Geoffrey West Master of Complexity, Time
Excerpts:  DAN PEEBLES FOR TIME |
Science has never been a world of discrete disciplines. Rather, physics, geology, economics, psychology, even the arts all overlap in a kind of meta-system, with the principles of one touching those of the others.
- Source: Geoffrey West Master of Complexity
[ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187290,00.html ], Murray Gell-Mann, Time, 06/04/30
West, One Of Time's 'Most Influential', Los Alamos Monitor
Excerpts: The results feature insights into universal systems of scaling in living organisms and answer previously unanswerable questions, like why a human lives to be more like 100 years old than 100 days old.
SFI has blazed new trails for scientific inquiry by dissolving barriers that separated physics from biology, and mathematical power laws from economics. Ideas originating in the chemistry of emerging properties have illuminated surprising new areas of social sciences.
- Source: West, One Of Time's 'Most Influential'
[ http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/2006/05/02/headline_news/news02.txt ], Roger Snodgrass, Los Alamos Monitor, 06/05/02
- Source: West, One Of Time's 'Most Influential'
'Time' Gives Nod To 'Master Of Complexity, The New Mexican
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Time calls West the master of complexity. His work crosses the lines of various academic disciplines , in an effort to understand major problems facing societies today.
Geoffrey West, president and distinguished professor at the Santa Fe Institute, has been selected by the editors of Time as one of the world's '100 most influential and powerful people.'Though things might seem random and chaotic around us, West searches for the great simplicity that unravels it. He is looking into the fate of cities, for instance, and whether they can be understood like organisms, which share common patterns of behavior.
- Source: 'Time' Gives Nod To 'Master Of Complexity
[ http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/43069.html ], Diana Heil, The New Mexican, 06/05/02
- Source: 'Time' Gives Nod To 'Master Of Complexity
Computer Simulations: Technological Advances in Inquiry Learning, Science
Excerpts: The promise offered by inquiry learning is tempered by the problems students typically experience when using this approach. Fortunately, integrating supportive cognitive tools with computer simulations may provide a solution. Learning by Inquiry
Studies of young students' knowledge and skills indicate that many students in large parts of the world are not optimally prepared for the requirements of society and the workplace (1). To meet this challenge, curricula should be designed to help students learn how to regulate their own learning, how to continue to gain new knowledge, and how to update their existing knowledge.
- Source: Computer Simulations: Technological Advances in Inquiry Learning
[ http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/312/5773/532 ], Ton de Jong, DOI: 10.1126/science.1127750, Science: Vol. 312. no. 5773, pp. 532 - 533, 06/04/28
The Open Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable, Cogprints
Excerpt: (...) Which research is being used most? By whom? Which research is growing most quickly? In what direction? under whose influence? Which research is showing immediate short-term usefulness, which shows delayed, longer term usefulness, and which has sustained long-lasting impact? Which research and researchers are the most authoritative? Whose research is most using this authoritative research, and whose research is the authoritative research using? Which are the best pointers (“hubs”) to the authoritative research? Is there any way to predict what research will have later citation impact (based on its earlier download impact), so junior researchers can be given resources before their work has had a chance to make itself felt through citations? Can research trends and directions be predicted from the online database? Can text content be used to find and compare related research, for influence, overlap, direction? Can a layman, unfamiliar with the specialized content of a field, be guided to the most relevant and important work? These are just a sample of the new online-age questions that the Open Research Web will begin to answer.
- Source: The Open Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable
[ http://cogprints.org/4841/ ], Shadbolt, Nigel, Brody, Tim, Carr, Les, Harnad, Stevan, Cogprints, 2006/04/16
- Source: The Open Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable
Collective Representational Content for Shared Extended Mind, Cognitive Systems Research
Excerpt: Some types of species exploit the external environment to support their cognitive processes, in the sense of patterns created in the environment that function as external mental states and serve as an extension to their mind. In the case of social species the creation and exploitation of such patterns can be shared, thus obtaining a form of shared mind or collective intelligence. This paper explores this shared extended mind principle for social species in more detail. (...)- Source: Collective Representational Content for Shared Extended Mind
[ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2005.11.007 ], Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Martijn C. Schut, Jan Treur, DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2005.11.007, Cognitive Systems Research 7(2-3):151-174, 2006/06
Subliminal Advertising May Work After All, New Scientist
Excerpts: The researchers asked 61 volunteers to perform a nonsense task - counting how many times a string of capital Bs was infiltrated by a lower-case b as they flashed up on a screen. The B strings appeared for 300 milliseconds each, and before them, a string of Xs always appeared, flanking a 23-millisecond subliminal message. For the experimental group, the message was "Lipton Ice". Controls saw "Nipeic Tol".- Source: Subliminal Advertising May Work After All
[ http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025494.400-subliminal-advertising-may-work-after-all.html ], Alison Motluk, New Scientist, 06/04/28
Why Popular Stocks Are a Sucker's Bet, Morningstar.com
Excerpts: A recent study points out, yet again, how fickle we humans are.
Any student of the market is by necessity a student of human psychology and the behavior of crowds. With that in mind, consider a study published in the Feb. 10 issue of Science magazine. The authors, Matthew J. Salganik and Peter Sheridan Dodds of Columbia University, and Duncan J. Watts of the Santa Fe Institute, studied how people judged music when left to their own devices, versus how they judged music when they knew how popular the music was among their peers.
- Source: Why Popular Stocks Are a Sucker's Bet
[ http://news.morningstar.com/article/article.asp?id=162973 ], Haywood Kelly, Morningstar.com, 06/05/03
- Source: Why Popular Stocks Are a Sucker's Bet
Your Thoughts Are Your Password, Wire News
Excerpts: What if you could one day unlock your door or access your bank account by simply "thinking" your password? Too far out? Perhaps not. Researchers at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, are exploring the possibility of a biometric security device that will use a person's thoughts to authenticate her or his identity.
Their idea of utilizing brain-wave signatures as "pass-thoughts" is based on the premise that brain waves are unique to each individual.
- Source: Your Thoughts Are Your Password
[ http://wired.com/news/technology/0,70726-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 ], Lakshmi Sandhana, Wired News, 06/04/27
Ultrasound's New Focus - Can It Eradicate Tumors?, Science News
Excerpts: The Dominican Republic and various other countries, including Canada, England, and Mexico, permit doctors to treat prostate cancer with a technique called high-intensity focused ultrasound, or HIFU. It often avoids the irreversible side effects, including impotence, that can arise during surgery, radiation, and the other treatments available in the United States. In the Santiago hospital, urologist George Suarez and his assistants inserted a transducer emitting ultrasonic waves into Reinwald's rectum. The curved transducer put the waves on converging paths in the same way that a magnifying glass focuses sunlight. (...)
- Source: Ultrasound's New Focus - Can It Eradicate Tumors?
[ http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060429/bob8.asp ], Ben Harder, Science News, 06/04/29 - AUDIO - Audible Format
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Cure For Cancer Worth $50 Trillion, Innovations-report
Excerpts: A new study (...) calculates the prospective gains that could be obtained from further progress against major diseases. (...) estimate that even modest advancements against major diseases would have a significant impact - a 1 percent reduction in mortality from cancer has a value to Americans of nearly $500 billion. A cure for cancer would be worth about $50 trillion. "We distinguish two types of health improvements - those that extend life and those that raise the quality of life," explain the authors. (...)
- Source: Cure For Cancer Worth $50 Trillion
[ http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/report-58516.html ], Innovations-report & University of Chicago Press Journals, 2006/04/28 - Contributed by Atin Das - dasatin
yahoo.co.in
- Source: Cure For Cancer Worth $50 Trillion
Wrinkled Cell Nuclei May Make Us Age, Nature News
Excerpts: In the continued quest to pinpoint the molecules that turn us wrinkly and grey, some scientists are beginning to think that the walls of the cell nucleus might play an important role. A new study shows that cells from people over the age of 80 tend to have specific problems with the nucleus that young children's cells do not. The elderly nucleus loses its pert, rounded shape and becomes warped and wrinkled.
- Source: Wrinkled Cell Nuclei May Make Us Age
[ http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060424/full/060424-11.html ], Helen Pearson, Nature News, 06/04/27
Universe In Flux: Constant Of Nature Might Have Changed, Science News
Excerpts: Scientists have long assumed that a few characteristics of the cosmos are as unvarying as the laws of physics themselves. These so-called constants of nature include the speed of light in a vacuum and the masses of some elementary particles. Now, a team of physicists and astronomers in the Netherlands, Russia, and France has found signs that one of the constants has undergone a subtle shift since the infancy of the universe.
- Source: Universe In Flux: Constant Of Nature Might Have Changed
[ http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060429/fob1.asp ], Peter Weiss, Science News, 06/04/29 - AUDIO - Audible Format
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A Universal Constant On the Move, News@Nature
Excerpt:
Is the proton losing weight, or has the fabric of the Universe changed?
How heavy is a proton compared to an electron? The answer seems to have changed over the past 12 billion years. © Punchstock
It seems that nothing stays the same: not even the 'constants' of physics. An experiment suggests that the mass ratio of two fundamental subatomic particles has decreased over the past 12 billion years, for no apparent reason. (...)- Source: A Universal Constant On the Move
[ http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060417/pf/060417-7_pf.html ], Mark Peplow, DOI: 10.1038/news060417-7, News@Nature, 2006/04/20
- Source: A Universal Constant On the Move
Energy-Saving Space Engines: Black Holes Can Be Green, Science
Excerpts:  SPACE SHOOTERS. Unlike blindingly bright young quasars that radiate light, older black holes emit their energy as superfast jets of particles (white spiral). NASA/CXC/M. Weiss |
Though these black holes produce relatively little radiation, previous Chandra observations had noted the formation of large cavities in the surrounding gas clouds, as if the black holes were blowing bubbles tens of thousands of light-years across.
- Source: Energy-Saving Space Engines: Black Holes Can Be Green
[ http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060429/fob5.asp ], Carolyn Gramling, Science News, 06/04/29 - AUDIO - Audible Format
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Simulation Suggests Peaceful Origin for Giant Planet's Weird Spin, Science
Excerpts: How do you knock over a planet? Easy: Just give it a glancing blow from a smaller object. That's how astronomers have always explained the strange fact that Uranus is lying on its side, with its spin axis almost parallel to its orbit around the sun. But an Argentine astronomer says violence is unnecessary: Uranus's axial tilt, along with the tilts of its fellow gas giant planets, can be explained by gravitational perturbations alone.Editor's Note: Resonance effects are central to many phenomena in complex, non-linear systems.
- Source: Simulation Suggests Peaceful Origin for Giant Planet's Weird Spin
[ http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/312/5773/512a ], Govert Schilling, Science : 512-513., 06/04/28
The ABC's of Cheep, Cheep, Cheep, Science Now
Excerpts: Politicians, teachers, and even grandmothers chatting on telephones routinely use rambling sentences full of internal asides. The ability to piece together phrases in different combinations provides unlimited communicative capacity and helps distinguish humans from other species. But this ability may not be as unique as once thought. Starlings, 21-cm-tall, iridescent black songbirds native to Eurasia and North Africa, can understand similarly structured songs, according to a new study.- Source: The ABC's of Cheep, Cheep, Cheep
[ http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/426/3?etoc ], Elizabeth Pennisi, ScienceNOW Daily News, 06/04/26
Insect Eye Inspires Future Vision, BBC News
Excerpts:  A cross-section of the artificial eye reveals the complex internal structure beneath the lenses. |
The dome-shaped structure, described in the journal Science, is similar to a bee's eye.
The researchers, from the University of California, Berkeley, say the work may also shed light on how insects developed such complex, visual systems.
- Source: Insect Eye Inspires Future Vision
[ http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/2/hi/science/nature/4946452.stm ], BBC News, 06/04/27
Parasite-Resistant Mosquitoes: A Natural Weapon Against Malaria?, Science
Excerpts: In a world where mosquitoes were resistant to infection with parasites, no human being would suffer from malaria. With that idea in mind, some researchers are trying to sneak resistance genes into mosquitoes and encourage those genes to spread through the population. But a paper on page 577 of this issue suggests that engineering resistance into mosquitoes may be unnecessary. In an endemic area in Mali, researchers found that many Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes--Africa's most important malaria vector--are already resistant to Plasmodium falciparum, the malaria parasite.(...)
- Source: Parasite-Resistant Mosquitoes: A Natural Weapon Against Malaria?
[ http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/312/5773/514a ], Martin Enserink, Science : 514., 06/04/28
Researchers Identify Intelligence Gene, ScienceDaily
Excerpts: Psychiatric (...) have uncovered evidence of a gene that appears to influence intelligence. (...) examined the genetic blueprints of individuals with schizophrenia, a neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by cognitive impairment, and compared them with healthy volunteers. (...). "A robust body of evidence suggests that cognitive abilities, particularly intelligence, are significantly influenced by genetic factors. Existing data already suggests that dysbindin may influence cognition (...) We looked at several DNA sequence variations within the dysbindin gene and found one of them to be significantly associated with lower general cognitive ability in carriers of the risk variant compared with non-carriers in two independent groups."- Source: Feinstein Researchers Identify Intelligence Gene
[ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060427161424.htm ], ScienceDaily & North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System, 2006/04/21 - Contributed by Atin Das - dasatinyahoo.co.in
Scientists Make Water Run Uphill, BBC
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The droplets propel themselves over metal sheets scored with a carefully designed array of grooves.
The US scientists did the experiment to demonstrate how the random motion of water molecules in hot steam could be channelled into a directed force.
But the team, writing in Physical Review Letters, believes the effect may be useful in driving coolants through overheating computer microchips.
- Source: Scientists Make Water Run Uphill
[ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4955398.stm ], Roland Pease, BBC, 06/04/30 - VIDEO - Watch the drop move
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3681938.stm ]
Satellites Launched To Study Clouds, Washington Post
Excerpts: NASA yesterday launched two long-awaited satellites designed to provide the first three-dimensional views of Earth's clouds and help predict how cloud cover contributes to global warming. CloudSat and CALIPSO lifted off at 6:02 a.m. EDT aboard a two-stage Boeing Delta II rocket from the new Space Launch Complex 2W at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. Sixty-two minutes later, CALIPSO separated from the second stage, and CloudSat followed 35 minutes after that.
- Source: Satellites Launched To Study Clouds
[ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/28/AR2006042800899.html ], Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post, 06/04/29
'Clear' Human Impact On Climate, BBC News
Excerpts:  Weather balloons have provided climate data since the 1950s |
The report, from the federal Climate Change Science Program, said trends seen over the last 50 years "cannot be explained by natural processes alone".
It found that temperatures have increased in the lower atmosphere as well as at the Earth's surface.
- Source: 'Clear' Human Impact On Climate
[ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4969772.stm ], Richard Black, BBC News, 06/05/03
Fiddling While Fuel Burns, NY Times
Excerpts: Congress and President Bush are promising to solve the crisis of $3-a-gallon gasoline. But before we get to their eight-point plan (...): How about trying something that works? If your goal is to get Americans to burn less gasoline, then we've already hit on the best strategy. As long as the price of gas is high, people will drive less and buy cars with better gas mileage (...). But there's no guarantee the price of gas won't soon plummet - unless it's propped up by a tax.
Editor's Note: Here we see a nice example of two conflicting fitness functions: To solve the problem of high gas prices basic market economical principles require a lowering of demand for gas. Politicians wanting to be elected try to please voters with gifts that increase demand and which imply that billions of dollars need to be borrowed from countries like China and given to countries like Saudi Arabia.
- Source: Fiddling While Fuel Burns
[ http://select.nytimes.com/2006/04/29/opinion/29tierney.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print ], John Tierney, NYTimes, 06/04/29
Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
Terrorist Attacks Rose Sharply in 2005, State Dept. Says, Washington Post
Excerpts: The number of terrorist attacks worldwide increased nearly fourfold in 2005 to 11,111, with strikes in Iraq accounting for 30 percent of the total, according to statistics released by U.S. counterterrorism officials yesterday.
Although only half of the incidents resulted in loss of life, more than 14,600 noncombatants were killed, a majority of them in Iraq alone and 80 percent in the Near East and South Asia. American nonmilitary deaths totaled 56.
- Source: Terrorist Attacks Rose Sharply in 2005, State Dept. Says
[ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/28/AR2006042802181.html?referrer=email&referrer=email ], Karen DeYoung, Washington Post, 06/04/29
- Source: Terrorist Attacks Rose Sharply in 2005, State Dept. Says
US Says World Safer, Despite 11,000 Attacks In '05, Reuters
Excerpts: The U.S. war on terrorism has made the world safer, the State Department's counterterrorism chief said on Friday, despite more than 11,000 terrorist attacks worldwide last year that killed 14,600 people.
The U.S. State Department said the numbers, listed in its annual Country Reports on Terrorism released on Friday, were based on a broader definition of terrorism and could not be compared to the 3,129 international attacks listed the previous year.
- Source: US Says World Safer, Despite 11,000 Attacks In '05
[ http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-04-28T171845Z_01_N28365136_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SECURITY-USA.xml ], Reuters, 06/04/28
- Source: US Says World Safer, Despite 11,000 Attacks In '05
Weak States And Global Threats: Fact Or Fiction?, Washington Quarterly
Abstract: Little evidence underpins existing sweeping assertions about the connection between weak or failing states and transnational threats such as terrorism, proliferation, or disease, even though policy is being implemented accordingly. What characteristics of state weakness are really associated with which dangers?
- Source: Weak States And Global Threats: Fact Or Fiction?
[ http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/wash.2006.29.2.27 ], S. Patrick, DOI: 10.1162/wash.2006.29.2.27, Washington Quarterly, Mar. 2006, Online 2006/03/29 - Contributed by Atin Das - dasatinyahoo.co.in
- Source: Weak States And Global Threats: Fact Or Fiction?
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- Chronology for the Aegean Late Bronze Age 1700-1400 B.C., Sturt W. Manning, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Walter Kutschera, Thomas Higham, Bernd Kromer, Peter Steier, Eva M. Wild, 06/04/28, Science : 565-569. Radiocarbon ages from the Aegean region, along with the new age for the Santorini eruption, revise the inferred relations among Minoan, Egyptian, and Near Eastern cultures.
- Nanowires And Water Are A Memorable Mix, Kurt Kleiner, 06/04/28, NewScientist.com, Adding water to nanowires could create computer memory devices capable of storing 10 million times more information in the same physical space as existing drives.
- Nixing Malaria: DNA Segment Provides Parasite Resistance, 06/04/29, Science News, A section of the mosquito genome appears to give the insects a natural resistance to malaria.
- Grammar's For The Birds: Human-Only Language Rule? Tell Starlings, 06/04/29, Science News, A grammatical pattern called recursion, once proposed as unique to human language, turns out to fall within the learning abilities of starlings.
- Microbe Holds Fast, 06/04/29, Science News, A common aquatic microbe makes a sticky substance that produces the strongest biological adhesion ever discovered.
- Abuzz About Uranium, 06/04/29, Science News. A type of atomic vibration never before seen in ordinary solid materials has been observed in uranium. [These vibrational states are actually solitons, Ed.]
- Exploring Seasonal Patterns Using Process Modelling And Evolutionary Computation, P. A. Whigham, G. Dick, F. Recknagel - pwhighaminfoscience.otago.ac.nz, 15 May 2006, online 2006/01/06, Ecological Modelling, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.11.017
- Review. Theoretical Models Of Adaptive Energy Management In Small Wintering Birds, A. Brodin, 2006/04/19, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1812
- Lingerie Makes Hagglers Happy-go-lucky, Michael Hopkin, 2006/04/20, News@Nature, DOI: 10.1038/news060417-1
- Evolution Of 'Pollinator'- Attracting Signals In Fungi, F. P. Schiestl, F. Steinebrunner, C. Schulz, S. von Reu, W. Francke, C. Weymuth, A. Leuchtmann, 2006/04/26, Biology Letters, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0479
- Better Model Of Deadly Brain Cancer, 2006/04/26, ScienceDaily & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Infants Can Organise Visual Information At Just Four Months, 2006/04/28, Innovations-report & Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- 'Children Of The Ghetto': A Discussion On Immigrant Integration In The East End, 2006/04/28, Innovations-report & Queen Mary, University of London
- Review. The Ferrier Lecture 1998 The Molecular Biology Of Consciousness Investigated With Genetically Modified Mice, J.-P. Changeux, 2006/04/28, Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1832
- Navy Sonar Exercises May Have Played Role In Stranding Of Melon-headed Whales In Hawaii, 2006/04/28, ScienceDaily & National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
- Software Allows Neighbors To Improve Internet Access At No Extra Cost, 2006/04/28, ScienceDaily & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Dimensions Of Ecosystem Complexity: Heterogeneity, Connectivity, And History, M. L. Cadenasso - mary.cadenassoyale.edu, S. T. A. Pickett, J. M. Grove, Mar. 2006, online 2005/01/23, Ecological Complexity, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2005.07.002
- Complex Animal Distribution And Abundance From Memory-Dependent Kinetics, A. O. Gautestad - a.o.gautestadbio.uio.no, I. Mysterud, Mar. 2006, online 2005/12/15, Ecological Complexity, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2005.05.007
- From Cells To Colonies: At What Levels Of Body Organization Does The 'Temperature-Size Rule' Apply?, D. Atkinson - davidaliverpool.ac.uk, S. A. Morley, R. N. Hughes, Mar. 2006, Online 2006/02/23, Evolution & Development, DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2006.00090.x
- Size And Scaling Of Predator-Prey Dynamics, J. S. Weitz - jsweitzprinceton.edu, S. A. Levin, May 2006, Online 2006/03/24, Ecology Letters, DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00900.x
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