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Complexity Digest 2002.52 Next Issue TOP

  1. Breakthrough of the Year: Small RNAs Make Big Splash, Science
    1. The Runners-Up
    2. Areas to Watch in 2003, Science
  2. Corporate Chiefs Told To Follow Animal Urges, Nature
  3. On Emerging Coherence, Science
    1. Carbon Monoxide and Clocks, Science
  4. Mapping Human History, Science
    1. Genetic Structure of Human Populations, Science
    2. Gene Study Identifies 5 Main Human Populations, NYTimes
    3. Face To Face With Our Past, Nature
  5. Finding Genes That Underlie Complex Traits, Science
    1. Genomics: Return Of A Little Squirt, Nature
  6. The Driving Force For Life's Emergence: Kinetic And Thermodynamic Considerations,, J. Theor. Biol
    1. Evolution Was Chemically Constrained, J. Theor. Biol.,
    2. Computational Biology: Evolution Plays Dice, Nature
  7. Macroevolution Simulated With Autonomously Replicating Computer Programs, Nature
  8. The Inflammatory Reflex, Nature
    1. Points Of Control In Inflammation, Nature
    2. Inflammation And Cancer, Nature
    3. Inflammation In Atherosclerosis, Nature
    4. Inflammation And Therapeutic Vaccination In CNS Diseases, Nature
  9. Self-Organized Lane Formation And Optimized Traffic Flow In Army Ants, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B
    1. Self-Organized Asymmetries In Ant Foraging: A Functional Response To Food Type And Colony Needs, Behav. Ecology
  10. Bees In Two-Armed Bandit Situations: Foraging Choices And Possible Decision Mechanisms, Behav. Ecology
    1. Zero-Knowledge Cooperation In Dilemma Games, Theor. Biol.
  11. Have Brain Dynamics Evolved?,, CogPrints
  12. Neuroimaging Of Emotion And Personality, Brain and Cognition
  13. Adaptivity Through Alternate Freeing and Freezing of Degrees of Freedom, CogPrints
  14. Black And White Imagery Makes Dreams Monochrome, Nature Science Update
  15. Sustainable Development: Now We're Talking, Nature
  16. When The Web Starts Thinking For Itself, vnunet.com
  17. Secure Communication: Quantum Cryptography With A Photon Turnstile, Nature
  18. Cosmology: Background Comes To The Fore, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Bioterrorism: The Calm After The Storm, Science
    2. A Toast To Moral Clarity, NYTimes
    3. Biodefence: Ploughshares Into Swords, Nature
    4. Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror: An Individual-Based Computational Approach,, Working Paper
      1. Using Computer Simulations, Experts Devise Strategy to Contain Smallpox Attack, A Brookings Briefing Transcript
    5. Researchers Warn Biotech Advances Could Be Misused By Terrorists, ScienceDaily
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Complexity Digest 2002.51 Next Issue TOP

  1. Virtual World Will Run On Real Cash, New Scientist
    1. Living Under the Virtual Volcano of Video Games This Holiday Season, NYTimes
    2. Video Game Report Card, National Institute on Media and the Family
    3. Annual Video Game Report Card, c-span.org (video)
  2. Rat-Brained Robot, Technology Review
    1. Designing A Robot That Can Sense Human Emotion, ScienceDaily
  3. Butterflies Point to Micro Machines, BBC News
    1. Butterflies' Flights Disclose Free Spirits, NYTimes
    2. Unconventional Lift-Generating Mechanisms In Free-Flying Butterflies, Nature
  4. Biomechanics: Frogs In And Out Of Phase, Nature
  5. Purdue Works To Transform Ebola Virus From Killer To Healer, Purdue News
    1. Zebrafish Hold Clue to Mending Hearts, BBC News
    2. Heart Regeneration in Zebrafish, Science
  6. Medics Need To Evolve, BioMedNet Magazine
    1. Interactive Labs, Trends in Genetics 2002
    2. Sea Squirt Is Genetically Sequenced, The Associated Press
    3. Microbes From Edge Of Space Revived, NewScientist.com
  7. Alliance For Cellular Signaling: Into Unknown Territory, Nature
    1. Overview of the Alliance for Cellular Signaling, Nature
  8. HIV: Conformational Camouflage, Nature
  9. Antioxidants in Photosynthesis and Human Nutrition, Science
  10. Complex Adaptive Systems: Exploring The Known, The Unknown And The Unknowable, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc
  11. Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles, Science
    1. Nanocubes and Nanoboxes, Science
  12. Unsupervised Language Acquisition: Theory and Practice, arVix
    1. HebbNets: Dynamic Network with Hebbian Learning Rule, arVix
  13. Mental Models and Musical Minds, Science
    1. Study Shows How Brain Remembers Music, The Associated Press
    2. The Cortical Topography of Tonal Structures Underlying Western Music, Science
    3. The Mind Explains It All, NYTimes
  14. A Supercomputer to Save Earth?,, Associated Press
    1. Increasing River Discharge to the Arctic Ocean, Science
    2. Soil Warming and Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks to the Climate System, Science
    3. Cloudy Skies: Assessing Public Understanding of Global Warming, MIT Sloan Working Paper
    4. Sea-Floor Ecosystems: Trawling's a Drag for Marine Life, Say Studies
  15. The Internet in Everyday Life, Book Announcement
    1. 'Global Village' Not An Internet Reality: Sociologist
    2. Web Searches Take Cultural Pulse, Wired News
    3. Internet Growth and Economic Theory, Netnomics
    4. Consumer Choice Behavior and Electronic Shopping Systems A Theoretical Note, Netnomics
  16. The Economics of Animal Cooperation, Science
    1. Discounting and Reciprocity in an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma,, Science
  17. Stock Market Crashes Are Predictable, Major Decline Is Coming In 2003 And 2004, Says UCLA Physicist,, ScienceDaily
  18. Chaos Theory Pioneers Win Japan Prize, Guardian/AP
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. ISIS: Human Rights Severely Compromised By Sept 11, The Star Online
    2. Alleged Terror Leader Linked to Bali, The Guardian/AP
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Complexity Digest 2002.50 Next Issue TOP

  1. Artificial Life (A-Life 8), Video/Audio
  2. Thinking Machines, Reverse-Engineering The Brain, Discover
    1. Human Or Computer? Take This Test,, NYTimes
    2. Immune Computer Systems,, Computerworld,
  3. The World According to Google, MSNBC/Newsweek
  4. Searching For Your Inner Chimp, Natural History
  5. Helping Children Learn, but Not Forgetting the Fun, NYTimes
    1. Ohio Strengthens Teaching of Evolution,, NYTimes
  6. Empathy Leads To Fairness,, Bulletin of Math. Biol.
  7. Stable Risk-Sharing, J. Math. Economics
  8. Scientists Find Earliest "New World" Writings In Mexico, ScienceDaily
    1. Olmec Origins of Mesoamerican Writing, Science
  9. Self-Organized Lane Formation And Optimized Traffic Flow In Army Ants, Royal Soc. Proc. Biological Sc.
    1. Tree-Hole Frogs Exploit Resonance Effects, Nature
  10. Organization Of Work In The Honeybee: Labour And Behavioural Flexibility, Royal Soc. Proc. Biological Sc
  11. A Unique Design For Self-Organizing Robots Controlled By "Hormonal" Software, ScienceDaily
  12. Hydrodynamics: Bend And Survive, Nature
  13. Biology Aiding Nanotech Researchers,, UPI Science News
  14. Slaving: Solvent Fluctuations Dominate Protein Dynamics And Functions, PNAS
  15. Air Pollution Induces Heritable DNA Mutations, PNAS
  16. Humpty Dumpty and All That ...,, Science
    1. Guiding Neuronal Growth With Light, PNAS
  17. Immunology: Education And Promiscuity, Nature
  18. T Cells Take Aim At Cancer, PNAS
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Bush authorsizes CIA To Kill Some Terrorists
    2. US Terror War Targeting Muslims: Malaysian PM, 19.02
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Complexity Digest 2002.49 Next Issue TOP

  1. Statistical Physics Predicts Stock Market Gloom, New Scientist
  2. Has Pay For Performance Had Its Day?, The McKinsey Quarterly
    1. The Wisdom of the Anthill, Business 2.0
    2. School League Tables Are 'Meaningless', New Scientist
  3. Google Display Shows What The World Is Thinking About, Mercury News/NYTimes
    1. Fewer Media Owners, More Media Choices, NYTimes
  4. Bambi's Mother in the Cross Hairs, NYTimes
  5. Spider And Fly Swap Roles, Nature
  6. The Mouse Genome And The Measure Of Man, Science Daily
  7. Studies Challenge Thinking on Irregular Heart Rhythm, NYTimes
  8. Functional Integration And Inference In The Brain, Prog. in Neurobiol
  9. Inputs To And Outputs From The Mammalian Circadian Oscillators, Trends in Neurosc.
  10. Search For Sympathy Uncovers Patterns Of Brain Activity, ScienceDaily
  11. Laser Leads Nerve Growth, Nature
  12. Explaining The Nervous System In Terms Of Computer Programming, Cogprints
  13. Neural Mechanisms In Insect Navigation, Current Opinion in Neurobiol
    1. Novel Schemes For Hearing And Orientation In Insects, Current Opinion in Neurobiol
  14. Cosmic Rays, Clouds, and Climate, Science
    1. Outside-In: Clearing Up How Cloud Droplets Freeze
  15. Revolutionary New Theory For Origins Of Life On Earth, ScienceDaily
    1. New CU-NASA Research Belies Previous Idea That Mars Was Once Warm, Wet Planet, Science Daily
  16. Human Genetics: Mystery Of The Mutagenic Male, Nature
  17. Strong Magnets By Self-Assembly, Nature
  18. Immobots Take Control, Technology Review
    1. Crichton's Prey Novel And Agent-Based Simulation Of Combat, Discussion
    2. Swarming¡¨ Military Concepts and Capabilities, Meeting Announcement
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Analysis: Tense Times For Saudi Arabia,, BBC News Online
    2. Judge Grants 'Combatant' Access to an Attorney, Washington Post
    3. U.S. Can Target American Al-Qaida Agents, The Washington Post
    4. Tracking Six Legs Of Trouble, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2002.45 Next Issue TOP

  1. Election Selection, Are We Using the Worst Voting Procedure?, Science News
  2. How Can Extremism Prevail?, J. Artifi Soc & Soc Sim
  3. Botschafter der Komplexität [Ambassadors of Complexity], Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  4. Group Reputation Supports Beneficent Norms, J. Artifi Soc & Soc Sim
  5. Network Structures and Agreement in Social Network Simulations, J. Artifi Soc & Soc Sim
    1. Emergence Of A Complex And Stable Network In A Model Ecosystem With Extinction And Mutation, arXiv
  6. Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture And Individualized Societies, Harvard Univ. Press
    1. Anxious Worms Stick Together, Nature Science Update
    2. Animal Behaviour: When It Pays To Waggle, Nature
    3. Male Ants Disguised By The Queen'S Bouquet, Nature
  7. The (Super)Tree Of Life: Procedures, Problems, and Prospects, Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst.
    1. Evo-Devo Enthusiasts Get Down to Details, Science
  8. Conflict Brewing Over Herbicide's Link to Frog Deformities, Science
  9. Cell Dynamics During Somite Boundary Formation, Science
  10. Why 6-Legged Bots Rule, Wired
  11. An Electronic Cop That Plays Hunches, NYTimes
  12. Materials Science: Molecular "Ghosts", Science
  13. Electronic Nose Detects Pneumonia In Critically Ill Patients, ScienceDaily
  14. Mit Gets Plugged In For Global Data Archive, Nature
    1. Tribes Query Motives Of Knowledge Databases, Nature
    2. Forget the Files and the Folders: Let Your Screen Reflect Life, NYTimes
  15. New Book Offers Insights Into Who We Are, Caltech Press Release
  16. Neuroscience: Addicted, Nature
    1. Neural and Immunological Synaptic Relations,, Science
  17. Fuzzy Sets And Models Of Decision Making, Comp. & Math. with Appl.
  18. The Salmon of Doubt, Book Review
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Terrorist Acts, So Far Apart, Still Share Much In Common, Investor's Business Daily
    2. Yemen Silent on Claim US Drone Killed Militants, Reuters
    3. France Nabs 8 Linked to Tunisia Synagogue Blast, Reuters
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    5. Per Bak, Physicist of Sudden Change, Dies at 54, New York Times

Complexity Digest 2002.44 Next Issue TOP

  1. A New View of Our Universe: Only One of Many, NYTimes
  2. Systems Biology: Life's Complexity Pyramid, Science
    1. Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks,, Science
    2. Similar Patterns In Genes, Brains, Feeding, UPI Science News
    3. Transcriptional Regulatory Networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Science
    4. Growing And Navigating The Small World Web By Local Content, PNAS
  3. Thin Ice Opens Lead For Life On Europa, New Scientist
  4. Communities Make Forest Carbon Trading Work, Nature Science Update
    1. Tree Farms Won'T Halt Climate Change, New Scientist
    2. Aircraft Vapour Trails Are Climate Scourge, New Scientist
  5. Neural Economics And The Biological Substrates Of Valuation, Neuron
  6. Cancer Cell Study Revives Cellphone Safety Fears, New Scientist
    1. Cancer Biology: Enhanced: A Matter of Dosage, Science
  7. Gains in Understanding Human Cells, NYTimes
    1. Researchers Discover "Doorways" Into Brain Cells, ScienceDaily
    2. Seeking Smart Drugs, The Scientist
  8. Shaky Shoes Could Boost Balance, New Scientist
  9. Ageing: The Old Worm Turns More Slowly, Nature
  10. Circadian Rhythms: Finer Clock Control, Nature
    1. Feedback Loops and Time Delays in the Drosophila Circadian Oscillator, Biophys. J.
  11. The Evolution of Female Promiscuity, University of Sussex (Video)
  12. Placentas May Nourish Complexity Studies, Science
  13. 'Collective Stomach' Drives Wasp Society, New Scientist
  14. Sorting Out Software Complexity, Communications of the ACM
  15. Quantum, Physics: NOT Logic, Nature
    1. Experimental Realization Of The Quantum Universal NOT Gate, Nature
  16. Construction and Modulation of Synaptic Structures and Circuits, Science
    1. One Nostril Knows What The Other Learns, Nature
  17. Choosing A Biological Science Of Choice, Neuron
    1. Decoding The Relationship Between Sensory Stimuli, Decisions, And Reward, Neuron
  18. When is a Cognitive System Embodied?, Cognitive Systems Research
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. National Academies Slam Bush Proposal For Data Security, Nature
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Complexity Digest 2002.43 Next Issue TOP

  1. Discounting: An Eye On The Future, Nature
  2. On The Joint Determination Of Biological And Economic Systems, Ecological Economics
  3. Profit Sharing As A Worker Discipline Device, Economic Modelling
  4. Rules For A Complex Quantum World, Scientific American
  5. The Computational Universe, Edge.org
  6. Non-Stationary Time Correlation In Complex Systems, Nonlin. Phenom In Complex Sys.
  7. Self­Reproduction in Asynchronous Cellular Automata, University of Hertfordshire
  8. Thinking Of Radio As Smart Enough To Live Without Rules, NYTimes
  9. Does Grammar Start Where Statistics Stop?, Science
  10. Increase in Autism Baffles Scientists, NYTimes
  11. Screensavers Crack Medical Puzzle, BBC News
  12. Evolution: The Good, The Bad And The Lonely, Nature
  13. Genomic Imprinting, Edge.org
  14. Immunology: Catch Us If You Can, Nature
  15. Scientists Reveal How CJD Kills Cells, BBC News
  16. Shifting Sands, Science News
  17. Materials Chemistry: Liquid Crystals Stack Up
    1. Stacking Of Conical Molecules With A Fullerene Apex Into Polar Columns, Nature
  18. Computer Fix Thyself Is Aim of I.B.M. Unit, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. British Concern to Help, U.S. Track Terrorists, NYTimes
    2. Terrorism's Missing Link, Australian Financial Review
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Complexity Digest 2002.42 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Management Secrets of the Brain, Business 2.0
    1. A Question of Will,, Boston Globe Online
  2. Auditors Say U.S. Agencies Lose Track of Billions, NYTimes
    1. Defenseless Spending?, abcnews.com
  3. Unsolved Marketing Mysteries, Darwin Mag
    1. Solving The Freeloaders Paradox: Evolution Of Cooperation Among Nonrelatives, PNAS
  4. What Does The Internet Look Like?, The Economist
    1. Software Predicts User Behaviour To Stop Attacks, New Scientist
  5. Expanding Protein Universe And Its Origin From The Biological Big Bang, PNAS
  6. Plants Talk--But Can They Listen?, Science
  7. Microbial Food Webs: The Ocean's Veil, Nature
  8. Archaeology: Life With The Artificial Anasazi, Nature
    1. Open-Ended Artificial Evolution, arXiv
  9. Testosterone In Utero Dictates How Stressful Experience Will Affect Learning, PNAS
  10. Safer Gene Therapy Developed, BBC News
  11. Domino Effects From Battles Against Microbes, Science
  12. Making Bone: Novel Form Of Vitamin D Builds Up Rat Skeleton, Science News
    1. Biomineralization: At the Cutting Edge, Science
    2. Electrical Cues Regulate The Rate Of Wound Healing Invivo, PNAS
  13. Gene Prevents 'Brains Everywhere' U Utah Press Release
  14. Ecology: Biodiversity in the Scales, Nature
  15. Synchronizing to Periodicity: Transient Information and Synchronization Time, arXiv
  16. Single Photon Quantum Cryptography, Phys. Rev. Lett.
    1. Single Molecules: Molecular Entanglements, Science
    2. Quantum Experiment Asks 'How Big Is Big?', Science
  17. Mechanics: Buckling Cascades In Free Sheets
  18. Circular Reasoning, Cognitive Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Interdependent Security, Brookings Policy Brief
    2. Rumsfeld's Exaggerations: On The Sadam/Al Qaeda Link, In the National Interest
    3. Bali Bombing May Represent New Wave Of Al Qaeda Strikes, Washington Post
    4. Bali Bombing Fuels Debate on Iraq War
    5. Report Decries Saudi Laxity, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2002.41 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Nobel Prize Winners 2002, Nobel e-Museum
    1. A Nobel That Bridges Economics and Psychology, NYTimes
  2. Stock Market Shock Explained, Nature
  3. Modeling The Internet's Large-Scale Topology, PNAS
  4. Error Catastrophe And Antiviral Strategy, PNAS
  5. The Case for Studying Real-Life Bugs, Science
    1. What Mosquitoes Want: Secrets of Host Attraction, Science
  6. Immunology: Survival Of The Fitters, Nature
  7. Evolutionary Biology: Death In The Slow Lane, Nature
  8. Gene Therapy May Stop Cancer Spread, BBC News
    1. Neural Stem Cells Improve Motor Function In Brain Injuries, Science Daily
  9. Low Body Temperature, Time Dilation, & Conditioned Aversion In Rats, Neurobiol. of Learning & Mem.
  10. The Impressive Complexity in the Nautilus pompilius Shell, arXiv
    1. Picture Of The Low-Dimensional Structure In Chaotic Dripping Faucets, arXiv
  11. Instant Imaging Device Gives General Practitioners Safe Window Into Body, Sunday Telegraph
  12. Auditory Peripersonal Space in Humans, J. Cognitive Neuroscience
  13. Brain Processing Routes in Reading of Chinese Character and Pinyin, J. Cognitive Neuroscience
  14. Rethinking Behavior Genetics, Science
  15. Jealous? Maybe It's Genetic. Maybe Not, NYTimes
    1. Taking a Clinical Look at Human Emotions, NYTimes
  16. On The Similarity Of Identical Twin Fingerprints, Pattern Recognition
  17. Quantum Phase Transition In A Common Metal, Nature
  18. Is the Universe a Universal Computer?, Science Book Report
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. C.I.A. Warns That a U.S. Attack May Ignite Terror, NYTimes
    2. Pakistan: Religious Shadow On Terror War, UPI 
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Complexity Digest 2002.40 Next Issue TOP

  1. Imitating Nature Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery, Forbes
  2. Chemistry: Shattered Mirrors, Nature
  3. Was First Human To Speak Male?, Discovery News
  4. Seeking Deeper Meaning in the Babbling of Babies, NYTimes
  5. Making A Difference In American Education, Harvard University Gazette
    1. New Generation Of Toys Will Help Next Generation Of Kids' Development, San Antonio Express-News
  6. New Research Adds To Understanding Of Conscious Awareness, ScienceDaily
  7. Magicians' Deceit Put To Public Poll, Nature Science Update
  8. PC Makers Hit Speed Bumps; Being Faster May Not Matter, NYTimes
  9. Log-periodic Self-similarity: an Emerging Financial Law?, arXiv
  10. Random Perturbations and Lattice Effects in Chaotic Population Dynamics, Science
  11. Insecticide Resistance on the Move, Science
    1. A Single P450 Allele Associated with Insecticide Resistance in Drosophila, Science
  12. Malaria Genomes Cracked, BBC News
  13. Disposing Of Dying Cells Is Deadly Serious, Science News
    1. Cell Biology: Unchaining The Condemned, Nature
  14. Membrane Transport: The Making Of A Vesicle, Nature
  15. New Material Charges Up Lithium-Ion Battery Work, Science News
  16. Chemistry: Material Marriage In Electronics, Nature
    1. Self-Organization Of Supramolecular Helical Dendrimers Into Complex Electronic Materials, Nature
  17. Hydrogen Gas In Ice "Cages"- Implications For Fuel Cells And Space Science, ScienceDaily
  18. Molecular Machine Could Develop Drugs For Bioweapons Victims, ScienceDaily
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Al Qaeda's Troops Have Adapted. Have Ours?, Washington Post
    2. Unwanted Debate on Iraq-Al Qaeda Links Revived, Washington Post
    3. Uncle Osama Says: I Want You To Attack Iraq, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.com
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Complexity Digest 2002.39 Next Issue TOP

  1. Supercomputers Could Help Firefighters Stay Ahead Of The Flames, Technology Review
  2. Enterprise IT Complexity, Ubiquity
  3. SSgA May Implement Genetic Programming Investment Model, Risk News
  4. On The Multifractal Distribution Of Insured Property, Fractal
    1. Scaling Of Return Times For A High-Resolution Rainfall Time Series, Fractal
  5. Intrinsic Chaos And External Noise In Population Dynamics, arXiv
  6. Physiology: Unhealthy Surprises, Nature
  7. Fuzzy Pharmacology: Theory and Applications, Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
  8. Bacterial Defenses Predate Antibiotics, Science Now
  9. Awareness: Animal Reflections, Nature
  10. Behavioural Ecology: Nosy Neighbours, Nature
  11. Neurobiology: Plasticity And The Older Owl, Nature
    1. Plasticity Of The Auditory Space Map In Adult Barn Owl, Nature
  12. Escaping Free-Energy Minima, PNAS
  13. Hypercomputation: Computing More Than the Turing Machine, arXiv
  14. Developmental Biology: Sharp Peaks From Shallow Sources, Nature
    1. Robustness Of The BMP Morphogen Gradient In Drosophila Embryonic Patterning, Nature
  15. Physical One-Way Functions, Science
  16. Voice-Controlled Electronics, Alphagalileo
  17. Proposed Computer Defense System Could Protect Networks, ScienceDaily
  18. Improved Quantum Communication, Science
    1. Adaptive Homodyne Measurement of Optical Phase,, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. NAS Censors Report on Agriculture Threats, Science
    2. War Game Is Said to Show Shortages of Some Weapons, NYTimes
    3. Bush Outlines Doctrine of Striking Foes First, NYTimes
    4. Full Text: Bush's National Security Strategy,, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2002.38 Next Issue TOP

  1. Climate And Water, Nature Insight
    1. Reducing Uncertainty About Carbon Dioxide As A Climate Driver, Nature
    2. The Hydrologic Cycle In Deep-Time Climate Problems, Nature
    3. Constraints On Future Changes In Climate And The Hydrologic Cycle,, Nature
  2. Acceleration Of Rain Initiation By Cloud Turbulence, , Nature
  3. North-South Connection, Science
    1. Relative Timing of Deglacial Climate Events in Antarctica and Greenland, Science
  4. Food Production Or Atmospheric Methane?, PNAS
    1. Optimizing Grain Yields Reduces CH4 Emissions From Rice Paddy Fields, PNAS
  5. Macroecological Patterns Of Phytoplankton In The Atlantic Ocean, Nature
  6. Two Degrees Of Separation In Complex Food Webs, PNAS
    1. Food-Web Structure And Network Theory, PNAS
  7. [Complexity Of Land Ecosystem, In Chinese],, Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao
  8. Politics Returns in Forest Fire Debate,, NYTimes
  9. Social Behaviour: Mexican Waves In An Excitable Medium, , Nature
  10. Group May Estimate Effects of Tax Cuts, NYTimes
  11. Homosexual Tendencies in Flies Switched by Temperature, BBC News
    1. Male-male Courtship Behavior in Drosophila, PNAS
  12. First Biologic Pacemaker Created By Gene Therapy, ScienceDaily
    1. Self-Organized Pacemakers In Birhythmic Media, Physica D
  13. Principles and Networks for Self-Organization in Space-time, Neural Networks
  14. Selection of Catalysts Through Cellular Reproduction, arXiv
  15. Friction Traced To The Single Atom, PNAS
  16. Quantum Physics: Casimir Force Changes Sign, Nature
    1. Evidence For Van Der Waals Adhesion In Gecko Setae, PNAS
  17. Targeted Therapies, Will Gene Screens Usher In Personalized Medicine?, Science News
  18. Biology On The Global Scale,, Nature Book Review
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. America Had 12 warnings of Aircraft Attack, The Independent
    2. In Afghanistan, A Job Half Done,, Boston Globe
    3. Security Worries Stifle Report On Agricultural Bioterror,, Nature
    4. An Adapting Foe In A Changing War,, CNN Headline News
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Complexity Digest 2002.37 Next Issue TOP

  1. A Biological Understanding Of Human Nature,, Edge
  2. A Theory of Evolution, for Robots,, Wired
  3. Even Neurons Have Favorite Numbers, ScienceDaily
    1. Single-Neuron Arithmetic,, Science
    2. Representation of the Quantity of Visual Items in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex,, Science
  4. Math = Beauty + Truth / (Really Hard), Salon
  5. For An Irregular Lens, An Optical Blueprint,, NYTimes
  6. Immunology: The Roots Of Antibody Diversity,, Nature
  7. Stroke Stopper: New Vaccine Curbs Blood Vessel Damage In Lab Animals, Science News
  8. The Sympatric Evolution Of A Social Parasite In Real Time?, Behav. Eco. & Sociobiol.
    1. Pretender Punishment Induced By Chemical Signalling In A Queenless Ant,, Nature
  9. Cockroach Stability,, Science
  10. Food Webs In River Networks, Ecological Research
  11. Sex-Pheromone Link To Insect Evolution, Suggesting Problems For Pest Control ,, Cornell Press Release
  12. Hewlett Finds a Process to Make Chips Even Smaller, NYTimes
  13. Gossip Based Ad-Hoc Routing, arXiv
  14. Al Pacino in "Simone",, Here & Now
  15. Eerie Possibilities [Radio Frequency ID], Info World
  16. Baseball Injuries: Interview with Dr. Frank Jobe,, ESPN.com
  17. Signal Analysis Of Behavioral And Molecular Cycles, BMC Neurosci
  18. Materials Science: Edge Effects,, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Mapping the Minds in Iraq's Regime,, LA Times
    2. Homeland-Security Research: Mission Impossible?,, Nature
    3. Air Security Focusing on Flier Screening,, Washington Post
    4. Homeland Security: The White House Plan Explained And Examined,, Brookings Forum
    5. September 11, One Year Later: What's Ahead for an Altered Homeland,, Brookings Forum
    6. Investigating 9/11: An Unimaginable Calamity, Still Largely Unexamined, NYTimes
    7. New Deterrence Approach Needed to Discourage Terrorism,, National Academy Press
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Complexity Digest 2002.36 Next Issue TOP

  1. Cognitive Neuroscience: The Molecules Of Forgetfulness,, Nature
  2. Information Hiding in Product Development: The Design Churn Effect, MIT Sloan Working Paper
  3. 'The Innovation Factor: Your Brain on Innovation', Inc.com
  4. Sleep Forms Memory For Finger Skills,, PNAS
  5. Ageing: A Lethal Side-Effect,, Nature
    1. New Visions Of The Aging Mind And Brain, Trends in Cog. Sc.
  6. All Living Things Think, No Matter How Teensy,, NYTimes Books
  7. Coordination Of Circadian Timing In Mammals,, Nature
  8. Musical Minds, Trends in Cog. Sc.
    1. Quality Of Song Learning Affects Female Response To Male Bird Song, Royal Society Proc. Biol. Sc.
    2. Musical Approach Helps Programmers Catch Bugs, New Scientist
  9. The Mind Of The Sex Offender, Newsday
  10. Godmother’ Ant Uses Mob Tactics To Rub Out Rivals, Alphagalileo
  11. Rainstorms Could Trigger Killer Eruptions,, New Scientist
  12. Mysterious Smog On Saturn's Moon May Hide Clues To Origins Of Life, San Francisco Chronicle
    1. Scientists Look Out For Pollution Answers, The Associated Press
  13. On Farms, A No-Till Tactic On Global Warming, The Washington Post
  14. JohnnyVon: Self-Replicating Automata in Continuous Two-Dimensional Space, CogPrints
  15. Protein-DNA Computation By Stochastic Assembly Cascade, , PNAS
  16. Creating A Smarter Computer, 'Chatterbot' Programs Use Net, The Washington Post
  17. Co-Evolutionary Games on Networks, arXiv
  18. Hierarchical Organization of Modularity in Metabolic Networks, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Confronting Anti-American Grievances,, NYTimes
    2. How We Won the War, NYTimes
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    4. Biodiversity Learning Center, Online Course Announcement

Complexity Digest 2002.35 Next Issue TOP

  1. 7th Experimental Chaos Conference, San Diego, Ca, 02/08/26-29, Video/Audio Report
  2. An Extremely Simple Game With (Mostly) Unattainable Fixed Points, Complexity
  3. The Origins of Human Cooperation, SFI Working Papers
    1. Genealogical Evidence For Epidemics Of Selfish Genes, PNAS
    2. Ancient Ways, Harsh Terrain and Many Bugs, NYTimes
  4. Cool Cats Lose Out in the Mane Event, Science
    1. Sexual Selection, Temperature, and the Lion's Mane, Science
  5. Disarming The Mustard Oil Bomb, PNAS
  6. New Alzheimer's Treatments That May Ease the Mind, Science
    1. Scientists Improve Memory in Mice, Yahoo/AP
    2. Autism Link To 'Geek Genes', BBC
  7. Radical Concept Nativism, Cognition
    1. Rule Learning by Cotton-top Tamarins, Cognition
    2. Out of the Mouths of Babes Come Real Words, Yahoo/Reuters
  8. Organizational Design, Information Transfer, And Rent-Producing Resources, Comp. & Math. Org. Theory
  9. Can There Be a Science of Simulation? Why Should We Care?, Modeling & Simulation Magazine
  10. All About Me: Left Brain May Shine Spotlight On Self, Science News
  11. The Age of Assisted Cognition, Wired
    1. Transitions Between Dynamical States Of Differing Stability In The Human Brain, PNAS
    2. Does Schmoozing Make Robots Clever?, CNET News
  12. On the Emergence of Rules in Neural Networks, Neural Comp
  13. Evolutionary Neural Network Method in Predicting Pollutant Levels, Neurocomputing
  14. Water and Ice, Science
    1. Structural Studies of Several Distinct Metastable Forms of Amorphous Ice, Science
    2. Drops: The Collapse Of Capillary Jets, PNAS
  15. Physical Oceanography: Inside Whitecaps, Nature
    1. Scale Dependence Of Bubble Creation Mechanisms In Breaking Waves, Nature
  16. Prince of Dendrites?, Science
    1. Binary Genetic Switch Between Single- and Multiple- Dendrite Neuron Morphology, Science
  17. A Fresh Take on Disorder, Or Disorderly Science?, Science
  18. Scientists Say Earth Formed Faster, Yahoo/AP
    1. Forecast for Future: Deluge and Drought, NYTimes
    2. Atmospheric Science: Lasing On A Cloudy Afternoon, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Homeland Insecurity, The Atlantic Monthly
    2. A Win for Open Trials,, NYTimes
    3. New Anthrax Cure Could End Resistant Biowar Threat, Yahoo/Reuters
    4. A Bacteriolytic Agent That Detects And Kills Bacillus anthracis, Nature
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Complexity Digest 2002.34 Next Issue TOP

  1. Cooking the Books: The Cost to the Economy, Brookings Policy Brief
    1. Looking at the Books, the Government Way, NYTimes
    2. Digital Cash Payoff, Technology Review
  2. Logic in the Blocks, Science News
  3. Birds Spy on Neighbors to Choose Nest Sites, Science
    1. Public Information and Breeding Habitat Selection, Science
  4. 'Speech Gene' Tied to Modern Humans, Science
  5. Cosmic Smog 'Key To Life In Milky Way', New Scientist
    1. Why Specified Complexity Cannot be Purchased Without Intelligence, BioSystems
  6. Small Numbers of Big Molecules, Science
    1. Stochastic Gene Expression in a Single Cell, Science
  7. Protein-Misfolding Diseases: Getting Out Of Shape, Nature
  8. Signal Transduction: Positive Feedback From Coffee, Nature
  9. Cell Motility: Braking WAVEs, Nature
  10. Faster Chips That March to Their Own Improvised Beat, NYTimes
  11. Chip Design Aims For Quantum Leap, TRN News
  12. Superconductivity: Mind The Double Gap, Nature
  13. Macroscopically Ordered State In An Exciton System, Nature
  14. DARPA To Support Development Of Human Brain-Machine Interfaces, Duke News Service
    1. Eyes Write, Nature News Service
    2. Fast Hands-Free Writing By Gaze Direction, Nature
  15. Climate Model Under Fire As Rains Fail India, Nature
    1. Projecting How Climate Change May Rearrange Mexican Ecosystems, enVision
  16. Relational Techniques for Financial Applications, arXiv
  17. Pre-Integration Lateral Inhibition Enhances Unsupervised Learning, Neural Computation
  18. Dynamical Small-World Behavior In An Epidemical Model, Physica D
    1. Unexpected Consequences of Connections, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Making the Anti-Terrorism Pact Work, The Straits Times
    2. A White House in Search of a Policy, NYTimes
    3. The Technology of Megaterror, Technology Review
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Complexity Digest 2002.33 Next Issue TOP

  1. West Nile and Its Lessons for Doctors, NYTimes
  2. From Animals To Animats: Simulation of Adaptive Behavior 7 (SAB'02),, Video/Audio Reports
  3. Simple Solution to Stock Market Woes: Kill Corporate Dividend Tax,, Finance & Investment
    1. Diagrams To Help You Make Sense Of It All, Wall Street Follies
  4. Food & The Future, Nature
    1. Agricultural Sustainability And Intensive Production Practices, Nature
    2. Assessing The Risks Associated With New Agricultural Practices, Nature
    3. Towards Sustainability In World Fisheries,, Nature
    4. Evolution, Consequences And Future Of Plant And Animal Domestication, Nature
  5. Science and Sustainability,, Science
    1. Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature,, Science
    2. Water Scarcity: Forecasting the Future With Spotty Data,, Science
    3. Science, Sustainability, and the Human Prospect, , Science
  6. Europeans Try Air Fares Without the Fine Print, NYTimes
  7. The Neurology Of Social Cognition, Brain
  8. Two-level Evolution of Foraging Agent Communities,  Biosystems
  9. An fMRI Study Of Intentional And Unintentional Violations Of Social Norms, Brain
  10. Neural Correlates Of Self-Reflection, Brain
  11. Precise Firing Events Are Conserved Across Neurons, J. Neuroscience
  12. Environmental Stimulus Perception and Control of Circadian Clocks.,  Cur Op Neurobiology
    1. Effects Of Aging On Central And Peripheral Mammalian Clocks, PNAS
  13. A New Look At An Old Visual System: The Compound Eyes, J. Neurobiology
  14. Net Visionaries Seek New Vistas, Wired
  15. Reassessing The Evidence For The Earliest Traces Of Life, , Nature
  16. How Many Species Of Prokaryotes Are There?,, PNAS
    1. Estimating Prokaryotic Diversity And Its Limits,, PNAS
  17. Surface-Responsive Materials, Science
    1. How Surface Topography Relates to Materials' Properties, , Science
  18. Comment On "Experimental Violations Of Second Law Of Thermodynamics, arXiv
    1. Concentration Fluctuations In Mesoscopic Oscillating Chemical System,, PNAS
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. How Al Qaeda Slipped Away, Newsweek
    2. Hamdi Case Tests U.S. Government Resolve And Constitutional Limits,, AP/CNN
    3. The Odds of That, NYTimes
    4. Anthrax Inquiry Draws Protest From Scientist's Lawyers,, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2002.32 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Return Of Artificial Intelligence, The McKinsey Quarterly
  2. Chemistry Goes Green,, Science
    1. Green Chemistry: Science and Politics of Change, , Science
    2. Biodegradable Polymers for the Environment,, Science
  3. Violent Effects of Abuse Tied to Gene,, Science
    1. Role of Genotype in the Cycle of Violence in Maltreated Children, Science
    2. Resilient DNA: Gene May Brighten Future For Abused Kids, Science News
    3. Why Childhood Lasts, and Lasts and Lasts,, NYTimes
  4. Fat Chance: Cancer Drugs May Also Thwart Obesity, Science News
    1. A Sympathetic Defense Against Obesity,, Science
    2. Diet-Induced Thermogenesis and Obesity Resistance,, Science
    3. Communicating Science-Based Food and Nutrition Information,, J. Nutr.
  5. Single-Cell Gene Expression Profiling,, Science
  6. Behavioural Evolution: Does Similarity Breed Cooperation?, Nature
    1. Response "Does Similarity Breed Cooperation?", Nature
  7. Dynamical Systems Game Theory II,, Physica D
  8. Hearing Sounds, Understanding Actions,, Science
  9. Singapore Snakes Fly Without Wings,, MSNBC News
    1. Gliding Flight In The Paradise Tree Snake, Nature
  10. Crows Prove They Are No Birdbrains, BBC News
    1. Birds Are Found To Be Clever Tool Makers, Alphagalileo
    2. Shaping of Hooks in New Caledonian Crows, Science
  11. Fractal Geometry Predicts Varying Body Size Scaling Relationships, Nature
  12. Nature 'Pays Biggest Dividends', BBC News
    1. Population's Response To Environmental Noise, Eco. Modelling
    2. Do Wildlife Passages Act As Prey-Traps?, Biol. Conservation
  13. In an Ancient Game, Computing's Future, NYTimes
  14. Emergent Sound Repertoires in Virtual Societies,, Computer Music Journal
  15. Rebooting Civilization II,, Edge
  16. Design Of Message-Carrying Chaotic Sequences, Nonlin Phen in Complex Sys.
    1. Information Approach To Separation Of Chaotic Signals, Nonlin Phen in Complex Sys.
  17. Illuminating The "Black Box": A Randomization Approach, Eco. Modelling
  18. Small Worlds: The Dynamics Of Networks Between Order And Disorder, UK Nonlinear News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Meet Packbot: The Newest Recruit, CNN
    2. After Sept. 11, a Legal Battle Over Limits of Civil Liberty, NYTimes
    3. Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented?, Time
    4. Airlines, Airports Fault U.S. On Security, The Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2002.31 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Unstable Path To Cancer,, Science
    1. Debate Surges Over the Origins of Genomic Defects in Cancer,, Science
    2. Versatile Cells Against Intractable Diseases,, Science
  2. Stem Cells Rescue Retina, Nature Science update
  3. Communicating with Einsteins, Darwin Magazine
    1. Virtual People Help Bridge Digital Divide, BBC News
  4. Multiscale Entropy Analysis of Complex Physiologic Time Series, Phys. Rev. Let.
  5. Suggested Critical Behaviour of a Biologically Inspired Neural Network Model, arXiv
  6. Stock Market Swings Help Researchers Understand Extreme Events In Solar Wind, ScienceDaily
  7. Dogs Said To Have Basic Math Skills, CNN/Reuters
  8. Boeing's Challenge To The Laws Of Physics, Financial Times
  9. Agent Computing Themes in Models of Learning and Development,  Int J Develop Neuroscience
  10. Adaptive Learning and Coloniality in Birds, arXiv
  11. Modularity And Spatial Reorientation In A Simple Mind, Cognition
  12. Thought Before Language: How Deaf And Hearing Children Express Motion Events, Cognition
  13. Immunology: The Virtue Of Tolerance, Nature
  14. Silencing Viruses With RNA,, Nature
    1. Short Interfering RNA Confers Intracellular Antiviral Immunity In Human Cells, Nature
    2. Number of Genes Limited by Presence of Adaptive Immune System?,  Trends in Immunology
  15. New Horizons Of Nerve Repair: Proteins In Nerve Regeneration System, ScienceDaily
  16. Sonoluminescence: Inside A Micro-Reactor, Nature
    1. Photons, Radicals And Ions During Single-Bubble Cavitation,, Nature
  17. Mathematician Fills in a Blank for a Fresh Insight on Art,, NYTimes
  18. World Future Society Conference Report, Business Innovation Newsletter
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Judge Rebuffs Detainees at Guantánamo, NYTimes
    2. Judge Orders Names of Sept. 11 Detainees Released, NYTimes,
    3. Scientists Worry Journals May Aid Terrorists, NYTimes
    4. An Insecure Alliance,, WorldLink
    5. Al Qaeda Forming New Cells Worldwide
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    4. Position Announcement
    5. The Design Of Innovation, Book Announcement

Complexity Digest 2002.30 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Emergence Of Humans: The Coevolution Of Intelligence And Longevity, PNAS
    1. Interview With a Humanoid, NYTimes
    2. Longevity: Don't Hold Your Breath, Nature
    3. Calorie Restriction Extends Lifespan By Increasing Respiration, Nature
  2. Why We're So Nice: We're Wired to Cooperate, NYTimes
  3. Developmental Biology: Decisions, Decisions!, Nature
  4. Tweaking Single Gene Makes Mice Brainier, Scientific American
    1. Missized Mutants Help Identify Organ Tailors, Science
    2. Regulation of Cerebral Cortical Size by Control of Cell Cycle Exit in Neural Precursors, Science
  5. Eat Up Your Vaccine: Plant Extracts Provide Measles Immunity On A Plate, Nature Science update
    1. Implants Fight Back, Nature Science update
  6. Quantum Physics: Survival Of The Entangled, Nature
    1. Quantum Cryptography: Can You Keep A Secret?, Nature
  7. Supervised Training Using An Unsupervised Approach To Active Learning, Neural Process. Lett.
  8. Quantitative Neuroanatomy And Neuroinformatics, Network: Comput. Neural Syst.
  9. The World's Water: 2002-2003, Pacific Institute Press Release
    1. "New Economy of Water" Examines Privatization's Dangers, Pacific Institute Press Release
  10. The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc., Business 2.0
  11. With False Numbers, Data Crunchers Try to Mine the Truth, NYTimes
  12. Just-In-Time Strategy For A Turbulent World, The McKinsey Quarterly
    1. Loosening Up: How Process Networks Unlock The Power Of Specialization, The McKinsey Quarterly
  13. Two-Level Evolution of Foraging Agent Communities, Biosystems
    1. Symbolic Dynamics for Discrete Adaptive Games, arXiv
  14. The BlueTooth Question, DarwinMag
    1. JPEG Patent Claim Sparks Concern, Wired
  15. Why Countries Make Sites Unseen, Wired
    1. Meet the Nigerian E-Mail Grifters, Wired
  16. Chaotic Mixing Deep In The Lung, PNAS
    1. Breathing Causes Chaos, Nature Sc. Update
  17. A Pesticide-Parasite Role In Frogs' Deformities, The Washington Post
  18. Space Rock 'On Collision Course, BBC News report
    1. Ghostly Asteroids Clue To Missing Matter, U. Melbourne news release
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Fundamentals of Distributed, Networked Military Forces, NUWC-NPT Technical Report
    2. Standing Watch, Washington Post
    3. Mail-Order Molecules Brew a Terrorism Debate, Washington Post
    4. Flaws in U.S. Air War Left Hundreds of Civilians Dead, NYTimes
    5. Citizen Padilla: Dangerous Precedents, A Cato Daily Commentary
    6. Greater Focus Needed in Homeland Agency, Newsday
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Complexity Digest 2002.29 Next Issue TOP

  1. Complexity: The Bigger Picture, Nature
  2. Complexity-The Enemy Of Integration, Managing Information Strategies
  3. Psychosocial Predictors Of Emerging Adults' Risk And Reckless Behaviors,   J. Youth and Adoles
  4. Machine Learning In Real-Time Control Of Water Systems, Urban Water
  5. Whole Better Than Parts, Nature Science update
  6. Genome Shuffling Of Lactobacillus For Improved Acid Tolerance, Nature Biotechnology
  7. Gene Regulation: The Brave New World Of RNA, Nature
  8. Biodiversity: Bacterial Game Dynamics, Nature
    1. Local Dispersal Promotes Biodiversity In A Real-Life Game Of Rock-Paper-Scissors,, Nature
  9. Sperm Train To Win, Nature Science update
    1. Exceptional Sperm Cooperation In The Wood Mouse, Nature
  10. Theoretical Biology: Ants On A Turing Trail, Nature
  11. Sociogenomics Takes Flight, Science
    1. Evolution of the Gene Network Underlying Wing Polyphenism in Ants, Science
  12. Apoptosis: Repulsive Encounters, Nature
  13. Entropy: Beads Of Doubt, BBC Online
  14. On the Observability of Quantum Information Radiated from a Black Hole, arXiv
  15. It Slices! It Dices! Nanotube Struts Its Stuff, NYTimes
  16. The Rise and Fall of the Church-Turing Thesis, arXiv
  17. Diversification Of Synaptic Strength: Presynaptic Elements, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  18. Networking Comes Of Age, Nature Book Report
    1. Small Word Network, English Words Are Connected, Nature Science update
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. To Combat Terrorism, a Systems Approach is Vital, Wharton School
    2. National Strategy Document for Homeland Security, The White House
    3. Brookings Report Urges Congress to Revise President Bush's Homeland Security Proposal,, Brookings Press Briefing
    4. Assessing the Department of Homeland Security,, The Brookings Institution
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Complexity Digest 2002.28 Next Issue TOP

  1. Tracking The Ecological Overshoot Of The Human Economy, PNAS
    1. Bush Seeks New Business Ethic, CNN/Money
    2. Bush Defends Regulator From Critics, Washington Post
    3. Bush: Don't Do As I Did, CNN/Money
  2. Were 'Little People' the First to Venture Out of Africa?, Science
    1. A New Skull of Early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia, Science
  3. Eye Contact Detection In Humans From Birth, PNAS
  4. Parroting Builds Social Bonds, Nature Science update
  5. Aphids with Attitude, An Army Of Real-Life Adolescent Clones, Science News
  6. "Random Walkers" May Speed Peer-To-Peer Networks, New Scientist
  7. Ecologists See Flaws in Transgenic Mosquito, Science
    1. Patterns In Spatial Simulations: Are They Real?, Ecological Modelling
  8. Space-Time Characterization Of Soil Moisture From Remotely Sensed Data, Remote Sensing Env.
  9. Mixed Schools a Must for Fish?, Science
    1. Sustaining Fisheries Yields Over Evolutionary Time Scales, Science
    2. Fish Policies 'Ignore Evolution', BBC News
  10. Scientists Build Polio Virus From Scratch, NewScientist.com
    1. Polio Made From Scratch, Nature Science update
  11. Stem-Cell Competition, Nature
  12. Demand Management In Cells, Nature
  13. 'No Sex' Rule for Longer Life, BBC News
  14. Your Destiny, From Day One, Nature
    1. Fluid Flow And Broken Symmetry, Nature
    2. Left-Right Development: Conserved Function For Embryonic Nodal Cilia, Nature
    3. Determination Of Left-Right Patterning Of The Mouse Embryo, Nature
  15. Spatial Control Of Signal Release By Intracellular Waves, PNAS
    1. Traveling Metabolic Waves In Oxidant Release By Living Neutrophils, PNAS
    2. Traveling Waves Of Excitation In Neural Field Models, Neural Computation
  16. Collective Effort Makes the Good Times Roll, Science
  17. Spintronics Innovation Bids to Bolster Bits, Science
  18. Tomography And Spectroscopy As Dual Forms Of Quantum Computation, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. A War of Robots, All Chattering on the Western Front, NYTimes
    2. High-Tech Front In The War On Terror, CNN
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Complexity Digest 2002.27 Next Issue TOP

  1. Agent-Based Modeling: Methods and Techniques for Simulating Human Systems,, PNAS
    1. A Multitrajectory, Competition Model of Emergent Complexity in Human Social Organization, PNAS
    2. Learning Dynamics in Social Dilemmas, PNAS
    3. Competition Among Cooperators: Altruism and Reciprocity, PNAS
    4. Modeling Civil Violence: An Agent-based Computational Approach, PNAS
    5. Multiagent Model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley, PNAS
  2. An Economic Analysis Of Altruism: Who Benefits From Altruistic Acts?, JASSS
  3. Why Aren't We Collaborating?, Darwin Mag
  4. The Power Laws, The Science of Success, GetAbstract.com
  5. The Mind Of A Child, Nature Rev. Neurosc.
  6. Short-Memory Traders and Their Impact on Group Learning in Financial Markets, PNAS
    1. Trust, Cooperation, and Market Formation in the U.S. and Japan, PNAS
  7. Individual Complexity And Self-Organization In Foraging By Leaf-Cutting Ants,, Biol Bull
    1. Decision Rules In Insect Societies,, Biol Bull
  8. Memory Use In Insect Visual Navigation, Nature Rev. Neurosc.
  9. Nanoparticles Cut Tumors' Supply Lines, Science
  10. Biomolecules See the Light,, Science
    1. Conformational Dynamics in a Dipeptide After Single-Mode Vibrational Excitation,, Science
  11. When Life Got Hard,, Science
    1. Proterozoic Modular Biomineralized Metazoan,, Science
  12. Signs Earth Recovered Quickly From Asteroid, CNN, AP
    1. A Tropical Rainforest in Colorado 1.4 Million Years After the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary,, Science
  13. Restoring an Ecosystem Torn Asunder by a Dam,, NYTimes
  14. Human Ecological Intervention And The Role Of Forest Fires, Sc. of Total Env.
  15. Pharm Pollution: Excreted Antibiotics Can Poison Plants,, Science News
  16. Cell-Phone Buzz: Contradictory Studies Heat Up Radiation Question,, Science News
  17. Training Rats To Search And Alert On Contraband Odors, Appl. Animal Behaviour Sc.
  18. Warning Time Becomes Issue in Air Collision, NYTimes
    1. Deadly German Air Crash Avoidable-Safety Experts, , Reuters
    2. Q&A: Mid-Air Crash,, BBC
    3. TCAS, Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System, , MITRE Corporation Website
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Russia Glances to the West for Its New Legal Code,, NYTimes
    2. Lawyer Barred From U.S. Man but Not From the Man's Father, , NYTimes
    3. U.S. Defends Military Custody of Suspect in 'Dirty Bomb' Case,, NYTimes
    4. U.S. Might Refuse New Peace Duties Without Immunity, , NYTimes
    5. Anthrax? The F.B.I. Yawns, NYTimes
    6. Homeland Security Page Sucks, Darwin Mag
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Complexity Digest 2002.26 Next Issue TOP

  1. Untangling the Future, Business 2.0
  2. We Like The Look Of Lookalikes, Nature Science Update
  3. Collective Choice With Shared Knowledge Structures, J. of Math. Psycho.
  4. Neurobiology: Understanding The Consequences, Nature
  5. Visual Features Of Intermediate Complexity, Nature NeuroScience
    1. Feature-Based Attention In Human Visual Cortex, Nature NeuroScience
  6. Self-Organization And Selection In The Emergence Of Vocabulary, Complexity
  7. Numbers in Mind, Science News
  8. Nerves Tell Arteries to Make Like a Tree, Science
    1. A Generation Gap in Brain Activity,, Science
  9. Growth Patterns of Microscopic Brain Tumors,, arXiv
  10. Microbial Subversion Of The Immune Response, PNAS
    1. Variola Virus Immune Evasion Design, PNAS
  11. Bacterium Versus Fungus, Science
    1. An Ecological Role for Virulence Factors, Science
    2. Viral Manipulation Of The Cell Death Program,, J Gen Virol.
  12. Symbiosis Has Deep Roots, Nature Science Update
  13. Quirks of Fetal Environment Felt Decades Later, Science
  14. Intercellular Communication in the Mammalian Ovary, Science
  15. Physiology: Dynamic Instabilities In The Inflating Lung, Nature
  16. On The Evolution Of Cells,, PNAS
    1. Transposable Elements And The Evolution Of Eukaryotic Complexity, Curr Issues Mol Biol.
  17. Russia Can Save Kyoto, If It Can Do the Math, Science
  18. Pentagon Gets Defensive Over Missile Secrets,, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Re-Engineering The Drug Business, NYTimes
    2. War on Terror Makes for Odd Twists in Justice System,, NYTimes
    3. Plane in Restricted Airspace Near White House Exposes a Security Weakness,, NYTimes
    4. More Governments Choose To Use Linux, Not Windows, Gridtoday
    5. Energy In The 21st Century: What Americans Need To Know,, Brookings Institution
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Complexity Digest 2002.25 Next Issue TOP

  1. Crisis, Recovery, Innovation: Learning from 9/11, COI Columbia Univ. Working Papers
    1. Too Much Information, Not Enough Knowledg, NYTimes
    2. SFI Site News,, 02/06/18
  2. High Tech Evolves, Time
  3. Theory Challenges Darwin Doctrine Of Common Descent, UniSci
  4. It's All In Your Head, CBS 48 Hours
    1. Nanobots In The Brain, KurzweilAI.net
  5. Correlated Bursts of Activity in the Neonatal Hippocampus in Vivo, Science
  6. Toxic Proteins in Neurodegenerative Disease, Science
  7. Net 'Brain' Has All The Answers', BBCi
  8. Robot On The Run, The Age
  9. Technology Gives Sight to Machines, Inexpensively, NYTimes
  10. Computer Modeling of Feelings and Emotions, arXiv
  11. The Cyborgs Next Door, Business 2.0
    1. A Chip That Mimics Neurons, Firing Up The Memory, NYTimes
  12. Chips' Future Cast, Nature Science Update
    1. Optical Fibre Can Process Light As Well As Transmit It, Nature Science Update
    2. Silicon Quantum Computer, Nature Science Update
  13. Scientists Report 'Teleported' Data, Associated Press
  14. The Tortuous Behavior of Lightning, arXiv
  15. Range-Based Attack on Links in Scale-Free Networks, arXiv
  16. A 160,000-Year Record of Dune Development and Atmospheric Circulation, Science
  17. Humanity's Din In The Oceans Could Be Blocking Whales' Courtship, Cornell Press Release
  18. Flow and Storage in Groundwater Systems, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. US And Russia Launch Hunt For Lost Radioactive Material, New Scientist
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Complexity Digest 2002.24 Next Issue TOP

  1. International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS2002), Video/Audio Report
  2. Computational And Evolutionary Aspects Of Language, Nature
  3. Neural Systems Involved In 'Theory Of Mind', Nature Rev. Neuroscience
  4. Circadian Rhythms, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  5. Developmental Neurobiology: Cortical Liars, Nature
    1. Putting the Brakes on Regeneration, Science
  6. Sensory Systems: Mapping Out The Fly Brain, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  7. Complex-Trait Genetics: Emergence Of Multivariate Strategies, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  8. Neurons in Action, Science
    1. Direct Cortical Control of 3D Neuroprosthetic Devices, Science
  9. Cholera Strengthened by Trip Through Gut, Science
    1. Host-Induced Epidemic Spread Of The Cholera Bacterium, Nature
  10. Atmospheric Chemistry: Iodine's Air Of Importance, Nature
    1. Marine Aerosol Formation From Biogenic Iodine Emissions, Nature
  11. Pilotless Research Aircraft: Flying Free, Nature
  12. Biodiversity As A Barrier To Ecological Invasion, Nature
    1. Ecology: Darwin's Naturalization Hypothesis Challenged, Nature
  13. T Cell Activation in Six Dimensions, Science
  14. Statistical Mechanics: Far From Equilibrium, Science
    1. Equilibrium Information from Nonequilibrium Measurements, Science
  15. Complex Dynamics: Topology, Dynamics, and Synchronization, Intl. J. Bif. & Chaos
  16. Emergence Of Cooperation And Selection Of Interactions, arXiv
  17. Single-Atom Transistor, Enabling 'Virtual Dance Of Electrons', Cornell Press Release
  18. Noise-Resistant Chaotic Maps, Chaos
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Can Large-Scale Terrorist Attacks be Prevented?, OrgNet.com
    2. U.S. Argues War Detainee Shouldn't See a Lawyer, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2002.23 Next Issue TOP

  1. Complex Adaptive Systems, UK Nonlinear News
  2. Statistical Model Tackles World Cup Predictions, New Scientist
    1. France 0 : 1 Senegal, FIFAworldcup.com
    2. Penalties No Lottery, Nature Science Update
  3. Neuroscience: Will, Anterior Cingulate Cortex, And Addiction, Science
    1. Anterior Cingulate: Single Neuronal Signals Related to Degree of Reward Expectancy, Science
  4. Budgeting: 8 Ways to Take Control, Darwin Mag
    1. Bye-Bye Bar Codes? The Smart Chip Could Revolutionize The Supply Chain, Darwin Mag
  5. Steve Jobs: MPEG-4 Is The Next Big Thing, ZDNet
  6. Steering Reactions With Light, Science News
    1. Design And Control Of Patterns Of Wave Propagation In Excitable Media, Science
  7. Emerging Coherence in a Population of Chemical Oscillators, Science
    1. Self-Organized Nanostructures In Surface Chemical Reactions, Chaos
  8. Universe Is A Computer, Nature Science Update
    1. Computational Capacity Of The Universe, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  9. Scientists Add New Dimension to Supernovae Simulations, Scientific American
    1. The Life Cycle of Galaxies, Scientific American
  10. Explaining the Latitudinal Distribution of Sunspots with Deep Meridional Flow, Science
  11. Parallel Processing In High-Level Categorization Of Natural Images, Nature Neuroscience
  12. Dickerson's Formula: Biochemistry's Equivalent to Moore's Law, enVision
    1. Biochemical Modeling Helps Explain Complex Neural Junction in Chicken Embryo, enVision
  13. Redrawing the Brain's Map of the Body, Science
    1. Operant Reward Learning in Aplysia: Neuronal Correlates and Mechanisms, Science
  14. Chemical Weapons Trigger Civil War, Nature Science Update
  15. Ecology: Neutrality Versus The Niche, Nature
  16. Efficiency of Scale-Free Networks: Error and Attack Tolerance, arXiv
    1. Epidemic Threshold in Structured Scale-Free Networks, arXiv
  17. Nuclear physics: Weighing Up Nuclear Masses, Nature
    1. Nuclear Masses: Evidence of Order-Chaos Coexistence, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  18. Bose-Einstein Condensation: Making It With Molecules, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Rumsfeld Warns Al-Qaeda Could Exploit Indo-Pak Standoff, Hindustan Times
    2. Qaeda Said To Enter Pakistani Cities, International Herald Tribune
    3. CIA Gave FBI Warning On Hijacker, Washington Post
    4. FBI Whistle-Blower Assails Bloated Bureaucracy, Washington Post,
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Complexity Digest 2002.22 Next Issue TOP

  1. Freeman Dyson Offers Up New Extraterrestrial Search Ideas, The Planetary Society
    1. Life Can Go On Forever, Nature Science Update
  2. Anybody Really Know What Time Is?, Wired News
    1. The Intelligent Noncosmologist's Guide to Spacetime, Science
    2. A Foamy Road to Ultimate Reality, Science
  3. Elephants and Fleas: Is Your Organization Prepared for Change?, Leader to Leader
    1. Why Leaders Should Reconsider Their Measurement Systems"
  4. Can Chimps Ape Ancient Hominid Toolmakers?, Science
    1. Excavation of a Chimpanzee Stone Tool Site in the African Rainforest, Science
  5. A Bot That Knows Where It's Going, Wired News
    1. Klez: Hi Mom, We're No. 1, Wired News
    2. Robots In Invertebrate Neuroscience, Nature
  6. Financial Multifractality And Its Subtleties, arXiv
  7. Silicon Is Slow, Popular Science
  8. Open Your Mind: The Ethics Of Brain Science, The Economist
    1. The Future Of Mind Control, The Economist
  9. Vision: How To Catch Fast Signals With Slow Detectors, News in Physiological Sciences
  10. Trichromatic Color Vision In Primates, News in Physiological Sciences
  11. Neuronal Dynamics Under Periodic Stimuli, Int. J. Neural Systems
  12. Neural Rhythms In Parkinson¡¦s Disease, Brain
  13. A Computational Role For Slow Conductances, Nature Neuroscience
  14. Motion Illusions As Optimal Percepts, Nature Neuroscience
  15. Aging, Double Helix And Small World Property In Genetic Algorithms, arXiv
  16. A Comparison of the Training Value of Two Types of Anesthesia Simulators, Anesth Analg
  17. Creating Health In A Capricious World: The Role Of Chaos And Complexity, Author's Response
  18. Gould's Last Book Is Fitting Epitaph, Boston Globe
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. No Trade Off Between Human Rights And Security, Amnesty International Press Release/Video
    2. Amnesty International USA Release of 2002 Human Rights Report, C-Span Video
    3. F.B.I. Agent Says Superior Altered Report, Foiling Inquiry, NYTimes
    4. The Rowley Memo, NYTimes
    5. F.B.I. Chief Admits 9/11 Might Have Been Detectable, NYTimes
    6. How the FBI Blew the Case, Time, 02/05/25
    7. Thanks for the Heads-Up, NYTimes
    8. ACLU Blasts Plan to Use Flawed Facial Recognition System at Statue of Liberty and Other NY Landmarks, ACLU Press Release
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Complexity Digest 2002.21 Next Issue TOP

  1. A Reconstruction of the Initial Conditions of the Universe by Optimal Mass Transportation, arXiv
  2. Did an Impact Trigger the Dinosaurs' Rise?, Science
    1. Ascent of Dinosaurs Linked to an Iridium Anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, Science
  3. Sea Level Is Rising: Do We Know Why?, PNAS
    1. Twentieth Century Sea Level: An Enigma, PNAS
  4. A Hidden Arabidopsis Emerges Under Stress, Science
  5. Cooperativity Between Bacterial Chemotaxis Receptors, PNAS
    1. Collaborative Signaling By Mixed Chemoreceptor Teams In Escherichia coli, PNAS
  6. Staying Healthy Amidst Bacterial 'Overkill', Harvard University Gazette
  7. Is Face Processing Species-Specific During the First Year of Life?, Science
    1. Instructed Learning In The Auditory Localization Pathway Of The Barn Owl, Nature
    2. What Songbirds Teach Us About Learning, Nature
  8. Consciousness Based on Wireless?, Wired News
  9. Thinking About the Brain, arXiv
  10. Bell, Torvalds Usher Next Wave Of Supercomputing
    1. Gas-Filled Chip Bids to Outshine a Computer, Science
  11. Chaotic Synchronization Via Minimum Information Transmission, arXiv
  12. Identity and Search in Social Networks, Science
    1. Classification of Scale Free Networks, arXiv
    2. Simple Models Of Small World Networks With Directed Links, arXiv
    3. How Structure Affects Power-Law Behavior, arXiv
    4. Epidemics And Immunization In Scale-Free Networks, arXiv
    5. Pattern Detection in Complex Networks: Correlation Profile of the Internet, arXiv
  13. Myhrvold's Exponential Economy, TechnologyReview
  14. Corporate Research: Japan Asks Why More Yen Don't Yield More Products, Science
  15. Shrinking Fuel Cells Promise Power in Your Pocket, Science
    1. Biofuel Cells, Science
    2. The Battery: Not Yet a Terminal Case, Science
  16. Formation of a Matter-Wave Bright Soliton, Science
  17. Stephen Wolfram: What Kind Of Science Is This?, Nature
    1. The Next Newton?, Salon
  18. Paleontologist, Author Gould Dies At 60, Harvard University Gazette
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. The Army's New Killer App, BusinessWeek Online
    2. Digital Warriors: Artificial Intelligence May Help Spot Future Terrorism Attacks, ABC News
    3. Putting the Pieces Together, Darwin Mag, 02/02/01
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Complexity Digest 2002.20 Next Issue TOP

  1. Life and the Evolution of Earth's Atmosphere, Science
  2. Odds On Aliens: One In Three Planets Like Earth Probably Harbour Life, Nature Science Update
    1. Does The Rapid Appearance Of Life On Earth Suggest That Life Is Common In The Universe?, Astrobiology
    2. Deep Life in the Slow, Slow Lane, Science
  3. Ecosystem Health: The State Of The Planet, Nature
    1. Stability in Real Food Webs: Weak Links in Long Loops, Science
    2. From Elton to Mathematics and Back Again, Science
  4. Roots And Promises Of Chemical-Based Computing, Biosystems
  5. Does Complexity Constrain Organelle Evolution?, Trends in Plant Science
  6. 'Screen Language': The New Currency for Learning, HBSWK Pub
  7. A Man Who Would Shake Up Science, NYTimes
  8. Entropy And Complexity Of Finite Sequences As Fluctuating Quantities, BioSystems
  9. Conduction Pathways In Microtubules, Biological Quantum Computation, And Consciousness, BioSystems
    1. Our Mind Electric?, Alphagalileo
    2. Evidence For An Electromagnetic Field Theory Of Consciousness, J. Consciousness Studies
    3. Difficulties With The Electromagnetic Field Theory Of Consciousness, J. Consciousness Studies
  10. Distributions of Money in Model Markets of Economy, arXiv
  11. Dynamical Model Of Sequential Spatial Memory: Winnerless Competition Of Patterns, arXiv
  12. Genes For A Better Brain Found: Discovery Surprises Neuroscientists, Harvard University Gazette
  13. Neurons Keep Cells In Rhythm, BioMedNet
  14. Some Language Experts Think Humans Spoke First With Gestures, NYTimes
  15. The Irrelevance of Turing Machines to AI, University of Birmingham
  16. Mating Instabilities Lead to Sympatric Speciation, arXiv
  17. Tornado Alley, USA: New Map Defines Nation's Twister Risk, Science News
    1. Finding the What, When, Where and Why of the Supertwister, NYTimes
  18. September's Science: Shutdown Of Airlines Aided Contrail Studies, Science News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. U.S. Intercepting Messages Hinting At A New Attack, NYTimes
    2. Clues Surfaced Before Sept. 11, AP/NYTimes
    3. Senate's Shelby Blasts FBI on Flight School Memo, Reuters/NYTimes
    4. Survival In An Insecure World, Scientific American
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Complexity Digest 2002.19 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Future Of e-Business: The "Dinosaurs" Are Taking Over, Business Week
    1. In a Weekend, 'Spider-Man' Jump-Starts the Summer, NYTimes
  2. Rethink Your R&D With CoBrain, ZDNet
  3. Startup Uses Light, Not Electrons, For New Chip, ExtremeTech
  4. Enron Forced Up California Energy Prices, Documents Show, NYTimes
  5. Humans' Head Start: New Views of Brain Evolution, Science
    1. Development: Linguistic Ability And Early Language Exposure, Nature
  6. Nicotine Addiction: Neural Circuits And Molecular Genetics, J. Neuroscience
    1. Nicotine Self-Administration Impairs Hippocampal Plasticity, J. Neuroscience
  7. Planetary Biology--Paleontological, Geological, and Molecular Histories of Life, Science
    1. Renegade Fish Is Outlasting Even Bombings, NYTimes
  8. Antibiotics In Agriculture: When Is It Time To Close The Barn Door?, PNAS
    1. Animal Antibiotic Use Has An Early But Important Impact On The Emergence Of Antibiotic Resistance, PNAS
  9. Growth Clocked: Size And Temperature Predict Pace Of Life, Nature Science Update
    1. Effects Of Size And Temperature On Developmental Time, Nature
    2. Allometric Scaling And Maximum Efficiency In Physiological Eigen Time, PNAS
  10. Candidate-Gene Approaches For Studying Complex Genetic Traits, Nature Reviews Genetics
  11. Mechanisms Of Noise-Resistance In Genetic Oscillators, PNAS
  12. A Simple Model Of Global Cascades On Random Networks, PNAS
  13. All The World's A Net, New Scientist
  14. Mutant Viruses Order Quantum Dots, New Scientist
    1. Persistence Pays Off, Science
    2. Ordering of Quantum Dots Using Genetically Engineered Viruses, Science
  15. Developmental Biology: Modular Feedback, Nature
  16. Evolving Robust Robots Using Homeostatic Oscillators, COGS CSRP
    1. Temporally Adaptive Networks: Analysis Of GasNet Robot Controllers, COGS CSRP
  17. Learning In Artificial Life: Conditioning, Concept Formation And Sensorimotor Loops, COGS CSRP
  18. Enter The Cyborgs, USNews.com
    1. Cog - Is It More Than A Machine?, Times Online
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. To Fight Terror, We Can't Think Straight, The Washington Post
    2. Pentagon Proposal Worries Researchers, PNAS
    3. Buffett: Nuclear Attack 'Virtually A Certainty', AP/CNN
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Complexity Digest 2002.18 Next Issue TOP

  1. Complex Disease and the New Clinical Sciences, Science
    1. Schizophrenia: Diverse Approaches to a Complex Disease, Science
    2. Maneuvering in the Complex Path from Genotype to Phenotype, Science
  2. Coral Reefs Operate Free-Market Economy, New Scientist
  3. When Markets Go Mad, Physicists Try To Predict When Stock Prices Will Crash, Scientific American
  4. Critical Role Of The Hippocampus In Memory For Sequences Of Events, Nature Neuroscience
  5. Clock Mutation Lengthens The Circadian Period, Nature Neuroscience
  6. Coupled Replicator Equations for the Dynamics of Learning in Multiagent Systems, arXiv
    1. Parrondo Strategies for Artificial Traders, arXiv
  7. Unpredictable Evolution in a 30-Year Study of Darwin's Finches, Science
  8. Biodiversity: Invasions By Marine Life On Plastic Debris, Nature
  9. Social Insects: The Police State, Nature
    1. One Gene Determines Bee Social Status, Science
    2. Influence of Gene Action Across Different Time Scales on Behavior, Science
    3. Insect Swarming Inspires Jazz Software, New Scientist
  10. Rebranding the Hyena, Science News
  11. Emulating Biology: Building Nanostructures From The Bottom Up, PNAS
  12. Evolutionary Rate in the Protein Interaction Network, Science
  13. A Complexity Drain On Cells In The Evolution Of Multicellularity, Evolution
  14. Researchers Find a Eukaryotic mRNA Policing System, The Scientist
  15. Rain Is "Earthquake In The Sky", New Scientist
  16. A Conversation With Eric J. Heller: Not-So-Quantum Leap, NYTimes
  17. Scientists Create Remote-Controlled Rats, CNN/AP
    1. Using Robotics, Researchers Give Upgrade to Lowly Rats, NYTimes
    2. Rat Navigation Guided By Remote Control, Nature
  18. Parliament Of Dreams, World Link
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Judge Rules Against U.S. on Material-Witness Law, NYTimes
    2. No Case Vs. Man Who Knew Hijackers, AP/ NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2002.17 Next Issue TOP

  1. 5 Habits of Highly Reliable Organizations, Fast Company/MeansBusiness
    1. Management: Al Qaida, Un Modèle Économique?, Courrier International
  2. Winners Don't Take All: Characterizing The Competition For Links On The Web, PNAS
  3. Curvature Of Co-Links Uncovers Hidden Thematic Layers In The World Wide Web, PNAS
  4. Supercomputing '@Home' Paying Off for Other Research, NYTimes
    1. Supercomputer Smashes World Speed Record, New Scientist
  5. Biological Computation: Amazing Algorithms, Nature
    1. Solution of a 20-Variable 3-SAT Problem on a DNA Computer, Science
  6. Early Life Of Fetus Affects Organs' Future Health, Nature Science Update
  7. Heart And Liver Have Rhythm: Organ Clocks Orchestrate Physiology, Nature Science Update
  8. World Bank Aims To Help Poor Receive Elementary Education, NYTimes
  9. Learning Geometrically-Constrained Hidden Markov Models for Robot Navigation, JAIR
  10. Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Of A Cutting Process, Neurocomputing
  11. Entropic Analysis Of The Role Of Words In Literary Texts, Adv. Complex Sys
  12. Taiwan's Scientists Clone Pigs Which Carry Human DNA, AP/Taipei Times
  13. Non-Coding RNAs: The Architects Of Eukaryotic Complexity, EMBO Reports
    1. Biological Dark Matter, Newfound RNA Suggests A Hidden Complexity Inside Cells, Science News
    2. The Evolution Of Controlled Multitasked Gene Networks, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  14. Biodiversity: Microbial Genomes Multiply, Nature
  15. A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic Framework For The Dynamics And Stability Of Ecosystems, arXiv
  16. Deprived of Darkness, The Unnatural Ecology Of Artificial Light At Night, Science News
  17. Augmented Reality: A New Way of Seeing, Scientific American
    1. 3-D, and Ditch the Glasses, Wired
  18. Fighting Fruit Flies: A Model System For The Study Of Aggression, PNAS
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Saudi Prince Bluntly Tells Bush To Temper Support For Israel, NYTimes
    2. The US's Mideast Disconnect, The Brookings Institution/The Christian Science Monitor
    3. Standing Alone With Our Views on Terrorism, The Brookings Institution/LA Times
    4. White House Cut 93% Of Funds Sought To Guard Atomic Arms, NYTimes
    5. House Panel Backs Bush Plan For Nevada Nuclear Waste Site, NYTimes
    6. Early Statistical Detection Of Anthrax Outbreaks By Tracking Over-The-Counter Medication Sales, PNAS
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Complexity Digest 2002.16 Next Issue TOP

  1. Supramolecular Chemistry And Self-Assembly Special Feature: Reaching Across The Sciences, PNAS
    1. Toward Complex Matter: Supramolecular Chemistry And Self-Organization, PNAS
    2. Self-Assembly Of Mesoscopic And Macroscopic Components, PNAS
    3. Molecules Within Molecules: Recognition Through Self-Assembly, PNAS
    4. Controlled Disassembling Of Self-Assembling Systems: Toward Artificial Molecular-Level Devices And Machines, PNAS
    5. Chemical Synthesis: The Art Of Chemistry, Nature
  2. Researchers Find 3,600-Mile Ant Supercolony, CNN/AP
    1. Evolution Of Supercolonies: The Argentine Ants Of Southern Europe, PNAS
    2. The Many Selves of Social Insects, Science
  3. Caterpillar Saliva Beats Plant Defences, Nature
  4. Pesticide Blamed For Sexual Mutation In Frogs, CNN/AP
    1. Frogs Put In The Gender Blender By America's Favourite Herbicide, Nature
    2. Environmental Sustainability: Perspectives on the World, Online Course
  5. Self-Discrimination, a Life and Death Issue, Science
    1. Pathogen Surveillance--the Flies Have It, Science
    2. Neutrality: A Necessity for Self-Adaptation, arXiv
  6. Multiple Mechanisms Of Spiral Wave Breakup In A Model Of Cardiac Electrical Activity, arXiv
  7. Multiple Devices Fabricated in a Single Nanowire, Semiconductor International
  8. The Next Generation Of Computers Will Be Timeless, Alphagalileo
  9. How Life Originated In Space, Alphagalileo
  10. Gene Activity Clocks Brain's Fast Evolution, Science
    1. Intra- and Interspecific Variation in Primate Gene Expression Patterns, Science
  11. DNA Chips Lead Medical Revolution, CNN/AP
  12. Clearing A Path For Nerve Growth, Nature
  13. Role Of Eye, Head, And Shoulder Geometry In The Planning Of Accurate Arm Movements, J. Neurophysiology
  14. Perceiving Patterns In Random Series: Dynamic Processing Of Sequence, Nature Neuroscience
  15. Music Services Aren't Napster, But The Industry Still Cries Foul, NYTimes
    1. Microsoft Learns A Lesson From Competition, CNN
  16. Exploiting Synergy Between Ontologies and Recommender Systems, arXiv
    1. Local Search in Unstructured Networks, arXiv
  17. Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction, Book Announcement
  18. Early Cowboys Herded Cattle in Africa, Science
    1. African Pastoralism: Genetic Imprints of Origins and Migrations, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Informational Warfare, NYTimes
    2. A Rising Toll for Bush, NYTimes
    3. Chávez's Second Chance, NYTimes
    4. U.S. Treatment of War Captives Is Criticized, NYTimes
    5. Mission Impossible, NYTimes
    6. Machines Are Filling In For Troops, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2002.15 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Cereal of the World's Poor Takes Center Stage, Science
    1. The Importance of Rice, Science
    2. Rice: Boiled Down to Bare Essentials, Science
    3. A Deal for the Rice Genome, Science
  2. An Extensive Network Of Coupling Among Gene Expression Machines, Nature
  3. Genetics: Immaculate Misconception, Nature
  4. Medicine: Danger - Misfolding Proteins, Nature
    1. Inherent Toxicity Of Aggregates Implies A Common Mechanism For Protein Misfolding Diseases, Nature
  5. A Complexity Drain On Cells, Evolution
  6. Organized Assembly Of Carbon Nanotubes, Nature
  7. Order Amidst Turbulence, Science
    1. Long-Lived Vortices As A Mode Of Deep Ventilation In The Greenland Sea, Nature
  8. Luminous Matter May Arise From A Turbulent Plasma State Of The Early Universe, arXiv
  9. The Semantic Web, ITRI, Brighton University
  10. Seeing With Sound, ABC News
    1. Perceiving Patterns In Random Series: Dynamic Processing Of Sequence In Prefrontal Cortex, Nature Neuroscience
  11. Dynamics Of Brain Activation: An Electrophysiological Study, Brain Topography
  12. Simulated Evolution of Language: a Review of the Field, JASSS
    1. The Role Of Oblivion, Memory Size And Spatial Separation In Dynamic Language Games, JASSS
  13. Innovation Trends, Emerald
  14. A Multi-Agent Simulation Platform For Modeling Perfectly Rational And Bounded-Rational Agents In Organizations, JASSS
    1. The Integration of Defectors in a Cooperative Setting, JASSS
  15. Cooperation and Competition Between Relatives, Science
    1. Breeding Together: Kin Selection and Mutualism in Cooperative Vertebrates, Science
  16. Everyone Is A Winner In A Two-Atom Quantum Computer Game, Nature Science Update
    1. Games People Play on Computers, NYTimes
    2. Wanted: Video Game Developers Of Tomorrow, CNN
  17. Accelerated Growth Of Networks, arXiv
  18. Smaller Spiders Are Better Lovers, Nature Science Update
    1. Climbing To Reach Females: Romeo Should Be Small, Evolution
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Transcript of Warren Bass's Visit, NYtimes.com
    2. Washington Is Criticized for Growing Reluctance to Sign Treaties, NYTimes
    3. Systematic United States Disregard Of Its Treaty Obligations Jeopardizes Nuclear Nonproliferation And Global Security, IEER
    4. Rule of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties, IEER/LCNP
    5. A Treaty Bush Shouldn't 'Unsign', NYTimes
    6. Will an International Criminal Court work?, BBC Online
    7. Afghan Officials Arrest Hundreds in Bombing Plot, NYTimes
    8. The War On Terrorism: What Does It Mean for Science?, Audio Files from the AAAS Symposium , 01/12/18
    9. Complexity, Global Politics, and National Security, National Defense University
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Complexity Digest 2002.14 Next Issue TOP

  1. Icy Birth? Amino Acids Form In Simulations Of Space Ice, Science News
    1. Astrobiology: Seeds Of Life?, Nature
    2. Amino Acids From Ultraviolet Irradiation Of Interstellar Ice Analogues, Nature
  2. Can Good Genes Explain The Peacock's Tail?, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
    1. All People Who On Earth Do Dwell, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
    2. Inbreeding Effects In Wild Populations, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  3. Does Complexity Constrain Organelle Evolution?, Trends in Plant Science
  4. Bright Idea: Protein Relocation Helps Eyes Adapt To Light, Science News
  5. Chaos In Learning A Simple Two-Person Game, PNAS
  6. Social Intelligence, Innovation, And Enhanced Brain Size In Primates, PNAS
    1. Wild Chimps Rocked On: Apes Left Unique Record Of Stone Tools
    2. Nephews, Cousins . . . Who Cares? Detecting Kin Doesn't Mean Favoring Them, Science News
  7. Neuroimaging: The Sight Of Two Brains Talking, Nature
    1. Neuroscience: Moving Through The Landscape, Science
  8. Hominid Economics, Nature Book Report
  9. A Dim View Of A `Posthuman Future', NYTimes
  10. Seeing Around Corners, The Atlantic Monthly
    1. The Science of Surprise, Discover
  11. Universal Laws In Application To Evolutionary Economics, Nonlin. Dyn., Psycho., Life Sc.
  12. Creating Health In A Capricious World: The Role Of Chaos And Complexity, UK Nonlinear News
  13. Theory Of Complex Systems And Economic Dynamics, Nonlin. Dyn., Psycho., Life Sc.
  14. The Complexity Of Collective Decision, Nonlin. Dyn., Psycho., Life Sc
  15. Forbidden Information, arXiv
  16. Graphical Information: Charting the Virtual World, Darwin Magazine
    1. The Structure Of Broad Topics On The Web, arXiv
    2. Customer Friendly IM (Instant Messaging), Darwin Magazine
  17. Toward Self-Organization and Complex Matter, Science
    1. Nanotubes Self-Assemble Into Circuit Elements, EE Times
  18. Conflicts Of Interest: Can You Believe What You Read?, Nature
    1. Dispute Arises Over a Push to Change Climate Panel, NYTimes
    2. Deciphering Contradictory Antarctic Climate Patterns, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Airport Security: Terminal Evacuations Put People at Risk, NPR
    2. U.S. Fears Afghan Farmers Can't End Cash Crop: Opium, NYTimes
    3. Qaeda and Taliban May Ply Pakistan's Porous Frontier, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2002.13 Next Issue TOP

  1. 'A Beautiful Mind' Is Best Picture, CNN
    1. Madness In The Garden Or Worm In The Apple?, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
    2. Reelin' in Clues to Schizophrenia, Science Now
    3. Gene Expression Profiling Reveals Alterations of Specific Metabolic Pathways in Schizophrenia, J. Neurosci.
  2. Plectics: The Study Of Simplicity And Complexity, Europhysics News
    1. The Most Seductive Equation In Science: Beauty Equals Truth, NYTimes
  3. Scientific Publishing: Peer Review, Unmasked, Nature
  4. Ancient DNA Untangles Evolutionary Paths, Science
    1. Dynamics of Pleistocene Population Extinctions in Beringian Brown Bears, Science
    2. Rates of Evolution in Ancient DNA from Adélie Penguins, Science
  5. African Skull Points to One Human Ancestor, Science
    1. Unified Erectus: Fossil Suggests Single Human Ancestor, Science News
  6. Excavations In Eastern Europe Reveal Ancient Human Lifestyles, Science Daily Mag, U. Colorado at Boulder
  7. Control of Synaptic Strength by Glial TNFalpha, Science
    1. Materials Science: Breaking The Neural Code, Nature
  8. Neurobiology: Ready To Unlearn, Nature
    1. Signal For The Extinction Of Conditioned Eyelid Responses, Nature
  9. The Psychophysiology of Real-Time Financial Risk Processing, J. Cognitive Neuroscience
    1. The Good, The Bad, And The Anterior Cingulate, Science
    2. The Medial Frontal Cortex and the Rapid Processing of Monetary Gains and Losses, Science
    3. Impulsive Rats Illuminate Decision-Making, Science Now
  10. Self-Organization and Identification of Web Communities, IEEE Computer
    1. Finding Networks Within Networks, Science News
    2. Social Networks From The Web To The Enterprise, Internet Computing
    3. The Singularity: A Talk With Ray Kurzweil, Edge.org
  11. Evolution Of An Antiviral RNAse Of Higher Primates, PNAS
  12. Enriched Odor Exposure Improves Odor Memory, J. Neurosci.
  13. Timing Of Chemical Signal Critical For Normal Emotional Development, National Inst. Mental Health
    1. Non-Human Primate Models For Investigating Fear And Anxiety, Neurosc. Behav. Rev.
  14. Molecules, Muscles, And Machines: Universal Performance Characteristics Of Motors, PNAS
  15. An Analysis Of Nest Building In Golden Hamster, Behavioural Processes
  16. Efficient Coding Of Natural Sounds, Nature Neuroscience
  17. Complexity Of Human Immune Response Profiles, Autoimmunity
  18. Statistical Analysis Provides Key Links in Milosevic Trial, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Bombs and Quakes, NYTimes
    2. Grinding Terror or Grand Adventure: Choose Your War, NYTimes
    3. Try Suing Saddam, NYTimes
  20. Links & Snippets
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Complexity Digest 2002.12 Next Issue TOP

  1. Cold Atoms And Quantum Control, Nature
    1. Nonlinear And Quantum Atom Optics, Nature
    2. Quantum Information Processing With Atoms And Photons, Nature
  2. Grammar: The Barest Essentials, Nature
  3. Resisting Attack, Science
  4. Embryonic Assembly Of A Central Pattern Generator Without Sensory Input, Nature
  5. Genetics And General Cognitive Ability (g), Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  6. Rejection Massively Reduces IQ, NewScientist
  7. Brain-Machine Interface: Instant Neural Control Of A Movement Signal, Nature
    1. Neurons Weigh Options, Come to a Decision, Science
  8. Facial Expression Of Pain: An Evolutionary Account, Brain And Behavioral Science
  9. Deviants, Inc, Fastcompany.com
  10. Time Series Analysis For Minority Game Simulations of Financial Markets, arXiv
  11. Alternative Insecticides: An Urgent Need, Trends in Parasitology
  12. Kinetic Origin of Heredity in a Replicating System with a Catalytic Network, arXiv
  13. The Tests We Know We Need, NYTimes
  14. Molecular Electronics Advances Two Steps Closer to Reality, Scientific American
    1. Strange Attractor Simulated On A Quantum Computer, arXiv
  15. Made To Order, IBM Makes Sense Of Unstructured Data, Think Research
  16. Pattern Storage And Processing In Attractor Networks, Network: Comput. Neural Syst.
  17. Slow Feature Analysis: Unsupervised Learning of Invariances, Neural Comp
    1. Redistribution of Synaptic Efficacy Supports Stable Pattern Learning in Neural Networks, Neural Comp.
    2. Why Synaptic Transmission Should Be Unreliable, Neural Comp.
  18. Self-Organized Complexity In The Physical, Biological, And Social Sciences, PNAS
    1. Fractal Dynamics In Physiology: Alterations With Disease And Aging
    2. Allometric Scaling Of Metabolic Rate From Molecules And Mitochondria To Cells And Mammals
    3. Proteins: Paradigms Of Complexity
    4. Turbulence In Nature And In The Laboratory
    5. What Might We Learn From Climate Forecasts?
    6. "Waves" vs. "Particles" In The Atmosphere's Phase Space: A Pathway To Long-Range Forecasting?
    7. Positive Feedback, Memory, And The Predictability Of Earthquakes
    8. Unified Scaling Law For Earthquakes
    9. Self-Organization In Leaky Threshold Systems: Implications For Earthquakes, Neurobiology, And Forecasting
    10. Predictability Of Catastrophic Events: Material Rupture, Earthquakes, Turbulence, Financial Crashes, And Human Birth
    11. Self-Organization, The Cascade Model, And Natural Hazards
    12. Complexity And Robustness
    13. Natural Variability Of Atmospheric Temperatures And Geomagnetic Intensity Over A Wide Range Of Time Scales
    14. Wavelet Analysis Of Shoreline Change On The Outer Banks Of North Carolina: An Example Of Complexity In The Marine Sciences
    15. Self-Organized Complexity In Economics And Finance
    16. Random Graph Models Of Social Networks
    17. Scaling Phenomena In The Internet: Critically Examining Criticality
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Bush Puts 'Fair Trial In Doubt', CNN/Reuters,
    2. Rules for Military Terror Trials Set, Criticized, Reuters/NYTimes
    3. Rumsfeld Gives Details of Rules for Military War Tribunals, NYTimes
    4. Covering Terrorism: The Media and 9/11, Fathom Course
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Complexity Digest 2002.11 Next Issue TOP

  1. Is the Information Revolution Dead?, Business 2.0
  2. Small Schools, Big Lessons, The McKinsey Quarterly
  3. New Algorithm Exploits Community Structure Of The Web, Nature
    1. Capturing Knowledge of User Preferences: Ontologies on Recommender Systems, arXiv
    2. Interface Agents: A review of the Field, arXiv
    3. On Learning by Exchanging Advice, arXiv
  4. Decentralization as Organizing Principle of Emergent Urban Structures, arXiv
  5. Social Intelligence, Innovation, And Enhanced Brain Size In Primates, PNAS
  6. Statistical Methods for Natural Language Processing, Computer Science Colloquium, Cornell University
  7. Central Mechanisms Of Motor Skill Learning, Current Opinion in Neurobiology
    1. Motor And Cognitive Functions Of The Ventral Premotor Cortex, Current Opinion in Neurobiology
    2. Neural Mechanisms Of Object Recognition, Current Opinion in Neurobiology
    3. Attention In The Brain, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  8. Time, Space, and Short-Term Memory, Brain and Cognition
    1. Timing, Clocks, And Dynamical Systems, Brain and Cognition
      1. Voluntary Timing And Brain Function: An Information Processing Approach, Brain and Cognition
  9. Functional Localization In The Human Brain, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  10. Smart Mars Rovers To Think, Work As Team, CNN Headline News
  11. Identification Of A Cold Receptor In Thermo-Sensation, Nature
    1. A Cool Ion Channel, Nature
    2. Sensory Transduction: Out In The Cold, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
    3. Specificity Of Cold Thermotransduction, Nature Neuroscience
  12. Rings And Networks: The Amazing Complexity Of FtsZ In Chloroplasts, Trends in Plant Science
  13. Neurobiology: Music, Maestro, Please!, Nature
  14. 'Bubble Fusion' Paper Generates a Tempest in a Beaker, Science
  15. Salt Fingers Mix the Sea, Science
  16. Earliest Signs of Life Just Oddly Shaped Crud?, Science
    1. Laser--Raman Imagery Of Earth's Earliest Fossils, Nature
    2. Evidence Of Ancient Life Found, NYTimes
    3. Questioning The Evidence For Earth's Oldest Fossils, Nature
    4. That's Life?, Nature
  17. A Different Take On Human Origins, NYTimes
    1. Out Of Africa Again And Again, Nature
  18. Diversity-Dependent Production Can Decrease The Stability Of Ecosystem Functioning, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Why Missile Defense Won't Work, Technology Review
    2. U.S. Nuclear Plan Sees New Weapons And New Targets, NYTimes
    3. Call For New Breed Of Nuclear Arms Faces Hurdles, NYTimes
    4. Nuclear Arms For Deterrence Or Fighting?, NYTimes
    5. U.S. Tries To Dampen Fear Abroad On Policy, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2002.10 Next Issue TOP

  1. Predicting the Unpredictable, Harvard Business Review
  2. The Evolution Of Cooking: A Talk With Richard Wrangham, EdgeVideo
  3. Human Spermatozoa: The Future Of Sex, Nature
  4. Scientists Develop Plastic That Mends Itself, NYTimes
  5. The Corner Internet Network vs. the Cellular Giants, NYTimes
  6. Lord of the Hackers, NYTimes
  7. Overcoming Language Barriers On The Internet, Alphagalileo
  8. 'Earth Simulator' Puts Japan on the Cutting Edge, Science
  9. Reverse Engineering of Biological Complexity, Science
    1. Systems Biology: A Brief Overview, Science
    2. Whole-istic Biology, Science
  10. Gifted Few Make Order Out Of Chaos, New Scientist
  11. Event Synchronization: A Simple And Fast Method To Measure Synchronicity And Time Delay Patterns, arXiv
  12. Neural Mechanisms Of Planning: A Computational Analysis Using Event-Related fMRI, PNAS
    1. Neural Correlates Of Decisions, Current Opinion in Neurobiology
  13. Brain Potential And Functional MRI Evidence For How To Handle Two Languages With One Brain, Nature
    1. A Language Learning Model For Behavioral And Functional-Imaging Studies, J. Neurosc. Methods
  14. Contextualizing Concepts, CogPrints
  15. Species Diversity--Scale Matters, Science
  16. Renewing the Fight Against Bacteria, The Scientist
    1. Retracing Steps to Find New Antibiotics, The Scientist
  17. Using Transgenesis to Create Salt-Tolerant Plants, The Scientist
  18. Polyphonic Complexity Made Lucid By The Steps, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Mapping Networks of Terrorist Cells, Connections
    2. Can We Stop the Next Attack?, Time
    3. The New Craft of Intelligence, Time
    4. Intercepted Al Qaeda E-Mail Is Said to Hint at Regrouping, NYTimes
    5. Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret, Washington Post
    6. Informational Warfare, CogPrints
  20. Links & Snippets
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Complexity Digest 2002.09 Next Issue TOP

  1. Tales of Singularities, Science
    1. Singularity: A Dialog Between Max More and Ray Kurzweil, KurzweilAI.net
    2. Singularities as (Non-Equilibrium) Phase Transitions, KurzweilAI.net
  2. A.I. Reboots, Technology Review
  3. The Grid: A New Infrastructure for 21st Century Science, Physics Today
  4. Microbes Survive Tremendous Squashing, New Scientist
    1. Weight of the World on Microbes' Shoulders, Science
    2. Microbial Activity at Gigapascal Pressures, Science
    3. Life In The Deep Freeze, Nature
  5. Sticky Job Revealed For DNA, New Scientist
    1. Extracellular DNA Required for Bacterial Biofilm Formation, Science
  6. Phagocytosis Of Microbes: Complexity in Action, Annu. Rev. Immunol
  7. How Insects Lose Their Limbs, Nature
    1. Hox Protein Mutation And Macroevolution Of The Insect Body Plan, Nature
  8. Plant Intelligence: Mindless Mastery, Nature
  9. Working Memory Neurons In Pigeons, J. Neurosci.
  10. Intellect Thrives On Sleep, Nature
  11. Penetrating the Mind by Metaphor, NYTimes
  12. Upside of Downsizing Analog Chips, Wired
  13. Doubts Over New Judging System For Ice Skating, New Scientist
  14. Evaluation Of Trustworthiness Of Faces, Nature Neuroscience
  15. Contracts So Complex They Imperil The System, NYTimes
  16. Structure Design Of Neural Networks Using Genetic Algorithms, Complex System
  17. The Role Of The Thermohaline Circulation In Abrupt Climate Change, Nature
  18. US Scepticism Over Global Warming, BBC News
    1. Sceptics Denounce Climate Science 'Lie', BBC News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Afghan Witnesses Say G.I.'s Were Duped in Raid on Allies, NYTimes
    2. Electric Power System Is Called Vulnerable, And Vigilance Is Sought, NYTimes
  20. Links & Snippets
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    2. Announcement: International Time Series Competition
    3. Conference Announcements

Complexity Digest 2002.08 Next Issue TOP

  1. What Made Humans Modern?, Science
    1. In Search of the First Hominids, Science
    2. New Fossils Raise Molecular Questions, Science
    3. Why Get Smart?, Science
    4. Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa, Science
  2. Antagonistic Coevolution Between The Sexes In A Group Of Insects, Nature
  3. Hotspots And The Conservation Of Evolutionary History, PNAS
    1. Marine Biodiversity Hotspots and Conservation Priorities for Tropical Reefs, Science
  4. Large Extinctions In An Evolutionary Model: The Role Of Innovation And Keystone Species, PNAS
  5. Capital Accumulation in Open-Access Fishery: A Qualitative Dynamic Approach, arXiv
  6. Computers, Paradoxes and the Foundations of Mathematics, American Scientist
    1. A Mechanism for Randomness, arXiv
  7. An Introduction To The Main Principles Of Emulation: Motor Control, Imagery, And Perception, CogPrints
    1. Perspectives And Problems In Motor Learning, Trends in Cognitive Science
  8. The Neural Basis Of Intermittent Motor Control In Humans, PNAS
  9. Midbrain Control of Three-Dimensional Head Orientation, Science
  10. Light On Embryo's Asymmetric Brain, Int. Soc. Dev. Neuroscience
  11. Blind As A Human, Int. Soc. Dev. Neuroscience
  12. Neural Mechanisms Underlying Face Recognition In Human Infants, J. Cog. Neuroscience
  13. The Emerging Conceptual Framework Of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Nature
  14. The Stem Cell-Cloning Plot Thickens, The Scientist
    1. Please Don't Call It Cloning!, Science
  15. Building Brand New Kidneys, The Scientist
  16. Rational Imitation In Preverbal Infants, Nature
  17. Diagnosing Cancer With Artificial Neural Networks, The Scientist
  18. Citation Analysis: The Counting House, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad, NYTimes
    2. Military Attack By Remote Control, Reader's Comment:
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Complexity Digest 2002.07 Next Issue TOP

  1. Part Man, Part Computer: Researcher Tests the Limits, Science
    1. Will Retinal Implants Restore Vision?, Science
  2. The Bionic Man: Restoring Mobility, Science
    1. Inhibitory Control of Acquired Motor Programmes in the Human Brain, Brain
    2. Early Consolidation In Human Primary Motor Cortex, Nature
    3. Movement Control of Manipulative Tasks in Patients with Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome, Brain
  3. Brains Out Of Tune, Nature
    1. Sending Sound to the Brain, Science
  4. Watching The Brain Work: Looking At The Network Connections, Amer. J. Neuroradiology
  5. Speech Sounds Learned By Sleeping Newborns, Nature
    1. Late Plasticity for Language in a Child's Non-dominant Hemisphere: A pre- and post-Surgery fMRI Study, Brain
  6. Gut Thoughts, HMS Beagle
  7. Games to Take on a Life of Their Own Taylor: Copying the Brain's Neural Networks, BBC News Online's
  8. DNA-Based Computer Takes Aim at Genes, Science
  9. Genome Shuffling Leads To Rapid Phenotypic Improvement In Bacteria, Nature
  10. Leukemia Protein Spurs Gene Silencing, Science
    1. The Control of Phenotype: Connecting Enzyme Variation to Physiology
  11. Tracking Target And Spiral Waves, Chaos
  12. Goofy Galaxy Spins In Wrong Direction, CNN
  13. From Topology To Dynamics In Biochemical Networks, Chaos
  14. Robust Chaos: Implications For Brain Dynamics, Chaos
  15. Bush To Unveil Alternative Global Warming Plan, CNN
  16. Method To Directly Compare Levels Of Agricultural And Industrial Runoff Between Estuaries, Cornell Press Release
  17. Farmers in Peru Are Turning Again to Coca Crop, NYTimes
  18. Managing Emergent Phenomena: Nonlinear Dynamics In Work Organizations, New Book
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. U.S. Tries To Identify Target Of Airstrike, CNN
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Complexity Digest 2002.06 Next Issue TOP

  1. Balance: Mind-Grasping Gravity, Nature
  2. Watching How the Brain Grows, The Scientist
  3. Eye See, Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  4. Methodological Implications Of Complex Systems Approaches To Sociality: Simulation As A Foundation For Knowledge, JASSS
  5. Economic Performance, Inter-Firm Relations and Local Institutional Engineering in a Computational Prototype of Industrial Districts, JASSS
  6. Xenophobia and Social Closure: A Development of a Model from Coleman, JASSS
  7. Quantifying The Risk Of Extreme Seasonal Precipitation Events In A Changing Climate, Nature
    1. Climate Science: The Investment Forecast, Nature
    2. Increasing Risk Of Great Floods In A Changing Climate, Nature
  8. Aerosol Effect on Cloud Droplet Size Monitored from Satellite, Science
  9. Oceanography: A Slower Flow, Nature
    1. Evidence for Strengthening of the Tropical General Circulation in the 1990s
  10. Drillers Dig Deep For Microbes Under The Sea Floor, Nature
    1. Microbiological Oceanography: Hidden In A Sea Of Microbes, Nature
    2. Unsuspected Diversity Among Marine Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs, Nature
  11. Structural Identification Of A Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Signal Containing Boron, Nature
  12. Biomechanics: Dinosaur Locomotion From A New Trackway, Nature
  13. Topologically Protected Quantum Bits Using Josephson Junction Arrays, Nature
  14. Growth Of Nanowire Superlattice Structures For Nanoscale Photonics And Electronics, Nature
  15. On The Complexity Of Computing And Learning With Multiplicative Neural Networks, Neural Comp.
    1. A Neural-Network-Based Approach to the Double Traveling Salesman Problem, Neural Comp.
  16. Synchronization In Small-World Dynamical Networks, Int. J. Bifurcation and Chaos
  17. Robot Wars For Real, BBC News
  18. Record Keeping at Enron, Darwin Mag
    1. Report Blasts Enron Partnerships, CNN
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. France Raises Terror War Concerns, CNN
    2. Beijing Blasts Bush On 'Axis Of Evil', CNN
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Complexity Digest 2002.05 Next Issue TOP

  1. Carbon Nanotubes Assemble Themselves Into Electronic Grids, Nature Science Update
  2. Economist: MS Settlement Won't Help, Reuters
  3. Virtual World Grows Real Economy, New Scientist
  4. Intelligent Systems In The Context Of Surrounding Environment, arXiv/Phys Rev E
  5. Viruses May Help Make Microchips, Infospace/UPI
  6. Dynamic Brain Sources of Visual Evoked Responses, Science
  7. Event Horizon Dawns On Desktop, Nature Science Update
    1. A Laboratory Analogue Of The Event Horizon Using Slow Light In An Atomic Medium, Nature
    2. Hawking's Breakthrough Is Still An Enigma, NYTimes
  8. Taking Garbage In, Tossing Cancer Out?, Science
  9. Humans Integrate Visual And Haptic Information In A Statistically Optimal Fashion, Nature
  10. Species Diversity Enhances Ecosystem Functioning Through Interspecific Facilitation, Nature
  11. The Complexity And Hierarchical Structure Of Tasks In Insect Societies, Animal Behaviour
  12. Stuffed Fox Teaches Wallabies To Fear Predators, New Scientist
  13. Structure And Function Of Auditory Cortex: Music And Speech, Trends in Cognitive Sc
  14. Reputation Helps Solve The 'Tragedy Of The Commons', Nature
  15. Genes Keep Neurons' House in Order, Science
    1. Immunoglobulin-Domain Proteins Required for Maintenance of Ventral Nerve Cord Organization, Science
  16. Inspired By Immunity, Nature
  17. Making [Planetary, Ed.] Waves, Nature
  18. Anaerobic Microbial Metabolism Can Proceed Close To Thermodynamic Limits, Nature
    1. Car Work For Quantum Mechanics, Nature Science Update,
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Why Guantanamo Has Europe Hopping Mad, Time.com
    2. Getting it Right [Transportation Security Agency, Ed.], Brookings Government Executive
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Complexity Digest 2002.04 Next Issue TOP

  1. Mammalian Cells Spin a Spidery New Yarn, Science
    1. Cow Used in Man-Made Spider Web, Wired News
    2. Spider Silk Fibers Spun from Soluble Recombinant Silk Produced in Mammalian Cells, Science
  2. Biotechs Fight Threat Of 'Superbugs', CNN
  3. Hasty Editing Linked To Cancer, Science Now
  4. The Economics Of Impatience, Nature
  5. Memories Bound: The Neuroscience Of Dreams, Trends in Cognitive Neurosciences
  6. A Computer Scientist Looks At Game Theory, arXiv
  7. Time-Of-Day As A Modulator Of Executive Response Control, Neuropsychologia
    1. Brain Function And Effects Of Shift Work, Neuropsychologia
  8. Every Curriculum Tells a Story, KurzweilAI.net
    1. The Elements of an Education, Science Book Report
  9. Star-Spangled Universe Dawned in Early Light, Science
  10. What Makes the Sun Flare, Wired News
  11. Turbulence And Thick Gas As A Possible Precursor To Galactic Evolution, Cornell Press Release
  12. Quantum Effects Of Gravity, Nature
    1. The Puny Force Follows the Pack, Science
    2. Quantum States Of Neutrons In The Earth's Gravitational Field, Nature
  13. Quantum Engine Blasts Past High Gear, Science
  14. Fuel Cells That Fit in a Laptop, Wired News
    1. Bush Trades Hybrid for Hydrogen Model, Science
  15. Microbes Use Mud to Make Electricity, Science
  16. Alien-Like Microbes Found Deep Underground, AP/CNN
  17. On Thickening Ice?, Science
    1. Positive Mass Balance of the Ross Ice Streams, West Antarctica, Science
  18. Europe GPS Plan Shelved, Wired
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Science, Terrorism, and Natural Disasters, Science
    2. "The CNN Effect": How 24-Hour News Coverage Affects Government Decisions and Public Opinion, Brookings/Harvard Forum
    3. The Chip On China's Shoulder, NYTimes
    4. Ashcroft Defends Detainees' Treatment, CNN
    5. Camp X-Ray, When Is A War Prisoner Not A POW?, Time
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Complexity Digest 2002.03 Next Issue TOP

  1. Altruistic Punishment In Humans, Nature
    1. Behavioural Science: Homo Reciprocans, Nature
  2. Oldest Art: From A Modern Human's Brow--Or Doodling?, Science
  3. Enron: Who's Accountable?, Time Magazine
  4. Remote Electronic Control Of DNA [with] Attached Metal Nanocrystal Antenna, Nature
  5. Parasitic Cape Honeybee Workers, Apis mellifera capensis, Evade Policing, Nature
  6. Evolutionary Biology: Finches Adapt Rapidly To New Homes, Science
    1. Sex-Biased Hatching Order and Adaptive Population Divergence in a Passerine Bird, Science
  7. Bugs Could Travel To Earth In Comfort Aboard Martian Meteorites, New Scientist
  8. Lowly Yabby Could Claw Its Way To Mars, CNN
  9. Super Fly (Biologically Inspired Hearing Aid), NY Times
  10. Researchers Find Evidence That Human Heart May Repair Itself, The Associated Press
    1. Stem Cell Research: Stem Cells May Shore Up Transplanted Hearts, Science
  11. Tiny Silicon Grains For Lasers On A Chip, UPI
  12. Linkage Disequilibrium And The Mapping Of Complex Human Traits, Trends in Genetics
  13. Dynamic Coding Of Behaviourally Relevant Stimuli In Parietal Cortex, Nature
  14. Evolution of communication and language using signals, symbols and words, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
    1. Computer simulation: A new scientific approach to the study of language evolution, CogPrints
    2. The adaptive advantage of symbolic theft over sensorimotor toil: Grounding language in perceptual categories, CogPrints
  15. A Self-Organizing Neural Network Model Of The Acquisition Of Word Meaning, Proc. Int. Conf. Cognitive Modeling
  16. Kin Selection: Fact And Fiction, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  17. Pervasive Influence Of Large-Scale Climate In The Dynamics Of A Terrestrial Vertebrate Community, BMC Ecology
  18. Body Size, Geometry, Longevity And Metabolism: Do Plant Leaves Behave Like Animal Bodies?, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Head to Head: Guantanamo Prisoners, BBC News
    2. USA: AI Calls On The USA To End Legal Limbo Of Guantánamo Prisoners, Amnesty International
    3. Prohibition Of Terrorist Acts In International Humanitarian Law, International Review of the Red Cross
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    2. Internet Industry Partnerships, Valdis Krebs Site
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Complexity Digest 2002.02 Next Issue TOP

  1. SNPs as Windows on Evolution, The Scientist
  2. Yes, Biologically Speaking, Sex Does Matter, The Scientist
    1. Visual Spatial Memory Is Enhanced In Female Rats (But Inhibited In Males) By Dietary Soy Phytoestrogens, BMC Neuroscience
  3. In Our Genes (ADHD), PNAS
    1. Evidence Of Positive Selection Acting At The Human Dopamine Receptor D4 Gene Locus, PNAS
  4. Cloned Pigs May Help Overcome Rejection, Science
  5. Evolutionary Speed Limits Inferred From The Fossil Record, Nature
  6. Carnivorous Plants: Mass March Of Termites Into The Deadly Trap, Nature
  7. Ageing: The Price Of Tumour Suppression?, Nature
    1. Cancer-Proof Mice Age Prematurely, Nature
    2. Cancer-Stalling System Accelerates Aging, Science
  8. Squeak First, Mouse Communication Suggests Language Has Deep Roots, Nature
    1. Mice And Humans Perceive Multiharmonic Communications Sound In The Same Way, PNAS
  9. Time-Order Effects For Aesthetic Preference, Proc. Int. Society of Psychophysics
  10. Interdependencies In The Spontaneous EEG While Listening To Music, Int. J. Psychophysiology
    1. Universality In The Brain While Listening To Music, Proc.Royal Society Lond. Bio. Sc.
  11. The Physics Of The Trading Floor, Nature
  12. How To Attain Maximum Profit In Minority Game?, arXiv
    1. Self-Segregation vs. Clustering in the Evolutionary Minority Game, arXiv
  13. The Enron Post-Mortem, NY Times
  14. Nanotech Fine-Tuning, Wired News
  15. Bose-Einstein Condensation: Breaking Up A Superfluid, Nature
    1. Quantum Phase Transition From A Superfluid To A Mott Insulator In A Gas Of Ultracold Atoms, Nature
  16. Solid Stops Light, Nature Science Update
  17. The Quest for Population III, Science
  18. CMOS Integrated Circuit For Biosensor Applications, Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Tampa Crash Raises Serious Security Questions, CNN
    2. Spotting Dangerous Pilots Hard For Flight Schools, CNN
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Complexity Digest 2002.01 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Universe Might Last Forever, Astronomers Say, But Life Might Not, NY Times, 02/01/01
    1. Ba-Da Bang, NYTimes
  2. Testing The Limits [Of Knowledge, Ed.], World Link
  3. A Vertical Leap for Microchips, Scientific American
  4. Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Handbook of Agent Technology
  5. Classification of Finite Dynamical Systems, arXiv
  6. And The Password Is . . . Waterloo, NY Times
  7. Scientists: Liars Betrayed By Their Faces, CNN/AP
  8. Complexity - Dependent Synchronization During Memorization, Proc. Int. Society of Psychophysics
  9. Imaging Selective Attention In The Human Brain, Elsevier Science
  10. Nonlinear Behavior Of Human Respiratory Movement During Different Sleep Stages, Chronobiol Int Year
  11. Simulation Of EEG: Generative Activity In Cortex, Biological Cybernetics
  12. Colors Are Truly Brilliant In Trek Up Mount Metaphor, NY Times
  13. Dendritic Cells: Immune Regulators in Health and Disease, Physiological Reviews
  14. Ice Crystal Discovery Is Good News For Avalanche Prediction, New Scientist
    1. Designer Snowflakes, New Scientist
  15. Evolution Of Sociality In A Primitively Eusocial Lineage Of Bees, PNAS
  16. Applying Lessons Learned In Bangkok To A Traffic Nightmare, NY Times
  17. An Industry Motivated, More Than Ever, By Fear, NY Times
    1. Remark by Vivendi Chief Unnerves French Film Industry, NY Times
  18. Missile Defense: The Untold Story, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Reader's Comment
    2. Many Say U.S. Planned for Terror but Failed to Take Action, NY Times
    3. Critics' Attack on Tribunals Turns to Law Among Nations, NY Times
    4. Debate Over U.S. Raid on Convoy Exposes Fluid Loyalties in Area Shaken by War, NY Times
    5. Kashmir's Islamic Guerrillas See Little to Fear From U.S., NY Times
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