Complexity Digest 2007.10

05-Mar-2007

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  1. Scientists Claim First In Using Brain Scans To Predict Intentions, AP Medical Writer
    1. Reporting for Duty, NY Times
  2. China Stumbles, Markets Tumble: Will the Volatility Continue?, Knowledge@Wharton
    1. The Other Somalia: An Island of Stability in a Sea of Armed Chaos, NY Times
  3. Darwin's God, NY Times
  4. Meet The Human Metabolome, Nature
    1. A Missing Link in Membrane Protein Evolution, Science
  5. How Common Viruses Can Turn Cells Cancerous, New Scientist
    1. Hot Baths May Cut Male Fertility, BBC News
  6. Model Puts New Spin On Hurricane Prediction, PhysicsWeb
    1. Forecasting Hurricane Intensity and Impacts, Science
    2. U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions, NY Times
  7. Venture Capitalists Want to Put Some Algae in Your Tank, NY Times
  8. New Graphene Transistors Show Promise, Technology Review
    1. The 'New Age' Of Super Materials, BBC News
    2. Water from First Principles, Science
  9. Science Behind The Soap Opera - The Cute And The Shocking At Meerkat Manor, Science News
    1. Ecology: How the Wood Moves, Science
  10. Brain Works More Chaotically Than Previously Thought, KurzweilAI.net
    1. Researchers Discover Key To Body's Ability To Detect Subtle Temperature Changes, Innovations-report
  11. Neuroanatomy: Brain Evolution Studies Go Micro, Science
    1. Deconstructing Brain Wiring, One Neuron At A Time, ScienceDaily
  12. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream, Science
    1. Rare Cell Prevents Rampant Brain Activity, Innovations-report
    2. Size Of Brain Areas Does Matter -- But Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better, ScienceDaily
  13. The Thinking Machine, Wired
  14. Passing Probe To Study 'Crop Circles' On Europa, New Scientist
    1. Pulsars May Shed Light On Mysterious Dark Matter, New Scientist
  15. Laser Physics: Extreme Light, Nature
    1. Observing the Formation of Long-Range Order during Bose-Einstein Condensation, Phys.
  16. The New Black: A Nanoscale Coating Reflects Almost No Light, Science News
  17. Accelerating Socio-Technological Evolution: from Ephemeralization and Stigmergy to the Global Brain, arXiv
    1. Assessing the Value of Coooperation in Wikipedia, arXiv
  18. Book Announcement: Philosophy and Complexity, World Scientific
    1. Analysis And Control Of Complex Nonlinear Processes In Physics, Chemistry And Biology, World Scientific Book
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Africa And The 'War On Terror', Mail and Guardian Online
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Webcast Announcements
    3. Conference Announcements
    4. Call for Papers - Course/Book Announcements

  1. Scientists Claim First In Using Brain Scans To Predict Intentions, AP Medical Writer Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: At a laboratory in Germany, volunteers slide into a donut-shaped MRI machine and perform simple tasks, such as deciding whether to add or subtract two numbers, or choosing which of two buttons to press.

    They have no inkling that scientists in the next room are trying to read their minds _ using a brain scan to figure out their intention before it is turned into action.

    1. Reporting for Duty, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Executives of publicly traded companies complain bitterly about American investors' undue emphasis on short-term results. Yet paradoxically, two-thirds of the companies in the S.&P. 500 project what their next quarter's earnings per share will be - and then spend huge amounts of time and resources in a dubious effort to meet that projection.

  2. China Stumbles, Markets Tumble: Will the Volatility Continue?, Knowledge@Wharton Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    The Economist called it "a snort from a dragon's nostrils." At the end of February, as China's stock market index fell by more than 8%, stock markets tumbled around the globe -- it was their steepest decline since the September 11 attacks in 2001. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 500 points in a single afternoon. In addition to worries about China, concerns about a possible shakeout in the U.S. sub-prime mortgage market contributed to the anxiety.

    1. The Other Somalia: An Island of Stability in a Sea of Armed Chaos, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      Hargeysa is the capital of a poor, peaceful self-declared republic
      The northwest area of Somalia, also known as Somaliland, is peaceful and functional, in contrast to the chaotic mess elsewhere. (...)

      Its leaders, with no Western experts at their elbow, have devised a political system that minimizes clan rivalries while carving out a special role for clan elders, the traditional pillars of Somali society. They have demobilized thousands of the young gunmen who still plague Somalia and melded them into a national army.

  3. Darwin's God, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    "Stars No. 1207," 1996 by David Stephenson/Julie Saul Gallery
    God has always been a puzzle for Scott Atran. When he was 10 years old, he scrawled a plaintive message on the wall of his bedroom in Baltimore. "God exists" he wrote in black and orange paint, "or if he doesn't, we're in trouble." Atran has been struggling with questions about religion ever since - why he himself no longer believes in God and why so many other people, everywhere in the world, apparently do.
    • Source: Darwin's God, Robin Marantz Henig, NYTimes, 07/03/04

  4. Meet The Human Metabolome, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Can body fluids succeed where genomics and proteomics have failed? (...)

    Metabolomics is the study of the raw materials and products of the body's biochemical reactions, molecules that are smaller than most proteins, DNA and other macromolecules. The aim is to be able to take urine, blood or some other body fluid, scan it in a machine and find a profile of tens or hundreds of chemicals that can predict whether an individual is on the road to a disease, say, or likely to experience side-effects from a particular drug.

    1. A Missing Link in Membrane Protein Evolution, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Most proteins embedded in biological membranes have vectorial functions, such as transporting molecules into or out of cells or transducing signals. It is thus essential that these membrane proteins have unique orientations in the lipid bilayer. To achieve a unique orientation, membrane proteins carry signals in their amino acid sequences that are recognized during the membrane insertion process. Intriguingly, some membrane proteins have structurally similar, homologous regions with opposite orientations in the membrane, raising questions about their evolution.

  5. How Common Viruses Can Turn Cells Cancerous, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Common viruses may play a bigger role in cancer than anyone thought.

    It is well known that certain viruses can trigger specific cancers. Human papillomavirus, for example, causes around 93 per cent of cancers of the cervix. Now Dominik Duelli and Yuri Lazebnik at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and colleagues have found evidence for how they might do it.

    1. Hot Baths May Cut Male Fertility, BBC News Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      Heat can affect sperm production
      Soaking in the tub may reduce men's fertility, say US researchers.

      Findings from a three-year study support current advice that men should avoid 'overheating' their sperm.

      Sperm counts in five of 11 men with fertility problems soared by 491% after they stopped having baths or using the hot tub for a few months.

      Other research has shown heat from laptop use and wearing tight underwear can reduce fertility the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Urology reports.

  6. Model Puts New Spin On Hurricane Prediction, PhysicsWeb Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    In 1992, Hurricane Andrew tore across the US south-east coast causing $26 billion in damage and 65 deaths. Similar disasters could be minimised in the future, however, by improving hurricane forecasting. Now Shuyi Chen from the University of Miami claims to have a better understanding of how hurricane winds can suddenly intensify in so-called "eyewall replacements". (Credit: NOAA)
    The dynamics that govern a hurricane's path and intensity are incredibly complex, and one of the least understood is eyewall replacement. In this process the wind speed drops initially when the first cloud walls collapse. But the new walls that move in to replace them re-intensify the wind as they shrink inward (...).

    Chen's team discovered that, prior to replacement, a "moat" of dry air forms that separates the existing eyewall from a new wall farther out. This moat gradually merges with the inner wall until it finally collapses, allowing the outer wall to take its place.

    1. Forecasting Hurricane Intensity and Impacts, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: In 2005, meteorologists embarked on an ambitious hurricane research project, RAINEX, to investigate how rainbands affect hurricane intensity. Flying radar-equipped aircraft right into the storms--including the infamous Hurricane Katrina--before they made landfall, the scientists recorded wind speed and direction, temperature, humidity, and other data. On page 1235 of this issue, Houze et al. report exciting results from this project (1).

    2. U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The Bush administration estimates that emissions by the United States of gases that contribute to global warming will grow nearly as fast through the next decade as they did the previous decade, according to a long-delayed report being completed for the United Nations.

      The document, the United States Climate Action Report, emphasizes that the projections show progress toward a goal Mr. Bush laid out in a 2002 speech: that emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases grow at a slower rate than the economy.

  7. Venture Capitalists Want to Put Some Algae in Your Tank, NY Times Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times Algae may be slime to the average person, but to some venture capitalists it is the path to energy independence.
    A few companies are in a race to be first to convert algae to fuel on a commercial scale, and it will require not a small amount of money, luck and biotech tweaking.

    One goal, for instance, is to find an energy-efficient way to convert algae into fuel, which is why she was visiting a catfish farm here that was for sale. Farmed catfish could provide a useful source of carbon dioxide for the algae, as well as a critical revenue flow to keep research going.

  8. New Graphene Transistors Show Promise, Technology Review Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    Single-electron logic: A single-electron transistor carved entirely in a graphene sheet. The central element is a so-called quantum dot, which allows electrons to flow one by one. The dot is connected to wider regions that have contact pads used to turn the transistor on and off. Credit: University of Manchester
    Researchers at the University of Manchester have announced a single-electron transistor made out of graphene, a single sheet of graphite only one atom thick. The researchers' device, which is the first single-electron transistor to operate at room temperature, offers evidence that graphene is a promising alternative to silicon, which, in the coming decades, is expected to reach its physical limits as a material for making ever-smaller transistors.

    1. The 'New Age' Of Super Materials, BBC News Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      Levitation becomes possible using superconducting materials
      Despite an intensive two-decade search, the underlying mechanism of superconductivity in the ceramics is still disputed.

      In addition, their exact structure, requiring ultra-thin layers of different elements stacked on top of each other, means they are very difficult and expensive to manufacture.

      "Atomically, you have to line them up very precisely in order for the supercurrent to flow," explained Professor Chu.

    2. Water from First Principles, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The water molecule is very simple, yet water in its various forms is one of the most complicated substances. Its anomalous behavior, such as its expansion on freezing and other more subtle properties, is related to the detailed form of the interaction between its molecules, which is still imperfectly understood. For more than 70 years, scientists have been trying to understand the behavior of water in its different forms from first principles--that is, based on the fundamental properties of the water molecule.
      • Source: Water from First Principles, Anthony J. Stone, DOI: 10.1126/science.1140758, Science Vol. 315. no. 5816, pp. 1228 - 1229, 07/03/02

  9. Science Behind The Soap Opera - The Cute And The Shocking At Meerkat Manor, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    TAKES A VILLAGE. Meerkat pups are usually the offspring of the top male and female, but the whole group pitches in to feed, guard, and snuggle them. iStockphoto
    So, it's the subordinate adults, with teenage backup now and then, that do most of the child minding. Both females and males babysit, but the females do it more often.

    As far as the researchers can tell, meerkat babysitters volunteer for the job. An animal, apparently spontaneously, hangs back at the burrow as the rest of the group sets off. There's none of the snarling and nipping that meerkats use for coercion. Rarely does the same meerkat volunteer two days in a row, and younger and underweight animals are less likely to babysit than are more-robust animals.

    1. Ecology: How the Wood Moves, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: At first glance, an obvious difference between animals and plants is movement: Elephants move, trees don't. This is in part why Tolkien's ents (1), Wyndham's triffids (2and the march of Birnam Wood in Shakespeare's Macbeth (3) elicit such a strong response. But in fact plants do move, although only at certain life stages and usually with outside help. For example, dandelion seeds blow and sycamore samaras helicopter in the wind, acorns and berries are moved by mammals and birds, and pollen is spread by wind and insects.
      • Source: Ecology: How the Wood Moves, Katriona Shea, DOI: 10.1126/science.1136096, Science Vol. 315. no. 5816, pp. 1231 - 1232, 07/03/02

  10. Brain Works More Chaotically Than Previously Thought, KurzweilAI.net Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The brain appears to process information more chaotically than has long been assumed. This is demonstrated by a new study conducted by scientists at the University of Bonn. The passing on of information from neuron to neuron does not, they show, occur exclusively at the synapses, i.e. the junctions between the nerve cell extensions.

    1. Researchers Discover Key To Body's Ability To Detect Subtle Temperature Changes, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Scientists have long known the molecular mechanisms behind most of the body's sensing capabilities. Vision, for example, is made possible in part by rhodopsin, a pigment molecule that is extremely sensitive to light. It is involved in turning photons into electrical signals that can be decoded by the brain into visual information. (...) "But, it was still unclear how only six temperature-sensor channels could cover wide ranges of temperature and still discriminate subtle differences," Zheng said. (...) the subunits of one channel can come together with subunits from another channel or coassemble in laboratory cell cultures to form new functioning channels. (...)

  11. Neuroanatomy: Brain Evolution Studies Go Micro, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: What makes the human brain unique? Researchers are coming up with new answers to that question as they shift their focus from large-scale brain structures to individual neurons and their complex wiring (...)

    What do humans use those big VENs for? No one knows for sure, but a few hints are emerging. Last year, Allman's team reported in Neuroscience that human VENs seem to make fewer connections with adjacent nerve cells than do other types of neurons.

    1. Deconstructing Brain Wiring, One Neuron At A Time, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Researchers have long said they won't be able to understand the brain until they can put together a "wiring diagram" -- a map of how billions of neurons are interconnected. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have jumped what many believe to be a major hurdle to preparing that chart: identifying all of the connections to a single neuron. (...) the researchers describe how they modified the deadly rabies virus, turning it into a tool that can cross the synaptic space of a targeted nerve cell just once to identify all the neurons to which it is directly connected. (...)

  12. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: This work in robotics complements current findings regarding sleep and dreaming in humans. There is now strong evidence in human sleep research showing that performance on motor (1) and visual (2) tasks is strongly dependent on sleep, with improvements consistently greater when sleep occurs between test and retest. This is generally believed to be related to neural recoding processes that are possibly connected to dreaming during sleep (3).

    1. Rare Cell Prevents Rampant Brain Activity, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: One of the mysteries of the brain is how it avoids ending up in a state of chaos, something which happens only on exceptional occasions, when it can lead to epileptic fits. Scientists at Karolinska Institutet have now uncovered a new mechanism controlling how the brain keeps its neuronal activity in check. The human brain consists of around a hundred million nerve cells linked together by around ten billion contact junctions called synapses. The activity of this extremely complex network is regulated through a dynamic balance between excitatory signals, which are transmitted by one type of synapse, and inhibitory counter-signals, (...).

    2. Size Of Brain Areas Does Matter -- But Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The ability to hit a baseball or play a piano well is part practice and part innate talent. One side of the equation required for skilled performances has its roots in the architecture of the brain genetically determined before birth, say scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Practice takes no explaining, just persistence. (...) researchers report that in mice, functional subdivisions of the cortex -- the brain's powerful central processing unit responsible for higher functions -- must be just the right size relative to other brain architecture, or mice will underperform in tests of their skill at the relevant behaviors. (...)

  13. The Thinking Machine, Wired Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Jeff Hawkins created the Palm Pilot and the Treo. Now he says he's got the ultimate invention: software that mimics the human brain. (...)

    Hawkins argues that such networks have traditionally lacked "neuro-realism¡". Although they use the basic principle of inter-connected neurons, they don't employ the information-processing hierarchy used by the cortex. Whereas HTMs continually pass information up and down a hierarchy, (...), neural networks typically send information through their layers of nodes in one direction - (...).

  14. Passing Probe To Study 'Crop Circles' On Europa, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: When NASA's New Horizons space probe makes its closest approach of Jupiter at 0543 GMT (0043 EST) on Wednesday, it will get the best ever glimpse at the composition of several of the planet's large moons.

    The Pluto-bound probe will be the only spacecraft to visit the giant planet between 2003 and 2016. Watch an animation of the Jupiter flyby.

    New Horizons is already making between 15 and 20 observations per day.

    1. Pulsars May Shed Light On Mysterious Dark Matter, New Scientist Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts:
      Our galaxy should contain many small clumps of dark matter, which are shown as bright blobs in this still from a computer simulation. The clumps could reveal their presence by drifting in front of pulsars and distorting their clock-like signals (Illustration: J Diemand/M Kuhlen/P Madau/UCSC)
      Clumps of dark matter roving unseen through our galaxy could be revealed by careful observations of pulsars, a new study says. In fact, telltale signs of these clouds might already lurk unnoticed in archival data - potentially holding the key to understanding what the mysterious matter is made of.

  15. Laser Physics: Extreme Light, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: Physicists are planning lasers powerful enough to rip apart the fabric of space and time.

    1. Observing the Formation of Long-Range Order during Bose-Einstein Condensation, Phys. Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: We have experimentally investigated the formation of off-diagonal long-range order in a gas of ultracold atoms. A magnetically trapped atomic cloud prepared in a highly nonequilibrium state thermalizes and thereby crosses the Bose-Einstein condensation phase transition. The evolution of phase coherence between different regions of the sample is constantly monitored and information on the spatial first-order correlation function is obtained. We observe the growth of the spatial coherence and the formation of long-range order in real time and compare it to the growth of the atomic density. Moreover, we study the evolution of the momentum distribution during the nonequilibrium formation of the condensate.

  16. The New Black: A Nanoscale Coating Reflects Almost No Light, Science News Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts:
    REFLECTIONFREE. Aluminum nitride coated with antireflection filaments appears nearly black (top left), while samples of aluminum nitride, silicon, and aluminum (from second left to right) reflect much more light. An electron micrograph of the coating (bottom) shows the layers of filaments that make the coating nonreflective. Schubert/Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.
    The velvet background on a painting of Elvis looks black because it reflects so little light. But getting a surface to reflect no light at all is surprisingly difficult. Now, researchers have created a virtually reflectionfree surface by coating it with filaments only a few billionths of a meter thick.

  17. Accelerating Socio-Technological Evolution: from Ephemeralization and Stigmergy to the Global Brain, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: (...)flows of matter, energy and information circulate ever more easily across the planet. This global connectivity increases the interactions between agents, and thus the possibilities for conflict. However, evolutionary progress also reduces social friction, via the creation of institutions. The emergence of such "mediators" is facilitated by stigmergy: the unintended collaboration between agents resulting from their actions on a shared environment. The Internet is a near ideal medium for stigmergic interaction. (...)

    1. Assessing the Value of Coooperation in Wikipedia, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: (...)Despite the apparent lack of order, the 50 million edits by 4.8 million contributors to the 1.5 million articles in the English-language Wikipedia follow strong certain overall regularities. We show that the accretion of edits to an article is described by a simple stochastic mechanism, resulting in a heavy tail of highly visible articles with a large number of edits. We also demonstrate a crucial correlation between article quality and number of edits, which validates Wikipedia as a successful collaborative effort.

  18. Book Announcement: Philosophy and Complexity, World Scientific Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Scientific, technological, and cultural changes have always had an impact upon philosophy. They can force a change in the way we perceive the world, reveal new kinds of phenomena to be understood, and provide new ways of understanding phenomena. Complexity science, immersed in a culture of information, is having a diverse but particularly significant impact upon philosophy. Previous ideas do not necessarily sit comfortably with the new paradigm, resulting in new ideas or new interpretations of old ideas. (...)

    1. Analysis And Control Of Complex Nonlinear Processes In Physics, Chemistry And Biology, World Scientific Book Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Nonlinear dynamics of complex processes is an active research field with large numbers of publications in basic research, and broad applications from diverse fields of science. Nonlinear dynamics as manifested by deterministic and stochastic evolution models of complex behavior has entered statistical physics, physical chemistry, biophysics, geophysics, astrophysics, theoretical ecology, semiconductor physics and -optics, etc. (...) New scenarios have emerged for spatio-temporal structures in dynamical systems far from equilibrium. Their analysis and possible control are intriguing and challenging aspects of the current research. (...) Models and measurements of complex nonlinear processes evoke and provoke new fundamental questions (...).

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

    1. Africa And The 'War On Terror', Mail and Guardian Online Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: The African Union (AU) and South Africa itself have already been drawn incrementally into Washington's wake. Compliant counter-terrorism laws have been passed. AU forces are moving into Somalia, which voices in the US media opine is "the new front in the war on terror". The announcement of the new US central command for the continent, Africom, suggests that more insistent American demands for military and intelligence cooperation will soon be heard in more African capitals.

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Emulating Membrane Protein Evolution by Rational Design, Mikaela Rapp, Susanna Sepp?l?, Erik Granseth, Gunnar von Heijne, 07/01/25, Science 2 March 2007: 1282-1284. Stepwise modifications to a drug efflux pump show how the bacterial dimeric pump may have evolved through duplication and inversion of an ancestral protein domain., DOI: 10.1126/science.1135406
      2. Predictions of the Properties of Water from First Principles, Robert Bukowski, Krzysztof Szalewicz, Gerrit C. Groenenboom, Ad van der Avoird, 07/03/02, Science : 1249-1252. A purely quantum mechanical potential energy function accurately predicts many features of water in forms ranging from an isolated pair of molecules to the bulk liquid.
      3. Anti-Hebbian Long-Term Potentiation in the Hippocampal Feedback Inhibitory Circuit, Karri P. Lamsa, Joost H. Heeroma, Peter Somogyi, Dmitri A. Rusakov, Dimitri M. Kullmann, 07/03/02, Science : 1262-1266. In an unusual form of plasticity, certain synapses in rat interneurons are strengthened if presynaptic activity occurs while the postsynaptic cell is at rest or hyperpolarized.
      4. Cocoa Compound Increases Brain Blood Flow, 07/03/03, Science News, Cocoa that retains compounds usually removed to soften the product's flavor can significantly improve blood flow to the brain.
      5. Robustness Can Evolve Gradually in Complex Regulatory Gene Networks with Varying Topology, Stefano Ciliberti, Olivier C. Martin, Andreas Wagner, 2007/02/02, PLoS Comput Biol 3(2): e15, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030015
      6. Randomized Cellular Automata, Nino Boccara, 2007/02/23, arXiv, DOI: nlin.CG/0702046
      7. An Enduring Philosophical Agenda. Worldview Construction as a Philosophical Method, Vidal, Clément, 2007/02/24, Cogprints
      8. A General Framework For Analysing Diversity In Science, Technology And Society, A. Stirling, 2007/02/27, Journal of The Royal Society Interface, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.2014
      9. Grooming In Barbary Macaques: Better To Give Than To Receive?, K. Shutt, A. MacLarnon, M. Heistermann, S. Semple, 2007/02/27, Biology Letters, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0052
      10. A Hidden Twist In The Black Hole Information Paradox, 2007/02/28, Innovations-report
      11. Genes And Genius: Researchers Confirm Association Between Gene And Intelligence: If You're Particularly Good With Puzzles Or Chess, The Reason May Be In Your Genes., 2007/03/01, Innovations-report
      12. Neurodegeneration And Cell Replacement, B. K. Ormerod, T. D. Palmer, M. A. Caldwell, 2007/03/01, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.2018
      13. Microsoft Under Fire From The EU Again: Commission Claims Royalty Prices Are Too High, S. Nichols, 2007/03/02, vnunet.com
      14. Virtual-Reality Video Game Helps Link Depression To Specific Brain Area, 2007/03/02, ScienceDaily & NIH/National Institute of Mental Health
      15. Enzyme Finding Sheds Light On How Memories Are Made And What Goes Wrong In Brain Disorders, 2007/03/02, ScienceDaily & University of Bristol
      16. What Do Happiness Studies Study?, J. Griffin, Mar. 2007, online 2006/12/05, Journal of Happiness Studies, DOI: 10.1007/s10902-006-9007-4
      17. Does Body Weight Affect Wages? Evidence From Europe, G. Brunello - giorgio.brunelloaunipd.it, B. D'Hombres - beatrice.dhombresajrc.it, Mar. 2007, online 2006/12/15, Economics & Human Biology, DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2006.11.002
      18. Chaotic Hopping Between Attractors In Neural Networks, J. Marroa, J. J. Torres - jtorresaonsager.ugr.es, J. M. Cortés, Mar. 2007, online 2006/12/28, Neural Networks, DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2006.11.005

    2. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 07/01/24-28
      2. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      3. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      4. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      5. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      6. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      7. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      8. Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
      9. An Afternoon with Michael Crichton, Washington, 05/11/06
      10. Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
      11. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      12. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      13. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      14. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      15. 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
      16. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      17. 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
      18. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      19. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      20. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      21. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      22. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      23. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      24. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      25. Edge Videos

    3. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Unconventional Computation: Quo Vadis?, Santa Fe, NM, 07/03/20-23
      2. Complex Social Systems Course at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 07/03/20-28
      3. NEXUS for Change, Bowling Green, Ohio, 07/03/22-23
      4. Intl Conf on Morphological Computation, Venice, Italy, 07/03/26-28
      5. Narrative Techniques for Business, Seattle, 07/03/26, Boston, 07/03/29
      6. American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) 2007 Conference, Urbana IL, 07/03/29-04/01
      7. Storytelling and Complexity in Human Systems, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 07/03/31-04/01
      8. 4th Lake Arrowhead Conference on Human Complex Systems, Lake Arrowhead, CA, 07/04/25-29
      9. Intl Conf on Morphological Computation, Venice Italy, 07/03/26-28
      10. Capturing Business Complexity with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Useful, Usable, and Used Techniques - A Course on Business Applications, Argonne Natl Lab, Woodridge, IL, 07/04/16-20
      11. Complexity and Organizational Resilience , The Village, Pohnpei, Micronesia, 07/05
      12. 9th GEF -The World Festival of Creativity in Schools, Sanremo ITALY, 07/05/02-06
      13. UCS 2007 - Understanding Complex Systems, Urbana-Champaign, Ill, 07/05/14-17
      14. 2nd Intl Conf on Built Environment Complexity - Embracing complexity thinking in built environments, Cape Town South Africa, 07/05/21-25
      15. ECO 2007 Summit: Ecological Complexity and Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for 21st-Century Ecology, Beijing, China, 07/05/22-27
      16. 2007 IEEE/ICME Intl Conf on Complex Medical Engineering-CME2007, Beijing, China, 07/05/23-27
      17. Analysis and Control of Complex Networks, Milan, Italy, 07/05/24-26
      18. The 7th Intl Workshop on Meta-Synthesis and Complex Systems, Beijing, 07/05/27-30
      19. 2nd Intl Wkshp on Engineering Emergence in Decentralised Autonomic Systems EEDAS 2007, Jacksonville, Fl, 07/06/11-15
      20. 7th conf SYMMETRY IN NONLINEAR MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, Kiev, Ukraine, 07/06/24-30
      21. Summer School In Complexity Science, London, UK, 07/07/08-17
      22. 2007 Genetic And Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007), London, UK, 07/07/07-11
      23. 22nd European Conference on Operational Research EURO XXII, Prague, Czech Republic, 07/07/08-11
      24. SASO 2007 - First IEEE Intl Conf Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems , Boston, Mass., USA, 07/07/09-11
      25. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning 2007, Imperial College London, 07/07/11-13
      26. NKS 2007 Wolfram Science Conference, Burlington, VT, 07/07/13-15
      27. Complex Change Webinar: Planning in the Midst of Chaos, 07/07/17
      28. Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences 17th Annual Intl Conf, Orange, Ca, USA, 07/07/27-29
      29. ICCM 2007 - 8th Intl Conf on Cognitive Modeling, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 07/07/27-29
      30. Natural Complexity: Data and Theory in Dialogue, Cambridge, UK, 07/08/13-17
      31. ECAL 2oo7 - 9th European Conference on Artificial Life , Lisbon, Portugal, 07/09/10-14
      32. European Conference on Complex Systems 2007 (ECCS'07) , Dresden, Germany, 07/10/01-05
      33. 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM Intl Joint Conf on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'07), Silicon Valley, USA, 07/11/02-05
      34. KSS 2007 - 8th Intl Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, 07/11/05-07

    4. Call for Papers - Course/Book Announcements Bookmark and Share

      1. EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION IN PRACTICE Series in Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Chapter proposal due 07/02/04
      2. Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Artificial Life journal on the Evolution of Complexity,
      3. Chaos and Complexity Resources for Students and Teachers, 06/03/01

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