Complexity Digest 2009.24

2009/11/20

Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Gershenson
Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

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Content

  1. Guided self-organization, HFSP Journal
    1. Information: currency of life?, HFSP Journal
    2. How evolution guides complexity, HFSP Journal
    3. The Use of Ideas of Information Theory for Studying “Language” and Intelligence in Ants, Entropy
  2. Rethinking Lean: Beyond the Shop Floor, Knowledge@Wharton
  3. Bacteria Expect The Unexpected, Innovations-report
  4. Swine flu: One killer virus, three key questions, Nature
  5. Robert Meyers explaining Complexity, Springer
    1. Chaos, Complexity, and Public Policy, Dialogue
  6. Complexity science and intentional systems, arXiv
  7. Controlling the Velocity of Light Pulses, Science
  8. Has the world economy reached its globalization limit?, Physica A
  9. NASA Reproduces A Building Block Of Life In Laboratory, ScienceDaily
  10. Lessons from Brazil: Why Is It Bouncing Back While Other Markets Stumble?, Knowledge@Wharton
  11. Selfless Memes, Science
  12. Predicting new molecular targets for known drugs, Nature
  13. The Narrow Line Between Love And Jealousy, Innovations-report
  14. Mutation load and rapid adaptation favour outcrossing over self-fertilization, Nature
  15. The Communication of Meaning in Anticipatory Systems: A Simulation Study of the Dynamics of Intentionality in Social Interactions, arXiv
  16. Why Can't Chimps Speak? Key Differences In How Human And Chimp Versions Of FOXP2 Gene Work, ScienceDaily
  17. Opening the black box - Development, testing and documentation of a mechanistically rich agent-based model, Ecological Modelling
  18. Darwin's Contributions To Our Understanding Of Emotional Expressions, Phil. Tran. B
    1. Emotions Increase Or Decrease Pain, Say Researchers, ScienceDaily
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Complexity and Spatial Networks: In Search of Simplicity, Springer
    2. Mind Force, Human Attractions (Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena in Life Science), World Scientific Publishing Company
    3. Ecosystem Geography: From Ecoregions to Sites, Springer
    4. A Systems Approach to Leadership: How to Create Sustained High Performance in a Complex and Uncertain Environment, Springer
    5. Ecology, Cognition and Landscape: Linking Natural and Social Systems, Springer-Verlag
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Conference Announcements
    3. Webcast Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. Guided self-organization, HFSP Journal Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: Guided-Self Organization, this Editorial explains, is defined as the evolution of a system into an organized form in the absence of external pressures. The relevance of Guided Self-Organization to the life sciences is discussed in a series of articles in this special issue.
    • Source: Guided self-organization, Mikhail Prokopenko, DOI: 10.2976/1.3233933, HFSP Journal Volume 3, Issue 5, pp. 287-289, 2009/10

    1. Information: currency of life?, HFSP Journal Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract: In biology, the exception is mostly the rule, and the rule is mostly the exception. However, recent results indicate that known universal concepts in biology such as the genetic code or the utilization of ATP as a source of energy may be complemented by a large class of principles based on Shannon's concept of information. The present position paper discusses various promising pathways toward the formulation of such generic informational principles and their relevance for the realm of biology.

    2. How evolution guides complexity, HFSP Journal Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Long-standing debates about the role of natural selection in the growth of biological complexity over geological time scales are difficult to resolve from the paleobiological record. Using an evolutionary model"a computational ecosystem subjected to natural selection"we investigate evolutionary trends in an information-theoretic measure of the complexity of the neural dynamics of artificial agents inhabiting the model. Our results suggest that evolution always guides complexity change, just not in a single direction. We also demonstrate that neural complexity correlates well with behavioral adaptation but only when complexity increases are achieved through natural selection (as opposed to increases generated randomly or optimized via a genetic algorithm).

    3. The Use of Ideas of Information Theory for Studying “Language” and Intelligence in Ants, Entropy Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: In this review we integrate results of long term experimental study on ant “language” and intelligence which were fully based on fundamental ideas of Information Theory, such as the Shannon entropy, the Kolmogorov complexity, and the Shannon’s equation connecting the length of a message (l) and its frequency (p), (...) This approach enabled us to obtain the following important results on ants’ communication and intelligence: (i) to reveal “distant homing” in ants, that is, their ability to transfer information about remote events; (ii) to estimate the rate of information transmission; (iii) to reveal that ants are able to grasp regularities and to use them for “compression” of information; (iv) to reveal that ants are able to transfer to each other the information about the number of objects; (v) to discover that ants can add and subtract small numbers. The obtained results show that information theory is not only excellent mathematical theory, but many of its results may be considered as Nature laws.

  2. Rethinking Lean: Beyond the Shop Floor, Knowledge@Wharton Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: Once the domain of manufacturing, lean has migrated far beyond the shop floor, transforming service organizations and innovation efforts. The principles of waste elimination, worker involvement and continuous improvement haven't changed, though, and the results are still impressive. In this special report, experts from Wharton and The Boston Consulting Group look at how lean is transforming health care, R&D and finance.

  3. Bacteria Expect The Unexpected, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Within a generation, genetically identical offspring is produced that varies in the degree of adaptation to the current environment. Anticipating drastic changes of the environmental conditions in future, some variants have an increased chance to survive if the event occurs. This ensures the survival of the species as a whole. Organisms ensure the survival of their species by genetically adapting to the environment. If environmental conditions change too rapidly, the extinction of a species may be the consequence. A strategy to successfully cope with such a challenge is the generation of variable offspring that can survive in different environments. (�)

  4. Swine flu: One killer virus, three key questions, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: As the world mobilizes against the H1N1 flu pandemic, researchers are working to answer pressing questions about the virus. Brendan Maher visited pathologists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who are looking at how the virus kills, and a New York laboratory that is testing how it spreads. Declan Butler spent time at a French biosafety level-4 facility where researchers are working out the chances that the pandemic virus will reassort with the H5N1 avian flu virus.

  5. Robert Meyers explaining Complexity, Springer Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary:
    The Editor-in-Chief of the new Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science talks about this growing field and the need for such a comprehensive reference work.

    1. Chaos, Complexity, and Public Policy, Dialogue Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary: Interview where Irene Sanders explains how chaos and complexity can affect public policy.

  6. Complexity science and intentional systems, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: In their position paper entitled "Towards a new, complexity science of learning and education", Jorg et al. (2007) argue that educational research is in crisis. In their opinion, the transdisciplinary and interdiscursive approach of complexity science with its orientation towards self-organization, emergence, and potentiality provides new modes of inquiry, a new lexicon and assessment practices that can be used to overcome the current crisis. In this contribution, I elaborate on how complexity science can further be developed for understanding the dynamics of intentions and the communication of meaning as these are central to the social-scientific enterprise.

  7. Controlling the Velocity of Light Pulses, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: It is now possible to exercise a high degree of control over the velocity at which light pulses pass through material media. This velocity, known as the group velocity, can be made to be very different from the speed of light in a vacuum c. Specifically, the group velocity of light can be made much smaller than c, greater than c, or even negative. We present a survey of methods for establishing extreme values of the group velocity, concentrating especially on methods that work in room-temperature solids. We also describe some applications of slow light.

  8. Has the world economy reached its globalization limit?, Physica A Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: The economy globalization measure problem is discussed. Four macroeconomic indices of twenty among the “richest” countries are examined. Four types of “distances” are calculated. Two types of networks are next constructed for each distance measure definition. It is shown that the globalization process can be best characterised by an entropy measure, based on entropy Manhattan distance. It is observed that a globalization maximum was reached during the interval 1970-2000. More recently a deglobalization process has been observed.

  9. NASA Reproduces A Building Block Of Life In Laboratory, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered that an ice sample containing pyrimidine exposed to ultraviolet radiation under space-like conditions produces this essential ingredient of life. Pyrimidine is a ring-shaped molecule made up of carbon and nitrogen and is the basic structure for uracil, part of a genetic code found in ribonucleic acid (RNA). RNA is central to protein synthesis, but has many other roles. "We have demonstrated for the first time that we can make uracil, a component of RNA, non-biologically in a laboratory under conditions found in space," said (�).

  10. Lessons from Brazil: Why Is It Bouncing Back While Other Markets Stumble?, Knowledge@Wharton Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary:
    The sense of optimism in Brazil is palpable and it's not just because the country is getting ready to host soccer's World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympics in 2016. Brazil's economy was the first in Latin America to stage a recovery following the global economic crisis -- in the second quarter of this year. What has helped Brazil to remain so resilient while other markets are still struggling? And what can it do to maintain economic growth and become, as the World Bank predicts, the world's fifth-largest economy by 2016?

  11. Selfless Memes, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt:
    As he has done in earlier books, de Waal gives a lively and colorful account of the behavior of our closest living relatives, the great apes. He also reports the exploits of other species, including his pet cat and, indeed, himself. The Age of Empathy is not a dry scholarly monograph but an appealing mixture of scientific findings, anecdotes, and his personal views of human behavior.
    • Source: Selfless Memes, Johan J. Bolhuis, DOI: 10.1126/science.1181554, Science Vol. 326. no. 5956, p. 1063, 2009/11/20

  12. Predicting new molecular targets for known drugs, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Summary: Drugs that are chemically quite similar often bind to biologically diverse protein targets, and it is unclear how selective many of these compounds are. Because many drug"target combinations exist, it would be useful to explore possible interactions computationally. Here, 3,665 drugs are tested against hundreds of targets; chemical similarities between drugs and ligand sets are found to predict thousands of unanticipated associations.
    • Source: Predicting new molecular targets for known drugs, Michael J. Keiser, Vincent Setola, John J. Irwin, Christian Laggner, Atheir I. Abbas, Sandra J. Hufeisen, Niels H. Jensen, Michael B. Kuijer, Roberto C. Matos, Thuy B. Tran, Ryan Whaley, Richard A. Glennon, Jérôme Hert, Kelan L. H. Thomas, Douglas D. Edwards, Brian K. Shoichet & Bryan L. Roth, DOI: 10.1038/nature08506, Nature 462, 175-181, 2009/11/12

  13. The Narrow Line Between Love And Jealousy, Innovations-report Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: A new study carried out at the University of Haifa has found that the hormone oxytocin, also known as the "love hormone", which affects behaviors such as trust, empathy and generosity, also affects opposite behaviors, such as jealousy and gloating. "Subsequent to these findings, we assume that the hormone is an overall trigger for social sentiments: when the person's association is positive, oxytocin bolsters pro-social behaviors; when the association is negative, the hormone increases negative sentiments," explains (�). Previous studies have shown that the oxytocin hormone has a positive effect on positive feelings. (�)

  14. Mutation load and rapid adaptation favour outcrossing over self-fertilization, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: The tendency of organisms to reproduce by cross-fertilization despite numerous disadvantages relative to self-fertilization is one of the oldest puzzles in evolutionary biology. (...) Two competing explanations for the widespread prevalence of outcrossing in nature despite this inherent disadvantage are the avoidance of inbreeding depression generated by selfing and the ability of outcrossing populations to adapt more rapidly to environmental change. Here we show that outcrossing is favoured in populations of C. elegans subject to experimental evolution both under conditions of increased mutation rate and during adaptation to a novel environment. (...) Thus, each of the standard explanations for the maintenance of outcrossing are correct (...)

  15. The Communication of Meaning in Anticipatory Systems: A Simulation Study of the Dynamics of Intentionality in Social Interactions, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Psychological and social systems provide us with a natural domain for the study of anticipations because these systems are based on and operate in terms of intentionality. Psychological systems can be expected to contain a model of themselves and their environments social systems can be strongly anticipatory and therefore co-construct their environments, for example, in techno-economic (co-)evolutions.

  16. Why Can't Chimps Speak? Key Differences In How Human And Chimp Versions Of FOXP2 Gene Work, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpts: If humans are genetically related to chimps, why did our brains develop the innate ability for language and speech while theirs did not? Scientists suspect that part of the answer to the mystery lies in a gene called FOXP2. When mutated, FOXP2 can disrupt speech and language in humans. Now, a UCLA/Emory study reveals major differences between how the human and chimp versions of FOXP2 work, perhaps explaining why language is unique to humans. (�) the findings provide insight into the evolution of the human brain and may point to possible drug targets for human disorders characterized by speech disruption, such as autism and schizophrenia. (�)

  17. Opening the black box - Development, testing and documentation of a mechanistically rich agent-based model, Ecological Modelling Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Although increasingly widely used in biology, complex adaptive simulation models such as agent-based models have been criticised for being difficult to communicate and test. This study demonstrates the application of pattern-oriented model testing, and a novel documentation procedure to present a detailed agent-based model of the European brown hare, a species in widespread decline in Europe.

  18. Darwin's Contributions To Our Understanding Of Emotional Expressions, Phil. Tran. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Darwin charted the field of emotional expressions with five major contributions. Possible explanations of why he was able to make such important and lasting contributions are proposed. A few of the important questions that he did not consider are described. Two of those questions have been answered at least in part; one remains a major gap in our understanding of emotion.

    1. Emotions Increase Or Decrease Pain, Say Researchers, ScienceDaily Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Getting a flu shot this fall? Canadians scientists have found that focusing on a pretty image could alleviate the sting of that vaccine. According to a new Universit� de Montr�al study, (�) negative and positive emotions have a direct impact on pain. "Emotions -- or mood -- can alter how we react to pain since they're interlinked," says (�). "Our tests revealed when pain is perceived by our brain and how that pain can be amplified when combined with negative emotions." As part of the study, 13 subjects were recruited to undergo small yet painful electric shocks, which caused knee-jerk reactions (�).

  19. Book Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Complexity and Spatial Networks: In Search of Simplicity, Springer Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book offers a panoramic view of recent advances in spatial complexity, in order to enhance our understanding of complex spatial networks by simplicity in terms of both the basic driving forces of systemic impacts and the modelling of such systems. Simple models mapping out the evolution of complex networks are undoubtedly a key issue in spatial economic research. In exploring this untrodden ground, this volume pursues new interdisciplinary pathways for theoretical, methodological and empirical analysis in the complex interconnected space-economy. It highlights ‘evolutionary’ directions and ‘unifying’ perspectives in this fascinating research field.

    2. Mind Force, Human Attractions (Studies of Nonlinear Phenomena in Life Science), World Scientific Publishing Company Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      Connections between genes and molecules, neurons and hormones, thinking and language, people and organizations create a continuous flow of synchronized interactions. These intermingled interactions form dynamical networks across many scales, from molecular, to biological, to cognitive and social. In a sequence of cycles, the reader is guided in this heterogeneous hypernetwork to discover the fields and landscapes of Mind Force. Mind, brain, body and society emerge from the same stream through the complexity of nature: the energy of Mind Force and human attractions.

    3. Ecosystem Geography: From Ecoregions to Sites, Springer Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book outlines a system that subdivides the Earth into a hierarchy of increasingly finer-scale ecosystems that can sever as a consistent framework for ecological analysis and management. The system consists of a three-part, nested hierarchy of ecosystem units and associated mapping criteria. Delineating units involves identifying the environmental factors controlling the spatial geography of ecosystems at various levels and drawing boundaries where they change significantly. Macroscale units (ecoregions) are climatically controlled and delineated as Köppen-Trewartha climate zones. Nested within these are landscape mosaics, the mesoscale units, controlled by landform and delineated by Hammond’s landform regions. At the microscale are individual sites controlled by topographically determined topoclimate and soil moisture regimes.

    4. A Systems Approach to Leadership: How to Create Sustained High Performance in a Complex and Uncertain Environment, Springer Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      A Systems Approach to Leadership (SAL) is a methodology for creating sustained high performance in conditions of high complexity and uncertainty. SAL places the latest developments in Systems Science into an actionable method for use by everyday leaders. It enables leaders to develop themselves and their organisation (or part of it) quickly and effectively to achieve a competitive advantage in a complex and uncertain world. SAL consists of an integrated framework with an overall strategy of whole system development. Central to the framework is a practical method which can be used by any leader at any organisational level. (...)

    5. Ecology, Cognition and Landscape: Linking Natural and Social Systems, Springer-Verlag Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      It is more and more evident that our living system is completely disturbed by human intrusion. Such intrusion affects the functioning of entire systems in ways we do not yet fully understand. We use paradigms such as the disturbance to cover large and deep gaps in our scientific knowledge.

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    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

    2. Conference Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Darwin09, International Workshop on 150 Years after Darwin: From Molecular Evolution to Language, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 09/11/23-27
      2. Emergence in Geographical Space: Concepts, Methods and Models International Conference, Paris, France, 2010/11/23-25
      3. Vers une science et ingénierie des systèmes complexes, Paris, France, 2010/11/25-27
      4. Health and Complex Systems Workshop, Lyon, France, 09/11/30-12/01
      5. 9th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Pisa, Italy, 09/11/30-12/02
      6. World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2009), Coimbatore, India, 09/12/9-11
      7. IWSOS 2009, the Fourth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, 2009/12/9-11
      8. Dynamics Days 2010, Evanston, IL, USA, 10/01/04-07
      9. NECSI Winter School on Complex Systems, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2010/01/04-15
      10. 5th Biennial Convention about the philosophical, epistemological, and methodological implications of the Theory of Complexity, Havana, Cuba, 10/01/6-8
      11. Conference on Dynamics of Layering in Biological Systems, Pasadena, California, USA, 2010/01/15-16
      12. 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2010), Valencia, Spain, 10/01/22-24
      13. Networks: A Framework for cross-disciplinary applications,Zaragoza, Spain, 2010/02/3-6
      14. 4th International Nonlinear Science Conference, University of Palermo, Sicily, 2010/03/15-17
      15. 20th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, EMCSR 2010, University of Vienna, Austria, 10/04/6-9
      16. EvoStar 2010 , Istanbul, Turkey, 10/04/7-10
      17. International Conference on Computer Supported Education, Valencia, Spain, 10/04/7-10
      18. International Conference on Computational Science 2010 (ICCS 2010), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2010/05/31-06/2
      19. The IV International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization - NICSO 2010, Granada, Spain, 10/05/12-14
      20. ICEIS 2010 (12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, 10/06/6-10
      21. International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2010) , London, UK, 2010/06/28-30
      22. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010), Portland, Oregon, USA, 2010/07/7-11
      23. The 2010 Advanced Geographical Analysis and Modeling Workshop, Neve Ilan, Israel, 2010/07/8-10
      24. 2010 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, 10/07/18-23
      25. European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), Copenhagen, Denmark, 10/08/09-20
      26. Amorphous Computing and Complex Biological Networks, University of Sheffield, UK, 2010/08-17-20
      27. Artificial Life XII (ALife XII), Odense, Denmark, 10/08/19--23
      28. ANTS 2010, Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Brussels, Belgium, 10/09/8-10
      29. European Conference on Complex Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010

    3. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. ASSYST Digital Library. Since 09/09

      2. Complex Systems Teleconferences. Since 09/09

      3. Symmetry Festival 2009, Budapest, Hungary, 09/08/1-4.

      4. International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, 09/06/8-12

      5. Memorial Service for Dr Gottfried Mayer, Founding Editor Complexity Digest, Taipei, Taiwan (1954-2009). Video [RM], 09/02/13

      6. Making Connections: In Memory and Celebration of the Life of Dr. Gottfried Mayer (1954-2009). Video [RM] [MPG], 09/02/13

      7. Eulogy for Gottfried Mayer by Dean LeBaron [WMV, 25 Mb], [RM, 10 Mb], 09/02/10

      8. Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?, Danielle Parsons, Slatev.com, 08/07/22

      9. Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007
      10. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 08/01/22-27
      11. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      12. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      13. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      14. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      15. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      16. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      17. Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
      18. An Afternoon with Michael Crichton, Washington, 05/11/06
      19. Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
      20. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      21. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      22. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      23. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      24. 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
      25. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      26. 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
      27. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      28. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      29. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      30. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      31. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      32. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      33. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      34. Edge Videos

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