Complexity Digest 2006.07

13-Feb-2006

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  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
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements
    4. Call for Papers - Book Announcements

  1. The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas For 2006, Harvard Business Review Online Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The Nobel Prize - winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann once said to me that he thought the most valued personal trait in the twenty-first century would be a facility for synthesizing information. Increasingly, I am convinced he was correct. The ability to decide what information to heed, what to ignore, and how to organize and communicate that which we judge to be important is becoming a core competence for those living in the developed world.

    1. Alidade Incorporated's Network Centric Warfare Research, PRNewswire Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: "We have discovered the major flaw in current concepts for Network Centric Warfare," says Cares. "It is a short-sighted concept: only the most incompetent enemies will mass their armies against our distributed forces." Echoing trends in business strategy, DoD has put billions into researching how networks fight massed forces, but -- except for Alidade's research -- has put almost no thought into how networks fight networks. "Our work obviously applies to combating terrorism," says Cares. The complete results of this research are in Cares' new book, Distributed Networked Operations, now available at http://www.dnobook.com.

  2. Community Structure in the United States House of Representatives, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: We investigate the networks of committee and subcommittee assignments in the United States House of Representatives from the 101st--108th Congresses, with committees connected according to ``interlocks'' or common membership. We examine the House's community structure using several methods, which reveal strong links between different committees as well as the intrinsic hierarchical structure within the House as a whole. (...)

    1. Emergent Behavior in Agent Networks: Self-Organization in Wasp and Open Source Communities, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Understanding the complex dynamics of communities of software developers requires a view of such organizations as a network of interacting agents involving both goals and constraints. Beyond their special features, these systems display some overall patterns of organization not far from the ones seen in other types of organizations, including both natural and artificial entities. By looking at both software developers and social insects as agents interacting in a complex network, we found common statistical patterns of organization. Here, simple self-organizing processes leading to the formation of hierarchies in wasp colonies and open source communities are studied. (...)

  3. In Fitting Twist, Pairs Will Provide the First Olympic Test of New Scoring System, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Vincent Laforet/The New York Times In attempts to avoid scandal, which shook the 2002 Olympic pairs, judges keep a running tally of points, adding or subtracting after each move.
    While the new scoring system was created to fix the corruption and is more transparent, it is also complicated and comes with its own built-in debate: anonymous judges.


    Editor's Note: Assigning a score to an ice-skating performance corresponds to building a fitness function on the high-dimensional space that describes the athlete's coordinated movement patterns. Making it independent of other influences is one of the challenges not only of the ice-skating community.

    1. Journal Lays Bare Remarks From Peer Reviewers, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Cloak of anonymity shed by new publication. Editors of a journal launched this week are out to revolutionize peer review. By publishing signed reviews alongside papers, they hope to make the process more transparent and improve the quality of the articles. But although journal editors seem intrigued by the experiment, most say they'll take some persuading to change the traditional, anonymous system.

      At Biology Direct, an open-access journal launched by BioMed Central on 6 February, manuscript editors and peer reviewers will, in effect, be merged into one editorial board.

    2. Fractals And Art: In The Hands Of A Master, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Fractal analysis has been used to assess the authenticity of paintings purporting to be the work of Jackson Pollock. (...)

      Jackson Pollock, (...), was defiant in facing down the cynics who viewed them as random splatterings. "I can control the flow of paint; there is no accident."

      (...) they [the paintings, Ed.] were composed of distinct fractal patterns - made by dripping or pouring paint straight on to a canvas. Indeed, it seems that 'Jack the Dripper' was refining the fractal characteristics of his paintings long before the mathematics to analyse them was invented.

  4. Heat Wave of the Millennium, Science Now Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Heating up. Thermometer readings over the last century indicate that most areas around the globe have seen warmer (red and orange) versus cooler temperatures (blue). Credit: Timothy Osborn
    As the planet gets warmer, various places are setting temperature records. A new analysis of climate history suggests that's not all. Higher temperatures are more widespread now than they have been in 1200 years. The last time a considerable swath of Earth heated up was about 1000 years ago. A rise in temperature allowed forests to expand across Russia and thawed out Greenland enough for Vikings to settle. Scientists infer these kinds of climate changes from tree rings, isotope ratios in ice cores or seashells, and other records that depend on temperature.

  5. Immunology: Exhausted T Cells Perk Up, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: During persistent infections, the immune cells responsible for killing infected cells and maintaining inflammation gradually stop functioning, allowing the pathogen to thrive. But can this process be reversed?

    There are many checks and balances in place to control the immune response to a pathogenic onslaught: too little of a reaction and the invader can kill the host or take up residence; too much and the immune system can itself start to damage tissues.

    1. H5N1 Leaps Into Africa, Science Now Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: What many feared and some predicted has happened: The H5N1 avian influenza strain has reached Africa. Animal health authorities have reported outbreaks of the virus in three states in Nigeria, the continent's most populous country. Experts warn that poverty, conflict, and the lack of infrastructure will make the virus particularly difficult to battle in Africa, while the heavy burden of other diseases may both mask and amplify its human health toll. The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in Paris announced yesterday that it had been informed by Nigerian authorities about an outbreak of avian influenza in the northern state of Kaduna. The outbreak started on 10 January at a commercial farm with 46,000 chickens. An OIE reference lab in Padova, Italy, has confirmed that H5N1 is indeed the culprit.

  6. Commentary: Skip Your Veggies? Not So Fast, Business Week Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: A new study questions low-fat diets. The real story is more complicated.

    Here comes another wild ride on the roller coaster of health advice. For years we have been told that eating less fat and munching on more fruits and veggies can work magic, preventing everything from heart disease to cancer. Now a study of 48,835 women, part of the Women's Health Initiative, says that such "healthier"diets bring no benefits.

  7. Toxoplasma Parasite Mind Control, Technovelgy.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Half of the world's human population is infected with Toxoplasma. Parasites in the body - and the brain. Remember that.

    Toxoplasma gondii is a common parasite found in the guts of cats; it sheds eggs that are picked up by rats and other animals that are eaten by cats. Toxoplasma forms cysts in the bodies of the intermediate rat hosts, including the brain. Since cats don't want to eat dead, decaying prey, Toxoplasma takes the evolutionarily sound course of being a "good" parasite, leaving the rats perfectly healthy. Or are they?

    1. Rats in a Maze Take a Moment to Remember, but in Reverse, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: When rats pause in running through a maze, they play back their memory of points along their route, but in reverse order.

      The discovery may provide a deep insight into how memory works in humans, as well as in rats. The reverse replay mechanism seems to be part of a neural editing process in which memories are selected, combined and stored as a set of edited movies, as it were, of important experiences in life.

  8. Sociology: Experimental Macro Sociology: Predicting The Next Best Seller, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: (...), the link from micro to macro has been the main intellectual hurdle for the development of sociological theory. The reason for this can be sought in the complexities involved. Whereas the other two links (macro to micro and micro to micro) can often be analyzed as if they concerned the actions of a single representative agent, once the micro-to-macro link is brought into the analysis, we are dealing with a dynamic process in which people react individually to an environment that consists mainly of other individuals who are reacting likewise.
    Editor's Note: This example illustrates the problem of emergence of global (sociological) patterns from microscopic (psychological) rules.

    1. No Recipe for Superstardom, Science Now Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      Free downloads. A Web site at Columbia University helped researchers study what makes songs popular.
      For all those parents wondering why their teens are so devoted to scantily clad pop stars, take hope: It's not really the music that they like. They just want to fit in, according to new research. The news isn't so encouraging for aspiring artists, though. While talent might distinguish good from bad, social pressure and pure dumb luck are also big influences on which bands gain the most fame, sociologists report in the 10 February issue of Science.

    2. Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Access to information about other people's musical choices changes one's own selections, exaggerating the market success of certain songs and introducing uncertainty.

  9. Chance, Music, And The Ear Of The Beholder, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: By studying the way that the brain's auditory cortex responds to certain types of changes in sound, researchers have found evidence for how the brain is attuned to be especially sensitive to degrees of change in sound that the brain is most likely to encounter in the natural world. (...) The world we inhabit is constantly subjected to countless random influences that may occasionally conspire to bring about large and abrupt changes in our environment, but that more often will cancel each other out, and thus provoke only little or no change. (...)

  10. Bare Skin, Blood And The Evolution Of Primate Colour Vision, Biol. Lett. Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: We investigate the hypothesis that colour vision in primates was selected for discriminating the spectral modulations on the skin of conspecifics, presumably for the purpose of discriminating emotional states, socio-sexual signals and threat displays. Here we show that, consistent with this hypothesis, there are two dimensions of skin spectral modulations, (...). Furthermore, the M and L cone maximum sensitivities for routine trichromats are optimized for discriminating variations in blood oxygen saturation, one of the two blood-related dimensions determining skin reflectance. We also show that, consistent with the hypothesis, trichromat primates tend to be bare faced.

    1. Song Post Exposure, Song Features, And Predation Risk, Behav. Ecol. Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Male birds use song to attract mates and deter other males, but in doing so, they also attract the attention of predators and parasites. Such viability costs are inherent in reliable signals, potentially causing females to prefer mates that display from the most exposed sites. However, viability costs of sexual signals may be ameliorated by affecting the choice of microhabitat, which in turn may affect the design of song features that are most efficiently transmitted in this microhabitat. We estimated the exposure of song posts (microsites used by males when singing) used by passerine birds (...).

  11. Speciation in Place, Science Now Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    One begat two. The Kentia palm gave rise to the curly palm in an example of sympatric speciation. Credit: WILLIAM BAKER/ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW
    Kentia palms live on an island in the South Pacific, yet some of them somehow evolved--right there in the same gene pool--into the curly palm. Likewise, the Arrow cichlid fish of Nicaragua evolved as a sister species to the Midas cichlid without any physical barrier to gene flow. These unusual cases, described online 8 February in Nature, help bolster support for a controversial idea called sympatric speciation: speciation that occurs without geographic isolation.

    1. One Place, One Parent, Two Species, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Island hosts double boost for evolutionary theory.

      Evolutionists have provided what they hope is a definitive answer to the question of whether 'sympatric speciation' can occur in the natural world. This is where two or more species diverge from a common ancestor despite sharing the same habitat. The process has been taught as part of evolutionary theory for decades, but has been notoriously difficult to prove.(...)

      Two studies in disparate parts of the globe offer what their authors say are the best shots so far at such a proof.

  12. Volatile Signaling in Plant-Plant Interactions: "Talking Trees" in the Genomics Era, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Plants may "eavesdrop" on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released by herbivore-attacked neighbors to activate defenses before being attacked themselves. Transcriptome and signal cascade analyses of VOC-exposed plants suggest that plants eavesdrop to prime direct and indirect defenses and to hone competitive abilities. Advances in research on VOC biosynthesis and perception have facilitated the production of plants that are genetically "deaf" to particular VOCs or "mute" in elements of their volatile vocabulary. Such plants, together with advances in VOC analytical instrumentation, will allow researchers to determine whether fluency enhances the fitness of plants in natural communities.

    1. Flowers and Fungi Use Scents to Mimic Each Other, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract: Some flowering plants mimic the scent and appearance of mushroom fruiting bodies. Fungi may also mimic flowers. In addition, infection of plants by certain fungi can direct the plant to develop nonfunctional floral-like structures that nonetheless primarily serve the reproductive advantage of the fungus. These various mimicries may serve to attract insects that in turn spread fungal spores or plant pollen, thus facilitating sexual reproduction of the cryptic organism.

    2. Plant Volatile Compounds: Sensory Cues for Health and Nutritional Value?, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract: Plants produce many volatile metabolites. A small subset of these compounds is sensed by animals and humans, and the volatile profiles are defining elements of the distinct flavors of individual foods. Flavor volatiles are derived from an array of nutrients, including amino acids, fatty acids, and carotenoids. In tomato, almost all of the important flavor-related volatiles are derived from essential nutrients. The predominance of volatiles derived from essential nutrients and health-promoting compounds suggests that these volatiles provide important information about the nutritional makeup of foods. Evidence supporting a relation between volatile perception and nutrient or health value will be reviewed.

  13. Sex Cell Switch, Science Now Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Bait and switch has a whole new meaning. A team of scientists has coaxed a rainbow trout cell slated to become sperm to develop into a female egg. Researchers say the technique offers a potential conservation backup plan for threatened fish populations worldwide and may also help explain the ability of fish to swap sexes.

    Scientists began wondering just how versatile fish could be several years ago.(...)

  14. Self-Serve Brains - Personal Identity Veers To The Right Hemisphere, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Brain-damaged patients can experience strange alterations of self-knowledge. Investigations of such cases and of brain activity during normal self-recognition suggest that the right brain orchestrates the sense of "I." But it's still unclear how the brain fosters one's ability to distinguish oneself from others. Artville
    The concept of identity theft assumes an entirely new meaning for people with brain injuries that rob them of their sense of selfˇXthe unspoken certainty that one exists as a person in a fleshˇXbounded body with a unique set of life experiences and relationships. Consider the man who, after sustaining serious brain damage, insisted that his parents, siblings, and friends had been replaced by look-alikes whom he had never met. Everyone close to him had become a familiar-looking stranger.

  15. Biology Inspires Perceptive Machines, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Teaching a machine to sense its environment is one of the most intractable problems of computer science, but one European project is looking to nature for help in cracking the conundrum. It combined streams of sensory data to produce an adaptive, composite impression of surroundings in near real-time. The team brought together electronic engineers, computer scientists, neuroscientists, physicists, and biologists. It looked at basic neural models for perception and then sought to replicate aspects of these in silicon. "The objective was to study sensory fusion in biological systems and then translate that knowledge into the creation of intelligent computational machines," (...).

  16. Gene Regulatory Networks and the Evolution of Animal Body Plans, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Development of the animal body plan is controlled by large gene regulatory networks (GRNs), and hence evolution of body plans must depend upon change in the architecture of developmental GRNs. However, these networks are composed of diverse components that evolve at different rates and in different ways. Because of the hierarchical organization of developmental GRNs, some kinds of change affect terminal properties of the body plan such as occur in speciation, whereas others affect major aspects of body plan morphology. A notable feature of the paleontological record of animal evolution is the establishment by the Early "Cambrian of virtually all phylum-level body plans.

    1. Mission Control, We Have Blast-Through, Science Now Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Protons slice through DNA more efficiently than x-rays or gamma rays do, a pair of molecular biologists reports. That means researchers may have to rethink how cosmic radiation might harm astronauts traveling to Mars.

      Interplanetary space is filled with high-energy particles--mostly protons--whizzing every which way. There are so many that during a 3-year trip to Mars, every cell nucleus in an astronaut's body would be pelted with hundreds of them.

  17. Shining Light on Dark Matter, Science Now Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Researchers say they have for the first time measured physical properties of dark matter, the invisible stuff that makes up much of the universe. A team led by Gerry Gilmore of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University detected a core of dark matter of uniform size and temperature inside dwarf galaxies. The finding runs counter to current dark matter theories, in part because the temperature measured was warmer than popular theories predict.

  18. Ex-C.I.A. Official Says Iraq Data Was Distorted, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: "If the entire body of official intelligence on Iraq had a policy implication, it was to avoid war - or, if war was going to be launched, to prepare for a messy aftermath," Mr. Pillar wrote. "What is most remarkable about prewar U.S. intelligence on Iraq is not that it got things wrong and thereby misled policymakers; it is that it played so small a role in one of the most important U.S. policy decisions in decades."(...)

    "(...) to make sure what happened on Iraq doesn't happen again."

    1. Censorship Is Alleged at NOAA, Washington Post Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who sparked an uproar last month by accusing the Bush administration of keeping scientific information from reaching the public, said Friday that officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are also muzzling researchers who study global warming.

      Hansen, speaking in a panel discussion about science and the environment before a packed audience at the New School university, said that while he hopes his own agency will soon adopt a more open policy, NOAA insists on having "a minder" monitor its scientists when they discuss their findings with journalists.

  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. America's Long War, The Guardian Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Last week US defence chiefs unveiled their plan for battling global Islamist extremism. They envisage a conflict fought in dozens of countries and for decades to come. Today we look in detail at this seismic shift in strategic thinking, and what it will mean for Britain

      The message from General Peter Pace, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, was apocalyptic. "We are at a critical time in the history of this great country and find ourselves challenged in ways we did not expect. We face a ruthless enemy intent on destroying our way of life and an uncertain future."

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. A Molecular Jump Mechanism of Water Reorientation, Damien Laage, James T. Hynes, 06/01/26, Science 832-835. Simulations suggest that water molecules can rotate in large jumps as the broken hydrogen bonds redistribute concertedly, not diffusively, among neighboring molecules., DOI: 10.1126/science.1122154
      2. US Plans Massive Data Sweep, Mark Clayton, 06/02/09, The Christian Science Monitor, Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far?
      3. Warning Urged on Stimulants Like Ritalin, Gardiner Harris, 06/02/09, NYTimes, Manufacturers of stimulants like Ritalin should be required to place risk warnings on drug labels, the F.D.A. advised.
      4. Ex-Cheney Aide Testified Leak Was Ordered, Prosecutor Says, Neil A. Lewis, 06/02/10, NYTimes, I. Lewis Libby Jr. told a grand jury that he was authorized by his "superiors" to disclose classified information in June and July 2003.
      5. Neuroscience: Bullied Mice Implicate Brain's Reward Pathway In Mood Disorders, Constance Holden, 06/02/10, Science : 759.
      6. Ge Prize Winner: How Molecular Motors Move, Ahmet Yildiz, 06/02/10, Science: 792-793.
      7. Cosmological Magnetic Field: A Fossil of Density Perturbations in the Early Universe, Kiyotomo Ichiki, Keitaro Takahashi, Hiroshi Ohno, Hidekazu Hanayama, Naoshi Sugiyama, 06/02/10, Science: 827-829. Scattering of photons off electrons in the primordial universe generated magnetic fields strong enough to seed magnetic fields seen in galaxies and galaxy clusters today., DOI: 10.1126/science.1120690
      8. The Spatial Extent of 20th-Century Warmth in the Context of the Past 1200 Years, Timothy J. Osborn, Keith R. Briffa, 06/02/10, Science : 841-844. The geographical extent of 20th-century warming is greater than that of any other extremely warm or cold interval during the past 1200 years.
      9. Neurochemical Modulation of Response Inhibition and Probabilistic Learning in Humans, Samuel R. Chamberlain, Ulrich M?ller, Andrew D. Blackwell, Luke Clark, Trevor W. Robbins, Barbara J. Sahakian, 06/02/10, Science : 861-863. Inhibition of neurotransmitters in the human prefrontal cortex identifies those pathways required for associative learning and for control of impulsive movements.
      10. Beyond Bar Codes: Tuning Up Plastic Radio Labels, 06/02/11, Science News, Electronic labels made from plastic semiconductors can now pick up and respond to radio signals at a frequency suitable for use on products.
      11. Males As Nannies? First Test For Wasps' Hidden Baby-Care Skills, 06/02/11, Science News, Young male wasps, in the absence of females, can care for larvae.
      12. Blasts from the Past, 06/02/11, Science News, Gamma-ray bursts may soon surpass quasars and galaxies as the most distant known objects in the universe and are likely to provide a new window on the early universe.
      13. Newborn Head Size Linked To Cancer Risk, 06/02/11, Science News, Healthy newborns with big heads face an increased risk of brain cancer.
      14. Prions' Dirty Little Secret, 06/02/11, Science News, The malformed proteins responsible for mad cow disease bind tightly to clay, a finding that points to farm soil as a potential long-term reservoir for these infective agents.
      15. Chimps Creep Closer Yet, 06/02/11, Science News, Humans evolved most slowly of all primates, with chimps a close second.
      16. A Surprising Warning on Stimulants, 06/02/12, NYTimes, Last week's recommendation by a federal advisory panel that stimulants like Ritalin should carry a strong warning about their dangers (...).
      17. Older Adults More Vulnerable To Distraction From Irrelevant Information, 2006/02/07, ScienceDaily & Baycrest
      18. Mmm, Sounds Tasty!, 2006/02/08, Innovations-report & University of Leeds
      19. Not Just The Birds: Introduced Foxes Throw A Wrench In The Food Web, 2006/02/08, Innovations-report & Ecological Society of America
      20. White House Accused Of Censoring Nasa: Row Brewing Over Climate Change And Creationism, I. Thomson, 2006/02/08, vnunet.com
      21. New Analysis Shows Three Human Migrations Out Of Africa, 2006/02/10, ScienceDaily & Washington University in St. Louis
      22. The Innovation Curve, D. A. Grier, Feb. 2006, Computer, IEEE
      23. The Untrustworthy Web Services Revolution, K. Birman, Feb. 2006, Computer, IEEE
      24. Social Networks And The Study Of Relations: Networks As Method, Metaphor And Form, H. Knox, M. Savage, P. Harvey, Feb. 2006, Economy and Society, DOI: 10.1080/03085140500465899
      25. Contemplations On Our Physical Links To The Universe: Searching For And Finding The Hidden Harmony, C. S. Unnikrishnan, Feb. 2006, Leonardo
      26. An Artist's Works Through The Eyes Of A Physicist: Graphic Illustration Of Particle Symmetries, G. Darvas, T. F. Farkas, Feb. 2006, Leonardo
      27. Dual Relations In Physical And Cyber Space, X. Guangyou, T. Linmi - linmia tsinghua.edu.cn, Z. David, S. Yuanchun, Jan. 2006, Chinese Science Bulletin, DOI: 10.1007/s11434-004-0643-y
      28. Specializations Of The Granular Prefrontal Cortex Of Primates:Implications For Cognitive Processing, G. N. Elston - g.elstonavthrc.uq.edu.au, R. B.-Piccione, A. Elston, B. Zietsch, J. Defelipe, P. Manger, V. Casagrande, A. J. H. Kaas, Jan. 2006, online 2005/12/08, The Anatomical Record Part A, DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20278

    2. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
      2. An Afternoon with Michael Crichton, Washington, 05/11/06
      3. Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
      4. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      5. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      6. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      7. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      8. North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity 2005 Conference, Virtual Conference Network, St. Pete's Beach, Florida, 05/06/09-11
      9. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      10. Nonlinearity, Fluctuations, and Complexity, with a celebration of the 65th birthday of Gregoire Nicolis. , Complexity Session, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 05/03/16
      11. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 05/01/26-30
      12. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      13. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      14. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      15. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      16. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      17. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      18. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      19. Edge Videos

    3. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Intl Wkshp and Sem, Dynamics on Complex Networks and Applications, Dresden, Germany, 06/02/06-03/03
      2. 'The Application of Complexity Science to Human Affairs , Milton Keynes, UK, 06/02/28
      3. Intl Workshop on Ecological Informatics of Chaos and Complex Systems, Tokyo, 06/03/02-03
      4. 2nd Intl Nonlinear Science Conf, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 06/03/10-12
      5. EXYSTENCE Course on Complexity in Real-World Systems & Their Simulations: Simulation serving science and decision making in a complex world , Torino, Italy, 06/03/13-25
      6. Work, Dissipation, And Fluctuations In Nonequilibrium Physics, Brussels, Belgium, 06/03/22-25
      7. ZUMA Advanced Simulation Workshop, Koblenz, April 3-7, 2006
      8. 18th European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR), Vienna, Austria, 06/04/18-21
      9. 5th Intl Joint Conf on Autonomous Agents And Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006) Future University, Hakodate, Japan, )6/05/08-12
      10. Nonlinearities: from Turbulent to Magic, Copenhagen, Denmark. 06/05/17-20
      11. Alife X - The 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems,Bloomington, Indiana, 06/06/03-07
      12. Intl. Conference on Complex Systems Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      13. 1st Intl Conf on Economic Sciences with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, Univ of Bologna, Italy, 06/06/15-17
      14. NKS 2006: The Wolfram Science Conference, Washington, D.C., 06/06/16-18
      15. Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, Ma, 06/06/25-30
      16. 11th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/07/05-08
      17. 2006 Genetic And Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2006), Seattle, Washington, USA, 06/07/08-12
      18. Intl Soc for the Systems Sciences 50th Ann Conf - Complexity, Democracy & Sustainability, Sonoma, California, 06/07/09-14
      19. 5th World Congress of Biomechanics, Munich, Germany, 06/07/29-08/04
      20. 50th Anniversary Summit of AI, Monte Verita, Switzerland, 06/07/09-14
      21. 2006 Intl Conf on Nonlinear Science and Complexity, Beijing, China, 06/08/07-12
      22. Symmetry Festival 2006, Symmetry in Art and Science Education, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/12-18
      23. 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Marina Del Rey, Ca, U.S.A., 06/08/21-23
      24. World Conference on Social Simulation (WCSS-06) , Kyoto, Japan, 06/08/21-25
      25. 7th Intl Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences (KSS'2006), Beijing, 06/09/22-25.
      26. European Conference on Complex Systems 2006 (ECCS'06), Oxford, England, 06/09/25-29
      27. FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 9, The Ninth Intl Conf on the SIMULATION OF ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR (SAB'06), Roma, Italy, 06/09/25-30
      28. 6th Intl Conf on Simulated Evolution and Learning , Hefei, China, 06/10/15-18

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      1. New Issue of Emergence: Complexity & Organization (E:CO), Volume 7 Numbers 3 & 4, 2005 Special Double Issue: Complexity and Storytelling Guest Editors: Ken Baskin & David Boje was published online.


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