. Nanoassembly of a Fractal Polymer: A Molecular "Sierpinski Hexagonal Gasket", Science
  18. Seismology: The Strain Builds In Southern California, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. New Somali Militia Leader, World News Australia
    2. Casualty Dynamics in Wars and Terrorism and the Scale-Free Organization of Social Systems, arXiv
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Complexity Digest 2006.25 Next Issue TOP

  1. Neuroeconomics: Best To Go With What You Know?, Nature
  2. Neurons Find Strength Through Synchrony In The Brain, Science
    1. Cortex Is Driven by Weak but Synchronously Active Thalamocortical Synapses, Science
  3. Reaching A Tipping Point, Nature
    1. Climate Change: The Tipping Point Of The Iceberg, Nature
    2. Burst Of Energy, Nature
  4. The Emergence Of Local Norms In Networks, Complexity
  5. Economic View - Immigration Math: It's a Long Story, NY Times
  6. Japanese Store Hires Robot Staff, vnunet.com
  7. Cash For Papers: Putting A Premium On Publication, Nature
    1. Goals And Means In Action Observation: A Computational Approach, Neural Networks
  8. Growing Up Online, Science News
    1. Growing Wikipedia Revises Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy, NY Times
  9. Positive Natural Selection in the Human Lineage, Science
    1. Fossil Embryos Hint at Early Start for Complex Development, Science
    2. China Fossils Fill Out Bird Story, BBC
    3. Amphibious Ancestors, Science News
  10. Cascades of Failure and Extinction in Evolving Complex Systems, arXiv
  11. Immunology: Discriminating Microbe from Self Suffers a Double Toll, Science
    1. Neurodegeneration: Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish, Nature
  12. Cleaner Can Mean Sicker, Studies Assert, Associated Press
    1. Wild Vs. Lab Rodent Comparison Supports Hygiene Hypothesis, Eurekalert
  13. Food-Caching Western Scrub-Jays Keep Track of Who Was Watching When, Science
  14. A Viral Drive to Survive, ScienceNOW
    1. Turning a Tumor's Lights Off, ScienceNOW
  15. Is there an Elegant Universal Theory of Prediction?, arXiv
  16. Researchers Offer Clues To How Leaves Patterns Are Formed, ScienceDaily
  17. Putting One and One Together, ScienceNOW
  18. Solid-State Chemistry: A Glass Of Carbon Dioxide, Nature
    1. What Can a Magnet Tell You About Rain Patterns? More Than You Would Guess, UCLA News
    2. An Atomic Odd Couple, ScienceNOW Daily News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Casualty Dynamics in Wars and Terrorism and the Scale-Free Organization of Social Systems, ArXiv
    2. Spy Games In The Horn Of Africa, Washington Times
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Complexity Digest 2006.24 Next Issue TOP

  1. Econophysics: Culture Crash, Nature
    1. Econophysicists Matter, Nature
  2. Foreign Aid Has Flaws. So What?, NY Times
  3. Hiding in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power, NY Times
    1. Online Methods Share Insider Tricks, Nature
  4. Peer Review On Trial, Nature
    1. Scientific Misconduct: Crime Scene Investigation: How to Handle Misconduct, Science
    2. Scandals Shake Chinese Science, Science
  5. Stolen Laptops Phone Home: Cyberangel Location Software Tells Police Where To Look, vnunet.com
  6. Ancient 'Reef' Stirs Debate Over Early Signs of Life in Australian Rocks, Science
  7. Noise-Resistant And Synchronized Oscillation Of The Segmentation Clock, Nature
  8. Diabetes Research Takes Wing Thanks To Long-Lived Fruit Fly, Innovations-report
  9. Fly's Courtship Sheds Light On The Formation Of Innate Behaviors, ScienceDaily
  10. Einstein Researchers Take The Pulse Of A Gene In Living Cells, ScienceDaily
    1. Virology: The Gene Weavers, Nature
  11. Ecological And Evolutionary Principles In Immunology, Ecol. Lett.
  12. Earthquakes: A Hand On The Aftershock Trigger, Nature
  13. Rare Counting Ability Induced By Temporarily Switching Off Brain Region, BPS-Research-Digest
    1. Savant-Like Numerosity Skills Revealed In Normal People By Magnetic Pulses, Perception 2006
  14. Independent Robots Team Up For Search Task, New Scientist
    1. Robot Device Mimics Human Touch, BBC News
    2. A Sixth Sense for a Wired World, Wired
  15. Neurobiology: Extending Influence, Nature
    1. A Ring Tone Meant to Fall on Deaf Ears, NY Times
    2. Wheelchairs Given Design Makeover, BBC News
  16. Error-Check Breakthrough In Quantum Computing, NewScientist
    1. Intel Considers 3D Transistors For 32 nm Processors, TGDaily
    2. Photonics: Transparency On An Optical Chip, Nature
  17. Physicists Create Great Balls Of Fire, NewScientist
  18. Is Space-Time Actually A Superfluid?, New Scientist
    1. Springfield Theory - Mathematical References Abound On The Simpsons, Science News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. After al-Zarqawi: What Next in Iraq?, Gather.com
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Complexity Digest 2006.23 Next Issue TOP

  1. Tools Link Indonesian 'Hobbits' to Earlier Homo Ancestor, Science
    1. Unfallen Grains: How Ancient Farmers Turned Weeds into Crops, Science
    2. Ancient Figs Push Back Origin of Plant Cultivation, Science
  2. Information Flows in Causal Networks, SFI Working Papers
  3. Finding Fraud In China, Nature
    1. European R&D Declines As India And China Rise, vnunet.com
  4. Witnessing Guilt, Ignoring Innocence?, NYTimes
  5. From Disorder to Order in Marching Locusts, Science
    1. Behavior: Align in the Sand, Science
  6. Study: Cell Phones 'Excite' the Brain, Discovery News
  7. Brain On Chip - Nerve Tissue Interfaced With A Computer Chip, Inst f Biochemie Press Release
    1. Semiconductor Brain: Nerve Tissue Interfaced With A Computer Chip, ScienceDaily
  8. A Putative Flip–Flop Switch For Control Of REM Sleep, Nature
  9. Drinking Coffee Makes You More Open-Minded, New Scientist
    1. Use of Antipsychotics by the Young Rose Fivefold, NY Times
  10. Genes Commute to Factories Before They Start Work, Science
  11. Tooth Gives Up Oldest Human DNA, BBC News
  12. Taking Evolution's Temperature: Researchers Pinpoint The Energy It Takes To Make A Species, Innovations-report
    1. Linking Nutrition and Tissue Growth, Science
  13. Harvard To Clone Embryos - Officials Say Research Follows Ethics Rules, Washington Post
  14. Dynamic Filaments Of The Bacterial Cytoskeleton, Annual Review of Biochemistry
  15. Critical Phenomena In Atmospheric Precipitation, Nature
    1. Aerosols, Clouds, and Climate, Science
    2. Meteorology: Bad Weather Ahead, Nature
  16. Climate Change: The Arctic Tells Its Story, Nature
    1. Climate Change: All In The Game, Nature
    2. Pumped-Up Poison Ivy: Carbon Dioxide Boosts Plant's Size, Toxicity, Science News
  17. Quantum-Dot Leap Tapping Tiny Crystals' Inexplicable Light-Harvesting Talent, Science News
    1. A Sponge's Guide to Nano-Assembly, Technology Review
  18. String Trio: Novel Instrument Strums Like Guitar, Rings Like Bell, Science News
    1. Laser Beams Pluck Nano-Strings, New Scientist
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Network Analysis Could Shed Light on NSA Activities, Newhouse News Service
    2. Mining Data To Nab Terrorists: Fair?, The Christian Science Monitor
    3. Only the Beginning?, News Week
    4. Catastrophe Alerting System: Cellular Systems As Scale-Free Networks, Bell Labs Tech. J.
    5. In Montana, Casting A Web for Terrorists, Washington Post
    6. Somali Islamists Declare Victory; Warlords on Run, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2006.22 Next Issue TOP

  1. Coping With Complexity, Nature
  2. The Next Wave Of The Web, Nature News
  3. Software To Look For Experts Among Your Friends, NY Times
  4. New Analysis Of Networks Reveals Surprise Patterns In Politics, The Web, ScienceDaily
    1. Nature Offers Guidance On Organising Dynamic Networks, ScienceDaily
  5. Talking Nets: A Multi-Agent Connectionist Approach to Communication and Trust between Individuals, Cogprints
  6. Mapping the Bid Behavior of Conference Referees, arXiv
  7. Social Sciences: A New World Of Differences, Nature
  8. A Simple Rule For The Evolution Of Cooperation On Graphs And Social Networks, Nature
    1. Resource Competition And Social Conflict In Experimental Populations Of Yeast, Nature
  9. Stem Cells: Good, Bad And Reformable, Nature
    1. Heart May Be Home To Its Own Stem Cells, New Scientist
  10. OHSU Primate Center Research Suggests Multiple 'Body Clocks', Innovations-report
  11. Genetics: What Is A Gene?, Nature
    1. Genetics: Paramutable Possibilities, Nature
    2. Collective Evolution and the Genetic Code, arXiv
  12. The New Era in Cancer Research, Science
    1. Autophagy: Is It Cancer's Friend or Foe?, Science
    2. Energy Deregulation: Licensing Tumors to Grow, Science
  13. Immunology: Adaptable Innate Killers, Nature
  14. How Ancient Whales Lost Their Legs, Got Sleek And Conquered The Oceans, Innovations-report
  15. Quantum-Like Brain: "Interference Of Minds", Biosystems
  16. Scientists Shed New Light On Invisibility, Boston Globe
    1. Controlling Electromagnetic Fields, Science
    2. Optical Conformal Mapping, Science
  17. Definition, D-E-F-I-N-I-T-I-O-N, Definition, NY Times
  18. A Quick Fix For The Gas Addicts, NY Times
    1. GM Fuel Price Protection program, fuelprotection.com
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Warlords or Counter-Terrorists: U.S. Intervention in Somalia, Global Terrorism Analysis
    2. US Slashes Hub Grants For Security - Antiterrorism Funds Cut By Nearly A Third, Boston Globe
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Complexity Digest 2006.21 Next Issue TOP

  1. Integrating Artificial Life With Synthetic Biology, Indiana University News Release
  2. Scientists Build A World Of 'Software Beings', IDG News Service
    1. Searching For The Soul In The Machine, Innovations-report
  3. Foresight And Evolution Of The Human Mind, Science
  4. Helping Hands: Are Two More Trouble Than One?, ScienceDaily
    1. Economics Of The Living Dead, Japanese Econ. Rev.
  5. Top Five In Physics - Novel Citation Index Highlights Hot Topics., Nature
    1. A Powerful Tool For Teaching Science, Nature
  6. Neuroscience: Gatekeeper At The Synapse, Science
  7. Are Our Senses Critical?, Nature
    1. Optimal Dynamical Range Of Excitable Networks At Criticality, Nature
    2. On the possible Computational Power of the Human Mind, arXiv
  8. Antibiotic Faces Uncertain Future, Nature
  9. Time For A Change, Nature
    1. Ready, Set, Mutate ... And May The Best Microbe Win: Natural Selection In A Flask, ScienceDaily
  10. Neanderthal DNA Yields To Genome Foray, Nature
    1. Laws in Darwinian Evolutionary Theory, arXiv
  11. What Can't Bacteria Do?, Nature
    1. Batteries Not Included - Circuits Of Slime
  12. Illuminating Changes Conventional Lightbulbs May Soon Be Obsolete, Science News
  13. Sociobiology: The Phoenix Effect, Nature
  14. Device Physics: A Bug-Beating Diode, Nature
  15. 'Above Normal' Hurricanes In 2006, BBC News
  16. Economists Claim Carbon Cuts Won't Break The World's Bank, Nature
    1. Environment: Investments Toward Sustainable Development, Science
  17. A Million Manhattan Projects, NY Times
  18. Indian IT Firms Buy Up Western Rivals, vnunet.com
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. The Mathematical Structure Of Terrorism, Physorg.com
    2. Web Inventor Warns Of 'Dark' Net, BBC News
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Complexity Digest 2006.20 Next Issue TOP

  1. Epigenetics: Unfinished Symphony, Nature
  2. Evolution Of The Selfish Gene, Nature
    1. Social Insects: from Selfish Genes to Self Organisation and Beyond, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  3. Methane-belching Bugs Inspire A New Theory Of The Origin Of Life On Earth, ScienceDaily
  4. Evolution's Human And Chimp Twist, BBC News
  5. Scientists Have Identified Some Basic Principles Of Communication, Innovations-report
  6. Funding And Bureaucracy, Not Access To Journals, Are Chief Obstacles To Scientific Productivity, ScienceDaily
  7. Future Fitness And Helping In Social Queues, Nature
  8. Neurons In The Orbitofrontal Cortex Encode Economic Value, Nature
    1. Study Shows Apes Can Plan Ahead, BBC News
  9. Pigeon-Brained Birds Can Think In Logarithms, New Scientist
  10. Robots Manipulating Animal Behaviour, Innovations-report
  11. Vaccines: Engineering Immune Evasion, Nature
  12. Sharing The Health: Cells From Unusual Mice Make Others Cancerfree, Science News
  13. How Our Body's Defences Aid Computers In Distress, New Scientist
  14. Thermodynamics: When A Phase Is Born, Nature
  15. New Look For "Newton's Bucket", PhysicsWeb.org
  16. Outsourcing, Schmoutsourcing! Out Is Over, NY Times
  17. Humanities And Social Sciences Needed To Increase Understanding And Identify Problems In Society, Innovations-report
  18. User-Generated Future For Gaming, BBC Click
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Will The Academy Survive 9/11? Scholarship, Security, And United States Government Policy, Gov. Info. Quart.
    2. Almost Famous: Army Games Project, Military.com
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Complexity Digest 2006.19 Next Issue TOP

  1. Similarities Between Monkey Business And Human Business, ScienceDaily
  2. Social Science: The Pleasures And Pains Of Information, Science
    1. Neurobiological Substrates Of Dread, Science
  3. Case Studies for Self-organization in Computer Science, Journal of Systems Architecture
  4. Microsoft Touts Open Research: Information Sharing Vital To Innovation, vnunet.com
  5. The Map In The Brain: Grid Cells May Help Us Navigate, Science
  6. Lesbians Respond Differently To "Human Pheromones," Study Says, National Geographic News
  7. Why Consumers Seek Value At The Top And Bottom Of Markets, Knowledge@Wharton
  8. Cyclic Universe Could Explain Cosmic Balancing Act, Nature News
  9. Linear Dunes On Titan, Science
  10. Thoroughly Modern Spine Supported Human Ancestor, Science News
  11. Dolphins 'Have Their Own Names', BBC News
  12. Nice Guys Do Finish First In Lizards' Evolutionary Race, Innovations-report
  13. Learning The Language Of DNA, Innovations-report
    1. Despite Mutated Gene, Mouse Circadian Clock Keeps On Ticking, Science
  14. Robotic Tentacles Get To Grips With Tricky Objects, New Scientist
    1. Babybot Takes First Steps, IST Results
  15. Tainted By Cleanser: Antimicrobial Agent Persists In Sludge, Science News
  16. Spreading of Infectious Diseases On Heterogeneous Populations: Multi-type Network Approach, arXiv
  17. Climatology: A Tempestuous Birth For Hurricane Climatology, Science
  18. Quantum Optics: A New Way To Beat The Limits On Shrinking Transistors?, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. The Incredible Shrinking Cia, CNN
    2. Effects Of Terrorism On Attitudes And Ideological Orientation, Euro. J. Soc. Psych.
    3. Terrorism A Complex, Multidimensional, Growing Threat At Global Level, International News Network
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Complexity Digest 2006.18 Next Issue TOP

  1. Geoffrey West Master of Complexity, Time
    1. West, One Of Time's 'Most Influential', Los Alamos Monitor
    2. 'Time' Gives Nod To 'Master Of Complexity, The New Mexican
  2. Computer Simulations: Technological Advances in Inquiry Learning, Science
    1. The Open Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable, Cogprints
  3. Collective Representational Content for Shared Extended Mind, Cognitive Systems Research
  4. Subliminal Advertising May Work After All, New Scientist
    1. Why Popular Stocks Are a Sucker's Bet, Morningstar.com
  5. Your Thoughts Are Your Password, Wire News
  6. Ultrasound's New Focus - Can It Eradicate Tumors?, Science News
    1. Cure For Cancer Worth $50 Trillion, Innovations-report
  7. Wrinkled Cell Nuclei May Make Us Age, Nature News
  8. Universe In Flux: Constant Of Nature Might Have Changed, Science News
    1. A Universal Constant On the Move, News@Nature
  9. Energy-Saving Space Engines: Black Holes Can Be Green, Science
  10. Simulation Suggests Peaceful Origin for Giant Planet's Weird Spin, Science
  11. The ABC's of Cheep, Cheep, Cheep, Science Now
  12. Insect Eye Inspires Future Vision, BBC News
  13. Parasite-Resistant Mosquitoes: A Natural Weapon Against Malaria?, Science
  14. Researchers Identify Intelligence Gene, ScienceDaily
  15. Scientists Make Water Run Uphill, BBC
  16. Satellites Launched To Study Clouds, Washington Post
  17. 'Clear' Human Impact On Climate, BBC News
  18. Fiddling While Fuel Burns, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Terrorist Attacks Rose Sharply in 2005, State Dept. Says, Washington Post
    2. US Says World Safer, Despite 11,000 Attacks In '05, Reuters
    3. Weak States And Global Threats: Fact Or Fiction?, Washington Quarterly
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Complexity Digest 2006.17 Next Issue TOP

  1. Islands of Stability, FrontlineThoughts.com
  2. Evolution Of Cooperative Strategies From First Principles, Nature
  3. Why And When We Lie: Study Finds That People Are More Willing To Lie To Coworkers Than To Strangers, Innovations-report
  4. Honeybee Decision-making Ability Rivals Any Department Committee, ScienceDaily
  5. Dynamics and Development of the International System: A Complexity Science Perspective, arXiv
  6. Complexity and Philosophy, arXiv
  7. Exploring Stephen Hawking's Flexiverse, New Scientist
  8. Salvage Prospect For 'Junk' DNA, BBC News
  9. Evolution: Spot On (And Off), Nature
  10. Watching The Brain Switch Off 'self', Innovations-report
  11. Neuroscience: Spikes Too Kinky In The Cortex?, Nature
    1. Unique Features Of Action Potential Initiation In Cortical Neurons, Nature
    2. Weak Pairwise Correlations Imply Strongly Correlated Network States In A Neural Population, Nature
  12. Synaptic Scaling Mediated By Glial TNF-, Nature
  13. Gamers May Soon Control Action With Thoughts, Mercury News
    1. Brain Games Aim To Boost Your IQ, BBC News
  14. Spatiotemporal Dynamics Of Rhoa Activity In Migrating Cells, Nature
  15. Genetic Finding Suggests Alternative Treatment Strategy for Common, Complex Skin Disorders, Bio.com
  16. Switch-A-Vision: Electric Spectacles Could Aid Aging Eyes, Science News
  17. Bacteria Render Beans Easier to Digest and More Nutritious, Scientific American
    1. Experts Make Flatulence-Free Bean, BBC News
  18. How The Octopus Forms An Elbow, Innovations-report
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Holding The Line: Human Rights Defenders In The Age Of Terror, British J. Politics & Int. Relations
    2. In Egypt, Resurgence Of Militant Islamists
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Complexity Digest 2006.16 Next Issue TOP

  1. Paleoanthropology: Fossils Clinch Identity Of Lucy's Ancestor, Science
    1. Branchless Evolution: Fossils Point To Single Hominid Root, Science News
  2. Astrobiology Science Conference 2006: Life Slow Enough To Live On Radioactivity, Science
    1. Diversity Before Life, Science
  3. Conservation Biology: Roads And Genetic Connectivity, Nature
    1. The Complexity Of Tropical Forest Structure Defies Simple Characterization, Innovations-report
  4. Secret Rivers Found In Antarctic, BBC News
  5. Evolution: A Catfish That Can Strike Its Prey On Land, Nature
  6. Computer Science: Life in Silico: A Different Kind of Intelligent Design, Science
    1. The Future of the Internet, RedHerring
  7. Independent Evolution Of Bitter-Taste Sensitivity In Humans And Chimpanzees, Nature
  8. Telescope Bid To Spot Alien Beams, BBC News
    1. Two Telescopes Join Hunt For ET, Nature
  9. Schizophrenia as Misstep by Giant Gene, NY Times
  10. Duke Nukem Sheds Light On Brain, BBC News
    1. Oops! New Findings On The Brain's Response To Costly Mistakes, Innovations-report
    2. How Odors Are Sensed: A Complex System Clarified, ScienceDaily
  11. 'Wow Factor': Humans Perceive More Than They Think They Do, ScienceDaily
  12. Total Leadership: Toxic!, CIO.com
  13. Can Super-Antibody Drugs Be Tamed?, Nature
  14. Living Cells as Test Tubes, Science
    1. Biochemistry: Enzyme Motions Inside and Out, Science
  15. Quantum Physics: Equilibrium On Hold, Nature
  16. Robotic Footballers Have A Ball, BBC News
  17. Black Hole Mergers Modelled In 3D, BBC News
  18. The Big Burp Theory Of The Apocalypse, NY Times
    1. FORMOSAT-3 Satellites Launched In U.S., Taiwan News/AP
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. U.S. Weighs How Best to Defend Against Nuclear Threats Proven Technology Vs. New Advances, Washington Post
    2. Internet Privacy Groups Advise Members on Anonymity, Avoiding Intercepts, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2006.15 Next Issue TOP

  1. Link in Lucy's Past, Scientific American
    1. Fossils Fill Gap In Human Lineage
  2. Palaeontology: A Firm Step From Water To Land, Nature
  3. Darwinian Evolution Can Follow Only Very Few Mutational Paths to Fitter Proteins, Science
  4. Studying Complex Adaptive Systems, J. Sys. Sc. & Complexity
    1. Emerging Artificial Societies Through Learning, JASSS
    2. Evolution: Reducible Complexity, Science
    3. Evolution: It Pays To Laze, Nature
  5. Controversial Findings Help Explain Evolution Of Life, ScienceDaily
    1. Cell Biology: The Story Of I, Nature
  6. See Blind Mice: Algae Gene Makes Sightless Eyes Sense Light, Science News
    1. Regrow Your Own, NY Times
    2. One Gene Provides Fruit Fly Both Antenna And Color Vision, Innovations-report
  7. Developmental Biology: Mixed Messages in Early Development, Science
  8. Immunology: The Pick Of The Nibbled Bits, Nature
  9. Virus-Assembled Batteries, Technology Review
  10. Air Trends 'Amplifying' Warming, BBC News
  11. The Puzzle Of Cooperation, Nature
    1. Social Science: Enhanced: Cooperation, Punishment, and the Evolution of Human Institutions, Science
    2. The Competitive Advantage of Sanctioning Institutions, Science
  12. Archaeology: Failure And How To Avoid It, Nature
    1. An Agent-Based Model of Mortality Shocks, Intergenerational Effects, and Urban Crime, JASSS
  13. Simulation in Economics: Evidence on Diffusion and Communication, JASSS
  14. Villagers Drafted Into China's Model of 'Sustainability', Science
  15. Priorities And Funding: "Knowledge Innovation" and the Chinese Academy of Sciences
    1. Citizens, Knowledge, and the Information Environment, Ameri. J. Polit. Sc.
  16. Aha! Favors The Prepared Mind, ScienceDaily
    1. Search Fusionsupport Grows For New Way To Integrate Information Analysis And Retrieval Tools, FCW.com
    2. The Word: Common Sense, New Scientist
  17. Terasem Announces Online Videos Of Moot Court Hearing On 'Conscious Computer', KurzweilAI.net
  18. Physics: New Additions to the Schr?dinger Cat Family, Science
    1. Revealing Covert Actions - Updated Technologies Expose Air's Unseen Eruptions, Science News
    2. Fluid Dynamics: The Rough With The Smooth, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Global Terrorism Prevention on a Shoestring, UCLA International Institute
    2. Terror Suspect Sings MP3 Blues: Taxi Driver Fingers Wrong Man Over Choice Of Music, vnunet.com
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Complexity Digest 2006.14 Next Issue TOP

  1. Welcome to the Machine, NY Times
    1. Quantum Mechanics In The Brain, Nature
  2. Changing Sides Or Changing Minds? Party Identification And Policy Preferences In The American Electorate, Ameri. J. Polit. Sc.
  3. Market Efficiency and the Long-Memory of Supply and Demand: Is Price Impact Variable and Permanent or Fixed and Temporary?, SFI Working Papers
  4. Artificial Intelligence: Working Backwards From HAL, ZDNet UK
    1. Chip Ramps Up Neuron-To-Computer Communication, New Scientist
  5. Strategic Sustainable Brain, KurzweilAI.net
    1. Is AI Near a Takeoff Point?, KurzweilAI.net
    2. Singularities and Nightmares
  6. Life Begins At N=40, New Scientist
  7. Chaos = Order: WUSTL Physicists Make Baffling Discovery - Pandemoniumm On Demand, Washington University in St. Louis News & Information
    1. Chaos Like You've Never Seen It Before, New Scientist
  8. In a Jumble of Grains, a Good Hard Shake Restores Order, Science
  9. Computer Model Maps Strengths, Weaknesses Of Nanotubes, ScienceDaily
    1. Semiconductor Advance May Help Reclaim Energy From 'Lost' Heat, Science
  10. Stem Cells and Their Niches, Science
    1. Stem Cells From Testes: Could It Work?, Nature
    2. Stem Cells And Cancer: Two Faces Of Eve, Cell
  11. An Antibody Paradox, Resolved, Science
  12. 'More Genes' Needed To Make Life, BBC News
    1. Hierarchical Self-Organization in the Finitary Process Soup, SFI Working Papers
    2. Eukaryotic Evolution, Changes And Challenges, Nature
    3. Chance And Necessity In The Evolution Of Minimal Metabolic Networks, Nature
  13. New Signs of Ancient Life in Another Martian Meteorite?, Science
  14. Ecosystems As Evolutionary Complex Systems: Network Analysis of Fitness Models, Environmental Modelling & Software
    1. Altruism Through Beard Chromodynamics, Nature
  15. How Does The Brain Know What The Right Hand Is Doing?, ScienceDaily
  16. Los Alamos, UW Research Paints Grim Picture Of Bird Flu Pandemic, Seattle Post Intelligencer/AP
  17. Lab-Grown Bladders 'A Milestone', BBC News
  18. Nano-Guns, Nano-Germs, and Nano-Steel, KurzweilAI.net
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Networks, Terrorism, and Global Insurgency, Antiwar.com
    2. Defense Leader Thanks Lawmakers for Support of Special Ops Forces, American Forces Press Service
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Complexity Digest 2006.13 Next Issue TOP

  1. Mathematical Models In Physiology, Phil. Tran. Math. Phy. & Eng.
  2. Towards Self-organizing Bureaucracies, arXiv
  3. You May Unrot Your Mind, Washington Post
  4. Stem Cell Cocktail Could Treat Spinal Injury, New Scientist
    1. Drug Trials: Violent Reaction to Monoclonal Antibody Therapy Remains a Mystery, Science
    2. Synergistic Antitumor Effects of Immune Cell-Viral Biotherapy, Science
  5. Avian Influenza: Studies Suggest Why Few Humans Catch the H5N1 Virus, Science
  6. Half Virus, Half Beast – It's A 20-Sided Freak, New Scientist
  7. 'Executive' Monkeys Influenced By Other Executives, Not Subordinates, ScienceDaily
  8. Warbling Whales Speak A Language All Their Own, ScienceDaily
    1. That's One Weird Tooth - And Other Bulletins On The Elusive Narwhal, Science News
  9. Ride The Celestial Subway, New Scientist
    1. Microwave Data Refine Picture Of Universe, Nature
  10. Mathematical Physics: Going To Ground, Nature
  11. 2020 Computing: Everything, Everywhere, Nature
    1. Exceeding Human Limits, Nature
    2. Science In An Exponential World, Nature
  12. Computers Take On Science's Biggest Challenges: Microsoft Research Predicts, vnunet.com
  13. March Of The Qubits, New Scientist
  14. Tiny Bubbles: Oldest Evidence Yet For Methane Makers, Science News
    1. Evolution: Tracing Oxygen's Imprint on Earth's Metabolic Evolution, Science
    2. The Effect of Oxygen on Biochemical Networks and the Evolution of Complex Life, Science
  15. Mutation Pressure and the Evolution of Organelle Genomic Architecture, Science
  16. Microbial Ecology: How a Marine Bacterium Adapts to Multiple Environments, Science
  17. Mixed Biodiversity Benefits Of Agri-Environment Schemes In Five European Countries, Ecol. Lett.
  18. Climate Change: Greenland Rumbles Louder as Glaciers Accelerate, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Testers Slip Radioactive Materials Over Borders, NY Times
    2. Molecular Manufacturing and 21st Century Policing, KurzweilAI.net
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Complexity Digest 2006.12 Next Issue TOP

  1. Proof of Big Bang Seen by Space Probe, Scientists Say, National Geographic News
    1. Cosmic Triumph: Satellite Confirms Birth Theory Of Universe, Science news
  2. The Unbearable Elusiveness Of Gravitons, New Scientist
  3. Cosmic 'DNA': Double Helix Spotted in Space
  4. Delving Into The Meaning Of Artificial Life, EE Times
    1. Picture This: The State of the Art in Visualization for Complex Adaptive Systems, Artificial Life
  5. Deconstructing Life - Interview with Dimitar Sasselov, Astrobiology Magazine
  6. Catastrophic Immune Response May Have Caused Drug Trial Horror, New Scientist
  7. The Evolution Of Computation In Brain Circuitry, Behav. & Brain Sc.
  8. Alzheimer's Disease: A Needle From The Haystack, Nature
    1. Mum's Exercise Boosts Baby's Brain, News@Nature
  9. Evolution In Group-Structured Populations Can Resolve The Tragedy Of The Commons, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  10. Improving Internet Interaction: From Theory To Practice, J. Ameri. Soc. Info. Sc. & Tech.
  11. Studies Spot Obstacle to Human Transmission of Bird Flu, Forbes.com
    1. Evolution In Action: Why Some Viruses Jump Species, Innovations-report
  12. Virus Used To Make Nanoparticles, BBC News
  13. Folding DNA To Create Nanoscale Shapes And Patterns, Nature
  14. For Robots, Fuel Cells That Double as Muscles, NY Times
    1. Bacteria Could Power Tiny Robots, News.com
    2. Photocatalyst Releasing Hydrogen From Water, Nature
  15. Laser Chips Could Power Petaflop Computers, New Scientist
  16. Pentagon Plans Cyber-Insect Army, BBC News
  17. Get Out of Getting Out of Meetings
  18. You've Got Goodmail, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. 7/7 and the War in Iraq, History News Network
    2. Homeland Security Network Gets An F
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Complexity Digest 2006.11 Next Issue TOP

  1. On The Emerging Future Of Complexity Sciences, ACM Ubiquity Magazine
    1. On Modelling The Immune System As A Complex System, Theor. Biosc.
  2. Life, The Universe, And Everything, Wired
    1. Far Out, Man. But Is It Quantum Physics?, NY Times
    2. Black Holes: The Ultimate Quantum Computers?, NewScientist.com
  3. Supercomputer Builds A Virus, Nature News
  4. Saturn Moon Has Geysers, Hinting Life Is A Possibility, NY Times
    1. Nasa's Cassini Discovers Potential Liquid Water On Enceladus
    2. Enceladus: Cosmic Gymnast, Volatile Miniworld, Science
  5. Astrophysics: Ancient Blast Comes To Light, Nature
  6. Software Helps Develop Hunches, Wired
  7. New Research Institute To Cross Disciplinary Boundaries, European Science Foundation News Release
  8. Cell Biology: When The Tail Wags The Dog, Nature
  9. Neurobiology: How Fast Can You Go?, Nature
  10. Biological Chemistry: Catalytic Competition For Cells, Nature
  11. Nanotech Helps Blind Hamsters See, BBC News
    1. Optic Nerve Regrown With A Nanofibre Scaffold, NewScientist.com
    2. Engineering Cooperativity In Biomotor-Protein Assemblies, Science
    3. Researchers Grow Bone Cells On Carbon Nanotubes
  12. Archaeology: Dates Revise Easter Island History, Science
  13. Predator Learning Favours Mimicry Of A Less-Toxic Model In Poison Frogs, Nature
  14. Evolutionary Biology: Speciation Standing In Place, Science
    1. Laonastes And The "Lazarus Effect" In Recent Mammals, Science
    2. Atmospheric Science: Fungi, Weathering, And The Emergence Of Animals, Science
  15. The Dual Functions Of Sight - Perception And Action - Demonstrated For First Time, Innovations-report
  16. How To Grow A Bigger Brain, ScienceDaily
  17. Nonequilibrium Phase Transition in the Coevolution of Networks and Opinions, arXiv
    1. Using Hypermedia For Learning Complex Concepts In Chemistry, Edu. & Info. Tech.
  18. How To Test Your Competitive Market Strategy, marketingprofs.com
    1. Capturing The Real Value Of Innovation Tools, MIT Sloan Management Review
    2. Understand What Motivates Your Boss, HBS Working Knowledge
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Can Network Theory Thwart Terrorists?, NY Times
    2. Technology and the Hydra of Terrorism?, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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Complexity Digest 2006.10 Next Issue TOP

  1. Many Human Genes Evolved Recently, New Scientist
    1. Still Evolving, Human Genes Tell New Story, NY Times
  2. Chimps Can Be Team Players, Selfless Helpers, Studies Show, National Geographic News
    1. Behavior: Who Are More Helpful, Humans Or Chimpanzees?, Science
    2. Altruistic Helping In Human Infants And Young Chimpanzees, Science
  3. Chimpanzees Recruit The Best Collaborators, Science
  4. Biochemistry: The Iceman Of Svalbard, Nature
  5. Disease Surveillance Needs A Revolution, Nature
    1. Global Network Could Avert Pandemics, Nature
  6. The Origins of Research Into the Origins of Life, Endeavour
    1. Unintelligent Design, Discover
  7. Eat Smart - Foods May Affect The Brain As Well As The Body, Science News
  8. Molecular Microscopy: Focus On The Living, Nature
  9. Robotic 'Pack Mule' Displays Stunning Reflexes, New Scientist
  10. Jupiter's New Red Spot, Science@NASA
  11. Device Physics: Electrical Solitons Come Of Age, Nature
  12. 'Nano Skins' Show Promise As Flexible Electronic Devices, Innovations-report
  13. Objects That Make Objects: The Population Dynamics Of Structural Complexity, Interface
    1. Hierarchical Self-Organization in the Finitary Process Soup, arXiv
  14. Metaphorically Speaking, American Scientist
  15. The Relationship Between Social Behavior And Emergent Literacy, J. Appl. Dev. Psycho.
  16. Where Killers Roam, The Poison Spreads, NY Times
  17. Complexity Science On Capitol Hill: A 21st-Century Policy Design Tool, Catalyst Inst News Release
  18. Careers In Systems Biology: Working The Systems, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Deterring Terrorism: It Can Be Done, Int. Security
    2. America 'Has Failed To Learn From Abu Ghraib', Times Online
    3. Lawmaker: Port Deal Never Probed For Terror Ties, CNN
    4. US Recruits Sharks In War On Terror, vnunet.com
    5. Stealth Sharks To Patrol The High Seas, New Scientist
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Complexity Digest 2006.09 Next Issue TOP

  1. New Study Questions Pandemic Containment Plan, Science Now
    1. Europe's Chill Linked To Disease, BBC News
    2. Parasitology: Switching Like For Like, Nature
  2. Conceptual Continuity As A Mode Of Understanding Complex Systems, Complexity
    1. Over The Rainbow, The HCM Market Letter
    2. Taking Spying To Higher Level, Agencies Look For More Ways To Mine Data, NY Times
    3. Collaborative Programs: Genome Consortium For Active Teaching (Gcat), Science
  3. Initiating a Mexican Wave: An Instantaneous Collective Decision With Both Short and Long Range Interactions, arXiv
  4. Preyed Upon, Hominids Began To Cooperate, Science
    1. Social Segregation and the Dynamics of Group Inequality, SFI Working Papers
  5. 'Jurassic Beaver' Found In China, BBC News
    1. Developmental Origins of Animal Body Plans, SFI Working Papers
    2. Early Mammalian Evolutionary Experiments, Science
    3. See Squirt Evolve, Science Now
    4. Mutant Chickens Grow Teeth, Science Now
  6. Thinking 'Bout Sex, Science Now
    1. Memory Aided By Meaning - How To Get Your Brain Geared Up To Remember, Nature News
    2. When Seeing Is Misleading: Clutter Leads To High-Confidence Errors, Innovations-report
    3. Neurobiology: Efficiency Measures, Nature
  7. Neurological Technology Attracts Doctors, NY Times
  8. Tweaking The Real World, Science Now
  9. Buff And Brainy - Exercising The Body Can Benefit The Mind, Science News
  10. Immunology: Foiled Dendritic Cell Suicide May Lead To Autoimmunity, Science
    1. Huge Protein-Interaction Database Could Save Lives, New Scientist
  11. Enzyme Computer Could Live Inside You, New Scientist
  12. Bacterial Small-Molecule Signaling Pathways, Science
  13. Biocomplexity In A Highly Migratory Pelagic Marine Fish, Atlantic Herring, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  14. Big Woman With A Distant Past: Stone Age Gal Embodies Humanity's Cold Shifts, Science News
  15. Hang Up And Fly, Science Now
  16. Nanoscience Study Shows That Quantum Dots 'Talk', ScienceDaily
  17. Easy Answers: Quantum Computer Gives Results Without Running, Science News
    1. Quantum Information: To Compute Or Not To Compute?, Nature
    2. A Quantum Swimmer Never Gets Tired, Science Now
    3. Implementing A Quantum Computation By Free Falling, Science
    4. Quantum Computation as Geometry, Science
    5. Entanglement Heats Up, Physics Web
    6. Macroscopic Thermal Entanglement Due To Radiation Pressure, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96
  18. Vying For The R&D Edge, Science Now
    1. Us Scientists Fight Political Meddling, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Iraq Makes Terror 'More Likely', BBC News
    2. Using Terror To Fight Terror, The Observer
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Complexity Digest 2006.08 Next Issue TOP

  1. Emergence Explained, arXiv
    1. Measuring Emergence in the Dynamics of New Venture Creation, Journal of Business Venturing
    2. Local Activity Is The Origin Of Complexity, Int. J. Bifur. & Chaos
  2. On Making the Right Choice: The Deliberation-Without-Attention Effect, Science
    1. Causal Reasoning in Rats, Science
  3. Segway Creator Unveils His Next Act, Business 2.0
  4. How The Brain Interprets The Intent Of Others, ScienceDaily
  5. Education Systems Have Little Impact On Social Mobility, Innovations-report
    1. Prestige is Factored into Journal Ratings, News@Nature
  6. Web Program Simplifies Artificial Gene Design, New Scientist
  7. The Opposite of Doping, Wired
    1. Get Ready For 24-Hour Living, New Scientist
  8. Loud Music Worsens Effects Of Taking Ecstasy, Innovations-report
    1. Rats at a Rave, Science Now
    2. Smoking Out Addiction Genes, Science Now
    3. Outsmarting Pavlov's Dogs, Science Now
  9. Developmental Biology: Two Paths To Silence Merge, Nature
    1. A Bottom-Up Approach To Gene Regulation, Nature
    2. Genetics: Copies Count, Nature
  10. Neuroscience: Sumo Wrestles The Synapse, Science
  11. Stem Cells May Be Key to Cancer, NY Times
  12. Thai Dogs Carry Bird-Flu Virus, But Will They Spread It?, Nature
    1. Flora Horror - Hospitals Struggle With A Serious New Gut Microbe, Science News
    2. Engineering Nerve Jumper Cables For Spinal Cord Repair, U of Pennsylvania School of Medicine News Release
  13. Who Needs Dark Energy?, Science
    1. Cosmic Monsters Everywhere, Science Now
    2. Top Stars Picked In Alien Search, BBC News
    3. Hot Soup Not So Tasty for Early Life, Science Now
  14. Virtual Globes: The Web-Wide World, Nature
    1. Think Global, Nature
  15. Speed Thrills With Neural Networks, ElectronicsWeekly.com
    1. I.B.M. Researchers Find a Way to Keep Moore's Law on Pace, NY Times
  16. Calls To Conserve Biodiversity Hotspots, Nature
    1. Paleobiology: Revised Numbers Quicken The Pace Of Rebound From Mass Extinctions, Science
    2. Speed Limit Lifted on the Pace of Evolution, Science Now
    3. Invasion And The Evolution Of Speed In Toads, Nature
  17. How Plants Avoid Incest, Science Now
    1. Reproductive Social Behavior: Cooperative Games to Replace Sexual Selection, Science
  18. Global Warming Is No Sweat--for Plants, Science Now
    1. Global Change: The Water Cycle Freshens Up, Nature
    2. Earth 'On Fast Track' To Warming, BBC News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. The Democracy Game, The New Yorker
    2. Congressman Says US Should Freeze Dubai Port Deal, Reuters
    3. Is Terrorism Morally Distinctive?, J. Polit. Phil.
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Complexity Digest 2006.07 Next Issue TOP

  1. The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas For 2006, Harvard Business Review Online
    1. Alidade Incorporated's Network Centric Warfare Research, PRNewswire
  2. Community Structure in the United States House of Representatives, arXiv
    1. Emergent Behavior in Agent Networks: Self-Organization in Wasp and Open Source Communities, arXiv
  3. In Fitting Twist, Pairs Will Provide the First Olympic Test of New Scoring System, NY Times
    1. Journal Lays Bare Remarks From Peer Reviewers, Nature
    2. Fractals And Art: In The Hands Of A Master, Nature
  4. Heat Wave of the Millennium, Science Now
  5. Immunology: Exhausted T Cells Perk Up, Nature
    1. H5N1 Leaps Into Africa, Science Now
  6. Commentary: Skip Your Veggies? Not So Fast, Business Week
  7. Toxoplasma Parasite Mind Control, Technovelgy.com
    1. Rats in a Maze Take a Moment to Remember, but in Reverse, NY Times
  8. Sociology: Experimental Macro Sociology: Predicting The Next Best Seller, Science
    1. No Recipe for Superstardom, Science Now
    2. Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market, Science
  9. Chance, Music, And The Ear Of The Beholder, ScienceDaily
  10. Bare Skin, Blood And The Evolution Of Primate Colour Vision, Biol. Lett.
    1. Song Post Exposure, Song Features, And Predation Risk, Behav. Ecol.
  11. Speciation in Place, Science Now
    1. One Place, One Parent, Two Species, Nature
  12. Volatile Signaling in Plant-Plant Interactions: "Talking Trees" in the Genomics Era, Science
    1. Flowers and Fungi Use Scents to Mimic Each Other, Science
    2. Plant Volatile Compounds: Sensory Cues for Health and Nutritional Value?, Science
  13. Sex Cell Switch, Science Now
  14. Self-Serve Brains - Personal Identity Veers To The Right Hemisphere, Science News
  15. Biology Inspires Perceptive Machines, Innovations-report
  16. Gene Regulatory Networks and the Evolution of Animal Body Plans, Science
    1. Mission Control, We Have Blast-Through, Science Now
  17. Shining Light on Dark Matter, Science Now
  18. Ex-C.I.A. Official Says Iraq Data Was Distorted, NY Times
    1. Censorship Is Alleged at NOAA, Washington Post
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. America's Long War, The Guardian
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Complexity Digest 2006.06 Next Issue TOP

  1. Battling Bad Behavior, The Scientist
  2. Software That Learns By Doing, Computer Word
  3. Postage Is Due For Companies Sending E-Mail, NY Times
    1. Wi-Fi Startup Gets Funding From Google, Skype, InformationWeek
  4. Should Journals Police Scientific Fraud?, Nature
    1. Is Peer Review Broken?, The Scientist
  5. Cultural Transmission Between and Within Generations, JASSS
    1. The Emergence of Symbiotic Groups Resulting from Skill-Differentiation and Tags, JASSS
  6. Neuroscience: A Timely Debate About The Brain, Science
    1. Neuroscience: What's in a Face?, Science
  7. A Fork In Memory Lane: UCSD Research Indicates Hippocampus Supports Two Aspects Of Recognition, Innovations-report
    1. Researchers Prove A Single Memory Is Processed In Three Separate Parts Of The Brain, ScienceDaily
  8. Finding The Molecular Basis Of Complex Genetic Variation In Humans And Mice, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  9. Cardiac Regeneration: Repopulating The Heart, Annual Review of Physiology
  10. Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds, NY Times
    1. Diet Doubts Attacked By Experts, BBC News
    2. Low-Fat Diet May Not Reduce Cancer And Heart Risks, New Scientist
  11. Alien Animal Planet - Flying Whales, Walking Trees, Three-Eyed Killer Birds, Wired
  12. Berkeley Researchers Lay Groundwork For Cell Version Of Dna Chip, Eurekalert
  13. Infectious Diseases: Tackling Neglected Diseases Could Offer More Bang For The Buck, Science
    1. Two-For-One Special On Diseases, Science Now
  14. Ticking The Right Boxes, Nature
    1. Rats Show Off 'Stereo Smell', Nature News
  15. New Species Found In Papua 'Eden, BBC News
  16. Space Rock Re-Opens Mars Debate, BBC News
  17. Colloids Get Complex, Nature
    1. Melted Rock Helps Quakes Shake, Science Now
  18. Theoretical Physics: Ring Around A Quasar May Deflate Quantum Foam After All, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Pentagon Hones Its Strategy On Terrorism, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2006.05 Next Issue TOP

  1. On The Contrary: Why It Pays To Be Different, Investors Insight Publishing
  2. Internet Serves As 'Social Glue', BBC News
    1. Collective Intelligence 2.0, Nova Spivack's Journal of Unusual News and Ideas
  3. Belief Special: How Evolution Found God, NewScientist.com
    1. Belief Special: When Delusion Triumphs Over Truth, NewScientist.com
  4. Complexity, Class Dynamics, and Distance Learning, Computers and Composition
  5. Empathic Neural Responses Are Modulated By The Perceived Fairness Of Others, Nature
  6. The Scaling Laws Of Human Travel, Nature
  7. The Costs Of Global Warming, Nature
    1. Getting Serious About Biofuels, Science
    2. Atmosphere: Climate Change And Human Evolution, Science
  8. Treasure Island: Pinning Down A Model Ecosystem, Nature
    1. Physiology: Plants On A Different Scale, Nature
    2. Genomics: Discovery In The Dirt, Nature
  9. Mother-Of-Pearl On Ice: New Ceramics Might Serve In Bones And Machines, Science News
  10. The Right [Drug, Ed.] Combination, Nature
  11. Literary Darwinism: Textual Selection, Nature
  12. Development: Twists Of Fate In The Brain, Nature
    1. Use Your Brain, Halve Your Risk Of Dementia, Innovations-report
    2. In The Mind's Eye: How The Brain Makes A Whole Out Of Parts, ScienceDaily
  13. Studying The Evolutionary Development Of Species, NPR TOTN
    1. Regeneration Sans Stem Cells, Wired News
    2. Prions May Hold Key To Stem Cell Function, NewScientist.com
    3. Bird Flu Genes Decoded; New Clue To How It Kills, National Geographic News
  14. Biologists Puzzle Over Bird's Ensemble Vocalizations, Science News
  15. Monkey Cops Keep Clans Together, New Scientist
    1. The Police Are A Bunch Of Monkeys
    2. Policing Stabilizes Construction Of Social Niches In Primates, Nature
  16. Small Rocky Planet Found Orbiting Normal Star, Space.com
    1. Extrasolar Planets: Light Through A Gravitational Lens, Nature
    2. I Spy ... A Cold, Little Planet, Science
  17. Gravity Theory Dispenses With Dark Matter, New Scientist
    1. A Better Than Perfect Match [Entanglement, Ed.], Nature
    2. South Pole Neutrino Detector Could Yield Evidences Of String Theory, Physorg.com
  18. Why Not Build A Bomb?, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Radicalization And Europe'S Counter-Terrorism Strategy, dedefensa.org
    2. Vice President's Remarks On Iraq And The War On Terror At The Manhattan Institute For Policy Research, Whitehouse Press Release
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Complexity Digest 2006.04 Next Issue TOP

  1. Where Now For Agent-Based Computing?, IST Results
  2. Psychology: Hunter-Gatherers Grasp Geometry, Science
  3. The Brain - An Orchestra Without A Conductor, MaxPlanckResearch
  4. Chaos In Computer Performance, Chaos
  5. Complex Networks: Structure and Dynamics, Physics Reports
  6. Digging Out the News, The Wall Street Journal Online
  7. Bill Miller Sees Higher Value In Google, CNN/Money
    1. Talk of Taipei: First Citywide Wi-Fi Access, The Wall Street Journal
  8. Climate Change: A Sea Change, Nature
  9. Alarms Ring Over Bird Flu Mutations, Nature
  10. Scale-free Foraging by Primates Emerges from Their Interaction With a Complex Environment, arXiv
  11. Losing Sleep Undoes The Rejuvenating Effects New Learning Has On The Brain, ScienceDaily
    1. Suspended Animation: Putting Life On Hold, New Scientist
  12. Tiny RNA Molecules Fine-Tune The Brain's Synapses, EurekAlert
    1. A Brain-Specific MicroRNA Regulates Dendritic Spine Development, Nature
  13. A Molecular Framework for Plant Regeneration, Science
  14. Shedding Light on Vitamin D, Science Now
  15. Soil Could Shed Light on Antibiotic Resistance, NPR TOTN
    1. Weapons of Microbial Drug Resistance Abound in Soil Flora, Science
  16. Reduced Mixing Generates Oscillations And Chaos In The Oceanic Deep Chlorophyll Maximum, Nature
    1. South-Seeking Magnetotactic Bacteria in the Northern Hemisphere, Science
  17. Condensed-Matter Physics: Great Moments In Disorder, Nature
  18. Get Laser-Like Beams From Salt, Nature News
    1. Helical Spin Order on the Move, Science
    2. Superplastic Carbon Nanotubes, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Just Starting: The War Against Terror, Newsday
    2. Why Not Test Bin Laden's 'Truce' Offer?, Christian Science Monitor
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Complexity Digest 2006.03 Next Issue TOP

  1. Math Will Rock Your World, Business Week
    1. Digging For Data That Can Change Our World, The Guardian
    2. Journal Status, arXiv
  2. How Elasticity Affects The Market For Illegal Goods, Innovations-report
  3. How China Controls The Internet, Business Week Online
    1. China's Tyranny Has The Best Hi-Tech Help, International Herald Tribune
    2. Rising Internet Addiction 'on Par With Drug Use', The Independent
  4. Bird Flu Mutation Sparks Concern, Nature News
    1. Stem Cell Experts Seek Rabbit-Human Embryo, The Guardian
  5. Behaviour: Smells, Brains And Hormones, Nature
  6. Prion Disease: The Shape Of Things To Come, Nature
    1. Researchers Discover New Way To Stimulate Brain To Release Antioxidants, Business Wire
    2. Exercise Linked To Big Drop In Dementia Risk, New Scientist
  7. Little Professor: Ants Rank As First True Animal Teachers, Science News
  8. Does Foraging Adaptation Create The Positive Complexity-Stability Relationship In Realistic Food-Web Structure?, J. Theor. Biol.
  9. Origins Of Dna: Base Invaders, Nature
    1. How A Virus Hijacks Cell Signals To Cause Infection, ScienceDaily
  10. Custom-Made Microbes, At Your Service, NY Times
  11. Doomsday Vault To Avert World Famine, New Scientist
    1. Greenhouse Plants? Vegetation May Produce Methane, Science News
    2. Extinctions: A Message From The Frogs, Nature
  12. Live Cells Jetted With Electric Fields, Physics Web
    1. From Electronics To Anyonics, Physics Web
  13. Majority Logic Gate For Magnetic Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata, Science
    1. Spin Doctors Create Quantum Chip, Wired
    2. Where Have All the Transistors Gone?, Science
  14. Learning Retinal Implant System, medgadget.com
  15. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Robot, Astrobiology Magazine
  16. Gamma-Ray Burst Study May Rule Out Cosmological Constant, New Scientist
  17. Across The Megaverse, NY Times
  18. Self-Organized Biological Dynamics And Nonlinear Control, CUP Book
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. What Makes A Terrorist? Science Is Finding Out, Newhouse News Service
    2. Bioterrorism ¡X Preparing To Fight The Next War, New England Journal of Medicine
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Complexity Digest 2006.02 Next Issue TOP

  1. Sound Science, Nature
    1. Semantic Descriptors To Help The Hunt For Music, Innovations-report
    2. Mashups Mix Data Into Global Service, Nature
  2. Maya Writing Got Early Start, Science Now
  3. When Does "Economic Man" Dominate Social Behavior?, Science
    1. Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network, Science
  4. Bright Lights, Big Cancer, Science
    1. Morning Grogginess Worse Than Drinking, Science Daily
  5. On Engineering and Emergence, arXiv
  6. Early Africans Went Bananas, Science Now
    1. Where 'Jumping Genes' Fear To Tread, ScienceDaily
    2. Not So Different After All: Mysterious Eye Cells Adapt To Light, ScienceDaily
  7. New Cat Family Tree Revealed, BBC News
  8. Ants Harbor Antibiotic To Protect Their Crops, Scientific American
  9. Complex Social Behaviour Derived From Maternal Reproductive Traits, Nature
  10. Ecology: Complexities Of Coral Reef Recovery, Science
  11. When The Ocean Changed Course, Science Now
    1. Past Gives Clue to Climate Impact, BBC News
  12. Our Universe: Outrageous Fortune, Nature
    1. Take A Leap Into Hyperspace, NewScientist.com
  13. Nano World: Hybrid Structures Fuse Traits, UPI
  14. The Magical Behavior Of Subatomic Particles Moves Into Real World, Wall Street Journal
  15. Biological Physics: Harmonies From Noise, Nature
  16. Don't Even Think About Lying, Wired
    1. The Dover Id Decision: Judge Jones Defines Science--And Why Intelligent Design Isn't, Science
  17. Our Presidential Era: Who Can Check The President?, NY Times
  18. Classical Complexity Publications: Artifical Societies, Technology Review
    1. Book Review: A Robust Approach, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. Greetings From The Cybercaliphate: Some Notes On Homeland Insecurity, Int. Affairs
    2. Religion And World Change: Violence And Terrorism Versus Peace, J. Social Issues
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Complexity Digest 2006.01 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Logic of Invention, SFI Working Papers
  2. Innovations from a Robot Rally, Scientific American
  3. Emergence, Diaspora, The 'Imperial Consumer': Which Ideas Will Shape The Coming Year?, The Guardian
  4. Thermostatistically Approaching Living Systems: BoltzmannÐGibbs or Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics?, Physics of Life Reviews
  5. Religion Heaps Complexity Onto Science's Hard Work, Science and Theology
    1. Why I'm Happy I Evolved, NY Times
  6. The Importance of Selection Rate in the Evolution of Cooperation, arXiv
  7. Commentary: Living Forever, UPI
  8. Gene Discoveries Highlight Dangers Facing Society, The Guardian
    1. Origins Of Genome Complexity Studied, Science Daily
  9. Fear, Complexity, & Environmental Management in the 21st Century, MichaelCrichton,com
  10. Herbert Gintis: The Flip Side Of Altruism, Science & Theology News
  11. Proposed Mechanism For Learning And Memory Erasure In A White-Noise-Driven Sleeping Cortex, Phys. Rev. E
  12. Stomach Bug Mutates Into Medical Mystery, The Washington Post
  13. Economically Complex Cyberattacks, Security & Privacy Mag.
  14. Windows Security Flaw Is 'Severe', The Washington Post
  15. Quantum Trickery: Testing Einstein's Strangest Theory, NY Times
  16. Navigating Future for Road Charges, BBC News
  17. Best and Worst Punditry of 2005, Wired News
  18. Depression Device Said to Gain Acceptance, ABC News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
    1. New Rules Set for Giving Out Anti-Terror Aid, NY Times
    2. Virtual Jihad - The Internet As The Ideal Terrorism Recruiting Tool, Scientific American
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