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Complexity Digest 2003.52 Next Issue TOP

  1. Illuminating the Dark Universe, Science
  2. From Information Age To Molecular Age, Tech. Forecasting & Social Change
    1. Mobiles 'Narrow Information Gap', BBC News
    2. FCC Investigates Smart Radios, GCN
    3. The Answer To Video Piracy, McKinsey Quarterly
  3. Forecasting Business Cycles Using Deviations From Long-Run Economic Relationships, Macroecon. Dynamics
  4. Mathematics Could Stabilize Peace Treaties, Natue Science update
    1. Modeling Robust Settlements To Civil War, SFI Working Paper
    2. The Cognitive Foundations Of Cultural Stability And Diversity, Trends in Cognitive Sc.
  5. New Robot Brain Takes To The Skies, ABC Science Online
  6. “Mad Cow” Mechanism May Be Integral to Storing Memory, Whitehead Inst Press Release
    1. Mad Cow Case May Bring More Meat Testing, NYTimes
  7. Measurements: The Brain Wave Made Me Do It, NYTimes
    1. Parents' Brains Tuned To Babies' Tears, Natue Science update
    2. Neuroscience: ORs Rule the Roost in the Olfactory System, Science
    3. A "Slurp" Says More Than Ten Beeps, Alphagalileo
  8. Two Hands, One Brain: Cognitive Neuroscience Of Bimanual Skill, Trends in Cognitive Sc.
    1. Two Brains, One Clock, Trends in Cognitive Sc.
  9. Coding And Learning Of Behavioral Sequences, Trends in Neurosc.
  10. Stem-Cell 'Secret Of Youth' Found, Natue Science update
  11. Evolution: Climb Every Mountain?, Science
    1. The Costs Of Specialization, The Scientist
  12. Developmental Biology: Tubulogenesis CLICs into Place, Science
  13. The Elephant and the Chili Pepper, NYTimes
  14. Secret Of 'Strained Silicon' Chips Revealed, NewScientist
  15. Bifurcation Structures Of Period-Adding Phenomena In An Ocean Internal Wave Model, Int. J. Bifur. & Chaos
  16. Randomness in Quantum Computation, Science
    1. Pseudo-Random Unitary Operators for Quantum Information Processing, Science
  17. Microsoft Aims To Make Spammers Pay, BBC News
    1. Software Shares Out Spare Processing Power, NewScientist
  18. Examining Halliburton's 'Sweetheart' Deal in Iraq, NPR Audio
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Hussein's Capture Not Likely to Harm Al Qaeda, Washington Post
    2. Fear Of Modern Terrorism, The Japan Times
    3. Gulf Arabs Approve Anti-Terror Pact, Back Iraqi Sovereignty Transfer Plan, China View
    4. State of the War on Terror, 2003, NPR Audio
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Complexity Digest 2003.51 Next Issue TOP

  1. Sustainability and the Commons, Science
    1. The Struggle to Govern the Commons, Science
    2. Social Capital and the Collective Management of Resources, Science
    3. Understanding Conflict over Common Pool Resources, Science
    4. Challenge of Long-Term Climate Change, Science
    5. Science and Law in Environmental Policy, Science
  2. Values, Environmental Concern, And Behavior: A Study Into Household Energy Use, Env. & Behavior
  3. U.S. Multinationals And The Home Bias Puzzle: An Empirical Analysis, Global Finance J.
  4. The Effects Of Job Complexity And Autonomy On Work Groups, J. Organizational Behav.
  5. An Internet-Based Design Game As A Mediator Of Children's Environmental Visions, Env. & Behavior
  6. Signal Characteristics Of Spontaneous Facial Expressions In Solitary And Social Smiles, Biol. Psychol.
  7. Ancient Figurines Found From First Modern Humans?, National Geographic News
  8. The Queue Quotient, Atlantic Unbound
    1. Born Global, HBS Working Knowledge
    2. The Value of Personal Networks, MIT Sloan Management Review
  9. Review Basic Concepts: To Put It Simply..., Nature
  10. Warm-Blooded Plants?, Science News
  11. Geomorphology: Nature, Nurture And Landscape, Nature
    1. Large Complex Earthquakes in the Los Angeles Area, Science
  12. Geomorphology: Solitary Wave Behavior Of Sand Dunes, Nature
  13. First Flight: How Wright Brothers Changed World, National Geographic News
    1. The Kitty Hawk Flight, NPR Audio
  14. Researchers Use Brainwaves To Predict When We Are Going To Make Mistakes, Alphagalileo
  15. A First Glance At Global Genetic Networks, ScienceDaily
    1. Instant Stem Cells - Just Add Water, Natue Science update
  16. Virus Evolution: Epidemics-In-Waiting, Nature
    1. The Role Of Evolution In The Emergence Of Infectious Diseases, Nature
  17. A Short Description Of The Influence Of “Scale-Free” Networks In The 1 Sonata, For Piano, Michael Edward Edgerton
  18. Web Futures: Saddam Boosts Bush, CNNMoney/Reuters
    1. Rumsfeld: Saddam to Have POW Protections, Guardian
    2. Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, UNHCHR
    3. Expert Weighs in on Saddam's Interrogation, NPR Audio
    4. Interrogating Saddam, NPR Audio
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. In Debate on Antiterrorism, the Courts Assert Themselves, NYTimes
    2. U.S. Courts Reject Detention Policy in 2 Terror Cases, NYTimes
    3. The Padilla Decision, NYTimes
    4. Chief of Sept. 11 Panel Assesses Blame but Holds Off on Higher-Ups, NYTimes
    5. Boom, or Bust?, Nature
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Complexity Digest 2003.50 Next Issue TOP

  1. Cave Colours Reveal Mental Leap, BBC News Online
  2. Spread of Decisions in the Corporate Board Network, arXiv
  3. Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance: Carrying on the Legacy of Herbert Simon, Information Sciences
    1. A Web-Based Investigation Of Human Market Interactions, Physica A
    2. Learning More From Their Successes Than From Their Failures, Ecol. Modelling
  4. Executive Personality Traits And Eating Behavior, Int. J. Neurosc.
  5. Mother of All Marsupials, Science Now
  6. Distorting Limb Design For Dynamically Similar Locomotion, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
  7. Comparing Genomes Shows Split Between Chimps and People, NYTimes
    1. Genome Scan Shows Human-Chimp Differences, Natue Science update
    2. Humans, Chimps Wear Different Genes, Science Now
  8. Understanding Cell Lineages as Complex Adaptive Systems, Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases
    1. Developmental Reprogramming: Take A Cell, Any Cell, Nature
    2. Sperm From Stem Cells Fertilize Egg, Natue Science update
    3. Stretching Changes Stem Cells' Fate, Natue Science update
  9. Smurfing at the Leading Edge, Science
    1. Cell Migration: Integrating Signals from Front to Back, Science
    2. Developmental Biology: Long-Range Signalling By Touch, Nature
    3. Protein Of Life, Protein Of Death, The Scientist
  10. Systems Biology: Tracing Life's Circuitry, Science
    1. Microglia: The Enemy Within?, Science
    2. Tiny Bubbles Are Implicated In Cancer And AIDS, Science News
  11. New Farmers: Salt Marsh Snails Plow Leaves, Fertilize Fungus, Science News
    1. Beetles Could Prove A Hit With The Aircraft Industry, ScienceDaily
    2. Automated Analysis Of Bee Behavior May Yield Better Robots, ScienceDaily
  12. Earthlike Planets Might Be Common, U Washington Press Release
    1. Earth's Waning Magnet, Science Now
  13. Modern Global Climate Change, Science
    1. Early Farmers Warmed Earth's Climate, NewScientist
    2. Greenhouse Gas 'Plan B' Gaining Support, NewScientist
  14. Study Reveals Complex Changes In West Antarctic Ice Streams, ScienceDaily
  15. Wings of Change, Shape-Shifting Aircraft, Science News
    1. Self-Assembled 'Nanorings' Could Boost Computer Memory, Purdue News
  16. UN Summit Pledges Net For All, BBC News Online
    1. Web Pioneer Opens Digital Divide Summit, BBC News Online
  17. Biopolitics In The EU And The U.S.: A Race To The Bottom Or Convergence To The Top?, Int. Studies Qtrly.
  18. The Great Election Grab, The New Yorker
    1. Rigging Election Boundaries: When Does It Go Too Far?, Christian Science Monitor
    2. Time To Draw The Line, NYTimes
    3. Russia: Voters Profess Little Or No Interest In Upcoming Duma Polls, Radio Free Europe
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Efforts to Fight Terror Financing Reported to Lag, NYTimes
    2. German Judge Frees Qaeda Suspect; Cites U.S. Secrecy, Desmond Butler, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.49 Next Issue TOP

  1. Kinship Systems: A Culturally Constructed Reality, Complexity
  2. Hospitals Say They're Penalized for Improving Care, NYTimes
  3. Evolutionary Policies For Sustainable Development: Adaptive Flexibility And Risk Minimising, Ecol. Econ.
    1. Rickshaws Connect India's Poor, BBC News
  4. Grasping at the Statistics on the Self-Employed, NYTimes
    1. The Productivity Paradox, NYTimes
    2. Gains in Houston Schools: How Real Are They?, NYTimes
    3. Backing Down on Steel Tariffs, U.S. Strengthens Trade Group, NYTimes
  5. Why Tech Is Still the Future, Fortune
    1. The Long Memory of the Efficient Market, SFI Working Papers
  6. Will December Make Or Break The Internet?, The Register
    1. The Redefinition of Memes, Emergence
  7. Games Made for Remaking, NYTimes
    1. For Little Fingers, an Array of Digital Tutors, NYTimes
    2. The Love Machine, Building Computers That Care, Wired
    3. Intel's Tiny Hope for the Future, Wired
  8. Information Theory of Complex Networks: On Evolution and Architectural Constraints, SFI Working Papers
    1. The Connectivity of Large Genetic Networks: Design, History, or Mere Chemistry?, SFI Working Papers
  9. Dusty Disc May Mean Other Earths, BBC News
    1. Sea Creature Turns Up as Oldest Male Fossil, NPR
    2. Contributions Of Microbial Biofilms To Ecosystem Processes, Nature
  10. Embryos And Cancer, The Scientist
    1. Age Related Alterations In The Complexity Of Respiratory Patterns, J. Integrative Neurosc.
  11. Discovery of 'Heart Attack Gene' Offers Treatment Options, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  12. An Optimal Treatment Strategy for Diabetes, J. Biol. Systems
  13. Meaning In Perception Part III: Multiple Cortical Areas Synchronize, Int. Bifur. & Chaos
    1. Meaning In Perception Part IV: Multicortical Patterns Of Amplitude Modulation, Int. Bifur. & Chaos
    2. Spike Timing In Auditory Cortex, Nature
    3. Cell Biology: Thanks For The Memory, Nature
  14. EU Researches Superbugs, The Scientist
    1. Defensive Behavior Of Honey Bees, Ann Rev Entomology
    2. Insect Walking And Robotics, Annual Review of Entomology
  15. New Research Finds Some Animals Know Their Cognitive Limits, ScienceDaily
  16. Largest Known Prime Number on World-Wide Volunteer Computer Grid, Mersenne.org
  17. Shifts in States May Give Bush Electoral Edge, NYTimes
    1. Hack the Vote, NYTimes
  18. Pentagon and Bogus News: All Is Denied, NYTimes
    1. U.S. Sees Lesson for Insurgents in an Iraq Battle, NYTimes
    2. U.S. Considers Turning Scooters Into War Robots, ctv.ca/Associated Press
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Fresh Legal Row Over Guantanamo, BBC News
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Complexity Digest 2003.48 Next Issue TOP

  1. Hydrocarbons And The Evolution Of Human Culture, Nature
    1. The Long-Term Carbon Cycle, Fossil Fuels And Atmospheric Composition, Nature
    2. Two Measures Of Progress In Adapting To Climate Change, Global Env. Change
  2. Volcanoes Kick-Start El Nino, Nature Science Update
  3. Coastline Carve Thyself, Natue Science update
  4. Tropical Soils and Food Security: The Next 50 Years, Science
    1. The Future for Fisheries, Science
  5. The Origins of Genome Complexity, Science
    1. Learning to Speak the Language of Proteins, Science
    2. Public Projects Gear Up to Chart the Protein Landscape, Science
    3. Proteomics: A Sharper Focus, Science
  6. Rebuilding The Heart: Marrow Cells Boost Cardiac Recovery, Science News
    1. British Firm Plans Human Stem Cell Trial-Magazine, Reuters
    2. Marijuana-Like Compounds Linked to Embryo Growth, NPR Audio
  7. Complexity in the Immune System, arXiv
    1. Velocity and Hierarchical Spread of Epidemic Outbreaks in Complex Networks, arXiv
  8. How Fielders Arrive In Time To Catch The Ball, Nature
    1. Giving Eyesight To The Blind Raises Questions About How People See, Science News
  9. Complexities Of A Simple System: New Lessons, Old Challenges For The Gill Withdrawal, Brain Res. Rev.
  10. Why Ants Do But Honeybees Do Not Construct Satellite Nests, J. Bioecon.
  11. Chicks Unite To Increase Parent-Pestering, Natue Science update
    1. Essay: Monkeys and Dolphins, NPR Audio
    2. The Physics of Fish, NPR Audio
  12. Molecule Gives Clue To Schizophrenia, Natue Science update
  13. Compartments Revealed In Food-Web Structure, Nature
    1. Plant Development: Leaves By Number, Nature
    2. Signal Transduction: An Eye On Organ Development, Nature
  14. Drying-Mediated Self-Assembly Of Nanoparticles, Nature
    1. DNA-Templated Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor, Science
    2. Nanodevices Make Fresh Strides Toward Reality, Science
  15. Historic Maths Problem 'Cracked', BBC News Online
  16. Time Use, Work And Overlapping Activities: Evidence From Australia, Cambridge J. Econ.
  17. Opinion Formation in Networked Societies with Strong Leaders, arXiv
  18. U.S. Is Worried Foe Is Tracking Targets in Iraq, NYTimes
    1. Licenses for Illegal Immigrants, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Facing The Nuclear Danger, Nature
    2. Theft of Cobalt in Iraq Prompts Security Inquiry, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.47 Next Issue TOP

  1. Scientists Hail New 'Map Of Life', BBC News
    1. Cancer Robustness: Tumour Tactics, Nature
    2. Cancers Obey Universal Law Of Growth, NewScientist
    3. Circadian Clock Genes May Provide Targets For New Cancer Drugs, ScienceDaily
    4. A Genetic Screen in Drosophila for Metastatic Behavior, Science
  2. Evolutionary Biology: Essence Of Mitochondria, Nature
  3. The Shape We're In, Science
    1. Human Population: The Next Half Century, Science
    2. Prospects for Biodiversity, Science
  4. Dynamical Motifs: Building Blocks of Complex Network Dynamics, arXiv
  5. Grid "Building Blocks" Reduce Complexity, Grid Today
    1. Smaller Computer Chips Built Using DNA as Template, NYTimes
    2. "Hope Is a Lousy Defense.", Wired
  6. An Evolved Spatial Memory Bias In A Nectar-Feeding Bird?, Animal Behaviour
    1. A Self-Sustaining, Light-Entrainable Circadian Oscillator In The Drosophila Brain, Current Biol.
    2. Long-Legged Flies Displaying Remarkable Wing Directional Asymmetry, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  7. Persistence of Memory in Drop Breakup: The Breakdown of Universality, Science
  8. A Heavenly Example of Scale Free Networks and Self-Organized Criticality, arXiv
  9. New Energy Policy, NPR Talk of the Nation
    1. Pushing Energy Conservation Into the Back Seat of the S.U.V., NYTimes
  10. Brain Model Puts Most Sophisticated Regions Front and Center, Science
    1. Cognitive Control in the Human Prefrontal Cortex, Science
  11. Brain Clues To Attention Disorder, NYTimes
  12. Scientists Find Brain Areas Affected By Lack Of Sleep, ScienceDaily
  13. The Promise and Pitfalls of Social Networking, Darwin Magazine
    1. Evolution of the Social Brain, Science
    2. Social Bonds of Female Baboons Enhance Infant Survival, Science
  14. A Leadership Challenge: Spreading Access To Ideas, Babson Insight
  15. Bridging The Gap Between Rationality And Adaptation In Social Explanation, J. Evolutionary Econ.
  16. Bio-Cultural Effects In Medieval Populations, Econ. & Human Biol.
  17. A Battle of Words Over War Intelligence, NYTimes
    1. Freed From Conspiracy, NYTimes
  18. Space and Time: Between Phenomenology and Neuroscience, Complexity Digest Virtual Conference Network
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Sec. Donald Rumsfeld & Gen. Richard Myers Town Hall Meeting, c-span Video
    2. 'Enemy Combatant' Sham, NYTimes
    3. Analysts See Terrorism Paradox: A Weaker Al Qaeda Despite Attacks, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.46 Next Issue TOP

  1. Thought Leader Forum, Credit Suisse First Boston
    1. Trying to Measure the Amount of Information That Humans Create, NYTimes
  2. Capricious Things Don't Happen, Harvard University Gazette
    1. A Model For Leveling Coalitions Among Primate Males, Behav. Ecology & Sociobiol.
  3. False Memories Have Characteristic Brain Activity, NewScientist
    1. First Flush Of Love Not Emotional, New Scientist
    2. Scientists Uncover Neurobiological Basis For Romantic Love, Trust, And Self, ScienceDaily
  4. Where is the real Matrix?, Salon.com
  5. Heal Thyself: Patients' Bone Marrow Cells Restore Failing Hearts, Eurekalert
  6. Scientists Use DNA To Make Virus, BBC News
    1. Scientists Create Artificial Form of Life, Voice of America
    2. Designer Genomes, Pronto!, Science Now
  7. Junk DNA Passed Down Through the Ages, Science
  8. Neurobiology: Signals That Make Waves, Nature
  9. Bad Eye For The Straight Fly: Male Flesh Flies Do Not Need High-definition Vision, ScienceDaily
    1. Honeybee Workers Compete For Producing Queen-Like Pheromone Signals, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
    2. Effect Of Queen Quality On Interactions Between Workers And Dueling Queens In Honeybee Colonies, Behav. Ecology & Sociobiol.
    3. Females Drive Primate Social Evolution, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
  10. Roles for Mating and Environment in C. elegans Sex Determination, Science
  11. Evolution Of Cultural Communication Systems: Genes Encoding Learning Preferences, J. Evolutionary Biol.
    1. Birds Can Put Two and Two Together, Science Now
  12. Defence Against Multiple Enemies, J. Evolutionary Biol.
  13. What Do Neural Nets and Quantum Theory Tell Us about Mind and Reality?, arXiv
  14. Quantum Coherence in an Exchange-Coupled Dimer of Single-Molecule Magnets, Science
  15. Femtophysics: Birth Of A Quasiparticle, Nature
  16. Europe Exceeds U.S. in Refining Grid Computing, NYTimes
  17. Maybe Hanging Chads Weren't So Bad After All, NYTimes
    1. Machine Politics in the Digital Age, NYTimes
  18. US War Dead in Iraq Exceeds Early Vietnam Years, Reuters-Yahoo!
    1. Plan for Guerrilla Action May Have Predated War, NYTimes
    2. Op-Chart - How are things really going in Iraq?, NYTimes
    3. A Scary Afghan Road, NYTimes
    4. The Sabotage of Democracy, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Deal on 9/11 Briefings Lets White House Edit Papers, NYTimes
    2. Analysis: Guantánamo Case About Federal Turf, NYTimes
    3. Terrorism and the U.S. Criminal Justice System, Brookings News
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Complexity Digest 2003.45 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Adjacent Possible, A Talk With Stuart Kauffman, Edge Video
    1. Complex Systems, AIChE Journal
  2. Computer Simulations of History of Life: Speciation, Emergence of Complex Species from Simpler Organisms, and Extinctions, arXiv
    1. Model-to-Model Analysis, JASSS
  3. Self-Maintaining Web Page, Info. Sys.
  4. Going, Going, Gone: Lost Internet References, Science
    1. Intel Claims Breakthrough in Chip Making, NYTimes
  5. Impacts Of Human Disturbances On Biotic Communities In Hawaiian Streams, BioScience
  6. Fast Friends, Sworn Enemies, Science
    1. Fish Farting May Not Just Be Hot Air, NewScientist
    2. Pacific And Atlantic Herring Produce Burst Pulse Sounds, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
    3. Getting Into a Cassowary's Head, Science Now
  7. A Four-Base Paired Genetic Helix with Expanded Size, Science
    1. Researchers Create 'Supersized' Molecule Of DNA, Science Daily, Stanford University
  8. Illusions and Perceived Images in the Primate Brain, Science
    1. Optical Imaging of a Tactile Illusion, Science
  9. Fighting Prostate Cancer Takes The Whole Tomato, KnoxNews
    1. Lycopene's Anti-cancer Effect Linked To Other Tomato Components, ScienceDaily/UIUC
  10. Language Problems Can Be Predicted From Newborn Babies´ Brain Responses, Alphagalileo
  11. The Infection Connection In Schizophrenia, The Scientist
    1. Schizophrenia's Complexity, The Scientist
  12. Timing Is Everything, Nature
    1. Restless Nights, Listless Days, Nature
  13. Neuroscience: States Of Mind, Nature
    1. It's Neuron Time, The Scientist
  14. Cutting Neurons Down To Size, The Scientist
    1. Gauging The Effects Of Alcohol And Nicotine On Adolescent Brains, The Scientist
    2. Functional MRI Offers A Compelling Neurological View, But Of What?, The Scientist
  15. The Genetics of Adult-Onset Neuropsychiatric Disease: Complexities and Conundra?, Science
    1. Postnatal Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Meeting at the Synapse?, Science
  16. 'The Matrix': Global Opening, NYTimes
  17. As Earth Warms, the Hottest Issue Is Energy, NYTimes
    1. This Can't Go On, NYTimes
  18. Bush Demands Mid-East Democracy, BBC News
    1. Death by Optimism, NYTimes
    2. Rebel War Spirals Out Of Control As US Intelligence Loses The Plot, The Observer
    3. Pentagon Says a Covert Force Hunts Hussein, NYTimes
    4. Private Jessica Says President Is Misusing Her 'Heroism', The Observer
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. US Crackdown On Bioterror Is Backfiring, NewScientist
    2. Scientists Brave New Bioterrorism World, NRC Report Says Scientists Should Self-Censor, NewScientist
    3. The 'Conspiracy' Art of Mark Lombardi, NPR
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Complexity Digest 2003.44 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Global Competitiveness Report 2003-2004, World Economic Forum
  2. An Environmental Experiment With H2?, Science
    1. Air Pollution And Climate-Forcing Impacts Of A Global Hydrogen Economy, Science
  3. There's A Sucker Born In Every Medial Prefrontal Cortex, NYTimes
    1. Aggregate Investment And Political Instability: An Econometric Investigation, Economica
    2. The Interactive Minority Game: a Web-based Investigation of Human Market Interactions, Physica A
  4. Rural Schools Score Above Average In Most States, Brookings News
    1. Cash Incentives For Adoptions Seen As Risk To Some Children, NYTimes
  5. A Dynamical Systems Interpretation of Epigenetic Landscapes for Infant Motor Development, Infant Behavior and Development
  6. The Representation Of The Pleasantness Of Flavour, In The Human Brain, Euro. J. Neurosc.
  7. Augmentation Of Induced Visual Gamma Activity By Increased Task Complexity, Euro. J. Neurosc.
  8. Palaeolithic Grandmothers? Life History Theory And Early Homo, J. Royal Anthrop. Inst.
  9. The Nature Of Human Altruism, Nature
    1. Kin Discrimination And The Benefit Of Helping In Cooperatively Breeding Vertebrates, Science
  10. Male Fitness Of Honeybee Colonies, J. Evolutionary Biol.
  11. Are We There Yet?, Science
  12. Genomics And Global Health: Time For A Reappraisal, Science
    1. Reverse Vaccinology And Genomics, Science
  13. Humanity As The Model System, Science
    1. Pharmacogenetics To Come, Nature
  14. Healthy Animals With Extreme Longevity, Science
    1. Methuselah Worm Remains Energetic For Life, Scientific American.com
    2. High-Tech Daydreamers Investing In Immortality, NYTimes
  15. A Cellular Framework For Gut-Looping Morphogenesis In Zebrafish, Science
  16. How Legumes Select Their Sweet Talking Symbionts, Science
  17. The Enron Pentagon, Brookings Saban Center For Middle East Policy
  18. US Develops Lethal New Viruses, NewScientist
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Since 9/11, Use Of Complexity Science Is Growing, Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy
    2. Calls To Jihad Are Said To Lure Hundreds Of Militants Into Iraq, NYTimes
    3. A Willful Ignorance, NYTimes
    4. Preventing Nuclear And Radiological Terrorism, Brookings Views
    5. A Complex Systems Approach For Developing Public Policy Toward Terrorism, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
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Complexity Digest 2003.43 Next Issue TOP

  1. Trade Liberalization, Corruption, And Environmental Policy Formation: Theory And Evidence, J. Env. Econ. & Management
    1. Viscous Demand, J. Econ. Theory
  2. Bolivian Leader's Ouster Seen as Warning on U.S. Drug Policy, NYTimes
  3. Pattern Excitation-Based Processing: The Music of The Brain, arXiv
    1. Neural Correlates of the Complexity of Rhythmic Finger Tapping, NeuroImage
  4. Glycine Receptors On the Move, Science
  5. Prion Diseases: A Nucleic-Acid Accomplice?, Nature
  6. Hierarchical Organization In Complex Networks, Phys. Rev. E
    1. How to Search a Social Network, arXiv
  7. Analysis of Norms Game in networked societies, arXiv
  8. 2003 World Rock Paper Scissors Championship, NPR
  9. The Living Cell As A Paradigm For Complex Natural Systems, Complexus
    1. Does Tumor Growth Follow A "Universal Law"?, J. Theor. Biol.
  10. Evolution: Opportunity Versus Innovation, Nature
    1. Single-Gene Speciation By Left–Right Reversal, Nature
  11. Females Increase Offspring Heterozygosity And Fitness Through Extra-Pair Matings, Nature
  12. Sipping From a Poisoned Chalice, Science
    1. A Healthful Dab of Radiation?, Science
  13. Regrow Your Own, Wired
  14. Self-assembled Nanocells Function As Non-volatile Memory, ScienceDaily
    1. Electronic Memory Research That Dwarfs the Silicon Chip, NYTimes
  15. Halfway to Diamond, Science
    1. Bonding Changes in Compressed Superhard Graphite, Science
  16. A Cultural Scorecard Says West Is Ahead, NYTimes
  17. String Theory: Trying to Visualize Many, Many Dimensions of Weirdness, NYTimes
  18. The Stovepipe-How The Intelligence System Got Off Course, New Yorker
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Planning For Smallpox Outbreaks, Nature
    2. Student: I Put Box Cutters On Airplanes Five Weeks Ago, New York Daily News
      1. Scott Simon Essay: Airport Security, NPR Weekend Edition
    3. Rare Candor, Newsweek
    4. White House Withholding Sept 11 Files – Report, Reuters
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Complexity Digest 2003.42 Next Issue TOP

  1. Evolutionary Substrates of Communication, Signaling, and Perception in the Dynamics of Social Complexity, Conference Webcast
  2. Artificial Life: Organization, Adaptation and Complexity from the Bottom Up, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  3. Art and Science Meet With Novel Results, NYTimes
    1. Welcome To The Labyrinth Of Consciousness, Lloyd Website
  4. Bridging The Gap Between Rationality And Adaptation In Social Explanation, J. Evolutionary Econ.
  5. Computer Researchers On The Prowl For Human "Common Sense", The Associated Press
    1. Web Site Synthesis Based On Computational Logic
  6. Neuroscience: Re-Recording Human Memories, Nature
    1. Dissociable Stages Of Human Memory Consolidation And Reconsolidation, Nature
    2. Consolidation During Sleep Of Perceptual Learning Of Spoken Language, Nature
  7. Plant Biology: Locks, Keys And Symbioses, Nature
    1. Mutualism Can Mediate Competition And Promote Coexistence, Ecol. Lett.
  8. The Mother-In-Law Effect, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
  9. Ultraviolet Vision In A Bat, Nature
  10. The Automatic Pilot Of Honeybees, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
  11. DNA Copied With Convection, Nature Science update
    1. Exponential DNA Replication by Laminar Convection, Physical Review Letters
  12. Complexity in the Immune System, arXiv
  13. Living Longer and Larger: It's in the Size of Cholesterol-Carrying Molecules, NYTimes
  14. How Cells Step Out, Science
    1. Mathematical Modeling Predicts Cellular Communication, ScienceDaily
  15. Magic Number Revealed For Flying And Swimming, NewScientist
    1. Symbolic Analysis Of Swimming Trajectories Reveals Scale Invariance For Fish Locomotion, Fractals
  16. Think Outside The Sandbox, Nature
    1. Non-Linear Response Of Shoreface-Connected Sand Ridges To Interventions, Ocean Dynamics
    2. Migrating Sand Waves, Ocean Dynamics
  17. Warming Indian Ocean Wringing Moisture From the Sahel, Science
    1. Can Rain Be Bought? Experts Seed Clouds and Seek Answers, NYTimes
  18. After Bitter Fight, Texas Senate Redraws Congressional Districts, NYTimes
    1. On Listening, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges
    1. Iraqi Arms Caches Cited in Attacks, NYTimes
    2. Iraq War Has Swollen Ranks Of Al-Qaida, Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 03/10/16
    3. The Military Balance 2003-4, International Inst f Strategic Studies Press Conference
    4. Intelligence Puzzle: North Korean Bombs, NYTimes
    5. Feds Want All-Seeing Eye in Sky, Wired
    6. Spies Attack White House Secrecy, Wired
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  1. Two Professors, Collaborators in Econometrics, Win the Nobel, NYTimes
    1. Super-Cool Theories Secure Physics Prize, Nature Science Update
    2. Channel Champions Win Chemistry Nobel, Nature Science Update
    3. Magnetic Imaging Scoops Medical Nobel, Nature Science Update
  2. Harvard Heralds Fresh Take On Systems Biology, Nature
    1. Developmental Biology: Twisting The Body Into Shape, Nature
    2. Developmental Biology: Partners United, Nature
  3. Playable Games As Metaphors For Complex Biosystems: Team Connect Four, Complexity
  4. Buddhism And Neuroscience: Studying the Well-Trained Mind, Science
    1. Brain Scan Shows Rejection Pain, BBC News
    2. Neurobiology: Backchat At The Synapse, Nature
  5. Do You Know Who Your Experts Are?, McKinsey Quarterly
  6. Spam Fighters Turn to Identifying Legitimate E-Mail, NYTimes
  7. Scaling, Correlations, And Cascades In Finance And Turbulence, Physica A
    1. Do Stock Price Indices Respond Asymmetrically? Evidence From China, Japan, And South Korea, J. Asian Econ.
  8. Cognitive And Institutional Perspectives Of Eco-Efficiency, Ecol. Econ.
  9. Evolution Of Complex Life Cycles In Helminth Parasites
  10. Involving The Motor System In Decision Making, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
    1. Speed Vs. Accuracy In Collective Decision Making, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
  11. Bacterial Insecticides, The Scientist
  12. Nonlinear Modeling And Adaptive Monitoring In Biological Wastewater Treatment Plants, J. Biotech.
  13. Lasers Operate Inside Single Cells, NYTimes
  14. Cell Biology: The Hippo Hypothesis, Nature
  15. Photosynthesis Puzzle Solved, BBC News
  16. How to Assemble a Molecular Junction, Science
    1. Self-Assembly of Proteins into Designed Networks, Science
  17. Magnetic Logic Devices Move Closer, Physics Web
  18. TV Review:'Truth, War And Consequences', Selective Intelligence on Road to Baghdad, NYTimes
    1. Truth, War and Consequences, PBS
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. The Real Patriot Act, NYTimes
    2. U.S. Surplus Sales Include Biological Weapons Gear, Reuters
    3. Whistling In The Dark, TomPaine.com
    4. Red Cross Criticizes Indefinite Detention in Guantamo Bay, NYTimes
    5. A Sense of Betrayal, abcNEWS.com
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  1. Life and the Art of Networks, Science
    1. Biological Networks: The Tinkerer as an Engineer, Science
    2. Social Insect Networks, Science
    3. Communication in Neuronal Networks, Science
    4. A Bacterial Cell-Cycle Regulatory Network Operating in Time and Space, Science
  2. Stock Market Traders Show Signs Of Zero Intelligence, Nature
    1. The Predictive Power Of Zero Intelligence In Financial Markets, arVix
  3. On the Origin of Power Law Tails in Price Fluctuations, SFI Working Papers
    1. Predict the Future? You Can Bet on It, NYTimes
  4. A Study On Virtual Market Model For e-Marketplace Server, Elec. Comm. Res. & Appl.
  5. Universal Mechanisms in the Growth of Voluntary Organizations, arXiv
    1. Volunteering Leads To Rock–Paper–Scissors Dynamics In A Public Goods Game, Nature
  6. Are More People Cheating?, NYTimes
  7. Leading Takes More Than A Vision, Darwin Mag
  8. Reducing Underage Drinking Requires Cooperative Effort, National Academies
  9. Active Internet Traffic Filtering: Real-time Response to Denial of Service Attacks, arXiv
    1. Confessions of a Spam King, NYTimes
  10. How to Find That Needle Hopelessly Lost in the Haystack, NYTimes
  11. Biological Basis For Creativity Linked To Mental Illness, ScienceDaily
    1. Long-Term Retention Of The Differential Values Of Arabic Numerals By Chimpanzees, Animal Cognition
  12. Neuromaturation Of Human Locomotion Revealed By Non-Dimensional Scaling, Experi. Brain Res.
  13. An Age of Instability, Science
    1. An Age-Induced Switch to a Hyper-Recombinational State, Science
  14. Now Hear This, Quickly, NYTimes
  15. Applied Physics: Spintronics Gets A Magnetic Flute, Nature
  16. Uniform Resonant Chaotic Mixing In Fluid Flows, Nature
  17. Particle Formation by Ion Nucleation in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere, Science
  18. Interactions Between Ecological And Climatic Systems In Northern Africa, Ecosystems
  19. Complex Challenge: Terrorist Networks
    1. Government Seeks Next-Generation Biosensors, The Scientist
    2. U.S. Uses Terror Law to Pursue Crimes From Drugs to Swindling, NYTimes
    3. Building Intelligence to Fight Terrorism, James Steinberg, Mary, Brookings Policy Brief
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  1. Is Life The Key To New Tech?, CNN
    1. Can Chromosomes Be The Elixir Of Youth?, news.elegraph.co.uk
  2. Gamma Rays May Have Devastated Life On Earth, New Scientist
  3. Evolutionary Policies for Sustainable Development: Adaptive Flexibility and Risk Minimising, Ecological Economics
  4. Physics/Computer Science: Passing Messages Between Disciplines, Science
    1. New Sun Microsystems Chip May Unseat the Circuit Board, NYTimes
    2. Patchwork Design May Give Speedier Chips, NewScientist
  5. The Underground Internet, Business Week
    1. Internationalizing The Internet, IEEE Compu. Intell. Bull.
  6. Cerebellar LTD and Learning-Dependent Timing of Conditioned Eyelid Responses, Science
    1. From Molecules to Memory in the Cerebellum, Science
  7. A Fitness Cost Of Learning Ability In Drosophila Melanogaster, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Being Smart Not Always Fruitful: Study, Newsindpress.com
    2. Study Of Bees Provides Insight Into Evolution Of Bee Communication, ScienceDaily
  8. Traumatic Insemination: Female Bedbugs Evolve A Unique Organ, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
  9. The Emergent Properties of a Dolphin Social Network, arXiv
    1. Monkeys Reject Unequal Pay, Nature
  10. Contest Duration: Sizing Up The Opposition?, Trends in Ecol. & Evol.
  11. Gene Regulation: Switched On To RNA, Nature
    1. Cancer: Cues For Migration, Nature
  12. Climate Forecasting: Possible Or Probable?, Nature
  13. Kinematics: Wide Shear Zones In Granular Bulk Flow, Nature
    1. Materials Science: Polymers Go With The Flow, Science
  14. Targeted Reduction Of Complex Models With Time Scale Hierarchy - A Case Study, Math. Biosci.
  15. Curvy Aircrafts Could Silence Sonic Booms, NewScientist
  16. Generation of Megawatt Optical Solitons in Hollow-Core Photonic Band-Gap Fibers, Science
  17. One-Atom Laser: Trapped Atom Shoots Steady Light Beam, Science News
    1. Quantum Optics: Single Atom Lases Orderly Light, Nature
  18. World Trade Center: Chemical Studies Of 9/11 Disaster Tell Complex Tale Of 'Bad Stuff', Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Connect the Dots, NYTimes
    2. Secretary-General's Remarks at Conference on "Fighting Terrorism for Humanity ", Secretary-General Office of the Spokesman
      1. Root Causes of Terrorism, www.end-terror.org
      2. World Leaders Seek UN Role In Fight Against Terror, Daily Times Pakistan
    3. Malaria, the Terrorist's Friend, NYTimes
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  1. ECAL 2003, 7th European Conference on Artificial Life, Conference Webcast
  2. Flexible IT, Better Strategy, The McKinsey Quarterly
    1. The Quest for Resilience, Harvard Business Review
  3. Listening to the Wrong Iraqi, NYTimes
  4. Monkey Business Reveals Sense Of Fair Play, NewScientist
    1. 'Shifty-eyed' Monkeys Offer Window Into Brain's Social Reflexes, ScienceDaily
    2. Rationality And Social Behavior, J. Theor. Biol.
  5. Whatever Will Be Will Be Free on the Internet, NYTimes
    1. Crackdown May Send Music Traders Into Software Underground, NYTimes
  6. Complex Adaptive Systems, Annual Review of Anthropology
    1. Fungi Shield New Host Plants From Heat and Drought, Science
    2. Fixers in the Sky, Science
  7. AI and Machine Learning Techniques for Managing Complexity, Changes and Uncertainties in Manufacturing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  8. The Social Brain: Mind, Language, and Society in Evolutionary Perspective, Annual Review of Anthropology
    1. Mississippian Chiefdoms: How Complex?, Ann Rev Anthropology
    2. Intergroup Relations In Chimpanzees, Annual Review of Anthropology
  9. Neurogenesis: Brain, Repair Yourself, Scientific American
    1. Plasticity: The Mutable Brain, Scientific American
    2. Cellular Networks Underlying Human Spatial Navigation, Nature
    3. As Autumn Approaches, This Chickadee's Brain Begins To Expand, ScienceDaily
  10. A Neural Model of How the Brain Represents and Compares Multi-digit Numbers: Spatial And Categorical Processes, Neural Networks
  11. The Evolutionary Ecology Of Plasmodium, Ecol. Lett.
  12. Drug Research: The Ups And Downs Of Lithium, Nature
    1. Neuroethics: Is Better Best?, Scientific American
    2. The Quest for a Smart Pill, Scientific American
  13. Imaging: Mind Readers, Scientific American
    1. Stimulating the Brain, Scientific American
    2. Vision Chip Shines, Technology Research News
  14. Online Games Grab Grim Reality, NYTimes
    1. Attorneys Argue Termination Of 'Conscious Computer' In Mock Trail, KurzweilAI.net
  15. A Simple Visual System Without Neurons In Jellyfish Larvae, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
  16. Impostor Cells Are Wrecking Medical Research, NewScientist
  17. How Much News Is Actually Available On A One-Hour CNN Broadcast?, Al-Bawaba.com
  18. Assessing Interaction Networks with Applications to Catastrophe Dynamics and Disaster Management, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Science And The War On Terror, Nature
    2. Administration Creates Center for Master Terror 'Watch List', NYTimes
    3. A Tech Company Wins Big in the War on Terror, NYTimes
    4. 9/11? It Never Happened, Newsweek International
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  1. How Managers Misuse Information When Making Decisions, Knowledge @ Wharton
    1. Santiago Dreaming, The Guardian
  2. Slowed Down by Speed, Science
    1. Amphetamine Or Cocaine Limits Structural Neocortex, PNAS
    2. When Intelligence Loses Its Impact: Neural Efficiency, Int. J. Psychophysiol.
  3. A Model For Emergent Complex Order In Small Neural Networks, J. Integrative Neurosc.
  4. Palaeoanthropology: Tracking The First Americans, Nature
  5. Getting More From a PC's Spare Time, KurzweilAI.net
    1. Computer That Reads Lips, KurzweilAI.net
    2. Smart Software Makes Sense Of Rough Sketches, NewScientist
    3. Bacteria-Powered Battery Runs On A Sweet Tooth, Usa Today
  6. MIT's RoboSnails Model Novel Movements, ScienceDaily
  7. Hypocrisy Keeps Nations Poor, New Zealand Herald
    1. Give Unto Others: Monkeys Give Food To Those Who Give Food Back, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
  8. Evolution Of Cooperation And Conflict In Experimental Bacterial Populations, Nature
    1. Evolution Of Novel Cooperative Swarming In The Bacterium Myxococcus Xanthus, Nature
    2. Defective Or Effective? Mutualistic Interactions Between Virus Genotypes, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
  9. Self-Organization of Cognitive Performance, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
  10. Gene Regulation: RNA To The Rescue?, Nature
    1. Cell Plasticity: Flexible Arrangement, Nature
  11. Soundless Music Shown to Produce Weird Sensations, Reuters
  12. Science Of Waves May Unlock Surfing Secrets, New Zealand Herald
  13. The Legacy of Biosphere 2 for the Study of Biospherics and Closed Ecological Systems, Advances in Space Research
  14. Distributed Climate Model Aims For Errors, NewScientist
  15. Venus Possibly Habitable For Billions Of Years, NewScientist
    1. Suffocation Suspected For Greatest Mass Extinction, NewScientist
    2. Allee Effects, Extinctions, And Chaotic Transients In Simple Population Models, Theor. Population Biol.
  16. Quantum Physics: Entanglement Hits The Big Time, Nature
    1. Biomolecule Behaves Like A Wave, Physics Web
    2. Wave Nature of Biomolecules and Fluorofullerenes, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  17. Dissipationless Quantum Spin Current at Room Temperature, Science
    1. Scientists Forge Ahead With Domestication Of Molecules, MIT News
  18. Detecting Chemical Threats With 'Intelligent' Networks, ScienceDaily
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Finding the Face of Terror in Data, NYTimes
    2. Plans for Terror Inquiries Still Fall Short, Report Says, NYTimes
    3. Questions Grow on Pakistan's Commitment to Fight Taliban, NYTimes
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  1. Sixth International EUROLAN Summer School, Video/Audio Report
  2. Monetary Policy under Uncertainty, The Federal Reserve Board
  3. The Dark Side of Cooperation, Science Now
    1. Towards A Non-Darwinian Theory Of Institutional Change, J. Bioecon.
  4. Congestion And Centrality In Traffic Flow On Complex Networks, Adv. in Complex Sys.
  5. Ant Book Deepens Divide Over Web Publishing, Nature
  6. Technologies to Support the Creation of Complex Systems Models––Using StarLogo Software with Students, Biosystems
  7. Gene Gives Right-handers Clockwise Swirls: Study, Hindustan Times
  8. Stem Cells May Eliminate Need for Heart Transplant, Heart Center Online, Reuters
  9. A Perspective on Enzyme Catalysis, Science
  10. Electric Field Effect In Correlated Oxide Systems, Nature
  11. Mars: The Devil Is In The Dust, Nature
  12. Mind-Expanding Machines, Science News
    1. Key Brain Link In Associative Learning Directly Observed, ScienceDaily
  13. Chilly Future May Await Tomorrow's Computers, NewsFactor Network
  14. The Emergence Of Communication In Evolutionary Robots, Phil. Tran. Math., Phy. & Eng. Sc.
  15. Turbulence: Suddenly It's Chaos, Nature
    1. Chaos: Useful at Last?, Science
  16. Self-organised Criticality––What It Is and What It Isn't, Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A
  17. Pattern Formation And Stochastic Motion Of Zooplankton In A Light Field, Physica A
  18. Mechanics: Friction In A Spin, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Future Watch: Using Computers To Outthink Terrorists, ComputerWorld
    2. Iraq Bombings Pose a Mystery U.S. Must Solve, NYTimes
    3. The Media and the War on Terrorism, Brookings Institution Panel
    4. Superworm To Storm The Net On 9/11, GuluFuture.com
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  1. Systems Biology: Understanding Cells, Nature
    1. Cell Culture: Biology's New Dimension, Nature
  2. Modelling The Dynamics Of Language Death, Nature
    1. Zoology: You Aren't What You Eat, Nature
    2. Evidence For Differential Selection And Potential Adaptive, Behav. Ecol. & Sociobiol.
  3. Complex Behavior Of Elevators In Peak Traffic, Physica A: Stat. Mech. & its Appl.
  4. Developmental Biology: Hotspots For Evolution, Nature
  5. Centralized Reward System Gives Rise to Fast and Efficient Work Sharing for Intelligent Internet Agents Lacking Direct Communication, arXiv
    1. Counter-Googling, Trendwatching.Com
    2. Itinerancy Of Money, Chaos
  6. In Search of a Scientific Revolution, Science News
    1. Grid Computing Gets A Speed Boost From Mathematica 5, Grid Today
    2. UCSD Chemists Develop Self-Assembling Silicon Particles, ScienceDaily
  7. Is It Time To Move Beyond Zeroes And Ones?,, Embedded.com
  8. Heatwave Underlines Climate-Model Failures, Nature
  9. MIT Everyware, Wired
  10. Applying Emergent Self-Organizing Behavior For The Coordination Of 4G Networks, Bell Labs Tech. J.
  11. How the Blackout Came to Life, NYTimes
    1. Power Up!, Wired
    2. It's a Flawed World After All, Wired
  12. Will Fact Match Fiction As Scientists Start Work On Thinking Robot?,, The Guardian
    1. The Ghost in Your Machine, Business Week
    2. Machine Thinks, Therefore It Is, Wired
    3. The Man Who Mistook His Girlfriend for a Robot, Popular Science
  13. Do Different Writing Systems Involve Distinct Profiles Of Brain Activation?, J. of Neurolinguistics
    1. Branching Thalamic Afferents Link Action and Perception, J. Neurophysiol.
  14. Water Worlds Make A Splash As The Best Hope For Alien Life, Nature
    1. Cell Biology: Metabolism Meets Death, Nature
  15. Fatigued Neurons Explain Waterfall Illusion, Newscientist
  16. Eons of a Cold, Dry, Dusty Mars, Science
  17. Complex Dynamics And Regime Control In Pierce Diode With Delay Feedback, Nonlin. Phenomena In Complex Sys.
  18. Granular Materials: Shaken Sand - A Granular Fluid?, Nature
    1. Mathematics: The 24-Dimensional Greengrocer, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
  20. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
    1. U.S. Miscalculated Security For Iraq, Washington Times
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  1. Set of Rules Too Complex to Be Followed Properly, NYTimes
  2. Learning Curve: A Simulation-Based Approach to Dynamic Pricing, Electronic Comm. Res.
  3. Autonomous Mapping Of E-Business Demands Via Invisible Internet Agents, Electronic Comm. Res.
  4. Self-organising Behaviour in the Presence of Negative Externalities: A Conceptual Model of Commuter Choice, European Journal of Operational Research
    1. Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Control: A Practical Synergism for Industrial Applications, Computers in Industry
  5. Cognitive Machines - Machines Accurately Infer User Intent, Remember Experiences, ScienceDaily
    1. Computer Model Forecasts Crime Sprees, New Scientist
  6. Language Evolution: Consensus And Controversies, Trends in Cognitive Sc.
    1. Evolving Grounded Communication For Robots, Trends in Cognitive Sc.
  7. A Twist on Artificial Intelligence: DNA, SunSpot.net
    1. Electronic Textiles Charge Ahead, Science
  8. Action Plans Used In Action Observation, Nature
    1. Brain Patterns The Same Whether Doing Or Just Watching, Queen's Researcher Discovers, ScienceDaily
  9. Discretizing Light Behaviour In Linear And Nonlinear Waveguide Lattices, NYTimes
    1. Photonic Structures In Biology, Nature
    2. Sea Sponge Inspires Better Fiber-Optic Cables, Scientific American
  10. Terahertz Imaging: T-Ray Specs, Nature
  11. Biological Vs. Social, Economic And Political Priority-Setting In Conservation, Ecol. Lett.
    1. Meta-Ecosystems: A Theoretical Framework For A Spatial Ecosystem Ecology, Ecol. Lett.
  12. The Power Of Time: Spatiotemporal Scaling Of Species Diversity, Ecol. Lett.
    1. Flowers' Sick Trick Gives Botanists Double Trouble, Nature
  13. Teaching Cells New Tricks, Trends in Biotech.
    1. How AIDS Destroys Immunity, EurekAlert
  14. Extending The Genetic Code, The Scientist
  15. Modifying the Message, Science
  16. Prediction Of Auditory Spatial Acuity From Neural Images, Nature
  17. Why Humans and Their Fur Parted Ways, NYTimes
  18. Climate Change, Human Impacts, and the Resilience of Coral Reefs, Science
    1. Drought Portends Mosquito Misery, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. War Zone Between The Forces Of Terror And The Occupying Forces, Al-Hayat
    2. Decoding Terror, ScienCentral News
    3. Ashcroft Criticized for Talks on Terror, NYTimes
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  1. Power Failure Reveals a Creaky System, Energy Experts Believe, NYTimes
    1. Agency Quickly Concludes No Terrorists Were Involved, NYTimes
    2. When Wireless Phones Failed, Callers Turned to Land Lines, Excerpts
    3. Internet Survives Power Failure, NEWS.com
    4. Experts Asking Why Problems Spread So Far, NYTimes
    5. We're All on the Grid Together, NYTimes
  2. Computer 'Worm' Widely Attacks Windows Versions, NYTimes
    1. Computer Simulations Of The Internet, ScienceDaily
    2. Ignorance, Knowledge, and Outcomes in a Small World, Science
    3. An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks, Science
  3. 'Spintronics' Could Enable A New Generation Of Electronic Devices, EurekAlert
    1. The New Diamond Age, Wired
    2. An All-Optical Quantum Gate in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot, Science
  4. Hot Bug Extends Temperature Limit For Life, New Scientist
    1. Human-Rabbit Embryos Intensify Stem Cell Debate, New Scientist
  5. Censors of the Genome, Scientific American
  6. Shape Shifters Tread a Daunting Path Toward Reality, Science
    1. Topologists and Roboticists Explore an 'Inchoate World', Science
  7. Endogenous Insecurity And Economic Development, J. Dev. Econ.
  8. Harvesting Poverty: Inching Toward Trade Fairness, NYTimes
    1. International Migration, Income Taxes And Transfers: A Welfare Analysis, J. Dev. Econ.
    2. The WTO Promotes Trade, Strongly But Unevenly, Brookings Views
    3. Deal Reached on Subsidies for Farmers, NYTimes
  9. Some Results On Ruin Probabilities In A Two-Dimensional Risk Model, Insurance: Math. & Econ.
  10. Atmospheric Science: African Dust In Florida Clouds, Nature
  11. Cooler Butterflies Lay Larger Eggs: Developmental Plasticity Versus Acclimation, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
    1. Parasites Mediate Plant Invasions, Alphagalileo
    2. Weapon (Thorn) Automimicry And Mimicry Of Aposematic Colorful Thorns In Plants, J. Theor. Biol.
  12. Bottlenose Dolphins Perceive Object Features Through Echolocation, Nature
    1. Neuronal Populations And Single Cells Representing Learned Auditory Objects, Nature
    2. Mouse Intelligence Measured, Nature
  13. Depression Drugs' Powers May Rest on New Neurons, Science
  14. Neural Correlates Of Implied Motion, Nature
  15. Neurobiology: A Thorny Issue, Nature
    1. Induction Of Dendritic Spines By An Extracellular Domain, Nature
  16. Emergence of Scale-free Properties in Hebbian Networks, arXiv
  17. Power From Blood Could Lead To 'Human Batteries', KurzweilAI.net
    1. Roboblood, KurzweilAI.net
  18. Pattern Recognition in a Bucket, ECAL 2003
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Lakhani's Terror Links May Be In US Eyes Only, Economic Times (India)
    2. A Terror-Plot without Terrorists, Der Spiegel, Der Spiegel (Germany)
    3. Analyzing Bioterror Response Logistics: The Case Of Smallpox, Math. Biosc.
    4. 'Terrorism Futures' Could Have a Future, Experts Say, Science
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  1. Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences, Webcast
  2. Acquiring an Understanding of Design: Evidence from Children's Insight Problem Solving, Cognition
  3. Organization of cell assemblies in the hippocampus, Nature
  4. Punctuated Equilibrium in Software Evolution, arXiv
    1. Signatures of Small-world and Scale-free Properties in Large Computer Programs, arXiv
  5. Toward a Complexity Science of Entrepreneurship, Journal of Business Venturing
  6. Optimality Of Collective Choices: A Stochastic Approach, Bull. Math. Biol.
    1. Special Sales With Guaranteed Minimum Duration But Uncertain Termination Date, Appl. Math. Modelling
  7. Getting a Grip on Turbulence, Science
    1. Extended Boltzmann Kinetic Equation for Turbulent Flows, Science
    2. Stratospheric Memory and Skill of Extended-Range Weather Forecasts, Science
  8. Satellites aim to shake up quake predictions, Nature
    1. On The Effective Dimension And Dynamic Complexity Of Earthquake Faults, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
  9. Much ado about data, The Globe Online
  10. Reading a Score, and Beethoven's Mind, NYTimes
  11. Email experiment confirms six degrees of separation, NewScientist.com news service
    1. Supercomputing's New Idea Is Old One, NYTimes
  12. Discoveries Made About Cellular Reaction Processes From Ancient Life, ScienceDaily
  13. Evolutionary Capacitance As A General Feature Of Complex Gene Networks, Nature
    1. Genetic Distance In Sequence Space Of Evolving Populations, Complexity
  14. Self-Organizing Genetic Codes And The Emergence Of Digital Life, Complexity
  15. Complex Dynamics Is Abolished In Delayed Recurrent Systems With Distributed Feedback Times, Complexity
  16. Motor proteins branch out, Nature
    1. Positive Force Feedback In Bouncing Gaits?, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
    2. Mathematical Twist Reveals The Agony Of Back Pain, New Scientist
  17. Biggest not always the daddy in mating game, New Scientist
  18. Breaching the Barrier, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. A Fresh Start Against Terror, NYTimes
    2. 'Soft Walls' Will Keep Hijacked Planes At Bay, New Scientist
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Complexity Digest 2003.31 Next Issue TOP

  1. IMA International Conference Bifurcation 2003
  2. Electronic Voting System Is Vulnerable To Tampering For US Elections, ScienceDaily
    1. Suit Says Machines Missed 60,000 Votes in 2000 Race, NYTimes
  3. Brain scans 'reveal baby thoughts', BBC News
  4. A Neural Networks-Based Approach To Options Pricing, Int. J. Theor. & Appl. Finance
    1. Emerging Behavior In Electronic Bidding, Phys. Rev. E
  5. Neurobiology: A New Way To Network, Nature
    1. Dynamical Networks In Function Dynamics, Physica D
  6. Coarse-Grained Probabilistic Automata Mimicking Chaotic Systems, arXiv
  7. From Uzbek to Klingon, the Machine Cracks the Code, NYTimes
    1. Romancing the Rosetta Stone, EurekAlert
  8. Hierarchical Small Worlds in Software Architecture, SFI Working Papers
  9. Basic Principles Of Direct Chaotic Communications, Nonlin. Pheno. In Complex Sys.
    1. Press 'N' Peel Lasers: Coaxing Light Beams Out Of Cheap Plastic, Science News
  10. At What Time Scale Does The Nervous System Operate?, Neurocomputing
  11. From Nonlinearity to Optimality: Pheromone Trail Foraging by Ants, Animal Behaviour
  12. Birds Are Overlooked Top Predators In Aquatic Food Webs, Ecology
  13. Bees Trade Off Foraging Speed For Accuracy, Nature
  14. Adaptive Walks in a Gene Network Model of Morphogenesis: Insights into the Cambrian Explosion, SFI Working Papers
    1. A Genetic Melting-Pot, Nature
  15. Cyborg Liberation Front, The Village Voice
  16. Late Date for Siberian Site Challenges Bering Pathway, Science
    1. The Archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas, Science
  17. Video Violence: Playing With Fire?, Nature
  18. Chaos Theory: Managing DHS, Legal Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Central Asia: Terrorism, Religious Extremism, and Regional Stability, Brookings Testimony
    2. Did The Government Let Bin Laden's Trail Go Cold?, New Yorker
    3. Report on 9/11 Suggests a Role by Saudi Spies, NYTimes
    4. Pentagon Prepares a Futures Market on Terror Attacks, NYTimes
    5. Futuremap Program Canceled, DARPA Press Resease
    6. All Bets Are Off, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.30 Next Issue TOP

  1. Information Technology And Economic Performance: Review Of The Empirical Evidence, ACM Computing Surveys
  2. Tapping the Mood Gene, NYTimes
    1. Getting the Short End of the Allele, Science
    2. Influence of Life Stress on Depression, Science
  3. Supercomputing: Simulators Face Real Problems, Science
  4. Development as a Dynamic System, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
    1. The Segmentation Clock: Converting Embryonic Time into Spatial Pattern, Science
    2. Time for Chronomics?, Science
    3. To Every Thing There Is a Season, Science
  5. Evolutionary Biology: Body Plans And Simple Brains, Nature
  6. Ecology: Evolution In Population Dynamics, Nature
    1. Ecology: Birds Sing At A Higher Pitch In Urban Noise, Nature
  7. Mutation Landscapes, Journal of Theoretical Biology
    1. Larger than Life: threshold-range scaling of Life's coherent structures, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena
  8. Reproductive Isolation Driven By Effects Of Ecological Adaptation And Reinforcement, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
    1. Quantifying Male Attractiveness, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
  9. Viral Self-Assembly As A Thermodynamic Process, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  10. Memory in Retroviral Quasispecies: Experimental Evidence and Theoretical Model for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Journal of Molecular Biology
  11. Managing Models Of Signaling Networks, Neurocomputing
  12. Electronic Neuron Within A Ganglion Of A Leech, Phys. Rev. E
  13. Neuroscience: A New Of The Brain, Nature
  14. Brain Machine 'Improves Musicianship', BBC News
  15. When Is a Word Not a Word?, Science
    1. Lateralized Cognitive Processes and Lateralized Task Control, Science
  16. Flicker Flutter: Is an Illusory Event as Good as the Real Thing?, Journal of Vision
    1. Sustained Division Of The Attentional Spotlight, Nature
  17. "Cellular Automaton Model for the Simulation of Laser Dynamics", Physical Review E
  18. Your Permanent Record, Wired
    1. Pentagon Alters LifeLog Project, Wired News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Planned U.S. Sensor Network Targets Terror Threats, EE Times
    2. Before and After Sept. 11, NYTimes
    3. Classified Section of Sept. 11 Report Faults Saudi Rulers, NYTimes
      1. Full Text: Congressional Report on 9/11, NYTimes
    4. Faith-Based Intelligence, The New Yorker
    5. Intelligence Quagmire: How To Gauge The New IQ, The Christian Science Monitor
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Complexity Digest 2003.29 Next Issue TOP

  1. Excellence in Computer Simulation, arXiv
  2. Transcription Regulation And Animal Diversity, Nature
  3. Researchers Locate Tumor-suppressor Gene in Fruit Flies That Controls Cell Production, Death, EurekAlert
  4. Predicting Future Rewards, Science
    1. Conversion of Working Memory to Motor Sequence, Science
  5. Modified Mice Show Super-Healing Powers, New Scientist
  6. Head Size Gives Autism Early Warning, New Scientist
    1. A Sigh of Relief for Painkillers, Science
  7. HIV Hybrid Formed In A Human Revealed, New Scientist
  8. Identification Of A Complex Neurophysiological System, J. Biol. Sys.
  9. Stochastics Of Order: Applications To Population Dynamics, And Complexity, J. Biol. Sys.
  10. Biodiversity Meets the Atmosphere: A Global View of Forest Canopies, Science
    1. Modelling Food Webs, Handbook of Graphs and Networks
    2. The Evolution Of Movements And Behaviour: Experiment With Butterflies, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
  11. Pattern Formations In Chemical Systems, Adv. in Complex Sys.
  12. The Impressive Complexity In The Nautilus Pompilius Shell, Fractals
    1. Evolution Of Complex Flowering Strategies: Integral Projection Model Approach, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
  13. Bacterial Communication: Tiny Teamwork, Nature
  14. Hydrogen Lifts Off - With A Heavy Load, Nature
  15. Playing Tricks with Slow Light, Science
  16. Teaching Computers to Work in Unison, NYTimes
  17. Picking Up the Pieces, NYTimes
  18. US Unprepared for Iraq Order Collapse - Wolfowitz, Reuters
    1. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz Interview, Los Angeles Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Lack of Pre-9/11 Sources to Be Cited as Intelligence Failure, NYTimes
    2. Pattern of Corruption, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.28 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Lure of Data: Is It Addictive?, NYTimes
    1. The New Card Shark, NYTimes
    2. When Does A Random Robin Hood Win?, Theor. Comp. Sc.
  2. Modelling And Solving Employee Timetabling Problems, Annals of Math. & Arti. Intell.
  3. Music Offers Scientists Way To Explore Mysteries Of Consciousness, Knight Ridder Newspapers
  4. Methods and Techniques of Complex Systems Science: An Overview, arXiv
  5. Who'D Want To Work In A Team?, Nature
  6. Naturalness And The Genetic Modification Of Animals, Trends in Biotech.
  7. Stem Cells Seek Out and Replace Injured Muscle, GNN
  8. How Tumors Keep Their Blood Vessels Flowing, Science
    1. Profiling Cell Networks via Perturbations, Science
  9. Is Perception Discrete Or Continuous?, Trends in Cogn. Sc.
  10. Language Evolution: Consensus and Controversies, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
    1. Evolving Grounded Communication for Robots, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
    2. Cognition is Categorization, CogPrints
  11. Perceptual Learning and Brain Reorganization, Science
    1. Spontaneous Muscle Twitches During Sleep Guide Spinal Self-Organization, Nature
    2. Gorilla And Orangutan Understanding Of First- And Second-Order Relations, Animal Cognition
  12. Sealed Off from Immune Surveillance, Science
    1. Pods Invade Infected Bladders, Science
  13. Machines that Reproduce May be Reality, NewsFactor Network
    1. Visionaries See Flexible Computers Using Less Power, EETimes.de
    2. New Memory That Doesn't Forget, Wired
  14. Construction Bugs Find Tiny Work, Nature Science Update
  15. White-Light Filaments for Atmospheric Analysis, Science
  16. Delta-Wing Function Of Webbed Feet In Birds, Nature
  17. Evolutionary Danger for Rainforest Species, Science
    1. Low Potential for Climatic Stress Adaptation in a Rainforest Drosophila Species, Science
    2. Acclimation Capacity Underlies Susceptibility to Climate Change, Science
  18. The Co-Evolution Of Individual Behaviors And Social Institutions, J. Theor. Biol.
    1. Your Farm Subsidies Are Strangling Us, NYTimes
    2. Sowing Seeds of Destruction, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Bioterrorism Defense Priorities, Science
    2. 9/11 Commission Says U.S. Agencies Slow Its Inquiry, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.27 Next Issue TOP

  1. Agent-Based Approach to Investors' Behavior and Asset Price Fluctuation in Financial Markets
  2. Who's in Charge?, American Scientist
    1. The Value of Positive Emotions, American Scientist
  3. Author Sees Molecular Future In Corporate World, Boston Globe
    1. Dynamics Between Order And Chaos In A Simple Reentrant Model Of Production Dynamics, Int. J. Bifur. & Chaos
  4. Medicare Cures Prove Easy To Presribe, Tricky to Predict, Wall Street Journal
    1. Find-A-Drug Attacks Aids With Grid Technology, Grid Today
  5. Alzheimer's Disease, The Molecular Origins Of The Disease Are Coming To Light, American Scientist
    1. Neurobiology: Synapses Unplugged, Nature
  6. Myosin Motors Walk the Walk, Science
    1. Myosin V Walks Hand-Over-Hand: Single Fluorophore Imaging with 1.5-nm Localization, Science
    2. Telomeres Shorten More Slowly In Long-Lived Birds And Mammals, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  7. Plant Hydraulics: The Ascent Of Water, Nature
  8. Opposites Do Not Attract In Mating Game, New Scientist
    1. Nature's Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind, Cambridge University Press
    2. The Emergent Properties Of A Dolphin Social Network, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
  9. What Does It Take To Evolve Behaviorally Complex Organisms?, Biosystems
    1. The Small-World Dynamics Of Tree Networks And Data Mining In Phyloinformatics, Bioinformatics
  10. Form And Function: A Neuronal Dialog, Brain and Mind
  11. Beyond Input-Output Computings: Error-driven Emergence with Parallel Non-distributed Slime Mold Computer, Biosystems
    1. Quantum Information With Neutral Atoms As Qubits, Phil. Tran. A
  12. Sensors of the World, Unite!, Technology Review
    1. Spam May Sprout Viruses In Home PCs, CNET News.com
    2. Website Turns Tables On Government Officials, Boston Globe
    3. Computer Science: Scientists Launch Global Internet Research Lab, Science
  13. Scientists Announce First 3-D Assembly of Magnetic and Semiconducting Nanoparticles, NSF Press Release
    1. Sorting Technique May Boost Nanotube Research, Science
    2. Ultracold Molecules Pave Way for Quantum "Super Molecule", NIST News Release
  14. Accelerating Universe Theory Dispels Dark Energy, Nature Science Update
    1. Is Cosmic Speed-Up Due To New Gravitational Physics?, arXiv
  15. Atmospheric Physics: Electric Jets, Nature
    1. Gigantic Jets Between A Thundercloud And The Ionosphere, Nature
  16. Microbe-Processors:Researchers Attempt To Turn Living Cells Into Computers, Boston Globe
    1. Microbe Fuel Cell Packs More Power, Nature Science Update
  17. Why Tax Cuts Will Not Pay Off, Do Workers Really Make Hay While The Sun Shines, NYTimes
  18. How Many Candidates Are Needed to Make Elections Hard to Manipulate?, arXiv
    1. Internet Helps Make Candidate a Contender, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Two Britons May Face U.S. Tribunal, AP/Newsday
    2. Cyberterroism in Today's World, Electronic News
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Complexity Digest 2003.26 Next Issue TOP

  1. Network Armies, Chief Executive
    1. A Higher Plane of Problem-Solving, Business 2.0
    2. Unleashing Killer Architecture: The Shape of Things to Come, CIO
  2. More Companies Pay Heed to Their 'Word of Mouse' Reputation, NYTimes
    1. Digital Divide And Purchase Intention: Why Demographic Psychology Matters, J. Economic Psychology
    2. Modeling Users' Preferences In Systems For Information Access, Int. J. Intelligent Systems
  3. Mind Share, BLOG SPACE: Public Storage For Wisdom, Ignorance, and Everything in Between, Wired
    1. Online Archives for Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications, CogPrints
    2. Self-Archive Unto Others as Ye Would Have Them Self-Archive Unto You, CogPrints
  4. Statistical Mechanics: A Possible Model for Market-based Electric Power Control, arXiv
  5. Emerging Out Of Nature Into History: The Plurality Of The Sciences, Phil. Tran. A
    1. Information, Knowledge And The Future Of Machines, Phil. Tran. A
    2. Parallel Universes, The Matrix, And Superintelligence, KurzweilAI.net
  6. Neuroengineering: Remote Control, Nature
  7. Savant for a Day, NYTimes
    1. Inhibited and Uninhibited Infants "Grown Up": Adult Amygdalar Response to Novelty, Science
  8. Somatosensory Basis Of Speech Production, Nature
    1. The Influence Of Visual Motion On Fast Reaching Movements To A Stationary Object, Nature
  9. What The Cerebellum Computes, Trends in Neurosc.
    1. Putting Smell On The Map, Trends in Neurosc.
  10. Molecular "Piggyback Ride" Carries Alzheimer's Protein Into Brain, URMC News
  11. Gene Tells Time for Bed, Nature.com
  12. New Law May Leave Many Rural Teachers Behind, NYTimes
  13. Desperately Seeking Similarity, Science
    1. Kin Selection in Cooperative Alliances of Carrion Crows, Science
    2. Morphs, Dispersal Behavior, Genetic Similarity, and the Evolution of Cooperation, Science
  14. Echolocation: Volume Control, Nature
    1. Study Shows How Dolphins Land Lunch, AFP/Animal Planet
    2. Automatic Gain Control In The Echolocation System Of Dolphins, Nature
  15. The Warped Side of Dark Matter, Science
    1. Dark Energy Tiptoes Toward the Spotlight, Science
    2. The Dark Age of the Universe, Science
    3. New Light on Dark Matter, Science
    4. Throwing Light on Dark Energy, Science
  16. Making Clouds Darker Sharpens Cloudy Climate Models, Science
  17. Senescence In A Bacterium With Asymmetric Division, Science
  18. A Tree of Fireflies, a Flock of Boson Clouds, Science Book Report
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Iranian Terror Group Planned Attacks, French Report Says, NYTimes
    2. By Fusing Images, Lehigh Professor Detects Concealed Weapons, ScienceDaily
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Complexity Digest 2003.25 Next Issue TOP

  1. Brain Experts Now Follow the Money, NYTimes
    1. Psychology And Economics: Strategizing In The Brain, Science
    2. The Neural Basis of Economic Decision-Making in the Ultimatum Game, Science
    3. Certainly Nondeterministic, Science
  2. Untangling Underperformance, McKinsey Quarterly
  3. Do Habits Raise Consumption Growth?, Res. in Econ.
    1. Husbands' And Wives' View Of The Family Finances, J. Socio-Economics
  4. Consumption Dynamics And Technological Change -Exemplified By The Mobile Phones, Ecol. Economics
  5. Probabilistic Representation Of Complexity, J. Econ. Theory
  6. The Self-Organization Of Space And Time, Phil. Tran. A
    1. Self-Organization And Complexity: A New Age For Theory, Computation And Experiment, Phil. Tran. A
  7. Charting the Evolutionary History of Life, Science
    1. Evolution of the Protein Repertoire, Science
    2. The Deep Roots of Eukaryotes, Science
    3. Phylogenomics: Intersection of Evolution and Genomics, Science
  8. Functional Information: Molecular Messages, Nature
  9. Sustained Microtubule Treadmilling in Arabidopsis Cortical Arrays, Science
  10. Technology Elite Are Focusing Next on Human Body, NYTimes
  11. Emergent Constraints On Word-Learning: A Computational Perspective, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
    1. The Remarkable Inefficiency Of Word Recognition, Nature
  12. Finding Genes Underlying Risk Of Complex Disease, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
  13. Science as a Way of Life: Perplexities of a Physician-Scientist, Science
  14. Jordan Education Initiative to Roll Out e-Learning, World Economic Forum
  15. Antennas Get Smart, Scientific American
  16. Computing's Big Shift: Flexibility in the Chips, NYTimes
  17. Nanotechnology: Convergence With Modern Biology And Medicine, Current Opinion in Biotechnology
  18. Emergent Phenomena And The Sociology Of Disaster, Disaster Prevention & Management
    1. Potential Environmental Impact of a Hydrogen Economy on the Stratosphere, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Remote Sub Can Patrol Shores; AUVs Find New Purpose In Anti-terror Age, ScienceDaily
    2. False Terrorism Tips to F.B.I. Uproot the Lives of Suspects, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.24 Next Issue TOP

  1. Theories Of Complexity, Complexity
    1. Investigating A General Biology, Complexity
    2. When Can we Call a System Self-organizing?, arXiv
  2. Self-Replicating Machines In Continuous Space With Virtual Physics, Artificial Life
  3. A Model For Housing Allocation Of A Homeless Population, Nonlin. Analysis: Real World Appl.
  4. In Ancient Skulls From Ethiopia, Familiar Faces, NYTimes
  5. 'Dual Source' Caused Aids-like Virus, BBC News
  6. Sweet Revenge [Vaccines Based On Sugars], Nature
  7. The Ulcer Bug: Gut Reaction, Nature
  8. The Double Puzzle Of Diabetes, Nature
  9. Cancer: Out Of Air Is Not Out Of Action, Nature
  10. Neurobiology: All Change At The Synapse, Nature
    1. Single Neurons in the Monkey Hippocampus and Learning of New Associations, Science
  11. The "What" And "Where" Of Object Representations In Infancy, Cognition
    1. Learning Innate Face Preferences, Neural Computation
  12. Watch How To Do It! New Advances In Learning By Observation, Brain Res. Rev.
  13. Development Of Interception Of Moving Targets By Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes) In An Automated Task, Animal Cognition
  14. Background Synaptic Activity As A Switch Between Dynamical States In A Network, Neural Computation
  15. Regulation Of Ants' Foraging To Resource Productivity, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
  16. Insect Behaviour: Motion Camouflage In Dragonflies, Nature
    1. What Really Happens When Fruit Flies Fly?, NYTimes
  17. Scaling Metabolism From Organisms To Ecosystems, Nature
    1. Catastrophic Desert Formation, J. Theor. Biol.
  18. Does the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change Reside in the Ocean or in the Atmosphere?, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. War Poll Uncovers Fact Gap, The Philadelphia Inquirer
    2. U.S. Will Tighten Rules on Holding Terror Suspects, NYTimes
    3. FBI Does Some Heavy-Duty Digging in Md, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2003.23 Next Issue TOP

  1. SPIE's 1st Intl Symp on Fluctuations and Noise, Webcast
  2. On Video Games, the Jury Is Out and Confused, NYTimes
    1. Action Video Game Modifies Visual Selective Attention, Nature
    2. Models Come Alive, PC Forum
    3. 'Sims' Creator Inks TV Deal With Fox, Reuters
  3. Violence Viewed By Psychopathic Murderers, Nature
  4. Is Democracy More Expropriative Than Dictatorship? Tocquevillian Wisdom Revisited, J. Development Econ.
  5. Farmer Education And The Weather: Evidence From Taiwan, J. Development Econ.
    1. Farm Salmon Threaten Native Species, Alphagalileo
  6. Quantifying The Complexity Of Flow Networks: How Many Roles Are There?, Complexity
    1. The Third Era Starts Here, The Guardian
    2. Competitive Dynamics Of Web Sites, J. Econ. Dyn. & Control
  7. Cell Division: Genome Maintenance, Nature
  8. Home-grown Arteries a Step Closer, BBC News
    1. Shocking Cells Into Submission, Wired News
  9. Modulating Mutation Rates in the Wild, Science
  10. Evolutionary Foundations Of Number: Spontaneous Representation, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
  11. Research Shows Similarities Between Infants Learning To Talk, Birds Learning To Sing, ScienceDaily
  12. The Mechanism of Self-recognition in Humans, Behavioural Brain Research
    1. Time Course Of Regional Brain Activations During Facial Emotion Recognition In Humans, Neurosc. Lett.
    2. New Research Shows We Are Not What We Think, Alphagalileo
    3. Embodied Cognition: A field guide, Artificial Intelligence
  13. Imagine Machines That Can See, Wired News
  14. Disrupted Timing of Discontinuous But Not Continuous Movements by Cerebellar Lesions, Science
    1. The Theoretical Limits To The Power Output Of A Muscle-Tendon Complex, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
    2. Spiderman Becomes A Reality, Alphagalileo
  15. Scientists Starve Malaria Parasite, BBC News
  16. Special Section On Martian Exploration: Mars Attracts!, Nature
  17. Water-Soluble Quantum Dots for Multiphoton Fluorescence Imaging in Vivo, Science
  18. Broken Cooper Pairs Caught Bouncing Around, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Ashcroft Seeks More Power to Pursue Terror Suspects, NYTimes
    2. Atty. Gen. Ashcroft Testimony on Patriot Act Implementation, s-span video
    3. Excerpt From Analysis of Detention of Foreigners After 9/11 Attacks, NYTimes
    4. Smartcams Take Aim at Terrorists, Wired News
    5. Dear Darpa Diary, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.22 Next Issue TOP

  1. Global Collaboration on SARS Bears Fruit, NYTimes
  2. The Cost Of Complexity And The Use Of Grids, Grid Today
    1. Untraceable Email Cluster Bombs: On Agent-Based Distributed Denial of Service, arXiv
  3. Working Remotely, Robots in Place, Wired
    1. Video-Game Killing Builds Visual Skills, Researchers Report, NYTimes
  4. Pentagon Explores a New Frontier in the World of Virtual Intelligence, NYTimes
    1. This Palm Reads Your Mind, Wired
  5. Software Systems as Complex Networks: Structure, Function, and Evolvability of Software Collaboration Graphs, arXiv
  6. Copied Citations Give Impact Factors A Boost, Nature
    1. Scientific Literacy: Clear As Mud, Nature
  7. Speculative Behavior And Asset Price Dynamics, Nonlin. Dyn., Psycho. & Life Sc.
  8. A Complexity Theory Model In Science Education Problem Solving, Nonlin. Dyn., Psycho. & Life Sc.
    1. Community Dynamics In A University Environment, Nonlin. Dyn., Psycho. & Life Sc.
  9. Scientists Use DNA Fragments To Trace The Migration Of Modern Humans, ScienceDaily
  10. Spontaneous Emergence Of Leaders And Followers In Foraging Pairs, Nature
    1. Competitive Fates Of Bacterial Social Parasites: Extinction Of Cheaters, Alphagalileo & Proc. B.
  11. A Mathematical Model Of Cell-To-Cell Spread Of HIV-1 That Includes A Time Delay, J. Math. Biol.
  12. Born Under The Sun: UV Light And The Origin Of Life, Alphagalileo
  13. Save Those Molecules! Molecular Biodiversity And Life, J. of Appl. Ecol.
    1. Genomics: Not Junk After All, Science
  14. Dynamic Nature Of African Great Ape Social Communication, Anthropological Theory
  15. Bad Dancers: Childhood Chills Give Bees Six Left Feet, Science News
  16. Three-Gorges Dam--Experiment in Habitat Fragmentation?, Science
  17. Nonlinear Dynamical Model Of Human Gait, Phys. Rev. E
  18. Doppler Effect In Larval Biology: Theory And Applications, Ecol. Modelling
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. The Looting of Iraq's Nuclear Facilities: What Do We Do Now?, The Globe and Mail
    2. Are We Winning the War on Terrorism?, Brookings Middle East Memo
    3. "Terrorism After the War in Iraq," U.S.-France Analysis, Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere
    4. Waggy Dog Stories, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.21 Next Issue TOP

  1. A Theory Of Power-Law Distributions In Financial Market Fluctuations, Nature
  2. Altruisitic Duality in Evolutionary Game Theory, arXiv
  3. Dynamics Of Social Networks, Complexity
  4. Information Flow in Social Groups, arXiv
    1. Decentralized Decision-Making In A Large Team With Local Information, Games & Econ. Behav.
    2. Copied citations create renowned papers?, arXiv
  5. Attractor Dynamics Of Network UP States In The Neocortex, Nature
    1. Turning On And Off Recurrent Balanced Cortical Activity, Nature
    2. Neocortical Mechanisms In Motor Learning, Current Opinion in Neurobiol.
  6. The Dark Side Of The Genome Researchers Shine Their Lights On Noncoding Sequence, The Scientist
  7. Mental Self: The Person Within, Nature
    1. The Self As An Embedded Agent, Minds & Machines
  8. Alzheimer's Vaccine Passes Key Test, CNN News
    1. New Type Of Vaccine Against Nicotine Addiction Developed By TSRI Scientists, Scripps Research Institute
  9. Self-Repairing Computers, Scientific American
    1. Towards A Neurally-Inspired Computer Architecture, Natural Computing
    2. Humans Deceived By Predatory Stealth Strategy Camouflaging Motion, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
  10. The Complexities Of Skeletal Biology, Nature
  11. Cosmology: A Just-So Story, Nature
    1. Chaos-Assisted Capture Of Irregular Moons, Nature
  12. Telescopes of the World, Unite! A Cosmic Database Emerges, NYTimes
  13. Some Scientists Think SARS May Have Come from Outer Space, Reuters
  14. Mild Stress Increases Longevity, The Scientist
  15. Automatic Thematic Extractor, J. Intell. Info. Sys.
    1. Music Information Retrieval, J. Intell. Info. Sys.
  16. Aerosols' Effects Could Change Current Understanding Of Global Climate Change, ScienceDaily
  17. Scientists Discover How the Monarch Butterfly Navigates 2,000-mile Migration Without a Map, The Independent
  18. Iraq'S Slide Into Lawlessness Squanders Good Will For U.S., NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Hearing of National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, Looking at the Sept. 11, Attacks & the Response, c-span
    2. A Spy Machine of DARPA's Dreams, Wired
    3. Walk This Way, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.20 Next Issue TOP

  1. Kin Selection May Inhibit The Evolution Of Reciprocation, J. Theor. Biol.
  2. Learning To Control Brain Activity: A Review Of Brain-Computer Interface Systems, Brain & Cogn.
  3. Time-scales, Meaning, and Availability of Information in a Global Brain, arXiv
  4. Blowing Off Self-Esteem, ScienceNow
    1. Violent Song Lyrics Increase Aggression, NewScientist
  5. Mathematics Reveals The Cuttlefish's Wink, NewScientist.com
  6. Single Signal Unites Treatments That Prolong Life, Science
    1. Virus Tames Glioma, Science Now
  7. Cell Biology: Patches For Wounded Muscle, Nature
  8. Molecule Battles Heart Disease, The Atlanta Journal-Constutution
  9. Computational Biology: Biosensor Design, Nature
    1. Computational Design Of Receptor And Sensor Proteins With Novel Functions, Nature
  10. Folding At The Speed Limit, Nature
  11. Pattern Recognition Method Zeroes in on Genes, NSF Press Release
  12. Self-Organization In Evolution: A Mathematical Perspective, Phil. Tran. Math., Phys. & Engg. Sc.
    1. Rapid Evolution Can Foil Even the Best-Laid Plans, Science
  13. Universal Scaling Relations In Food Webs, Nature
    1. Origin of the Scaling Rule for Fundamental Living Organisms Based on Thermodynamics, Biosystems
    2. Explaining the Abundance of Ants in Lowland Tropical Rainforest Canopies, Science
    3. Army Ants Have Defied Evolution For 100 Million Years, ScienceDaily
  14. The Evolutionary Origin Of Complex Features, Nature
  15. A Question of Dose, Science
    1. The Biogeochemical Cycles of Trace Metals in the Oceans, Science
    2. The Interface Between the Biological and Inorganic Worlds: Iron-Sulfur Metalloclusters, Science
  16. Microfluidic Memory and Control Devices, Science
    1. Complex Fluids: Spread The Word About Nanofluids, Nature
  17. Bad News for Quantum Clones, Science Now
  18. Mathematics: Conjuring With Conjectures, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. The Guantanamo Scandal, NYTimes
    2. The China Syndrome, NYTimes
    3. Osama's Offspring, NYTimes
    4. U.S. Agency to Review Its Role in Hunt for Texas Lawmaker, NYTimes
      1. A Texas-Size Power Grab, NYTimes
      2. Top 10 Differences Between Fugitive Texas Democrats and Saddam Hussein, Crosswalk.com
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Complexity Digest 2003.19 Next Issue TOP

  1. NAS Sackler Colloquium on Mapping Knowledge Domains, Video/Audio Report
  2. Neural Maps In Remote Sensing Image Analysis, Neural Networks
    1. Scale-Free Networks, Scientific American
    2. Internet Access for the Cost of a Cup of Coffee, NYTimes
  3. Web-Based Attacks Could Create Chaos In The Physical World, ScienceDaily
  4. Cellular Manufacturing Theory, strategy+business
    1. Leadership and Change, What Makes Southwest Airlines Fly, Knowledge@Wharton
    2. Of Happy And Hapless Regulators: The Asymptotics Of Ruin, Insurance: Math. & Econ.
  5. The Global-Brand Advantage, MIT Sloan Management Review
  6. Prebiotic Soup--Revisiting the Miller Experiment, Science
  7. Genetics: Suicidal Mushroom Cells, Nature
    1. Dying Cells Dragged Screaming Under The Microscope, Nature
  8. Salamanders Can Do Maths, Nature Science Update
  9. Self-Sacrificing Gall Repair By Aphid Nymphs, Alphagalileo & Biol. Lett.
  10. Two Circadian Clocks In The Same Plant Tissue, ScienceDaily
  11. Innate Immunity: The Unsung Heroes, Nature
  12. Structural Biology: Life's Transistors, Nature
  13. Social Insects: Cuticular Hydrocarbons Inform Task Decisions, Nature
  14. A New Perspective On The Tracking Control Of Non Linear Systems, Alphagalileo & Proc. A
  15. Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes, Scientific American
    1. Experts See Mind's Voices in New Light, Nature
  16. Study Assesses Risks, Benefits Of Eliminating Monthly Menstruation, Penn State Live
  17. Fluctuations, Noise And Scaling In The Cardio-Pulmonary System, Fluct. & Noise Lett.
    1. Fractal Changes In Heart Rate Dynamics With Aging And Heart Failure, Fluct. & Noise Lett.
  18. U.S. Overhauls Administration to Govern Iraq, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Agencies Still Fail to Share Information, Reports Say, NYTimes
    2. How to Get Syria Out of the Terrorism Business, NYTimes
    3. Senate Deal Kills Effort to Extend Antiterror Act, NYTimes
    4. The Impossible Task for America's Spies, NYTimes
    5. Genomics: Relative Pathogenic Values, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.18 Next Issue TOP

  1. Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?, Edge.org
  2. Searching For Certainty In An Uncertain World, J. Behav. Decision Making
    1. Religious Participation And Income, J. Econ. Behav. & Org.
    2. Moral Hazard And Legal Regulation In The Financial Market: Japan, East Europe And China, J. Asian Econ.
  3. Six Technologies That Will Change the World, Business2.0
    1. Artificial Intellect Really Thinking?, The Washington Times
    2. A Sensor Model Language: Moving Sensor Data onto the Internet, Sensors Online
    3. Technology: Making Intelligence a Bit Less Artificial, NYTimes
  4. Stability, Chaos And Multiple Attractors: A Single Agent Makes A Difference, J. Econ. Dynamics & Control
  5. Experimental Synchronization of Spatiotemporal Chaos, arXiv
  6. Evolution of Self-Diagnosing Hardware, 5th Int. Conf. on Evolvable Systems
  7. Merger As Marriage: Communication Issues In Post-Merger Integration, Health Care Mgmnt Rev
    1. The Role Of Social Norms In A Model Of Marriage And Divorce, J. Econ. Behav. & Org.
  8. Context-Dependent Decisions In Rufous Hummingbirds, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
  9. The Effect Of Helping Behaviour On The Survival Of Juvenile And Adult Long-Tailed Tits, J. Animal Ecol.
  10. One Fig, One Wasp? Not Always!, ScienceDaily
  11. Meal Skipping Helps Rodents Resist Diabetes, Brain Damage, ScienceDaily
  12. MIT Lab Works To Mimic Spider Silk, ScienceDaily
  13. Between The Wolf And The Dog, Alphagalileo
  14. The Roads To And From The RNA World, J. Theor. Biol.
  15. Stem Cells Grow Into Eggs in Lab, ContraCostaTimes.com
  16. Mouse Research Sheds New Light On Human Genetic Diseases, ScienceDaily
  17. World's Oldest Monkeys May Explain Age-related Mental Decline Science Study Says, AAAS
  18. Green Tea Linked To Skin Cell Rejuvenation, ScienceDaily
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. American Forces Reach Cease-Fire With Terror Group, Washington
    2. The Fall of the House of Saud, The Atlantic Monthly
    3. Mapping Opaque Networks, Business Times
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Complexity Digest 2003.17 Next Issue TOP

  1. NASA Satellite Measures Earth's Carbon Metabolism, ScienceDaily
  2. Ecological Economics At The Crossroads Between Normal And Post-Normal Science, Ecol. Economics
    1. `Full' World Versus `Empty' World Paradigm At The Time Of Globalisation, Ecol. Economics
  3. On Coalition Formation: Durable Coalition Structures, Math. Social Sc.
  4. The Power Of Power Laws, The Scientist
  5. Chaos Theory May Help Explain Patterns Of Alcohol Abuse, Studies Suggest, ScienceDaily
  6. Modelling The Dynamics Of Reasoning Processes: Reasoning By Assumption, Cognitive Sys. Res.
  7. Words Get In The Way, Talk Is Cheap, But It Can Tax Your Memory, Science News
  8. Wiring the Brain with Insulin, Science
    1. Axons Guided by Insulin Receptor in Drosophila Visual System, Science
  9. Scientists Discover Unique Source of Postnatal Stem Cells, NIDCR
    1. Baby Teeth Revealed As Source Of Stem Cells, NewScientist.com
  10. The Grid: Tomorrow's Computing Today, Nature
    1. Million-User Online Game Previewed, NewScientist.com
    2. Internet Is Losing Ground in Battle Against Spam, NYTimes
    3. Exploiting Sublanguage and Domain Characteristics in a Bootstrapping Approach to Lexicon and Ontology Creation, arXiv
  11. Wi-Fi's Broken Promise, Darwin Mag
    1. Beyond Wi-Fi, The 5 Next Big Things, A Wired Special Report
    2. Evolutionary Approach In Personal Communication Networks, Comp. Communications
  12. Pictorial Analysis: a Multi-resolution Data Visualization Approach for Monitoring and Siagnosis of Complex Systems, Information Sciences
    1. Engineers Aim To Make Average Singers Sound Like Virtuosos, Purdue News
  13. Colony Insularity Through Queen Control On Worker Social Motivation In Ants, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  14. Fruit Set Of Highland Coffee Increases With The Diversity Of Pollinating Bees, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  15. The Scent Of Age, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  16. Activity Driven Adaptive Stochastic Resonance, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  17. Military Robots To Get Swarm Intelligence, NewScientist.com
    1. Shared Grounding of Event Descriptions by Autonomous Robots, Robotics and Autonomous Systems
    2. The Unmanned Army, NYTimes
  18. Seeking Connections: H. Eugene Stanley, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Fate of Prisoners From Afghan War Remains Uncertain
    2. U.S. Warns Iraqis Against Claiming Authority in Void, NYTimes
    3. Online, All the Time, an All-Seeing Surveillance System, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.16 Next Issue TOP

  1. In Searching the Web, Google Finds Riches, NYTimes
    1. Plan Would Use Software, Not Devices, to Fight Piracy, NYTimes
    2. Technology Update: Artificial Intelligence Scopes Out Spam, Network World
  2. Planning for the Next Cyberwar, Wired
  3. Mind-Machine Merger, Technology Review
  4. International Consortium Completes Human Genome Project, NHGRI
  5. Period Doubling Bifurcation During Onset Of Human Ventricular Fibrillation, Int. J. Bifur. & Chaos
  6. Neurobiology: Dopamine As Chicken And Egg, Nature
    1. Subsecond Dopamine Release Promotes Cocaine Seeking, Nature
    2. White Noise Delays Auditory Organization in the Brain, HHMI News
    3. Noise In Eukaryotic Gene Expression, Nature
  7. Can We Measure Consciousness With EEG Complexities?, Int. J. Bifur. & Chaos
  8. Researchers Get To Grips With Cause Of Pneumonia Epidemic, Nature
  9. Adult Stem Cells to Tackle Multiple Sclerosis, Cordis News
    1. Monkey Cloning Failures Cast Doubt on Feasibility of Human Reproductive Cloning, Scientific American
  10. Compensation For Wind Drift In Migrating Raptors Is Age Dependent, Biol. Letters & Alphagalileo
  11. The Regressive Ecological Succession By Fractal Analysis Of Plant Spatial Patterns, Ecol. Modelling
  12. Deficits Of Working Memory During Mental Calculation In Patients With Parkinson's Disease, J. Neurol. Sc.
    1. Odors Summon Emotion And Influence Behavior, New Study Says, ScienceDaily
  13. Evolution: Chromosomal Speciation in Primates, Science
    1. Accelerated Evolution in Rearranged Chromosomes, Science
    2. Widespread Cannibalism May Have Caused Prehistoric Prion Disease Epidemics, Science Study Suggests, Science Daily
  14. Superconductivity: Pebbles In The Nodal Pond, Nature
  15. Regime Change In Meteorology, Nature
  16. Parallel Universes, Scientific American
    1. Saving The Universe By Restricting Research, San Francisco Chronicle
  17. Maths Gets Into Shape, Nature Science update
  18. Visions of Freedom, Dissolved in Chaos, Washington Post
    1. When Freedom Leads to Anarchy, NYTimes
    2. Force Majeure: What Lies Behind The Military's Victory In Iraq, Slate.msn
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Fighting "Terrorism" With Torture, BMJ
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Complexity Digest 2003.15 Next Issue TOP

  1. Uncertainty and Surprise: Questions on Working with the Unexpected and Unknowable, Conference Webcast
    1. Smart Heuristics, edge.org
  2. Predator Or Prey? Parasitic Enterprises In Economic Development, Euro. Econ. Rev.
  3. New Fusion Method Offers Hope of New Energy Source, NYTimes
  4. A Brief History of the Multiverse, NYTimes
    1. The Dark Side, Nature
  5. Genetics To Unlock Secrets Of Our African Past, Nature
  6. Play-by-Play Imaging Rewrites Cells' Rules, Science
    1. Cell Motility: Making Streams, Nature
  7. “Shyness Gene” Discovered, Health-News.co.uk
  8. Spying on the Brain, One Neuron at a Time, Science
    1. Emergence Of Synchronous Oscillations In Neural Networks Excited By Noise, Physica D
  9. What Does It Take To Evolve Behaviorally Complex Organisms?, Biosystems
    1. A Wish List for Learning About Learning, Science
  10. Coot Birds Can Count, Study Says, National Geographic News
  11. That Bug Is No Insect: A New Branch On The Tree Of Life, ScienceDaily
  12. Ants and Floods, NYTimes
    1. Genetic Evidence For Intra- And Interspecific Slavery In Honey Ants, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    2. Texans Call In a Monster Fish to Tame a Monster Weed, NYTimes
  13. Song As An Honest Signal Of Past Developmental Stress In The European Starling, Alphagalileo & Proc. Biol. Sc.
  14. How Can The Senses Project And Receive Information At The Same Time?, ScienceDaily
  15. Biomechanics: Are Fast-Moving Elephants Really Running?, Nature
  16. Unifying Principles in Complex Systems, Converging Technology for Improving Human Performance
  17. Conservation: Dynamic Diversity, Nature
  18. Seeking Calm in the Chaos, Nature
    1. Speed and Flexibility, NYTimes
    2. In Baghdad, Free of Hussein, a Day of Mayhem, NYTimes
    3. Risk of Being Killed by Own Side Increases, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Digging Through Data For Omens, usnews.com
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Complexity Digest 2003.14 Next Issue TOP

  1. Industry as an Organisation of Agents: Innovation and R&D Management, JASSS
  2. The Structure and Function of Complex Networks, arXiv
    1. Simulating Social Networks: A Review of Three Books, JASSS
    2. Subnetwork Hierarchies Of Biochemical Pathways, Bioinformatics
  3. Nonlinear Dynamics: Synchronization From Chaos, Nature
  4. Cooperation with Random Interactions and Without Memory or "Tags", JASSS
  5. Co-evolving Complex Robot Behavior, Proc. ICES2003
  6. New Lenses Create Distorted Images For Digital Enhancement, Science News
  7. I Want My TIA, Total Information Awareness Will Consign Google To The Stone Age, Wired
    1. How Antispam Software Works, 5 Killer Ways To Eradicate Junk Mail, Wired
    2. The Fight to Control Your Mind, Wired
    3. 65 and Just Itching for a Little Convergence, NYTimes
  8. Computers That 'Pay Attention' To Users; Reduce Interruptions From E-mail, Cell Phones, ScienceDaily
  9. Quantum Computers: Dream Code, The Economist
    1. Quantum Physics: Wheels Within Wheels, Nature
  10. The Behavioral Ecology Of A Cognitive Constraint: Limited Attention, Behav. Ecology
    1. Two Brain Systems Tell Us To Breathe, ScienceDaily
  11. Prostaglandins Are Important In Thermoregulation Of A Reptile, Alphagalileo & Boil. Letters
  12. A Bright Future for Biologists and Mathematicians?, Science
  13. Gene Therapy May Tackle Bowel Cancer, Health-News.co.uk
    1. Protein “Turns Breast Tumours Invasive”, Health-News.co.uk
  14. Mystery Virus Slow To Yield Its Identity As Patient Numbers Rise, Nature
    1. A Second Suspect in the Global Mystery Outbreak, Science
  15. Ecological And Immunological Determinants Of Influenza Evolution, Nature
  16. High-Tech Fingers on Earth's Erratic Pulse, Science
    1. New Network Aims to Explore Hidden Perils, Science
  17. The Genes and Brains of Mice and Men, Am. J. Psychiatry
  18. The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War With Iraq, Independent Media Center
    1. Allies' Vital Supply Line Now Stretches Into Orbit, NYTimes
    2. Victims Describe 'Friendly Fire' Terror, BBC News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Undercutting the 9/11 Inquiry, NYTimes
    2. Protein Engineering Produces 'Molecular Switch'; Technique Could Lead To New Drug Delivery Systems, Biological Warfare Sensors, ScienceDaily
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Complexity Digest 2003.13 Next Issue TOP

  1. Abrupt Climate Change, Science
    1. How To Slake A Planet's Thirst, Nature
    2. The World's Forgotten Crisis, Nature
    3. Meteorology: Getting The Wind Up, Nature
  2. The Politics Of Publication, Nature
  3. Fractal Company Structures Mastering New Challenges, Alphagalileo
    1. The Pentagon's Venture Capitalists, business2.0
  4. The Evolution Of Altruistic Punishment, PNAS
    1. Do Cheaters Ever Prosper? Just Ask Them, NYTimes
  5. The Economic Impact Of War With Iraq -Asymmetric Risks, Computers & Security
  6. Binding Events in a Global Brain: Example Data, arXiv
    1. Small-Worlds: A Review Of Recent Books, Networks
    2. Networks Untangled, Nature
  7. Gambling on Dopamine, Science
  8. Fujitsu Labs Applies Neural Networks To Robot Learning, Silicon Strategies
  9. New Method For Ecological Monitoring Based On Self-Organising Mathematical Models, Ecol. Modelling
  10. Algorithmic Clustering of Music, arXiv
  11. Good Foragers Can Also Be Good At Detecting Predators, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
    1. Human Specific Loss Of Olfactory Receptor Genes, PNAS
  12. Engineers Create World's First Transparent Transistor, SpaceDaily
    1. Trapped Ions Make Logic Gates, PhysicsWeb
  13. Smart Dust, ComputerWorld
    1. The Next Big Thing (Is Practically Invisible), The Christian Science Monitor
    2. Nanotech Improves Disease Detection, UPI News
  14. Scientists Find Chemical That Attracts Sperm to Egg, CBC News
  15. Genetic Mechanism Of Disease Is Discovered, Science Daily
  16. Link Between Immune Response And Parasite Synchronization In Malaria, PNAS
  17. Wave-Induced Sediment Transport and Sandbar Migration, Science
    1. Sandbars in Motion, Science
  18. On Multitasking In Parallel Chemical Processors: Experimental Findings, Int. J. Bifur. & Chaos
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Emergency Response To An Anthrax Attack, PNAS
    2. Email Traffic Patterns Can Reveal Ringleaders, New Scientist
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Complexity Digest 2003.12 Next Issue TOP

  1. Toward a Molecular Architecture of Personality, Behavioural Brain Research
  2. Detrimental Effects Of Sanctions On Human Altruism, Nature
    1. Behavioural Science: Fair's Fair, Nature
    2. Dyadic Processes Of Disclosure And Reciprocity In Bargaining With Communication, J. Behav. Decision Making
    3. Open Economy And Financial Burden Of Corruption: Theory And Application To Asia, J. of Asian Econ.
  3. Cosmology Gets Real, Nature
  4. Making Deforestation Pay Under the Kyoto Protocol?, Science
    1. Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization, Science
  5. Dressing The Mind Properly For The Game, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  6. Smell, Emotion Processor In Brain May Be Altered In Depressed Patients, ScienceDaily
  7. A Unifying Computational Framework For Motor Control And Social Interaction, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    1. What Imitation Tells Us About Social Cognition, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    2. Computational Approaches To Motor Learning By Imitation, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    3. Detecting Agents, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  8. Email As Spectroscopy: Automated Discovery Of Community Structure Within Organizations, arXiv
    1. E-Mail Reveals Real Leaders, Network Analysis Maps Companies' Informal Structure, Nature Science update
    2. Who Loves Ya, Baby?,Pass Your E-Mail Through Some New Software And The Answer Will Become Obvious, Discover
  9. Reversed Echoes May Fight Disease And Foster Communication, Science News
  10. The Challenge Of Molecular Medicine: Complexity Versus Occam's Razor, J. Clin. Invest.
  11. Linguistic Analysis of the Human Heartbeat Using Frequency and Rank Order Statistics, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  12. Simple Networks For Spike-Timing-Based Computation, With Application To Olfactory Processing, Neuron
  13. Taming Winfree Turbulence of Scroll Waves in Excitable Media, Science
  14. How You Evaluate An Experience Depends On When You Evaluate It, J. Behav. Decision Making
  15. Constellations In A Cellular Universe, Nature
  16. To Test Evolution, Press the 'Undo' Button, NYTimes
  17. Undercover Genes Slip Into the Brain, New Scientist
    1. Genes Govern Overeating, Health 24
  18. The Grid: Computing without Bounds, Scientific American
    1. Video Game Experiences To Be Expanded By Grids, Grid today
    2. IBM: Software Can Regulate Grid, Grid today
    3. Ecology-Grid Contributes To Taiwan's Outdoors, Grid today
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Anger on Iraq Seen as New Qaeda Recruiting Tool, NYTimes
    2. The Effects of Nuclear Terrorism: Fizzles, arXiv
    3. First Step Towards Detecting Exposure To Biowarfare Agents, ScienceDaily
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Complexity Digest 2003.11 Next Issue TOP

  1. Science, Uncertainty and Risk: The Problem of Complex Phenomena, APS News online
  2. It Will Be a Smaller World After All, NYTimes
  3. Stomachs Out of Africa, Science
    1. Ulcer Clue? Molecule Could Be Key To Stomach Ailment, Science
  4. Archaeology: The Coast Road, Nature
  5. Fair Punishment Supports Human Altruism, New Scientist
    1. Crows Alter Their Thieving Behavior When Dealing With Kin Or Other Birds, ScienceDaily
  6. Long Memory In Financial Time Series Data With Non-Gaussian Disturbances, Int. J. of Theor. & Appl. Fin.
  7. In Sea Of Cars, Trucks Reveal Traffic Flow, Science News
    1. Benetton Clothing To Carry Tiny Tracking Transmitters, www.sfgate.com
  8. Board Studies Wing Edge, Wind Shear, Foam Repair, Spaceflight Now
  9. Immunology: Fast And Feel Good?, Nature
    1. Bone Marrow Cells Can Become Heart Cells, UPI
  10. Psychology Professor Maps Choice-making In The Brain, ScienceDaily
    1. Developmental Aspects Of Consciousness: How Much Theory Of Mind Do You Need To Be Consciously Aware?, Conscious. & Cognition
    2. World's First Brain Prosthesis Revealed, New Scientist
  11. The Essence Of Circadian Rhythms, J. Biol. Sys.
  12. Regulated Portals Of Entry Into The Cell, Nature
    1. State Transitions--a Question of Balance, Science
  13. Evolutionary Biology: Speciation Reversal, Nature
  14. Universe as Doughnut: New Data, New Debate, Nature
    1. Cosmology: Filling In The Background, Nature
  15. The Effects of Cenozoic Global Change on Squirrel Phylogeny, Science
    1. Inbreeding: Disease Susceptibility In California Sea Lions, Nature
    2. Global Change:Who Pushed Whom Out of the Last Ice Age?, Science
  16. Fishy Food Cuts Belching Beasts' Methane, New Scientist
  17. Making Faces, NYTimes
    1. Identical Twins Crack Face Recognition Puzzle, Reuters
    2. Face-Recognition Technology Improves, NYTImes
    3. Recognizing the Dance on the Dotted Line, NYTimes
  18. Just War - or a Just War?, NYTimes
    1. The Right War for the Right Reasons, NYTimes
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Judge Affirms Terror Suspect Must Meet With Lawyers, NYTimes
    2. Forsaken at Guantanamo, NYTimes
    3. Measuring Lost Freedom vs. Security in Dollars, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.10 Next Issue TOP

  1. "New Frontiers of Neuroscience" Symposium, Conference Webcast
  2. Cell Polarity: From Embryo To Axon, Nature
    1. Behind the Wheel of an Expanding Axon, Science
    2. i to I And The Eye, Blood
  3. DNA's Double Helix Isn't So Golden Now, The Wall Street Journal
    1. Opinion: The Real Scientific Hero Of 1953, NYTimes
    2. Black Cat 'lucky genes' Probed, ABC News Online
  4. On The Specification And Estimation Of The Production Function For Cognitive Achievement, The Econ. J.
    1. Motion Perception in Autism: A "Complex" Issue, J. Cogn. Neurosci.
  5. A Neural Basis For Auditory Feedback Control Of Vocal Pitch, The J. Neurosc.
  6. Tissue Engineering: The Beat Goes On, Nature
    1. The Liver Chip, Technology Review
  7. Research on Aging: The End of the Beginning, Science
    1. The Wisdom of the Wizened, Science
    2. Age-Related Changes In The Neural Correlates Of Motor Performance, Brain
  8. The Expanding Network Of Redox Signaling, J. Clin. Invest.
  9. Superbug Strain Hits The Healthy, New Scientist
  10. The Complexity Of Deformed Amphibians, Front. Ecol. Environ.
  11. Ecology: The How And Why Of Biodiversity, Nature
    1. Relationship Between Food-Web Complexity and Stability, Science
    2. Flexibility Favors Diversity, Science
    3. Human Noise and Marine Mammal Health, Full Report
    4. Oil and Gas Effects Add Up in Northern Alaska, Full Report
    5. Large-Scale Climate Synchronizes The Timing Of Flowering By Multiple Species, Ecology
  12. Mathematical Models Reveal 'Molten' And 'Glassy' States Of RNA, ScienceDaily
  13. Botany: Leaf Development Takes Shape, Science
    1. Genetic Control of Surface Curvature, Science
  14. Swimming in Spacetime: Motion by Cyclic Changes in Body Shape, Science Express
    1. Spacetime: Recipe for Rocket-Free Space Travel: Dive In and Paddle, Patiently, Science
  15. Making Robots More Like Us, NYTimes
    1. Distributed Control in Self-reconfigurable Robots, Proceedings of ICES'03
    2. I Spy With My Eagle Eye, The Quest For Supervision, Slate
    3. Harnessing Atoms to Create Superfast Computers, NYTimes
    4. 'Freedom Evolves': Evolution Explains It All for You, NYTimes
  16. It's Just a Fantasy, but Real Life Is Always in Play, NYTimes
  17. The Puzzle Of Human Cooperation, Nature
    1. Worker Nepotism Among Polygynous Ants, Nature
    2. Genetic Evidence For Intra- And Interspecific Slavery In Honey Ants, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
    3. Contrasting Relatedness Patterns In Bottlenose Dolphins With Different Alliance Strategies, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    4. Diversification And Cumulative Evolution In New Caledonian Crow Tool Manufacture, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
  18. Disaster Planning: Avalanche!, Nature
    1. Liability For Climate Change, Nature
    2. Fire Science For Rainforests, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Counterterrorism: Making the World a Safer Place, Science
    2. The Military's Silicon Revolution, washingtonpost.com
    3. America's Shadow Warriors, NYTimes
    4. Security Cameras Now Learn to React, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.09 Next Issue TOP

  1. Complex Systems: All Together Now, Nature
    1. With 6 Degrees of Separation, Computers Stay in Sync, NYTimes
    2. Promise Of Intelligent Networks, BBC News
  2. Robustness in Social Processes, The Bulletin Of The Santa Fe Institute
    1. Promiscuity and the Evolution of Sexual Transmitted Diseases, arXiv
  3. Managing Risk In A Four-Digit Number Game, SIAM Review
  4. Knotty Calculations, Science News
    1. Quantum Computing: The Qubit Duet, Nature
    2. Quantum Oscillations In Two Coupled Charge Qubits, Nature
  5. Photos Bolster Idea of Water, and Possibly Life, on Mars, NYTimes
  6. Innovation in Natural, Experimental, and Applied Evolution, The Bulletin Of The Santa Fe Institute
    1. Exploring Scale: The Advantages of Thinking Small, MIT Sloan Management Review
  7. From Swimming To Walking: A Single Basic Network For Two Different Behaviors, Biol. Cybernetics
  8. Animal Behaviour: How Self-Organization Evolves, Nature
    1. Goat Fish Act Like Sheep, Nature Physics Portal
    2. Unusual Synchronization Of Red Sea Fish Energy Expenditures, Ecology Letters
    3. Swarm Intelligence: An Interview with Eric Bonabeau, The O'Reilly Network
    4. Snooty Exchanges Are Key to Mouse Society, Science
  9. Genes May Draw Your Road Map, But You Still Chart Your Course, NYTimes
    1. With Sheet Metal Cutouts, the Tree of Life Emerged, NYTimes
  10. Breakthrough in Gene Therapy, health-news.co.uk
  11. Molecular Biology: A Fix For RNA, Nature
    1. Capturing Polo Kinase, Science
  12. Eye Movements Indicate Initial Attempts To Process What Humans Hear, ScienceDaily
  13. Brain Scans Reflect Problem-Solving Skill, NYTimes
    1. 'Looking for Spinoza': The Source of Emotion, NYTimes
    2. Brain Imaging Of Tongue-Twister Sentence Comprehension: Twisting The Tongue And The Brain, Brain & Language
  14. Neurobiology: Interneurons Take Charge, Nature
  15. Giant Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Lattice, Science
  16. Scientists Identify Blood Stem Cell, UPI
    1. New Stem Cell Reservoir Found in Blood, News in Science
    2. Breast Cancer Tumour “Stem Cells” Found, health-news.co.uk
  17. Molecular Self-Assembly Technique May Mimic How Cells Assemble Themselves, NSF Press Release
  18. DNA Computer Sets Guinness Record, UPI Science News
    1. DNA Molecule Provides A Computing Machine With Both Data And Fuel, PNAS
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Crime: A Google for Cops, Newsweek
    2. UK Man Whose Identity 'Stolen' Cleared in U.S. Probe, ABCNews,Reuters
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Complexity Digest 2003.08 Next Issue TOP

  1. Can You Create Child Prodigies, Or Are They Simply Miracles Of Nature?, Time asia
  2. Live from the Future of Life, Time
    1. Report From "The Future Of Life" Conference, KurzweilAI.net
  3. With an Evolutionary Milestone, the Race for Survival Began, NYTimes
    1. Networks And History, Complexity
  4. Complexity Theory And Models For Social Networks, Complexity
  5. Businesses Mobilize Production Through Markets, Complexity
    1. Too Many Pennies From Heaven?, NYTimes
  6. Cooperative Games Of Choosing Partners And Forming Coalitions In The Marketplace, Math. and Comp. Model.
  7. From Kissing Frogs To Demonic Possession, People Are Led To Believe They Experienced The Improbable, ScienceDaily
  8. Does the Red Queen Reign in the Kingdom of Digital Organisms?, arXiv
  9. The Purr of the Qubit, Time
  10. Better Than Hubble, Human Eye Can Self-Correct Some Optical Faults, Cornell Press Release
  11. Buzzwords Of History, Revealed By Computer Scans, Indicate New Ways Of Searching The Web, Cornell Press Release
    1. Word 'Bursts' May Reveal Online Trends, New Scientist
  12. Design Of Metabolic Networks: Weak And Strong Robustness, Bull. of Math. Biol.
    1. Ecological Food Webs: High-Quality Data Facilitate Theoretical Unification,, PNAS
    2. Allometric Scaling of Ant Foraging Trail Networks, SFI Working Papers
    3. Ecological Community Description Using The Food Web, Species Abundance, And Body Size, PNAS
  13. Disease Evolution On Networks: The Role Of Contact Structure, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Decreased Chaos After Exercise In Cardiac Output Time Series Of Rats: A Preliminary Report, Nonlin. Analysis: Real World Appl.
  14. Epigenetics and Disease: Altered States, Nature
  15. Bone Marrow Helps Bones To Repair Themselves, Alphagalileo
  16. Factors Influencing Decision Making, J. Experi. Psych. Learning, Mem., & Cogn.
    1. Perception and Causation: the Puzzle Unraveled, Analysis
  17. Chromatin Structure: More Folding, More Complexity Than Expected, ScienceDaily
    1. Pavlov's Flies: Researchers Identify Fruit Fly Memory Mutants; Broad Implications Seen For Treating Alzheimer's And Other Human Diseases, ScienceDaily
  18. Military Locks On To Firm's Concept, BusinessToday.com
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Trying to Walk the Line Between Fear and Ridicule, NYTimes
    2. High-density Storage Of Nuclear Waste Heightens Terrorism Risks; Study Finds Attack On Spent Fuel Could Unleash Contamination Worse Than Chernobyl, ScienceDaily
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  1. Internet Peaks As America's Most Important Source Of Information, ScienceDaily
  2. The Mechanisms Of Social Interaction, Alphagalileo & Phil. Trans. B
  3. Tax Moves by Enron Said to Mystify the I.R.S., NYTimes
  4. The Political Economy Of Intergovernmental Grants, Regional Sc. & Urban Eco.
  5. Chemiosmotic Coupling: The Cost Of Living, Nature
  6. Dietary Dilemmas, Is The Pendulum Swinging Away From Low Fat?,, Science News
  7. Neurons To Rewire Damaged Nerves, ScienceDaily
  8. A Measured Look at Neuronal Oxygen Consumption, Sciences
    1. Single-Neuron Activity and Tissue Oxygenation in the Cerebral Cortex, Science
  9. Functional Properties Of Brain Areas Associated With Motor Execution And Imagery, J Neurophysiol.
    1. Neural Networks For The Coordination Of The Hands In Time, J Neurophysiol.
  10. Complexity of Visual Stimuli and Non-linear EEG Dynamics in Humans, Cognitive Brain Research
    1. Surprises: Low Probabilities or High Contrasts?, Cognition
  11. Conservation Biology: Parasites Lost, Nature
    1. Introduced Species And Their Missing Parasites, Nature
  12. Ecology: Shady Deals With Lichens, Nature
  13. Honeybee Foraging In Differentially Structured Landscapes, Alphagalileo & Proc. B
    1. Dancing For A Decision: A Matrix Model For Nest-Site Choice By Honeybees, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  14. Study Shows Richer Harvests Owe Much to Climate, Science
    1. Climate and Management Contributions to Recent Trends in U.S. Agricultural Yields, Science
    2. Bt Cotton: Yields Up In India; Pests Low In Arizona, Science News
  15. Biology to Make Mini Machines, BBC news
  16. Carbon Nanotube Flow Sensors, Science
  17. Low-Noise Current Amplifier Based on Mesoscopic Josephson Junction, Science
  18. Complexity Results For Standard Benchmark Domains In Planning, Artificial Intell.
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Ridge: Terror Alert Likely to Be Lowered, NYTimes
    2. Senior U.S. Officials Tell Lawmakers of Iraq-Qaeda Ties, NYTimes
    3. Harvard Team Suggests Route To Better Bioterror Alerts, Nature
    4. Researchers Respond To Threat, Look For Anthrax, ScienceDaily
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Complexity Digest 2003.06 Next Issue TOP

  1. INSC 2003, International Nonlinear Sciences Conference Research and Applications in the Life Sciences, Conference Webcast
  2. Scientists of Very Small Draw Disciplines Together, NYTimes
  3. Extracting Work from a Single Heat Bath via Vanishing Quantum Coherence, Science
  4. Chemical Reactions Involving Quantum Tunneling, Science
    1. Quantum Dots As Dynamical Systems, Phil. Trans.: Math., Phy. & Engg. Sc.,
  5. Is A Picture Worth 1,000 Words?, Nature
  6. How Could Conscious Experiences Affect Brains?, CogPrints
    1. Making Sense of Causal Interactions Between Consciousness and Brain, CogPrints
  7. Obesity and the Environment: Where Do We Go from Here?, Nature
    1. 'Fat People and Bombs':HPA Axis Cognition, Structured Stress, and the US Obesity Epidemic, CogPrints
  8. Major Research to “Crack” Cancer Gene Mystery, health-news.co.uk
    1. DNA Repair: Damage Alert, Nature
  9. A Mathematical Model Of Tissue Replacement During Epidermal Wound Healing, Appl. Math. Modelling
  10. The Gene That Causes The Smell Of The Earth And Leads Camels To Water, Alphagalileo
  11. Neurophysiology: Sensing Temperature Without Ion Channels, Nature
  12. Researchers Unwind Secrets Of Biological Clocks, ScienceDaily
  13. Scientists Target Microorganisms to Break Down Toxic Pesticide, Environmental News Network
  14. A Tax Code Not Intended for Amateurs, NYTimes
  15. Technology: What Are the Chances?, NYTimes
  16. Tangled Up in Spam, NYTimes
  17. Physical Growth In A Transitional Economy: The Aftermath Of South African Apartheid, Econ. & Human Biol.
  18. Modelling Political Instability And Economic Performance: Israeli Investment During The Intifada, Economica
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Simulating Ants' Behavior May Help U.S. Fight Future Wars, Defense News
    2. Zacarias, My Brother: The Making of a Terrorist, NYTimes
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Complexity Digest 2003.05 Next Issue TOP

  1. Swarming and Network Enabled Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
  2. Connect, They Say, Only Connect, NYTimes
    1. An Agent-Based Model of Ethnic Mobilisation, JASSS
  3. Critical Market Crashes, arXiv
  4. Evolutionary Development and Learning: Two Facets of Strategy Generation, JASSS
    1. Monkeys Show Sophisticated Learning Abilities, ScienceDaily
    2. How to Get Inside a Student's Head, NYTimes
  5. On Evolution of God-Seeking Mind, CogPrints
    1. On the Scalability of Social Order, JASSS
  6. "Forest-Grass" Global Vegetation Model With Forest Age Structure, Eco. Modelling
  7. Ants, Musroom And Mold: An Evolutionary Arms Race, NYTimes
    1. Pollinator Attraction: Crab-Spiders Manipulate Flower Signals, Nature
  8. The Impact Of Energy Conservation On Technology And Economic Growth, Resource & Energy Econ.
  9. Caribbean Comparisons: The Benefit Of Currency Stability For Economic Development, Alphagalileo
  10. The Double Helix - 50 Years, The Eternal Molecule, Nature
  11. Starvation Study Could Influence MS Drugs, health-news.co.uk
  12. Parasite's Plant Genes Could Be Achilles' Heel, Scientific American
    1. Plant-like Traits Associated with Metabolism of Trypanosoma Parasites, PNAS
  13. Tapping the Mind, Science
    1. Power to the Paralyzed, Science
  14. New Door To Study Of Mood Disorders In Humans, ScienceDaily
  15. The Enactive Mind, Or From Actions To Cognition, Phil. Trans. Biol. Sc.
  16. Science and the Semantic Web, Science
  17. Experimental Extraction Of An Entangled Photon Pair From Two Identically Decohered Pairs, Nature
  18. Shaped Laser Pulses as Reagents, Science
    1. Deciphering the Reaction Dynamics Underlying Optimal Control Laser Fields, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. The News Media Could Be Our Weakest Link, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2003.04 Next Issue TOP

  1. World Economic Forum, Summaries and Webcasts
    1. Divided We Stand???, Orgnet.com
  2. Creating a Culture of Ideas, Technology Review
    1. The Knowledge Economy and the Athenian Democratic Ideal, Harvard Business Review Article
    2. Time for a Radical New Look at Teams, European Business Forum
  3. IBM Aims To Get Smart About Artificial Intelligence, KurzweiAI.net
    1. Scientists Giddy About the Grid, Wired News
    2. Artificial Chemistry's Global Dynamic. Movements in the Lattice of Organisation, HC2002
    3. Research Centre Adds New Dimensions To Virtual Reality, Alphagalileo
  4. Self-Organization of Sorted Patterned Ground, Science
    1. On Patterned Ground, Science
  5. Aerial Imagery To Overcome Economic, Environmental Challenges, ScienceDaily
    1. Genetically Modified Crops Offer Hope For Endangered Wildlife, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  6. New Species Of Flying Dinosaur Found, The San Francisco Chronicle
    1. Wing-Assisted Incline Running and the Evolution of Flight, Science
  7. Contrasting Evolutionary Strategies In A Population Of Bottlenose Dolphins, Proc. Biol. Sc. Press Release
    1. Wild Female Baboons Bias Their Social Behaviour Towards Paternal Half-Sisters, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    2. Genetic Biases For Showy Males: Are Some Genetic Systems Especially Conducive To Sexual Selection?,, PNAS
    3. Calif. Penguins Swim In Mock Migration To Nowhere, Reuters
  8. Arctic Whales Dive For Science, New Scientist
  9. Establishing Mutual-Belief Among Cooperative Agents, Int. J. Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intell.
  10. Bone Marrow Generates New Neurons In Human Brains, ScienceDaily
  11. Telomeres And Cancer: A Tale With Many Endings, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
  12. Immunology: Mobilizing The Army, Nature
  13. Ink-Jet Printing Creates Tubes Of Living Tissue, New Scientist
  14. 3-D RNA Folds and Molds Like a Key for a Specialized Work, NYTimes
    1. RNA Trades Bit Part for Starring Role in the Cell, Andrew Pollack, NYTimes
  15. Neuroscience: White Matter's the Matter, Science
  16. Hormesis: The Dose-Response Revolution, Annu. Rev. Pharmacol. Toxicol.
  17. Getting a Closer Look at the Eye, Wired News
  18. Development: What Makes an Embryo Stick?, Science
    1. Secrets of Embryo Success Revealed, BBC news
    2. Secrets of Ageing Revealed, BBC news
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. U.N. Security Council Meeting on Combatting Terrorism
    2. Researchers Urged to Self-Censor Sensitive Data, Science
    3. Economic Statecraft in an Age of Global Terrorism, Meghan L. O'Sullivan, Brookings Institution Press
    4. Nanotechnology: The Potential For New WMD, Jane's
    5. Smallpox Vaccine Choice Raises Questions, AP/Newsday
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Complexity Digest 2003.03 Next Issue TOP

  1. Why Do Firms Raise Prices More Readily Than They Reduce Them?, Alphagalileo
    1. Master Curve For Price-Impact Function, Nature
    2. Two-Phase Behaviour Of Financial Markets, Nature
  2. Welfare Reducing Licensing, Games & Econ. Behavior
  3. Over-the-Counter Headache, NYTimes Magazine
    1. The New Face of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Science
  4. In a Game of Serenity, Therapy Trumps Thrills, NYTimes
  5. A Model For The Emergence Of Adaptive Subsystems, Bulletin of Math. Biol.
  6. Expanding The Genetic Code: The World¡¦s First Truly Unnatural Organism, Science Daily
  7. Chemistry Guides Evolution, Claims Theory, New Scientist
  8. Death is an Outrage, KurzweilAI.net
  9. Developmental Biology: A Larval Revelation, Nature
    1. Larval Stages Of A Living Sea Lily (Stalked Crinoid Echinoderm),, Nature
  10. Stick Insect Forces Evolutionary Rethink,, NewScientist
  11. Ancient Tripartite Coevolution in the Attine Ant-Microbe Symbiosis, Science
    1. Group Decision-Making In Animals, Nature
  12. Toward Cultural Oncology: The Evolutionary Information Dynamics of Cancer, CogPrints
  13. How The Brain Processes Emotion, Alphagalileo
  14. Brain Regions Where Nicotine Affects Attention, Other Cognitive Skills,, ScienceDaily
  15. Scientist Bombards Brains With Super-Magnets To Edifying Effect, Boston Globe
  16. Dissecting The Circuitry Of The Auditory System,, Trends in Neurosc.
  17. "Moss In Space" Project To Test How Plants Grow "Up",, ScienceDaily
  18. Understanding Biological Complexity: Lessons From The Past, FASEB J.
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. A Deadly Weapon for Beginners, NYTimes
    2. Bioterrorism: Agriculture Shock, Nature
    3. Electronic Library Provides One Stop Shop For Emergency Staff Facing Biochemical Terrorism, Alphagalileo
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  1. Modelling Methodology And Forecast Failure, The Econometrics Journal
    1. Plan To Erase Dividend Tax Not Likely To Aid All Investors, Florida Today
    2. Some Unintended Consequences of Tax-free Dividends, Dean LeBaron's View From NH, webcast
  2. Now Playing: Reality Without the Downside, NYTimes
    1. 'Sims Online' Offers Surprises for the Sociable,, Reuters
  3. Technical Efficiency In Telecom And The Impact Of Incentive Regulation, Appl. Math. Model.
  4. The Rise of The Intelligent Enterprise, ACM Ubiquity
  5. 'Gadget Printer' Promises Industrial Revolution, New Scientist
  6. Practical Quantum Computers Are Another Step Closer, The Economist
    1. Quantum Computing: Putting It Into Practice, Nature
    2. Researchers Race to Put the Quantum Into Mechanics, Science
  7. Researchers Race to Put the Quantum Into Mechanics, J. Neurobiology
  8. Vampire Bat Saliva Compound Could Help Treat Strokes, Scientific American
  9. Genetic And Environmental Influences On Human Psychological Differences, J. Neurobiology
    1. Newborn Neurons Search for Meaning, Science
  10. Cloned Pigs Behave Like ... Pigs, Science Daily
  11. Complexity and Life, Emergence
    1. What Are 3-D Spider Webs For?, Alphagalileo
    2. Animal Behaviour: The Lobster Navigators, Nature
    3. True Navigation And Magnetic Maps In Spiny Lobsters, Nature
    4. Alternative Attractors May Boost Uncertainty And Sensitivity In Ecological Models, Eco. Modelling
    5. Social Slime Molds Meet Their Match, Science
  12. Molecular Evolution: Duplication, Duplication, Nature
    1. Role Of Duplicate Genes In Genetic Robustness Against Null Mutations, Nature
  13. Virtual Bird Brain Matches Nature's Tunes, New Scientist
    1. A Biologist Explores the Minds of Birds That Learn to Sing, NYTimes
    2. Selectivity for Conspecific Song in the Zebra Finch Auditory Forebrain, J. Neurophysiol
  14. Brain Can Generate Unexplained Noise In Ears, ScienceDaily
  15. To See Is to Attend, Science
  16. Immune Cognitive Modules, Autoimmune Disease, and Pathogenic Social Hierarchy, CogPrints
  17. Sensitive Robots Taught To Gauge Human Emotion, EE Times
    1. The Importance Of Depression, Nature
    2. Robots For The Masses, CNET News.com
    3. Giving Robots The Gift Of Sight, CNET News.com
  18. Wizard's Chess, NYTimes
    1. Venezuela Crisis Complicates Iraq Situation, Experts Say, NYTimes
    2. Brazil Needs A-Bomb Ability, Aide Says, Setting Off Furor, NYTimes
    3. After Oil, Clean Energy From A Fuel-Cell-Driven Global Hydrogen Web, E-Magazine
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Scientists Tell Washington Secrecy Impairs Research, Reuters
    2. Cascade-Based Attacks On Complex Networks, Phys Rev. E
    3. Al Qaeda Suspects in Germany Detained in Custody, Reuters
    4. Paris Frees Airport Worker Who Was Framed as Terror Suspect, NYTimes
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  1. More Than Good Intentions: Holding Fast to Faith in Free Will, NYTimes
    1. Ancient Amazon Brew Comes to Colombia's Cities, Macon Area Online/Reuters
    2. Getting Smart About Predictive Intelligence, Boston Globe
  2. The Stock Market As A Complex Adaptive System, Journal Of Applied Corporate Finance
  3. Ten Technologies To Watch In 2003, kurzweilai.net
  4. Turing Tests Filter Spam Email, New Scientist
  5. Adventures In The Pathophysiology Of Brain Ischemia, Stroke
    1. Functional Connectivity In The Resting Brain: A Network Analysis Of The Default Mode Hypothesis, PNAS
  6. Rebuilding the Food Pyramid, Scientific American
    1. Cell Division Required Twice Before Fat Cells Mature, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution
  7. Experimental Drug Relieves Rheumatoid Arthritis, Medline plus
  8. Orangutans Found to Share 'Culture', The Washington Post
    1. Orangutan Cultures and the Evolution of Material Culture, Science
    2. Lab Chimp Speaks His Own Language, New Scientist
  9. Genetic And Behavioral Conflict Over Male Production Between Workers And Queens, Behav. Ecology & Sociobiol.
  10. The Spider And Fly Revisited: Ploy-Counterploy Behavior In A Unique Predator-Prey System, Behav. Ecology & Sociobiol.
  11. Male Sperm Whale (Physeter Macrocephalus) Acoustics In A High-Latitude Habitat: Implications For Echolocation And Communication, Behav. Ecology & Sociobiol.
  12. Three-Dimensional Mapping of Dislocation Avalanches, Science
  13. Earthquake Conversations, Scientific American
  14. Habitable Planets May Be Common, New Scientist
  15. New Light on Medicine, Scientific American
  16. Police Dragnets for DNA Tests Draw Criticism, NYTimes
  17. The First International Symposium On Nonlinear Analysis And Applications (ISNAA03)
  18. Quantum Investing, Book Report
    1. Prey, Book Report
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Games Nations Play, NYTimes
    2. The Burden, NYTimes
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