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Complexity Digest 2007.50 Next Issue TOP

  1. Sexual Selection in Males and Females, Science
    1. Predator Pressures Maintain Bees' Social Life, Innovations-report
  2. Google and the Wisdom of Clouds, Business Week
    1. IBM Virtual World Defies Laws Of Physics, Network World
  3. Why Complex Systems Engineering Needs Biological Development, Complexity
    1. Recognizing Simple Human Actions Using 3d Head Movement, Computational Intelligence
  4. Performance Variability Enables Adaptive Plasticity Of 'Crystallized' Adult Birdsong, Nature
  5. The Physiology Of Champions, Innovations-report
  6. More 'Altruistic' Punishment In Larger Societies, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Traffic Jam Mystery Solved By Mathematicians, Innovations-report
  7. Tied Up In Knots - Anything That Can Tangle Up, Will, Including DNA, Science News
  8. Neuroscience: Neighbourly Synapses, Nature
    1. Locally Dynamic Synaptic Learning Rules In Pyramidal Neuron Dendrites, Nature
    2. Rapid Changes in Throughput from Single Motor Cortex Neurons to Muscle Activity, Science
  9. Tiny Living Machines - Devices Made Of Heart Tissue Could Screen Drugs And Power Implantable Robots., Technology Review
  10. Evolution: Did An Asteroid Shower Kick-Start The Great Diversification?, Science
  11. Animal Cell Differentiation Patterns Suppress Somatic Evolution, PLoS Computational Biology
    1. Microbiology: Detoxifying Enzyme Helps Animals Stomach Bacteria, Science
  12. Why Don't We Get Cancer All The Time?, Eurekalert
    1. UA Research Looks At Cell Cooperation And Cancer, Arizona Daily Star
  13. Cancer Diagnostics: One-Stop Shop, Nature
    1. Scientists Identify And Repress Breast Cancer Stem Cells In Mouse Tissue, Science Daily
    2. Scientists Weigh Stem Cells' Role as Cancer Cause, NY Times
  14. North By Northwest - The Planet's Wandering Magnetic Poles Help Reveal History Of Earth And Humans, Science News
  15. Portrait Of A Meltdown: Many Factors Led To 2007's Record Low In Arctic Sea Ice, Science News
    1. Dead Serious - Experts Worry About Lack Of Progress In Efforts To Reduce Lifeless Zone In The Gulf Of Mexico, Science News
  16. Physicists Make Ripples With Their 'Magic Carpet', Nature
  17. Physics: A Quantum Less Quirky, Nature
    1. Quantum Origin Of Quantum Jumps: Breaking Of Unitary Symmetry Induced By Information Transfer In The Transition From Quantum To Classical, Phys.
    2. Superconductivity Without Phonons, Nature
  18. Breakthrough of the Year, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Combating Terrorist Networks, Tufts e-News
    2. Combating Islamist Terrorism in Europe, AmericanDiplomacy.org
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Complexity Digest 2007.49 Next Issue TOP

  1. Humanoid Robot Finds Learning Child's Play, New Scientist
    1. Rapid Facial Mimicry In Orangutan Play, Biol. Lett.
  2. Q&A: Peter Norvig - The Evolution Of Web Search., Technology Review
    1. Encouraging People To Contribute Knowledge, The Official Google Blog
  3. Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms, Washington Post
  4. Dynamic Personalities Of Proteins, Nature
    1. The Molecular Sociology Of The Cell, Nature
  5. Transformation And Diversification In Early Mammal Evolution, Nature
  6. Small RNAs: Delivering The Future, Nature
    1. Small RNAs: The Vehicle Laboratory, Nature
  7. Researchers Train The Immune System To Deliver Virus That Destroys Cancer In Lab Models., Science Daily
    1. Neurobiology: Immune Molecules Prune Synapses in Developing Brain, Science
  8. Calculating Drugs' Side Effects, Technology Review
    1. Stem Cells Show Power To Predict Disease, Drug Toxicity, ScienceDaily
  9. Circadian Rhythms: Daily Watch on Metabolism, Science
  10. Flying Without Fractals - A New Study Raises Doubts About Fractal Patterns In Animal Behavior, Science News
  11. Losses Of Long-established Genes Contribute To Human Evolution, ScienceDaily
    1. Oral Stories And Culture Areas: From Northeast India To Southwest China, South Asia: J. South Asian Studies
  12. Molecular Biology: Genome Under Surveillance, Nature
  13. Abnormal Neuroscience: Scanning Psychopaths, Nature
  14. Malaria: Differential Parasite Drive, Nature
  15. Effect Of Remote Sea Surface Temperature Change On Tropical Cyclone Potential Intensity, Nature
    1. Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification, Science
    2. Complex Carbon Picture Clearer, Innovations-report
  16. Photonics: Rogue Waves Surface In Light, Nature
    1. Optical Rogue Waves, Nature
  17. Physics: Simple Scheme Stores Light by Converting It Into Vibration and Back, Science
    1. Stored Light in an Optical Fiber via Stimulated Brillouin Scattering, Science
    2. Enigmatic Clouds Illuminated - Satellite Data Shed Light On Twilight Skies., Nature
  18. Move Over, Silicon: Advances Pave Way For Powerful Carbon-Based Electronics, PhysOrg.com
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. An 'All Elements Of Power' Strategy For Combating Terrorism, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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Complexity Digest 2007.48 Next Issue TOP

  1. Selection Spurred Recent Evolution, Researchers Say, NY Times
    1. Are Humans Evolving Faster? Findings Suggest We Are Becoming More Different, Not Alike, PhysOrg.com
    2. Why Leaders Must Evolve, CIO Leader
  2. The Economic Fundamentals of Global Warming, SFI Working Papers
    1. Dynamics of Technological Development in the Energy Sector, SFI Working Papers
  3. Humans Appear Hardwired To Learn By 'Over-Imitation', ScienceDaily
    1. Brain Sensor for Market Research, Technology Review
  4. Subliminal Smells Bias Perception About A Person's Likeability, ScienceDaily
    1. Smell Experience During Critical Period Alters Brain, ScienceDaily
  5. Picture-Sorting Dogs Show Human-Like Thought, New Scientist
  6. The Robots Among Us, S.F. Chronicle
    1. Toyota Tunes Up Robo-Violinist: Robotics To Be A 'Core Business' By 2020, vnunet.com
    2. Warning Sounded Over 'Flirting Robots', CNET News.Com
    3. Micro-Robot Olympics Reveal Champion Swimmer, NewScientist.com
    4. Virtual 3D Nanorobots Could Lead To Real Cancer-Fighting Technology, PhysOrg.com
  7. Do Our Brains Work Like Google?, New Scientist
    1. Neuroscience: Gene Variant May Influence How People Learn From Their Mistakes, Science
  8. Cancer: Immune Pact With The Enemy, Nature
    1. Adaptive Immunity Maintains Occult Cancer In An Equilibrium State, Nature
    2. Breast Cancer Spread by Blocking Tumor-Killing Gene, Study Says, Bloomberg.com
    3. Keeping At-Risk Cells From Developing Cancer, PhysOrg.com
    4. Why the Switch Stays On: Scientists Discover Reasons Behind Cancerous Cellular Interactions, PhysOrg.com
  9. New Computational Technique Can Predict Drug Side Effects, Science Daily
    1. Remotely Controlled Drugs - Nanoparticles Can Be Activated By Radio Frequencies., Technology Review
  10. Glow-In-The-Dark Cat Could Help Cut Disease, Telegraph.co.uk
  11. Microbiology: Bilingual Bacteria, Nature
    1. Host - Parasite 'Red Queen' Dynamics Archived In Pond Sediment, Nature
  12. Plant Science: The Power Of The Pyramid, Science
    1. Ecology: How Do Roots Interact?, Science
  13. Ancient Flood Brought Gulf Stream To A Halt, New Scientist
  14. A Hierarchy Of Timescales In Protein Dynamics Is Linked To Enzyme Catalysis, Nature
    1. Lightning Bolts Within Cells - A New Nanoscale Tool Reveals Strong Electric Fields Inside Cells., Technology Review
  15. Researchers Develop Better Membranes For Water Treatment, Drug Delivery, PhysOrg.com
  16. Role Models for Complex Networks, SFI Working Papers
    1. Synchrony In Silicon: The Gamma Rhythm, Neural Networks
  17. Optical Quantum Computing, Science
    1. Optical Supercontinua Finally Explained, EE Times
    2. Turning Optical-Fibre Messages Into Sound Could Help Store The Information., Nature
  18. Astronomy: A Texture in the Sky?, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Bioterrorism: Panel Provides Peer Review of Intelligence Research, Science
    2. Waterboarding Recounted - Ex-CIA Officer Says It 'Probably Saved Lives' but Is Torture, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2007.47 Next Issue TOP

  1. Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee?, Wired
    1. Software That Organizes Intelligently, Technology Review
    2. Software That Learns from Users, Technology Review
  2. What's Finland's secret?, Ynetnews.com
    1. Pre-School Program Shown To Improve Key Cognitive Functions, Self-Control, ScienceDaily
  3. Monuments And Instruments, Nature
  4. Neuroscience: Sensors And Synchronicity, Nature
  5. New Hypothesis For Origin Of Life Proposed, PhysOrg.com
  6. Paleoanthropology: Hominid Harems: Big Males Competed For Small Australopithecine Females, Science
  7. The Effect of Sensory Blind Zones on Milling Behavior of Self-Propelled Particle Swarms, arXiv
    1. Cheating Honeybee Workers Produce Royal Offspring, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  8. Review. Do Hormonal Control Systems Produce Evolutionary Inertia?, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  9. Journey to the Center of the Cell, Science
    1. Return of the Matrix, Science
  10. Age Research: A New Angle On 'Old' - Are Ageing And Disease Two Sides Of The Same Coin?, Nature
  11. Reproduction: The Unusual Suspect, Nature
    1. Researchers Aim To Harness Sperm Power For Nano-Robots, PhysOrg.com
  12. New Form of Cell Death Discovered, ScienceNOW Daily News
  13. Mass-Producing 3-D Particles, Technology Review
    1. Splitting The Quark, News@Nature
  14. The Feel Of Cancer Cells - Future Diagnostic Tests For Cancer May Probe Cell Stiffness., Technology Review
    1. Radio Waves Fire Up Nanotubes Embedded in Tumors, Destroying Liver Cancer, PhysOrg.com
  15. Study Details How U.S. Could Cut 28% of Greenhouse Gases, NY Times
    1. Europe Looks To Draw Power From Africa - Sahara Desert Could Become Home To Solar-Power Plants., Nature
  16. 2007 Hurricane Season Ending Raises Forecast Concerns, National Geographic News
  17. Carbon Sequestration: Should Oceanographers Pump Iron?, Science
    1. Where Does Stored Nuclear Waste Go?, Innovations-report
  18. The Brain Drain, 'Educated Unemployment', Human Capital Formation, And Economic Betterment, Econ. Transition
    1. The Dictatorship of Talent, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Frontlines And Interstices In The Global War On Terror, Dev. & Change
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Complexity Digest 2007.46 Next Issue TOP

  1. A Working Brain Model, MIT Technology Review
    1. Theory of Mind Is Independent of Episodic Memory, Science
    2. Why You Remember Names And Ski Slopes: Researchers Discover Personal Trainer For Your Memory, Innovations-report
  2. Hold Your Horses: Impulsivity, Deep Brain Stimulation, and Medication in Parkinsonism, Science
    1. Probing Question: Why Can A Stroke Victim Remember Some Things And Not Others?, Research Penn State
  3. Social Comparison Affects Reward-Related Brain Activity in the Human Ventral Striatum, Science
    1. Money Motivates -- Especially When Your Colleague Gets Less, ScienceDaily
    2. Social Evaluation By Preverbal Infants, Nature
  4. An Antidepressant That Extends Lifespan In Adult Caenorhabditis Elegans, Nature
    1. Physiology: Still Pondering An Age-Old Question, Science
  5. Race To Mimic Human Embryonic Stem Cells - 'Personalized' Tissues Come A Step Closer., Nature
    1. After Stem-Cell Breakthrough, the Work Begins, NY Times
    2. Drug Firms Accused Of Biasing Doctors' Training - The Uneasy Link Between Industry And Education., Nature
  6. SARS: A Model Disease, Innovations-report
  7. Bioclocks Work By Controlling Chromosome Coiling, ScienceDaily
  8. Tadpole Slayer: Mystery epidemic imperils frogs, Science News
  9. Ecology: Managing Evolving Fish Stocks, Science
  10. Carbon Cycle: Marine Manipulations, Nature
  11. A Video That's Worth a Million Words, Science News
  12. Cheap Sensors Could Capture Your Every Move, NewScientist
  13. Inconsistencies Between Pangean Reconstructions and Basic Climate Controls, Science
  14. Bad Vibrations - The Ancient Craft Of Bridge Design Still Holds Surprises, Science News
  15. Emission of Coherent THz Radiation from Superconductors, Science
  16. High-Temperature Superconductivity: Schizophrenic Electrons, Nature
    1. Superconducting Pair Correlations in an Amorphous Insulating Nanohoneycomb Film, Science
  17. Physics: Better Computing with Photons, Science
  18. Militarized Patriotism: Why The U.S. Marketplace Of Ideas Failed Before The Iraq War, Security Studies
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. The ISI And The War On Terrorism, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
    2. Path To Victory - Refashioning Institutions For The Challenges Of The 21st Century, National Review Online
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Complexity Digest 2007.45 Next Issue TOP

  1. Introduction To Special Issue: A Robotic Future, Science
    1. The New Robotics - Towards Human-centered Machines, HFSP Journal
    2. Robots Infiltrate, Influence Cockroach Groups, NPR-ATC
    3. Robot Cockroach Tests Insect Decision-Making Behavior, Science
    4. Researchers Create Robot Driven by Moth's Brain, PhysOrg.com
    5. Robotics: Robotic Cars Tackle Crosstown Traffic--and Not One Another, Science
    6. Learning In And From Brain-Based Devices, Science
    7. Making Machines That Make Others of Their Kind, Science
    8. Self-Organization, Embodiment, and Biologically Inspired Robotics, Science
  2. Enhancing, Not Cheating, Nature
  3. A Wiring Diagram of the Brain, MIT Technology Review
  4. Melatonin Suppresses Nighttime Memory Formation in Zebrafish, Science
    1. Fast-Forward Playback of Recent Memory Sequences in Prefrontal Cortex During Sleep, Science
    2. 'Speed Of Thought' Guides Brain's Memory Consolidation, ScienceDaily
  5. Data-Intensive Computing Laying Foundation For Biological Breakthroughs, Science
    1. The Future of Internet Immune Systems, Internet Evolution
    2. N3Logic: A Logical Framework For the World Wide Web, arXiv
  6. Network Pharmacology, Nature
    1. Drug - Target Network, Nature
  7. Cancer's Mutational Landscape, Science
    1. The Gene Topography of Cancer, Science
    2. The Genomic Landscapes Of Human Breast And Colorectal Cancers., Science
  8. Shifting Patterns: Malaria Dynamics And Rainfall Variability In An African Highland, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Ancient Retroviruses Spurred Evolution Of Gene Regulatory Networks In Humans And Other Primates, ScienceDaily
  9. Paralysed Man's Mind Is 'Read', BBC News
  10. Antidepressant Extends Life of Worms, NPR-ATC
    1. Cooperation And Conflict In Quorum-Sensing Bacterial Populations, Nature
  11. Scientists Produce Embryonic Stem Cells from Skin, NPR-TOTN
  12. Epigenetics: Reversing The 'Irreversible', Nature
  13. Scientists Get First Look At How Water 'Lubricates' Proteins, Innovations-report
  14. Use The Calm Between The Storms, Nature
    1. Knowledge Gaps Pour Cold Water On Sea Fertilization, Nature
    2. What Every President Should Know, Nature
  15. Shadow World - How Many Dimensions Space Has Could All Be A Matter Of Perspective, Science News
  16. Light Wormholes Could Wire Space Invisibly, Nature
  17. Sand Could Shed Light On Quark-Gluon Plasma, PhysicsWorld.com
  18. 'Trapped Rainbow' Storage Of Light In Metamaterials, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. The Price Of Power - How Much Does US Dependence On Oil Influence International Diplomacy?, Nature
    2. Fixing The Meaning Of 9/11: Hegemony, Coercion, And The Road To War In Iraq, Security Studies
    3. A Crime-Terror Nexus? Thinking On Some Of The Links Between Terrorism And Criminality, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
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Complexity Digest 2007.44 Next Issue TOP

  1. From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm, NY Times
    1. For Migrating Sparrows, Kids Have A Compass, But Adults Have The Map, ScienceDaily
  2. This Is Your Brain on Politics, NY Times
  3. A Home for Maori Science, Science
    1. Top-Achieving Nations Beat U.S. States in Math and Science, Education Week
  4. Computer Science: Is There Progress on Talking Sensibly to Machines?, Science
    1. Brain2Robot, PhysOrg.com
    2. Smart Phone Suggests Things to Do, Technology Review
  5. Synthetic Molecule Makes Cancer Cells Commit Suicide, Science Daily
  6. What Goes Wrong in the ADHD Brain, Times
    1. Brain Matures A Few Years Late In ADHD, But Follows Normal Pattern, PhysOrg.com
  7. Neuroscience: Spying On New Neurons In The Human Brain, Science
    1. Neuroscience: Hippocampal Cells Help Rats Think Ahead, Science
  8. Time To Pick The Fly's Brain, Nature
    1. Into The Mind Of A Fly, Nature
  9. Excessive Fat Intake Can Throw Out The Body Clock, Nature
    1. Developmental Biology: The Power Of Blood, Nature
  10. Genetics: Who's the Queen? Ask the Genes, Science
    1. The Honeybee Queen Influences The Regulation Of Colony Drone Production, Behav. Ecol.
  11. Signaling By Decorating Webs: Luring Prey Or Deterring Predators?, Behav. Ecol.
  12. Evolution: When Are Genes 'Adventurous' And When Are They Conservative?, ScienceDaily
    1. Fisheries: Nets Versus Nature, Nature
  13. Computational Biology: Protein Predictions, Nature
    1. Unlocking The Function Of Enzymes, ScienceDaily
  14. Making Models Match: Replicating an Agent-Based Model, JASSS
    1. Spatial Dynamics of Pandemic Influenza in a Massive Artificial Society, JASSS
    2. The Impact of HIV/AIDS in the Context of Socioeconomic Stressors: an Evidence-Driven Approach, JASSS
  15. The Immune System: Look Who's Talking, arXiv
  16. Multiscale Vulnerability Of Complex Networks, Chaos
  17. New Evidence For Extragalactic Life-Forming Matter, New Scientist
    1. Planetary System That Looks Familiar, NY Times
  18. Engineering Students Use Smart Materials To Design A Smart Wing, PhysOrg.com
    1. Atomic-level Microscopy At Least 100 Times Faster With New Technique, Science Daily
    2. Focusing Light on Silicon Beads, MIT Technology Review
    3. Hydrogen Brewing Gets An Electrical Boost, NewScientist
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Understanding Al-Qaeda's Pakistan PSYOP (Psychological Operations, Ed.) and Insurgency, Threats Watch
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Complexity Digest 2007.43 Next Issue TOP

  1. Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly, NY Times
  2. Model Behaviour, Nature
  3. Neural Mechanisms Mediating Optimism Bias, Nature
    1. Mutual Optimism And War, Ameri.J. Poli. Sc.
  4. Mathematical Physics: First Encounters, Nature
    1. First-Passage Times In Complex Scale-Invariant Media, Nature
    2. Ecology: Do Wandering Albatrosses Care About Math?, Science
  5. What Makes Cultural Heredity Unique? On Action-Types, Intentionality And Cooperation In Imitation, Mind & Lang.
  6. Ecological Intervention: Prospects And Limits, Ethics & Int. Affairs
  7. Adaptive Coevolutionary Networks: A Review, Interface
    1. Robustness And Evolvability: A Paradox Resolved, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    2. Sony's Folding@Home Project Gets Guinness Record, n-net News.com
  8. Hearing: A Fantasia On Koelliker's Organ, Nature
    1. The Origin Of Spontaneous Activity In The Developing Auditory System, Nature
    2. New Brain Cells Listen Before They Talk, ScienceDaily
  9. Molecular Basis for the Nerve Dependence of Limb Regeneration in an Adult Vertebrate, Science
  10. A High-Resolution Root Spatiotemporal Map Reveals Dominant Expression Patterns, Science
    1. Smell: The Worm Turns, Nature
  11. The PIN Codes Of The Immune System Can Be Hacked, Innovations-report
    1. Systems Biology: A Clock with a Flip Switch, Science
  12. Genetically Engineered 'Mighty Mouse' Can Run 6 Kilometers Without Stopping, Science Daily
  13. Crops That Shut Down Pests' Genes, MIT Technology Review
  14. Fossil Sparks - New Finds Ignite Controversy Over Ape And Human Evolution, Science News
  15. Molecular And Genomic Data Identify The Closest Living Relative Of Primates, Science
  16. Engineers Teach Nature to 'Grow' Computer Components, PhysOrg.com
    1. Nano-assembly Mimics Origin Of Life? Molecules Organize Themselves Into Patterns, ScienceDaily
    2. Self-Organizing Nanoparticles: A Model For Tomorrow's Nanofactories, Innovations-report
    3. The Charge of the Ultra - Capacitors, IEEE Spectrum
  17. Crashes and Traffic Jams in Military Test of Robotic Vehicles, NY Times
    1. 'Aggressive But Safe' SUV Wins Robotic Street Race, New Scientist
  18. It All Began with an End - New Theory on Origin and Future of the Universe, New Wise
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Analysis: Young, British And Part Of Terror Plot, Telegraph.co.uk
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Complexity Digest 2007.42 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Outsourced Brain, NY Times
    1. News: Business Head In The Clouds, Nature
  2. Anterior Prefrontal Function And The Limits Of Human Decision-Making, Science
    1. Social Decision-Making: Insights From Game Theory And Neuroscience, Science
    2. Decision Theory: What "Should" the Nervous System Do?, Science
  3. Social Media as Windows on the Social Life of the Mind, arXiv
  4. Energy Flow And The Organization Of Life, Complexity
    1. Empirical Multiscale Networks of Cellular Regulation, PLoS Comput Biol
  5. Analysis, Modeling, Emergence & Integration In Complex Systems, Complexity
    1. Wolfram's 2,3 Turing Machine Is Universal, Wolfram Research Press Release
  6. Parkinson's: How Deep Brain Stimulation Interferes With Decision-making, ScienceDaily
  7. Using Maths To Tackle Cancer, Nature
    1. Cancer: Mixing Cocktails, Nature
  8. From Wheat To Web: Children Of The Revolution, Nature
  9. Global Change: Tinkering With the Climate to Get Hearing at Harvard Meeting, Science
    1. Time To Ditch Kyoto, Nature
    2. Why Is Climate Sensitivity So Unpredictable?, Science
  10. Crime and Punishment: the Economic Burden of Impunity, arXiv
  11. Evolution: The Sharp End of Altruism, Science
    1. The Coevolution of Parochial Altruism and War, Science
  12. Humans And Monkeys Share Machiavellian Intelligence, Innovations-report
  13. Population Ecology: Group Living And Hungry Lions, Nature
    1. Group Formation Stabilizes Predator-Prey Dynamics, Nature
  14. 'Nervous' Birds Take More Risks, Innovations-report
  15. Revisiting Levy Flight Search Patterns Of Wandering Albatrosses, Bumblebees And Deer, Nature
  16. Secrets Behind Butterfly Wing Patterns Uncovered, ScienceDaily
  17. Digging The Scene: Dinos Burrowed, Built Dens, Science
  18. Plant Biology: Plumbing The Pattern Of Roots, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Military Guide to Terrorism: Future Terror Trends (Part Six - Conclusion), The Family Security Foundation, Inc
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Complexity Digest 2007.41 Next Issue TOP

  1. An Active, Purposeful Machine That Comes Out at Night to Play, NY Times
    1. Graph Theoretical Analysis Of Complex Networks In The Brain, Nonlin. Biomed. Phy.
    2. Mind-Dependence. The Past In The Grip Of The Present, J. Bioecon.
  2. Schools Embrace Environment and Sow Debate, NY Times
  3. The Equilibria That Allow Bacterial Persistence In Human Hosts, Nature
    1. An Ecological And Evolutionary Perspective On Human-Microbe Mutualism And Disease, Nature
  4. Turnover Of Sex Chromosomes Induced By Sexual Conflict, Nature
    1. Genetic Sex-Determination Changes Studied, EarthTimes.org
  5. So Similar, Yet So Different, Nature
    1. Spontaneous Emergence of Modularity in a Model of Evolving Individuals, arXiv
  6. Mitochondrial DNA as a Genomic Jigsaw Puzzle, Science
    1. Stem Cells From Virgin Eggs - Nonviable Embryos Could Answer Ethical Concerns, Science News
  7. Molecular Biology: Unlocking Cell Fate, Science
  8. New Mathematical Model Predicts More Virulent Microbes, PhysOrg.com
    1. Network Analysis of Oncogenic Ras Activation in Cancer, Science
  9. Micro-Robot That Can Clear Arteries, Telegraph
  10. Archaeology: Coastal Artifacts Suggest Early Beginnings For Modern Behavior, Science
  11. Probing Question: How Do Songbirds Learn To Sing?, PennState Live
  12. The Shape Of Protein Structures To Come - Modelling Effort Uses Mass Computing Power To Make Breakthrough., Nature
  13. Scientists Spy Enzyme That Makes Us Unique, ScienceDaily
  14. Earth Science: An Indian Cheetah, Nature
  15. Boffins Give Computers 'Common Sense', vnunet.com
    1. Recommendation Model Based On Opinion Diffusion, arXiv
  16. How Singing Bats Communicate, ScienceDaily
    1. How Private Information About Resource Value Changes Hermit Crab Pre-Fight Displays And Escalated Fight Behaviour, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  17. Mathematics and Complex Systems, Science
  18. Administration Diverges on Missile Defense, Washington Post
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. America's War Without End, Guardian Unlimited
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Complexity Digest 2007.40 Next Issue TOP

  1. Father of Mechanism Design Wins Nobel, Business Week
  2. Neuroeconomics As A Natural Extension Of Bioeconomics: The Shifting Scope Of Standard Economic Theory, J. Bioecon.
    1. Part I: The Blow-Up, Technology Review
    2. Part II: The Blow-Up, Technology Review
    3. Wagging the Fat Tail, Absolute Return Letter
  3. Google Gives Some Hints About Social Network Plan, NY Times
  4. Shifty Talk: Probing The Process Of Word Evolution, Science News
    1. Quantifying The Evolutionary Dynamics Of Language, Nature
    2. Frequency Of Word-Use Predicts Rates Of Lexical Evolution Throughout Indo-European History, Nature
    3. Linguistics: An Invisible Hand, Nature
  5. Complexity and Self-organization, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences
  6. The Benefits Of 80 Million Years Without Sex, Physorg.com
    1. Evolution: Stable Heterozygosity?, Science
    2. Evolutionary Genetics: Making The Most Of Redundancy, Nature
  7. The Human Disease Network, PNAS
    1. Network Medicine - From Obesity to the "Diseasome", New England Journal of Medicine
    2. Human Disease Classification In The Postgenomic Era: A Complex Systems Approach To Human Pathobiology, Molecular Systems Biology
  8. Moving Up The Charts: Drug-Resistant Bug Invades Military, Civilian Hospitals, Science News
  9. Invasive, Indeed - One Species - Homo Sapiens - Consumes Nearly A Quarter Of Earth's Natural Productivity, Science News
    1. Preferences For Symmetry In Human Faces In Two Cultures, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    2. Humans Perceive Others' Fear Faster Than Other Emotions, ScienceDaily
  10. Using Molecular Pathways to Assess Cancer Patients, Technology Review
    1. Cancer: Micromanagement Of Metastasis, Nature
    2. Tumour Invasion And Metastasis Initiated By MicroRNA-10b In Breast Cancer, Nature
    3. Chromosome Caps May Explain Cell Immortality, New Scientist
  11. Moose Use Roads As a Defence Against Bears, News@Nature
    1. Fear, Human Shields And The Redistribution Of Prey And Predators In Protected Areas, Biol. Lett.
    2. Herding Aphids -- How 'Farmer' Ants Keep Control Of Their Food, Innovations-report
    3. Rodent Sociality And Parasite Diversity, Biol. Lett.
  12. Atmosphere: Monsoon Mysteries, Science
  13. Dusty Winds Bursting Out Of Black Holes May Have Seeded Planets, Life, Science Daily
    1. New Worlds On The Horizon: Earth-Sized Planets Close To Other Stars, Science
  14. Lockheed Martin to Develop Automated Object Recognition Using Brain-Inspired Technology, CNN/PRNewswire
  15. Materials Science: Biomimetic Solutions To Sticky Problems, Science
    1. Virus-Built Electronics, Technology Review
  16. Laser Physics: A Phase It's Going Through, Nature
    1. Artificial-Atom Laser Debuts, PhysicsWorld.com
  17. Solid-State Physics: Response With A Twist, Nature
  18. Synergy Goes To War: A Bioeconomic Theory Of Collective Violence, J. Bioecon.
    1. The Geopolitical Foundations of Blackwater, InvestorsInsight
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Al-Qaeda In Iraq Reported Crippled - Many Officials, However, Warn Of Its Resilience, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2007.39 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Role of Leadership in Emergent, Self-organization, The Leadership Quarterly
    1. Leadership and the Choice of Order: Complexity and Hierarchical Perspectives Near the Edge of Chaos, The Leadership Quarterly
  2. Going With the Flow, Duke Magazine
    1. Biophysics: Going with the Flow, Science
  3. Gene Networks and Natural Selection: Is There a Network Biology?, SFI Working Papers
    1. Multifunctionality and Robustness Tradeoffs in Model Genetic Circuits, SFI Working Papers
  4. Stem Cell Team Wins 2007 Nobel For Medicine, Reuters
    1. Physics of Hard Drives Wins Nobel, NY Times
  5. Human-Animal Cybrids - Biologist Ian Wilmut Talks About His Cloning Plans For The Future., Technology Review
    1. Top 10 Forecasts 2008 And Beyond, The Futurist
  6. String Tightening As A Self-Organizing Phenomenon, Neural Networks
  7. Reconciling Complexity With Stability In Naturally Assembling Food Webs, Nature
    1. Governing Fisheries As Complex Adaptive Systems, Marine Policy#ref_journal Marine Policy, Article in Press, Corrected Proof
  8. I Am Creating Artificial Life, Declares US Gene Pioneer - Scientist Has Made Synthetic Chromosome, The Guardian
  9. Chimpanzees Are Rational Maximizers in an Ultimatum Game, Science
    1. How Baboons Think (Yes, Think), NY Times
  10. The More They're Used, The Less Words Change, CBC News
  11. New Prosthetic Devices Will Convert Brain Signals Into Action, ScienceDaily
    1. MIT Develops Brain-To-Machine Algorithm, cnet News
    2. Engineers Study Brain Folding In Higher Mammals, ScienceDaily
  12. Google And IBM Partner To Push Cloud Computing, InformationWeek
    1. Google and I.B.M. Join in 'Cloud Computing' Research, NY Times
    2. Tech Trends: Crowdsourcing - Got A Big Job? The Web May Be Able To Help, CBC News
    3. Free the Avatars, NY Times
  13. Stochastic Fluctuations In Epidemics On Networks, Interface
  14. Darpa Hatches Plan For Insect Cyborgs To Fly Reconnaissance, EE Times
    1. Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs., Washington Post
  15. Plant Biology: At Long Last, Pathologists Hear Plants' Cry For Help, Science
  16. Minimum Telomere Length Defined For Healthy Cells - Mechanism For Chromosome Corruption Also Revealed., Nature
    1. In the Battle Against Cancer, Researchers Find Hope in a Toxic Wasteland, NY Times
    2. Nanosensor Detection of an Immunoregulatory Tryptophan Influx/Kynurenine Efflux Cycle, PLoS Biology
  17. Algorithms To Reanimate The Heart, Innovations-report
    1. Neuroscience: A Local Route To Pain Relief, Nature
  18. Are Mirrors The Best Way To Deflect Asteroids?, New Scientist
    1. New Plastic Is Strong As Steel, Transparent, PhysOrg.com
    2. Atomic Physics: Cold Meeting At A Junction, Nature
    3. Water Doesn't Mind The Gap - Gravity-Defying Liquid Bridge Makes A Splash., Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. U.S. Intelligence Officials Will Probe Leak of Bin Laden Video, Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2007.38 Next Issue TOP

  1. Google Testing "My World" For Launch Later This Year, ars technica
    1. Why Climate Change Can't Be Stopped, Foreign Policy
    2. Fire And Flood Management Of Coastal Swamp Enabled First Rice Paddy Cultivation In East China, Nature
  2. Storytelling, Time, and Evolution: The Role of Strategic Leadership in Complex Adaptive Systems, The Leadership Quarterly
    1. Human Cooperation In Social Dilemmas: Comparing The Snowdrift Game With The Prisoner's Dilemma, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    2. The Social Network Of Contemporary Popular Musicians, Int. J. Bifur. & Chaos
    3. Using Graph Concepts To Understand The Organization Of Complex Systems, Int. J. Bifur. & Chaos
  3. Cockroaches Are Morons In The Morning, Geniuses In The Evening, ScienceDaily
  4. Genomics: Deep Questions In The Tree Of Life, Science
  5. Late Archean Biospheric Oxygenation and Atmospheric Evolution, Science
    1. A Whiff of Oxygen Before the Great Oxidation Event?, Science
  6. From Bit to It: How a Complex Metabolic Network Transforms Information into Living Matter, SFI Working Papers
  7. Non-linear Dynamics and Leadership Emergence, The Leadership Quarterly
  8. Correlated Evolution and Dietary Change in Fossil Stickleback, Science
  9. Clever Plants 'Chat' Over Their Own Network, ScienceDaily
    1. Bacteria May Be Wiring Up The Soil, Nature
  10. Neuroscience: Uncovering The Magic In Magnetic Brain Stimulation, Science
    1. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Elicits Coupled Neural and Hemodynamic Consequences, Science
    2. The Fractionation Of Spoken Language Understanding By Measuring Electrical And Magnetic Brain Signals, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  11. Immunology: Changed Destiny, Nature
    1. Taking Dendritic Cells Into Medicine, Nature
  12. Ocean Pipes Could Help The Earth To Cure Itself, Nature
  13. Electron Superhighway - Can Graphene Overtake Silicon As The Essential Ingredient Of Computer Chips?, Science
  14. Fluid Theory Confirmed By Foton, ESA
  15. Physicists Tackle Knotty Puzzle, PhysOrg.com
  16. Quantum Physics: Qubits Ride The Photon Bus, Nature
    1. Physics: Quantum Weirdness in the Lab, Science
    2. Probing Quantum Commutation Rules by Addition and Subtraction of Single Photons to/from a Light Field, Science
    3. Physics: Does Our Universe Allow for Robust Quantum Computation?, Science
  17. Cosmology: A Singular Conundrum: How Odd Is Our Universe?, Science
  18. Symmetrized Characterization of Noisy Quantum Processes, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Staged Cyber Attack Reveals Vulnerability In Power Grid, CNN
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Complexity Digest 2007.37 Next Issue TOP

  1. A Global Game Explodes: Currencies, Wall Street Journal
    1. SFR Talk: Science Guy, Santa Fe Reporter
  2. Adaptive Coevolutionary Networks -- A Review, arXiv
    1. Complexity, Collective Effects and Modelling of Ecosystems: Formation, Function and Stability, arXiv
  3. Why a Person Doesn't Evolve in One Lifetime, News@Nature
  4. Paleoanthropology: A New Body Of Evidence Fleshes Out Homo Erectus, Science
    1. Walking Small: Humanlike legs took Homo out of Africa, Science News
    2. Archaeology: Easter Island Revisited, Science
  5. Why Are Some Groups Of Animals So Diverse?, Innovations-report
  6. Biotechs Go Generic: The Same But Different, Nature
  7. Developmental Biology: Home For The Precious Few, Science
    1. Structural Biology: Unexpected Opening, Nature
  8. New Understanding Of Basic Units Of Memory, ScienceDaily
  9. The Science Of Collective Decision-making, ScienceDaily
    1. The Political Ecology Of Violence In Eastern Sri Lanka, Dev. & Change
  10. Linguistics: Read My Slips: Speech Errors Show How Language Is Processed, Science
    1. The Double Thinker, NY Times
  11. Work on Paralysis Shows Just How Hard It Is to Read Minds, Wall Street Journal
    1. Acupuncture 'Best For Back Pain', BBC News
  12. To Evade Chemotherapy, Some Cancer Cells Mimic Stem Cells, Innovations-report
  13. Noise, Nonlinearity And Seasonality: The Epidemics Of Whooping Cough Revisited, Interface
  14. An Oracle for Our Time, Part Man, Part Machine, NY Times
  15. 'Self-Aware' Space Rovers Would Be Speedy Explorers, New Scientist
  16. Computing: The Wireless Epidemic, Nature
  17. Toward Next-generation Integrated Circuits Made From Carbon Nanotubes, Science Daily
    1. It's All In The Spin: Quantum Physics Cools Down Computers, PhysOrg.com
  18. Condensed-Matter Physics: Relaxation After A Tight Squeeze, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Invisible, Invincible, Hindustan Times
    2. Air Force Leaders Discuss Need To Control Cyberspace, Air Force Link
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Complexity Digest 2007.36 Next Issue TOP

  1. Global Pattern Formation and Ethnic/Cultural Violence, Science
    1. Reports Says Organized Crime Top Problem, Associated Press
  2. Separate Is Never Equal - How Social Segregation Leads To Economic Inequality, Science News
    1. Computer Science: Cultural Modeling In Real Time, Science
    2. Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Science
  3. AIs May Call Virtual Worlds Home, Digital Trends
    1. On Wikipedia, Debating 2008 Hopefuls' Every Facet, Washington Post
  4. Psychiatric Research: Is Internal Timing Key To Mental Health?, Science
    1. Debate Renewed: Diabetes Drug Ups Heart Risk, Science News
    2. At What Price?, Nature
  5. Immunology: Square-Dancing Antibodies, Science
  6. Consciousness In The Raw - The Brain Stem May Orchestrate The Basics Of Awareness, Science News
    1. Brain Network Related To Intelligence Identified, PhysOrg.com
    2. The Molecular Signature Of Loneliness, Innovations-report
  7. Ecology: Scaling Laws In The Drier, Nature
    1. Positive Feedbacks Promote Power-Law Clustering Of Kalahari Vegetation, Nature
    2. Fungal Roles In Soil Ecology: Underground Networking, Nature
  8. A General Integrative Model For Scaling Plant Growth, Carbon Flux, And Functional Trait Spectra, Nature
    1. Mutual Feedbacks Maintain Both Genetic And Species Diversity In A Plant Community, Science
  9. Chimps Pinch Papayas To Impress Potential Mates, New Scientist
    1. Primate Behavior Explained By Computer 'Agents', ScienceDaily
  10. On The Stability Of Populations Of Mammals, Birds, Fish And Insects, Ecol. Lett.
    1. Predation Linked To Evolution, Study Suggests, ScienceDaily
    2. Vibrational Signals In A Gregarious Sawfly Larva ( Perga Affinis ): Group Coordination Or Competitive Signaling?, J. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.
  11. Epigenetics: Perceptive Enzymes, Nature
  12. Unsettling Weather - Explosive Growth Of [Hurricane, Ed.] Humberto Delivers A Warning., Houston Chronicle
  13. Cosmic 'Egg-Beaters' May Have Left Magnetic Legacy, New Scientist
    1. Lighting the Universe with Filaments, Science
    2. Dark Matter Clues In Oldest Stars, BBC News
  14. Mirror Particles Form New Matter, BBC News
  15. Scientists Unlock Secrets Of Protein Folding, PhysOrg.com
  16. Nanoscale Computer Memory Retrieves Data 1,000 Times Faster, PhysOrg.com
    1. Sheet Of Carbon Atoms Acts Like A Billiard Table, Physicists Find, PhysOrg.com
    2. Phase-Coherent Transport in Graphene Quantum Billiards, Science
    3. Engineering Quantum States Of A Nanoresonator Via A Simple Auxiliary System, Phys. Rev.
  17. Decentralized Control and Interactive Design Methods for Large-Scale Heterogeneous Self-Organizing Swarms, ECAL2007
  18. What Happens To Private Contractors Who Kill Iraqis? Maybe Nothing, Salon.com
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Scientists Use the "Dark Web" to Snag Extremists and Terrorists Online
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Complexity Digest 2007.35 Next Issue TOP

  1. Living in Societies, Science
    1. Evolution in the Social Brain, Science
    2. The Brain/Education Barrier, Science
  2. Social Components of Fitness in Primate Groups, Science
    1. Socially Induced Brain Differentiation In A Cooperatively Breeding Songbird, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  3. Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis, Science
    1. The Trouble with Men, Scientific American Magazine
  4. Prospection: Experiencing the Future, Science
    1. The Art of Virtual Persuasion, Science
  5. Will Super Smart Artificial Intelligences Keep Humans Around As Pets?, reasononline
    1. 2006: Celebrating 75 years of AI - History and Outlook: the Next 25 Years, arXiv
    2. Who Needs Hackers?, NY Times
  6. From Cool to Passé: Identity Signaling and Product Domains, Knowledge@Wharton
    1. The Wealth Of Nations - A Country's Competitive Edge Can Spread Industry To Industry, Like A Disease, Science News
  7. How Does Consciousness Happen?, Scientific American Magazine
  8. Adaptive Evolution Of Genes Underlying Schizophrenia, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Schizophrenia Genes 'Favoured by Evolution', News@Nature
  9. The Perception of Rational, Goal-Directed Action in Nonhuman Primates, Science
    1. Psychology: Nonhuman Primates Demonstrate Humanlike Reasoning, Science
    2. Alex the Parrot, NY Times
  10. That's Life, NY Times
    1. Taxonomy: The Collector, Nature
  11. Life As We Know It - To Understand The Human Genome, Researchers Must Spread Their Wings To All Branches Of Life, Nature
    1. Crashing DNA's Ultraconservative Party, Nature
    2. Share Alike: Genes From Bacteria Found In Animals, Science News
  12. Redefining the Architecture of Memory, NY Times
  13. How Do You Like Your Genes? Biofabs Take Orders, NY Times
  14. Experimental Drugs on Trial, Scientific American Magazine
    1. Biomedicine: HIV Drug Shows Promise as Potential Cancer Treatment, Science
  15. Listening To Speech In The Presence Of Other Sounds, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    1. Temporal Precision In The Neural Code And The Timescales Of Natural Vision, Nature
    2. Reading Process Is Surprisingly Different That Previously Thought, ScienceDaily
  16. Muscular Thin Films for Building Actuators and Powering Devices, Science
    1. Pushing The Complexity Of Model Bilayers: Novel Prospects For Membrane Biophysics, Springer
  17. Dragging Of Inertial Frames, Nature
  18. The Changing Ecology Of Foreign Policy-Making In China, The China Quarterly
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. The New Al-Qaeda Central, Washington Post
    2. Al-Qaeda's Return - The Terrorists Have A Sanctuary Once Again., Washington Post
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Complexity Digest 2007.34 Next Issue TOP

  1. Market Takes A Gamble On Carbon Futures, Nature
    1. Impact Of Fraud On The Mean-Field Dynamics Of Cooperative Social Systems, APS
  2. Coexistence of Social Norms based on In- and Out-group Interactions, arXiv
    1. Dynamics of Opinions and Social Structures, arXiv
  3. Writing With Pictures: Toward A Unifying Theory Of Consumer Response To Images, Innovations-report
    1. Sales Prices: How Right Digits Affect Perception of Discounts, ScienceDaily
  4. Early Urban Development in the Near East, Science
    1. Archaeology: Murder in Mesopotamia?, Science
  5. Whose Business Is The Business Climate?, Bangor Daily News
  6. Researchers Find "Tall" Gene, dBTechno News
    1. Scientists Discover Height Gene, BBC News
  7. Ethiopian Plateau Formation Coincided With Climate Change That May Have Spurred Human Evolution, ScienceDaily
    1. Towards a Physics of Evolution: Critical Diversity Dynamics at the Edges of Collapse and Bursts of Diversification
    2. Mobility Promotes And Jeopardizes Biodiversity In Rock-Paper-Scissors Games, Nature
  8. Urban Birds Have Broader Environmental Tolerance, Biol. Lett.
    1. The Emergence Of A Sense Of Orientation, ScienceDaily
  9. Molecular Biology: Damage Control, Nature
  10. Organic Chemistry: Synthesis Mimics Natural Craftsmanship, Science
    1. Epoxide-Opening Cascades Promoted by Water, Science
    2. Heavy Water, NY Times
  11. Ecology: Doing Battle With the Green Monster of Taihu Lake, Science
    1. Chaotic Oscillations And Cycles In Multi-Trophic Ecological Systems, J. Theor. Biol.
  12. Reflecting Symmetry, PhysicsWorld.com
    1. Structure or Noise?, SFI Working Papers
  13. Theoretical Physics: A Black Hole Full Of Answers, Nature
    1. Stringscape, PhysicsWorld.com
  14. Physics In The Cell: Spring Theory, Nature
  15. Diamond Stabilization Of Ice Multilayers At Human Body Temperature, APS
    1. Warm Ice Could Improve Medical Implants, PhysicsWorld.com
  16. Teaching Computers To Read Minds, Technology Review
  17. Software Via The Internet: Microsoft In 'Cloud' Computing, NY Times
  18. I.B.M. Researchers Advancing Computer Processing Ability, NY Times
    1. IBM Measures Single-Atom Memory, Molecular Switch, EE Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Global Warning: Terror's Changing Face, The Age
    2. Intelligence Reform: The Logic Of Information Sharing, Intelligence & National Security
    3. Center First Gives Way to Center Last - Have you noticed the change in the Iraq debate?, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2007.33 Next Issue TOP

  1. The Art and Science of Measuring CEO Performance, Knowledge@Wharton
    1. Education: Who Ranks The University Rankers?, Science
  2. Economics: Money Illusion And The Market, Science
    1. Money Illusion And The Market, Innovations-report
    2. Sleights of Mind, NY Times
  3. Neuroscience: The Threatened Brain, Science
    1. When Fear Is Near: Threat Imminence Elicits Prefrontal-Periaqueductal Gray Shifts In Humans, Science
    2. Pac-Man Reveals Human Response To Threats: Boffins Use Arcade Game To Research Fight Or Flight Reflex, vnunet.com
  4. Chimpanzees Use Self-Distraction To Cope With Impulsivity, Biol. Lett.
  5. Astrocytes Potentiate Transmitter Release at Single Hippocampal Synapses, Science
  6. Evolutionary Biology: Structure In Mutualistic Networks, Nature
    1. Learning and Innovation Expand Cooperative Network Topologies, arXiv
  7. Varying Environments Can Speed Up Evolution, PNAS
  8. AI System Predicts Medicine's Hidden Powers, NewScientist.com
    1. Olecular Biology: Cancer's Perpetual Source?, Science
    2. Social Habits Of Cells May Hold Key To Fighting Diseases, ScienceDaily
  9. RNA Interference: Hitting The On Switch, Nature
  10. Virology: China, Vietnam Grapple With 'Rapidly Evolving' Pig Virus, Science
    1. Infectious Disease: Racing to Defuse a Bacterial Time Bomb, Science
  11. Ocean Circulation Noisy, Not Stalling, Nature
  12. Earth Science: Old Diamonds And The Upper Crust, Nature
  13. Rocketing into HIPerSpace: New Visualization System at UC San Diego, UCSD News
    1. Studies Report Inducing Out-of-Body Experience, NY Times
    2. Video Ergo Sum: Manipulating Bodily Self-Consciousness, Science
  14. Photon-Transistors For The Supercomputers Of The Future, PhysOrg.com
    1. Sony Powers Walkman With Sugar-Based Battery, PCWorld
  15. Using Life's Building Blocks To Control Nanoparticle Assembly, ScienceDaily
    1. Helix Self-Assembly from Anisotropic Molecules, Phys. Rev. Lett.
  16. Materials Science: Stirring Stuff, Nature
  17. The Future Of Complexity: Conceiving A Better Way To Understand Order And Chaos, World Scientific
  18. Synchronization In Complex Networks Of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, World Scientific
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Social Science: Sacred Barriers To Conflict Resolution, Science
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Complexity Digest 2007.32 Next Issue TOP

  1. For Wall Street's Math Brains, Miscalculations, Washington Post
  2. Reductionism, Emergence, and Levels of Abstractions, arXiv
    1. A Practical Ontology for the Large-Scale Modeling of Scholarly Artifacts and their Usage, arXiv
    2. EA Games to Incorporate Real-Time Weather, Wired
  3. Federal No-Bid Contracts On Rise - Use of Favored Firms A Common Shortcut, Washington Post
  4. Warming Will Exacerbate Global Water Conflicts, Washington Post
    1. Climate Tipping Points Loom Large, New Scientist
    2. Oceans: A Change In Circulation?, Science
    3. Environment: Carbon Mitigation By Biofuels Or By Saving And Restoring Forests?, Science
  5. Beijing: Traffic Ban Cleared The Air, AP/Guardian
  6. Biodiversity: Predicting Oblivion: Are Existing Models Up To The Task?, Science
  7. Female Mate-Choice Drives The Evolution Of Male-Biased Dispersal In A Social Mammal, Nature
    1. Uncertainties Of Savanna Habitat Drive Birds To Cooperative Breeding, ScienceDaily
  8. Puppy Love Makes Teenagers Lose The Plot, New Scientist
  9. Neuroscience: Enzyme Keeps Old Memories Alive, Science
    1. Rapid Erasure of Long-Term Memory Associations in the Cortex by an Inhibitor of PKM, Science
  10. Neuroscience: Synapses Here And Not Everywhere, Science
    1. Correlation Between Neural Spike Trains Increases With Firing Rate, Nature
    2. Brain Implant Being Studied at Jefferson Could Predict and Stop Epilepsy Seizures Before They Even Begin, Jefferson Hospital News Release
  11. Achievement Index Climbs The Ranks, Nature
    1. Artificial Intelligence Applications In The Telecommunications Industry, Expert Sys.
  12. Swarming Starlings Help Probe Plasma, Crowds And Stock Market, ScienceDaily
    1. Monkeys Learn To Do Arithmetic For Peanuts, New Scientist
  13. Physicists Discover Inorganic Dust With Lifelike Qualities, Science Daily
    1. Helices Swirl In Space-Dust Simulations - Plasmas Put A New Twist On Life, PhysicsWorld
    2. Molecular Evolution: Resurrected Proteins Reveal Their Surprising History, Science
  14. Biological Chemistry: Enzymes Line Up For Assembly, Nature
    1. Biochemistry: Designer Enzymes, Nature
    2. Computational Biochemistry: Models Of Transition, Nature
  15. Evolution: Jumping Genes Hop Into The Evolutionary Limelight, Science
    1. Unravelling New Complexity In The Genome, Innovations-report
  16. The Common Biology Of Cancer And Ageing, Nature
    1. Are Big Beasts' Cancers Self-defeating?, News@Nature
    2. Disease Dynamics Over Very Different Time-Scales, Interface
    3. Cell Biology: Aneuploidy In The Balance, Science
  17. Nanotubes Guide Phonons With Ease - Heat Could Be Used To Transmit Data, PhysicsWorld
    1. Opaque Lens Focuses Light, PhysicsWorld
  18. Robot Wars Are A Reality, Guardian
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Group Rules Out Detainee Methods - Psychologists Call Usage Damaging, Washington Post
    2. Take Al Qaeda to Court, NY Times
    3. Management Of Natural And Bioterrorism Induced Pandemics, Bioethics
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Complexity Digest 2007.31 Next Issue TOP

  1. Is There Wisdom in Crowds?, NY Times
    1. See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign, Wired
  2. Why Guilt Doesn't Keep Some Of Us From Making The Same Mistakes Twice, Innovations-report
    1. Social Science Goes Virtual, Nature
  3. Off to Resorts, and Carrying Their Careers, NY Times
  4. Philosophy Of Science: The Cha-Cha-Cha Theory of Scientific Discovery, Science
    1. Year-round Schools Don't Boost Learning, Study Finds, ScienceDaily
  5. Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy's Couch, NY Times
    1. Did Life Begin In Space? New Evidence From Comets, Science Daily
  6. Human Evolution: New Fossils Challenge Line of Descent in Human Family Tree, Science
    1. Speaking in Tones, Scientific American Magazine
  7. Biodiversity: World Of Insects, Nature
    1. Prokaryote Phylogeny Meets Taxonomy: An Exhaustive Comparison of Composition Vector Trees with Systematic Bacteriology, SFI Working Papers
    2. Symbiotic Complexity: Discovery Of A Fifth Symbiont In The Attine Ant-Microbe Symbiosis, Biol. Lett.
    3. Adaptive Mutations in Bacteria: High Rate and Small Effects, Science
  8. Systems Neuroscience: Timing Is Everything, Nature
    1. Characterizing the Limits of Human Visual Awareness, Science
    2. Functioning Neurons From Human Embryonic Stem Cells Produced, Science Daily
    3. Chemical Biology: Minds Made Up, ACS Publications
  9. Cancer Biology: Microbial Tumour Fighters, J. Clin. Invest.
    1. Cancer Stem Cells as the Engine of Tumor Progression, SFI Working Papers
  10. Dr. Google and Dr. Microsoft, NY Times
  11. Two Molecular Pharmacologists Create Drugs the Natural Way, Wired
    1. Plant Biology: Jasmonate Perception Machines, Nature
  12. Tracking The Seasons: The Internal Calendars Of Vertebrates, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  13. Climate Change: Humans and Nature Duel Over the Next Decade's Climate, Science
    1. Improved Surface Temperature Prediction For The Coming Decade From A Global Climate Model, Science
  14. Femtophysics: Double Vision, Nature
    1. Ultrafast Flash Thermal Conductance of Molecular Chains, Science
  15. Quantum Analog Of Ulam's Conjecture Can Guide Molecules, Reactions, PhysOrg.com
    1. Chemistry: Molecules Take the Heat, Science
  16. They've Got Your Number, The Times
  17. Spontaneous Emergence of Modularity in Cellular Networks, SFI Working Papers
    1. Food-Web Complexity Emerging From Ecological Dynamics On Adaptive Networks, J. Theor. Biol.
    2. The Community Structure Of Human Cellular Signaling Network, J. Theor. Biol.
    3. Scaling Metabolic Rate Fluctuations, SFI Working Papers
  18. Allies And Friends: The Trade Policy Review Of The United States, 2006, World Econ.
    1. Mr. Rove Gets Out of Town, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. New York City Police Report Explores Homegrown Terrorism, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2007.30 Next Issue TOP

  1. In Dusty Archives, a Theory of Affluence, NY Times
    1. Playing Their Own Way, MIT Technology Review
  2. Complex IT Will Kill Your Business, CIO
  3. Scientific Publishing - U.S. Output Flattens, and NSF Wonders Why, Science
    1. Information Feedback and Mass Media Effects in Cultural Dynamics, JASSS
    2. Knowledge Networks In The Age Of The Semantic Web, Briefings Bioinfo.
  4. A 3-D View of the Brain, MIT Technology Review
  5. Who's Minding the Mind?, NY Times
    1. Neurology: An Awakening, Nature
    2. For The First Time, Patterns Of Excitation Waves Found In Brain's Visual Processing Center, ScienceDaily
  6. We Never Really Talk Anymore, NY Times
    1. The Evolution Of The Social Brain: Anthropoid Primates Contrast With Other Vertebrates, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  7. The Complex Structure Of Hunter-Gatherer Social Networks, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Optimization in Networks, Chaos
    2. Evolution of Complex Modular Biological Networks, arXiv
  8. Fossils in Kenya Challenge Linear Evolution, NY Times
    1. Evolution and Group Selection, Science
    2. The Evolution of Altruism in Spatially Structured Populations, JASSS
  9. A Healthy World Needs Lots of Species, News@Nature
    1. Reciprocal Relationships And Potential Feedbacks Between Biodiversity And Disturbance, Ecol. Lett.
  10. Cancer: Broken Genes In Solid Tumours, Nature
    1. Court Rejects the Right to Use Drugs Being Tested, NY Times
  11. Bioengineers Devise 'Dimmer Swith' To Regulate Gene Expression In Mammal Cells, Science Daily
  12. Immunology: A Slimy Start for Immunity?, Science
    1. Activated Immune System Attacks Brain After Stroke, Innovations-report
  13. Genomic Biology: The Epigenomic Era Opens, Nature
    1. Microbiology: The Inside Story, Nature
  14. Flatworms' Starring Role In Stem-Cell Research, Nature
    1. Eight-Million-Year-Old Bug Is Alive And Growing, New Scientist
  15. 'Sunshade' For Global Warming Could Cause Drought, New Scientist
    1. Climate Change: Aerosols Heat Up, Nature
  16. Tunneling Electrons Do Math, PhysOrg.com
    1. Putting Electronics In A Spin, BBC News
    2. Scientists Train Nano 'Building Blocks' To Take On New Shapes, Science Daily
    3. Materials Science: Exploiting Wrinkle Formation, Science
  17. Astronomy: Where Are the Invisible Galaxies?, Science
    1. Seeing Through Dark Matter, Science
  18. Breathalysing Car: "I'm sorry Dave, but I can't let you drive...", vnunet.com
    1. First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq, Wired
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Why Terrorists Aren't Soldiers, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2007.29 Next Issue TOP

  1. Markets Around the World Are Marching in Lock Step, NY Times
    1. The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations, Science
  2. Scientists: Watch for Weird Life From Beyond, Space.com
    1. Microbiology: Life on the Thermodynamic Edge, Science
    2. Microbiology: Necessary Noise, Science
    3. Noise in Gene Expression Determines Cell Fate in Bacillus subtilis, Science
  3. Tinkering With Humans, NY Times
    1. Genetic Engineers Who Don't Just Tinker, NY Times
  4. Remembering the Subtle Differences, Science
    1. Memory Seen In The Making - Synapses Caught In The Act Of Remembering., Nature
    2. A Better Brain Scanner, Technology Review
    3. Neurobiology: New Order For Thought Disorders, Nature
  5. The Wiki Workplace: How Web 2.0 Changes Everything, CIO and CSO Online Resources,
    1. The Scientific Research Potential of Virtual Worlds, Science
  6. Sustainability: Education for a Sustainable Future, Science
    1. India: Beyond Islands of Excellence, Science
    2. China: 'It's Important to Ask Students To Do Some Work on Their Own', Science
  7. From Conformons To Human Brains: An Informal Overview Of Nonlinear Dynamics And Its Applications In Biomedicine, Nonlinear Biomedical Physics
  8. Ecology: Aspens Return to Yellowstone, With Help From Some Wolves, Science
    1. Stability and Diversity of Ecosystems, Science
    2. Biodiversity And Ecosystem Multifunctionality, Nature
  9. Meteorology: Order From Chaos, Power From Dissipation in Planetary Flows, Science
    1. How Much More Rain Will Global Warming Bring?, Science
    2. Meat Is Murder On The Environment, New Scientist
    3. I Love Paris on a Bus, a Bike, a Train and in Anything but a Car, NY Times
    4. Climate Change: A Changing Climate for Prediction, Science
  10. The Effect Of Ancient Population Bottlenecks On Human Phenotypic Variation, Nature
  11. A Late Triassic Dinosauromorph Assemblage from New Mexico and the Rise of Dinosaurs, Science
    1. Genomics: Sea Anemone Provides a New View of Animal Evolution, Science
  12. Neuroscience: Brainwashing, Honeybee Style, Science
  13. Robotic Insect Takes Off, Technology Review
    1. Animal-Like 'Instinct' Keeps Robot Marching, New Scientist
    2. Miniature Robots Play Nano-Soccer, Associated Press
  14. Researchers Reinvent the Wheel, Epoch Times
  15. Racing to Capture Darkness, Science
  16. Chemistry: Shining Light on the Rapidly Evolving Structure of Water, Science
    1. Theoretical Physics: Walk The Planck, Nature
    2. Quantum Mechanics: Interference In The Matter, Nature
    3. Photonics: Light In Chains, Nature
  17. Mathematics: Some Assembly Needed, Nature
  18. The God particle et al., Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. The Unexpected Profile Of The Modern Terrorist, The Times
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Complexity Digest 2007.27 Next Issue TOP

  1. Meanings Of 'Life', Nature
    1. Survival of the Likeliest?, PLoS Biol
  2. Life Swap: Switching Genomes Converts Bacteria, Science News
    1. Scientists Report DNA Transplant - Organisms Adopt Donor Traits, The Washington Post
  3. Will Air Taxi Service Really Fly?, Palm Beach Post
  4. No-Way Physics, Physicsweb.org
    1. Curriculum Focused On Cognitive Skills May Improve Child Behavior, ScienceDaily
  5. Neurobiology: The Currency Of Guessing, Nature
    1. Probabilistic Reasoning By Neurons, Nature
  6. Via Freedom to Coercion: The Emergence of Costly Punishment, Science
    1. Behavior: A Narrow Road to Cooperation, Science
    2. Ape Aid: Chimps Share Altruistic Capacity With People, Science
    3. The Evolution of Altruism in Spatially Structured Populations, J Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  7. Modern Brains Have An Ancient Core, ScienceDaily
    1. Evolutionary Biology: Relative Differences: The Myth of 1%, Science
  8. The Beetle's Dilemma: Trade-Offs Between Force And Fit Shape Beetles, Innovations-report
    1. How Fish Punish 'Queue Jumpers', Innovations-report
  9. Genetics: Evolutionary Insights from Sponges, Science
    1. Sexually Antagonistic Genetic Variation For Fitness In Red Deer, Nature
  10. Plant Science: Seeking Agriculture's Ancient Roots, Science
  11. Quantifying Noise Levels Of Intercellular Signals, Phys.
    1. A New System For Collaboration In Cell Communication, Innovations-report
  12. Cell-Transistor Interface Clears Biolectronics Hurdle, EE Times
    1. Virus 'Hybrids' Can Act As Nanoscale Memory Devices, New Scientist
  13. Bright Outlook For Solar Cells, Physicsweb.org
    1. Artificial Skin May Reduce Need For Grafts, New Scientist
  14. Brain, Music, And Non-Poisson Renewal Processes, Phys.
    1. Brain Boosters - Our Reporter Enters The New World Of Neuroenhancers., MIT Technology Review
    2. Naps Can't Compete With A Night's Sleep, New Scientist
  15. Critical Phenomena in Complex Networks, arXiv
  16. Saving Earth From the Ground Up - Biologist Edward O. Wilson Warns of a Bleak World Without Bugs, Washington Post
    1. Putting Energy Hogs in the Home on a Strict Low-Power Diet, NY Times
    2. Moving Beyond Kyoto, NY Times
    3. Desalination: Turning Ocean Water Into Rain, Science
  17. Materials Science: Nanotube Composites, Nature
    1. Chemistry: Rhythm Engineering, Science
  18. A Geriatric Peace? The Future Of U.S. Power In A World Of Aging Populations, Int. Security
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Illicit Activity And Proliferation: North Korean Smuggling Networks, Int. Security
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Complexity Digest 2007.26 Next Issue TOP

  1. Rapid Networking Is Key In New Economy, Albuquerque Tribune
    1. Xerox Rolls Out Semantics-Based Search, AP/Physorg,com
  2. Robotic Cars Could Take Pressure Off Nation's Highways, Los Angeles Times
  3. Bridging Between Information Literacy And Information Technology In Singapore Schools: An Exploratory Study, Edu., Knowledge & Econ.
  4. Immunology: Short-Term Memory, Nature
    1. Invertebrate Immune Systems Are Anything But Simple, Innovations-report
    2. Mathematics Reveals Genetic Pattern Of Tumor Growth, Innovations-report
  5. Stem Cells To Repair Damaged Heart Muscle: First Ever-Surgical Trial Gets The Go-Ahead, Innovations-report
  6. The Heart-Forming Fields: One Or Multiple?, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  7. Crossing The Line: Technique Could Treat Brain Diseases, Science News
  8. Replication And Protection Of Telomeres, Nature
  9. Wild-Life: Anarchy, Ecology, And Ethics, Env. Politics
    1. Aquatic Ecology: The Last of the Leviathans, Science
    2. The Impact Of An Alien Plant On A Native Plant-Pollinator Network: An Experimental Approach, Ecol. Lett.
  10. Vertical Farming In The Big Apple, BBC News
  11. Evolutionary Biology: Re-Crowning Mammals, Nature
  12. Storm Center - A Detailed Look Inside The Core Of A Hurricane, Science News
  13. Physics: Is There Glue in Cuprate Superconductors?, Science
  14. Brain's Voluntary Chain-of-command Ruled By Not One But Two Captains, ScienceDaily
  15. Virtual World Sharpens Mind-Control, New Scientist
  16. Individual Differences In Sleep Structure Are Biologically Determined, ScienceDaily
  17. Psychology: Birth Order and Intelligence, Science
  18. U.S. Science Policy: Congress Splits Over Plan to Consolidate Intelligence Research, Science
    1. Don't Privatize Our Spies, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. New Players in Terrorism Fight, AP/Guardian
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Complexity Digest 2007.25 Next Issue TOP

  1. Gates Harvard Commencement Speech, Wall Street Journal
    1. How Great Leaders Juggle Ideas, NY Times
    2. Nature's Guide For Mentors, Nature
  2. Schools Plan to Pay Cash for Marks, NY Times
    1. Long Reviled, Merit Pay Gains Among Teachers, NY Times
  3. Second Earth, MIT Technology Review
    1. Game Designers Test The Limits Of Artificial Intelligence, Boston Globe
    2. The Shadow Goes, NY Times
  4. Mapping the Internet, MIT Technology Review
  5. Google and Utility to Test Hybrids That Sell Back Power, NY Times
  6. Nurturing Breakthroughs: Lessons from Complexity Theory, arXiv
  7. Moral Psychology: The Depths Of Disgust, Nature
    1. Music: Mirror Of The Mind, ScienceDaily
    2. Do Pets Really Have Personality?, ABC News
  8. The Third Lens: Multi-Ontology Sense-Making And Strategic Decision-Making, Book Announcement
  9. Genome Project Turns Up Evolutionary Surprises, Nature
    1. Genomics: Encyclopaedia Of Humble DNA, Nature
    2. Genomics: DNA Study Forces Rethink of What It Means to Be a Gene, Science
  10. Paleoanthropology: Swapping Guts for Brains, Science
    1. Evolution And The Brain, Nature
  11. Palaeobotany: Forests Frozen In Time, Nature
    1. Kin Recognition In An Annual Plant, Biol. Lett.
  12. Single-celled Transformers: Marine Phytoplankton Changes Form To Protect Itself, ScienceDaily
  13. Competition, Loss Of Selfishness Mark Shift To Supersociety, Innovations-report
    1. Leaderless Honeybee Can Organize, ScienceDaily
  14. Atmosphere: How Will the Stratosphere Affect Climate Change?, Science
    1. Hydrology: River-Level Forecasting Shows No Detectable Progress in 2 Decades, Science
  15. Environment: Sustainable Development of the Agricultural Bio-Economy, Science
    1. The Macroecological Contribution to Global Change Solutions, Science
  16. How Hamilton Became A Winning Machine, The First Post
    1. Miniature Eye Movements Enhance Fine Spatial Detail, Nature
  17. Fundamental Physics: Feel The Force, Nature
  18. NMR Gets Seriously Small, PhysicsWeb
    1. Tiny Spheres Could Control Light, Physicsweb.org
    2. Optical Memory: The Secret Of The Stone, Nature
    3. Nanotube Circuits Made Practical, MIT Technology Review
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. U.S. Expands Offensive Against Al-Qaida In Iraq, Associated Press/Tennessean
    2. Fatah Isn't the Answer, Wall Street J.
    3. Behind the Masks, NY Times
    4. Can Cyborg Moths Bring Down Terrorists?, Times Online
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Complexity Digest 2007.24 Next Issue TOP

  1. Concept: Determinism: Chaos Tamed, Nature
  2. Biophysics: Long Live Electronic Coherence!, Science
    1. Coherence Dynamics in Photosynthesis: Protein Protection of Excitonic Coherence, Science
  3. Awaiting Real Sales From Virtual Shoppers, NY Times
  4. 'Cultured' Chimpanzees Pass On Novel Traditions, ScienceDaily
  5. DNA Reveals How The Chicken Crossed The Sea, Nature
  6. Simple Switch Turns Cells Embryonic, Nature
    1. Scientists Make Stem Cells From Skin Of Mice Instead Of Embryos, Medical News Today
  7. A Step Toward a Living, Learning Memory Chip, Scientific American
  8. J. Craig Venter Institute Seeks Monopoly Patents on the World's First-Ever Human-Made Life Form, ETC Group Press Release
  9. Climatology: Tempests In Time, Nature
  10. Plastic That Heals Itself, MIT Technology Review
  11. Self-Assembly Could Simplify Nanotech Construction, New Scientist
  12. A Wirelessly Powered Lightbulb, MIT Technology Rview
  13. Boffins Build Boredom Buster: MIT Staff Create Computer To Help Autistic Users, vnunet.com
  14. University Of Portsmouth Scientists Reinvent The Wheel, Innovations-report
  15. Professor Proposes Theory Of Unparticle Physics, PhysOrg.com
  16. On the Fence: Are Illegal Immigrants Good or Bad for the U.S. Economy?, Knowledge@Wharton
  17. Violence Costs Nation $70 Billion Annually, Study Finds, ScienceDaily
  18. Bad Execution, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Groups List 39 "Disappeared" In U.S. War On Terror, Reuters
    2. A Compass That Can Clash With Modern Life, NY Times
    3. Risk Sensitivity And Terrorism, Pol. Studies
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Complexity Digest 2007.23 Next Issue TOP

  1. Genius and Misfit Aren't Synonyms, or Are They?, NY Times
  2. Scores Up Since 'No Child' Was Signed, Washington Post
    1. Preparing Teachers: California Heads Down Many Roads in Search of Best Training Model, Science
    2. Doll Web Sites Drive Girls to Stay Home and Play, NY Times
  3. Forgetfulness Is A Tool Of The Brain, New Scientist
    1. Food Chemical 'May Boost Memory', BBC News
    2. City Bee To The Rescue Of Those At Risk In Busy Cities, Innovations-report
  4. Packaging Peril: Chemicals In Food Wrapping Turn Toxic, Science News
  5. Cells Re-energize To Come Back From The Brink Of Death, ScienceDaily
  6. Specially Bred Mice May Hold Keys to Personalized Medicine, Wired
  7. Science High On French Political Agenda, Nature
    1. Investing In Sustainability: An Interview With Al Gore And David Blood, The McKinsey Quarterly
    2. 5 Things Esther Dyson Has Learned About Emerging Technologies, CIO
  8. Competing as Software Goes to Web, NY Times
  9. High-Temperature Superconductivity: Local Pairs And Small Surfaces, Nature
    1. Discovery Raises Hopes For Levitating Trains, The Star.com
  10. Single Spinning Nuclei In Diamond Offer A Stable Quantum Computing Building Block, Harvard University Gazette
    1. Quantum Register Based on Individual Electronic and Nuclear Spin Qubits in Diamond, Science
  11. Functional Quantum Nodes for Entanglement Distribution over Scalable Quantum Networks, Science
  12. Drastic Events Make Evolving Networks, Eur. Phys.
  13. Slime Dwellers - A Blanket Seeded With Microbes Appears Critical To Coral Health, Science News
  14. Anthropology: Walking on Trees, Science
  15. Rhesus Monkeys Correctly Read The Goal-Relevant Gestures Of A Human Agent, Proc.Biol. Sc.
  16. Embedded Nanowires Could Control Tissue Growth, New Scientist
  17. 6 Billion Bits of Data About Me, Me, Me!, NY Times
  18. A Sound Way To Turn Heat Into Electricity, Science Daily
    1. Building Better Biofuels, MIT Technology Review
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Groups List 39 "Disappeared" In U.S. War On Terror, Reuters
    2. A Terrorist Hub?, Economist.com
    3. Terrorist Due Process, Wall Street Journal
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Complexity Digest 2007.22 Next Issue TOP

  1. Dangerous History - The Genetic Secrets Of A Savvy Killer, Science News
    1. China Sentences Former Drug Regulator to Death, NY Times
  2. Mathematics: Cognitive Supports for Analogies in the Mathematics Classroom, Science
    1. The Educated Giant, NY Times
  3. Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy, Science
  4. Einstein Researchers' Discover 'Radiation-Eating' Fungi, Innovations-report
    1. Dark Power: Pigment Seems To Put Radiation To Good Use, Science News
  5. A New Wrinkle In Evolution -- Man-Made Proteins, Innovations-report
  6. DNA Sequencing: A New Window On How Genomes Work, Science
    1. Gene Quest - Clues To Disease Culled From 3 Billion Bits Of DNA, Boston Globe
    2. Gene Tweak Makes Mice Smarter, Reuters
  7. Cell Signaling: A Touching Response to Damage, Science
  8. Myosin V Walks by Lever Action and Brownian Motion, Science
    1. Biophysics: Bending Over To Attract, Nature
  9. Brainstorming About The Brain, SFGate.com
    1. Book Report: The Brain: Malleable, Capable, Vulnerable, NY Times
  10. Plans Forge Ahead For Better Weather Monitoring, Nature
    1. Concept Oceanography: Power Of Pull, Nature
  11. Applied Physics: One Electron Makes Current Flow, Science
    1. An On-Demand Coherent Single-Electron Source, Science
  12. Single-Molecule Biophysics: At The Interface Of Biology, Physics And Chemistry, Interface
    1. Single-Molecule Experiments in Vitro and in Silico, Science
  13. The Complex Language Of Chromatin Regulation During Transcription, Nature
  14. How Synaptotagmin Promotes Membrane Fusion, Science
  15. Evolutionary Self-Organization In Complex Fluids, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    1. Condensed-Matter Physics: A Superfluid Is Born, Nature
  16. A More Robust Grid for Manhattan, MIT Technology Review
  17. Astronomy: Dark Matter in Galactic Collisional Debris, Science
  18. Linux Foundation Fires Back at Microsoft, Business Week
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Militants Widen Reach as Terror Seeps Out of Iraq, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2007.21 Next Issue TOP

  1. A First Glimpse At Healthy Brain And Behavioral Development, Children's Hospital Boston News Release
  2. Childhood Origins of Adult Resistance to Science, Science
  3. Participation Costs Dismiss The Advantage Of Heterogeneous Networks In Evolution Of Cooperation, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  4. Good Decision-makers May Be Made, Not Born, ScienceDaily
  5. Executable Biology: Computer Science Sheds Light On Animal Development, ScienceDaily
  6. Fairness Evolution In The Ultimatum Game Is A Function Of Reward Size, J. Theor. Biol.
  7. Modellers Seek Reason For Low Retraction Rates, Nature
  8. The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge, Science
  9. The Politics of Eurovision, NY Times
  10. Prepare Today For Tomorrow's Breakdown, Toronto Globe and Mail
  11. Fly Moves: Insects Buzz About In Organized Abandon, Science News
    1. Do Fruit Flies Have Free Will? Scientists Measure Spontaneity In Drosophila, Innovations-report
  12. In A First, Scientists Develop Tiny Implantable Biocomputers, Harvard University Gazette
  13. Our Microbes, Ourselves - How Bacterial Communities In The Body Influence Human Health, Science News
  14. RNA-Templated DNA Repair, Nature
  15. Regenerative Biology: New Hair From Healing Wounds, Nature
  16. Snails Helping Scientists Slither Back In Time, Innovations-report
  17. Physics: Condensates Made of Light, Science
    1. Bose-Einstein Condensation of Microcavity Polaritons in a Trap, Science
  18. Ocean Science: Highly Active Eddies, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Hersh: Bush Administration Arranged Support For Militants Attacking Lebanon, The Raw Story
    2. Poll Finds Some U.S. Muslim Support For Suicide Attacks, Reuters
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Complexity Digest 2007.20 Next Issue TOP

  1. Swarms And Swarm Intelligence, Computer
  2. How the Brain Translates Money into Force: A Neuroimaging Study of Subliminal Motivation, Science
  3. No Place Like Om: Meditation Training Puts Oomph Into Attention, Science News
    1. Lifting The Fog Around Anesthesia, Scientific American
  4. Fractal Response Of Physiological Signals To Stress Conditions, Environmental Changes, And Neurodegenerative Diseases, Complexity
  5. Silicon Brains, MIT Technology Review
  6. Behavioural Neuroscience: Down Memory Lane, Nature
  7. Nerves Controlling Muscles Are Best Repaired With Similar Nerves, ScienceDaily
  8. Live Ink Offers Better Way To Read Text Online, Venture Beat
    1. Banner Ads Work -- Even If You Don't Notice Them At All, ScienceDaily
  9. Green Gold in a Shrub, Scientific American
    1. Solar Power at Half the Cost, MIT Technology Review
    2. Scientists Look High In The Sky For Power / Jet Stream Could Fill Global Energy Needs,, San Francisco Chronicle
  10. Ocean Science: Biomixing of the Oceans?, Science
  11. Climate Change: Is This What It Takes To Save The World?, Nature
    1. Sustainable Developments: Climate Change Refugees, Scientific American
  12. Earth Network, Nature
  13. Soft Matter And Its Interface With Biology, Innovations-report
  14. Generic Darwinian Selection In Catalytic Protocell Assemblies, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  15. Bat Flight Generates Complex Aerodynamic Tracks, Science
    1. Egg Shell Game - Chicks' Sex Isn't Just A Matter Of Chance, Science News
  16. Life As A Dog Means Faster Mutations, ScienceDaily
  17. Silicon-Based 'Spintronics' Device Developed, NewScientist.com
  18. Mysteries And Surprises In Quantum Physics, Innovations-report
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. A Resurgent Al-Qaeda And U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
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Complexity Digest 2007.19 Next Issue TOP

  1. When Order Creates Itself, NY Times
    1. Connections: The Best Is Yet To Come, Nature
  2. Neuroscience: Unconscious Networking, Nature
    1. Brain's White Matter -- More 'Talkative' Than Once Thought, PhysOrg.com
    2. Brain Craze, Nature
  3. Assumption Of Function Not Always Correct, Innovations-report
  4. Study Of Damaged Gene Gives Insight Into Causes Of Mental Illness, Innovations-report
  5. Stem Cells Repair Blood Vessels, MIT Technology Review
    1. Developmental Biology: Dance Of The Embryo, Science
  6. Plant Science: Signaling To The Nucleus With A Loaded GUN, Science
  7. Biochemistry: Photosynthesis From The Protein's Perspective, Science
  8. Evolutionary Ecology: Variable Evolution, Science
    1. Talk To The Hand: Language Might Have Evolved From Gestures, Science News
  9. Evolving The Selfish Herd: Emergence Of Distinct Aggregating Strategies In An Individual-Based Model, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  10. How the Inca Leapt Canyons, NY Times
  11. DNA Variant Puts Half Of All Caucasians At Higher Risk For Heart Disease, Globe and Mail
  12. Ecology: A World Without Corals?, Science
  13. Self-Assembly to Make Faster Chips, MIT Technology Review
    1. IBM Brings Nature To Computer Chip Manufacturing, ScienceDaily
    2. Chemistry: The New Face of Catalysis, Science
  14. Planetary Science: Hot News On Mercury's Core, Science
  15. Huge Storm 'Just Kept On Going', The Wichita Eagle
  16. Sensor Sensibility, Science News
  17. Beam It Down From the Web, Scotty, NY Times
  18. The Winning Weapon? Rethinking Nuclear Weapons In Light Of Hiroshima, Int. Security
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Global Terrorist Threat Seen Undergoing Change, U.S. State Dept.
    2. NATO's International Security Role In The Terrorist Era, Int. Security
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Complexity Digest 2007.18 Next Issue TOP

  1. Hearts & Minds, Boston Globe
    1. Dogs Copy Other Dogs' Actions Selectively, The Way Humans Do, ScienceDaily
    2. Exploring The Brain Basis Of Joint Action: Co-Ordination Of Actions, Goals And Intentions, Soc. Neurosc.
  2. Segway Inventor Dean Kamen on Risk-Taking and Innovation, CIO
    1. The Pipeline: Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experiences, Science
    2. Robotic Flower? New Internet-controlled Robots Anyone Can Build, ScienceDaily
  3. Pentagon to Merge Next-Gen Binoculars With Soldiers' Brains, Wired
    1. A Good Night's Sleep With The Flip Of A Switch?, PhysOrg.com
  4. Neuroscience: How to Fill a Synapse, Science
  5. To Treat the Dead, Newsweek
    1. Privacy Laws Slow Efforts on Gun-Buyer Data, NY Times
  6. Exo-planets: Habitable, But Not Much Like Home, Science
  7. Evolution: Oxygen and Evolution, Science
  8. The Next Human Genome Project: Our Microbes, Technology Review
  9. Living Fossil: DNA Puts Rodent In Family That's Not Extinct After All, Science News
  10. Sea Snails Break The Law, Innovations-report
  11. More Lizards Live On Islands Than On The Mainland., Imedi News
  12. Anti-Predator Defence And The Complexity-Stability Relationship Of Food Webs, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  13. Geochemistry: Humongous Eruptions Linked to Dramatic Environmental Changes, Science
  14. Microorganisms Act As Tiny Machines In Future MEMS Devices, PhysOrg.com
  15. Physics: The End of an Entanglement, Science
    1. Entanglement Dies A Sudden Death, PhysicsWeb.org
    2. Environment-Induced Sudden Death of Entanglement, Science
    3. Dissipation Can Enhance Quantum Effects, Phys.
  16. Physics: Factoring Numbers with Waves, Science
  17. How Swifts Control Their Glide Performance With Morphing Wings, Nature
  18. Biogeochemistry: Iron Findings, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. U.S. Sees Sharp Rise In Global Terrorism Deaths, Washington Post
    2. Cross-Cultural Research: Pentagon Asks Academics for Help in Understanding Its Enemies, Science
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Complexity Digest 2007.17 Next Issue TOP

  1. Connections: Rules Of Engagement, Nature
    1. Forms of Symmetry, Science News
  2. Multi-Agent Approach to the Self-Organization of Networks, arXiv
    1. Trading Networks with Price-Setting Agents, SFI Working Papers
  3. Astronomers Find First Earth-Like Planet In Habitable Zone, ESO
  4. Quantum Physics Says Goodbye To Reality, Physics Web
    1. Quantum Mechanics: To Be Or Not To Be Local, Nature
  5. Physics: Colliding Clouds May Hone Physical Constants, Science
  6. Chimps Lead Evolutionary Race, Nature
  7. Stanford Scientists Make Major Breakthrough In Regenerative Medicine, Biology News Net
    1. Moving Toward Designer Genes, Time
  8. Social Science: The Urban Organism, Nature
  9. Damage To The Prefrontal Cortex Increases Utilitarian Moral Judgements, Nature
    1. Violent Justice: Adult System Fails Young Offenders, Science News
  10. China's One-child Policy Reveals Complexity, Effectiveness, ScienceDaily
  11. Adaptive Memory: Survival Processing Enhances Retention, J. Experi. Psycho.: Learning, Mem. & Cogn.
    1. Neuronal Competition and Selection During Memory Formation, Science
    2. Scientists Identify Genes Activated During Learning And Memory, Innovations-report
  12. Reconnaissance And Latent Learning In Ants, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    1. Virus Infection Causes Specific Learning Deficits In Honeybee Foragers, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  13. Neuroscience: Astrocytes Secrete Substance That Kills Motor Neurons in ALS, Science
  14. Fruit Proves Better Than Vitamin C Alone, Nature
  15. Neurobiology: Feeling Right About Doing Right, Nature
  16. Male and Female Drosophila Germline Stem Cells: Two Versions of Immortality, Science
  17. Nanoscale 'Coaxial Cables' for Solar Energy Harvesting, PhysOrg.com
  18. Biochemistry: An Ancient and Intimate Partnership, Science
    1. Palaeobotany: A Tree Without Leaves, Nature
    2. Ecology: Rapid Domestication of Marine Species, Science
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Al-Qaida Thriving Despite War On Terror: Top UK Policeman, Islamic Republic News Agency
    2. In Somalia, Those Who Feed Off Anarchy Fuel It, NY Times
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Complexity Digest 2007.16 Next Issue TOP

  1. Quantum Secrets of Photosynthesis Revealed, Research News Berkeley Lab
    1. Photosynthesis Takes A Leaf Out Of The Quantum Book, PhysicsWeb
    2. Biophysics: Quantum Path To Photosynthesis, Nature
    3. Evidence For Wavelike Energy Transfer Through Quantum Coherence In Photosynthetic Systems, Nature
  2. Shape-Shifting 'Smart Dust' May Explore Alien Worlds, New Scientist
  3. Euler's Beautiful Equation, Science News
    1. On the Kolmogorov-Chaitin Complexity for short sequences, arXiv
  4. If You Can Make It There¡K Cities Are The Greatest Generators Of Innovation And Wealth, Scientific American
  5. Pipeline Develops Prediction Engine For Switching Traders Into The Best Performing Algorithm, Wall Street & Technology: Blog
    1. Forecasting Exchange Rate Better With Artificial Neural Network, J. Policy Modeling
  6. Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter, NY Times
  7. Learn Like A Human, IEEE Spectrum
    1. Retinal Implant Learns To Polish The Picture, New Scientist
  8. Fragile X, Down Syndromes Linked To Faulty Brain Communication, Innovations-report
  9. Do We Expect Natural Selection To Produce Rational Behaviour?, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    1. Wired For Sound: How The Brain Senses Visual Illusions, ScienceDaily
  10. Does Medicine without Evolution Make Sense?, PLoS Biol
  11. The Genetics of Brain Wiring: From Molecule to Mind, PLoS Biol
    1. Novelty and Collective Attention, arXiv
  12. A Barrel of Monkey Genes, Science
    1. Human-Specific Changes of Genome Structure Detected by Genomic Triangulation, Science
    2. Primate's Progress: Macaque Genome Is Usefully Different, Science News
  13. Genetics: Mysterious, Widespread Obesity Gene Found Through, Science
  14. Bug Versus Bug: Insect Virus Makes A Viable Flu Vaccine, Science News
    1. Immunology: The Education of T Cells, Science
  15. Climate Change: Global Warming Is Changing the World, Science
    1. Santa Fe Air Taking Steps to Offset Carbon Emissions, Aero-News.net
    2. Ecology: A Positive Feedback With Negative Consequences, Science
  16. Chemistry: Putting Order into Polymer Networks, Science
  17. 'Emergence Of Life ... Was Not An Accident', The New Mexican
  18. Laws Limit Options When a Student Is Mentally Ill, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. New Approach To 'War On Terror' Revealed In Study, Innovations-report
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Complexity Digest 2007.15 Next Issue TOP

  1. Formula For Panic: Crowd-Motion Findings May Prevent Stampedes, Science News
  2. Ten Simple Rules for a Successful Collaboration, PLoS Comput Biol
    1. An Agent-Based Model Of Group Decision Making In Baboons, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
  3. The World as Evolving Information, arXiv
    1. A Method for Inferring Hierarchical Dynamics in Stochastic Processes, arXiv
  4. Flying Wind Farms, The Economist
  5. Schemas and Memory Consolidation, Science
    1. Genetic Switch Can Control Memory, ScienceDaily
  6. Stop Signs: Study Identifies 'Braking' Mechanism In The Brain, Innovations-report
  7. China Plans To Modernize Traditional Medicine, Nature
  8. Why The Rich Get Richer, Innovations-report
    1. Role Of ICTs In Participatory Development: An Indian Experience, Info. Tech. Dev.
  9. Many Dieters 'Finish Up Heavier', BBC News
  10. Death Of An Order, Biol. Lett.
  11. Bacteria vs. Humans: Score One for Us, Technology Review
  12. Networking Of Circadian Cells Aids Adaptation To Seasonal Change, ScienceDaily
  13. Proteins Make Light Work Of Nerve Control, Nature
  14. Pictures Posing Questions - The Next Steps In Photography Could Blur Reality, Science News
  15. Physicists Take A Crack At Rocks, PhysicsWeb
  16. Can't Knock It Down, Science News
  17. Angling For The Best Knot, PhysicsWeb
    1. Pulling Strings to Untangle Catastrophe, Science
  18. Thin Carbon Is In: Graphene Steals Nanotubes' Allure, NYTimes
    1. New Experiment Probes Weird Zone Between Quantum and Classical, Wired News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Revolution, Flashmobs, And Brain Chips. A Grim Vision Of The Future, The Guardian
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Complexity Digest 2007.14 Next Issue TOP

  1. Creation Nets: Getting The Most From Open Innovation, McKinsey Quarterly
  2. Social Simulation of Stock Markets: Taking It to the Next Level, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
    1. Higher-Order Simulations: Strategic Investment Under Model-Induced Price Patterns, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  3. Peer-Allocated Instant Response (PAIR): Computational Allocation of Peer Tutors in Learning Communities, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  4. Self-regulation Abilities, Beyond Intelligence, Play Major Role In Early Achievement, ScienceDaily
    1. Software's Benefits On Tests In Doubt - Study Says Tools Don't Raise Scores, Washington Post
  5. An Extended Reinforcement Algorithm for Estimation of Human Behaviour in Experimental Congestion Games, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  6. CARDS: Case-Based Reasoning Decision Support Mechanism for Multi-Agent Negotiation in Mobile Commerce, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
  7. How Many Things Can You Do At Once?, New Scientist
    1. Should I Stay Or Should I Go? How The Human Brain Manages The Trade-Off Between Exploitation And Exploration, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  8. The Art of Cyber-War, SecurityPark.net
  9. The Maverick Theory That Might Explain Life, The Herald
  10. A Light Switch for the Brain, Technology Review
    1. Parasite Hijacks Brains With Surgical Precision, New Scientist
  11. Crisis in Earth Observation, Science
    1. Very Active 2007 Hurricane Season Predicted, Science Daily
  12. U.N. Study Shows Likely Impact of Global Warming, NY Times
  13. Fits And Starts - What Regulates The Flow Of Huge Ice Streams?, Science News
  14. Too Few Jaws: Shark Declines Let Rays Overgraze Scallops, Science News
    1. Invasiveness In Plant Communities With Feedbacks, Ecol. Lett.
  15. Aircraft Swarm Around Single Airborne Controller, New Scientist
  16. Intelligent Materials To Regenerate Bone Tissue, Innovations-report
    1. Salamanders Re-grow Lost Limbs, Could Human Medicine Benefit From Understanding Regeneration?, ScienceDaily
  17. Beaming Up 3-D Objects on a Budget, NY Times
  18. Is Your Phone Out Of Juice? Biological Fuel Cell Turns Drinks Into Power, Science News
    1. Flexible Batteries That Never Need to Be Recharged, Technology Review
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Propaganda Of The Deed: Terrorism, Counterterrorism, And Mobilization, Ameri. J. Polit. Sc.
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Complexity Digest 2007.13 Next Issue TOP

  1. Connections: Frontier At Your Fingertips, Nature
  2. Artificial Intelligence, With Help From the Humans, NY Times
    1. Citizendium Aims To Be Better Wikipedia, Associated Press
    2. The Wiki Workplace, BusinessWeek.com
    3. Agencies Join Forces To Share Data, Nature
  3. Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don't Read This in Traffic, NY Times
    1. Gone Parkin', NY Times
  4. Failing Schools See a Solution in Longer Day, NY Times
    1. Finding Math Hard? Blame Your Right Parietal Lobe, ScienceDaily
  5. Monkey See, Monkey Do? Novel Study Sheds Light On Imitation Learning, Innovations-report
    1. Sustainable Energy, Planning Wind Turbines [Using Wikiproces, Ed.], Wikinomics
  6. Would Industrial Ecology Exist Without Sustainability In The Background?, J. Industrial Ecol.
  7. Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior, NY Times
  8. Future Recall: Your Mind Can Slip Through Time, New Scientist
  9. The Mind-Bending New World Of Work, Business Week.com
  10. Climate Change: Carbon Trading Over Taxes, Science
  11. Geophysics: The Next Great Earthquake, Science
  12. The New Face of Emoticons, Technology Review
    1. Apple Cult Becoming a Religion, NY Times
  13. Looking For Hidden Signs Of Consciousness, Nature
    1. Pentagon Preps Mind Fields, Wired
  14. Behavioural Neuroscience: Hare-Brained Flies, Nature
  15. Engineering Bacteria to Harvest Light
    1. Scientists Unlock Mystery Of Embryonic Stem Cell Signaling Pathway, Innovations-report
  16. UCF Researchers Work On Spy Drones, Orlando Sentinel
    1. Robots With Rhythm Could Rock Your World, New Scientist.com
    2. Raytheon Develops World's First Polymorphic Computer, Military Embedded Systems
    3. Working To Develop Robotic Locomotion That Mimics Amoeba, ScienceDaily
    4. How Blood Cells Change Shape, ScienceDaily
  17. Magnifying Superlens in the Visible Frequency Range, Science
    1. Bolt-On 'Superlens' Gives Microscope Nanoscale Vision, New Scientist.com
  18. Extrasolar Planets in the 'Goldilocks Zone', NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. C.I.A. Awaits Rules on Terrorism Interrogations, NY Times
    2. Communication in the Face of Terror, NY Times
    3. Deterring A Nuclear 9/11, Washington Quarterly
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Complexity Digest 2007.12 Next Issue TOP

  1. Relationships Among Scientific Paradigms, SeedMagazine.com
  2. Use Your Playstation 3 To Help Science - Consoles Unravel Mysteries Of Biological Structures, San Jose Mercury News
    1. Games Theory - Online Play Can Help Researchers Tackle Tough Computational Problems, Science News
  3. Search Engine Spawned From Antiterrorism Efforts Finds Place In Business, Computerworld
    1. News That Sells: Media Competition And News Content, Japanese J. Poli. Sc.
  4. The Fingers of Housing Instability, Frontlinethoughts.com
    1. Territories, Corridors, And Networks: A Biological Model For The Premodern State, Complexity
  5. Synthetic Biology: Caught between Property Rights, the Public Domain, and the Commons, PLoS Biol
  6. Mathematicians Finally Map 248-Dimension Structure, New Scientist
  7. Sleep Found To Repair And Reorganize The Brain - Why Mice Sleep Longer Than Humans, Harvard University Gazette Online
    1. Making Memories That Last A Lifetime, PhysOrg.com
    2. Associative Memory -- Learning At All Levels, ScienceDaily
  8. Full-Mental Nuditythe Arrival Of Mind-Reading Machines., Slate
    1. The Structure Of Consciousness, Nature
  9. The Next Generation: Intel Science Talent Search Honors High School Achievers, Science News
  10. Mouth-To-Mouth CPR Not So Helpful?, WebMD
    1. Personalized Medical Monitors, Technology Review
  11. GM Mosquito 'Could Fight Malaria', BBC News
  12. Look Who's Talking: Communication And Quorum Sensing In The Bacterial World, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    1. An Architectural Plan Of The Cell, ScienceDaily
  13. Surprising Activity Discovered at Yellowstone Supervolcano, LiveScience
  14. Could Lasers Zap Away Dangerous Asteroids?, New Scientist
  15. Catalyst Could Help Turn CO2 Into Fuel, New Scientist
  16. Physical Chemistry: The Peripatetic Proton, Nature
  17. Quantum Physics: Total Surveillance, Nature
    1. Warming Up To Criticality: Quantum Change, One Bubble At A Time, Science News
  18. The Universe Is A String-Net Liquid, New Scientist
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Top-Secret Torture, Washington Post
    2. Ungovernable Somalia And The Imminent Collision Of Hegemonic Interests, Media Monitors
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Complexity Digest 2007.11 Next Issue TOP

  1. Is The Universe A Fractal?, New Scientist
    1. Searching For The Dark Side, NY Times
  2. Connections: Control Without Hierarchy, Nature
    1. Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems, Cogprints
  3. Start-Up Fervor Shifts to Energy in Silicon Valley, NY Times
  4. Augmented Reality, Technology Review
    1. Animation Tool Puts You In The Frame, Or The Game, New Scientist
  5. Neuron Control, Technology Review
  6. Odor Cues During Slow-Wave Sleep Prompt Declarative Memory Consolidation, Science
    1. Neuroscience: Hunting for Meaning After Midnight, Science
    2. Biological Basis For Teenage Mood Swings Found, Medical News Today
    3. Scriptural Violence Can Foster Aggression, Nature
  7. To Buy Or Not To Buy: What You Decide Affects How You'll Feel Next Time, Innovations-report
    1. Subliminal Advertising Leaves Its Mark On The Brain, ScienceDaily
  8. Evolutionary Biology: The Elvis Paradox, Nature
    1. Evidence Of 'Mafia' Behavior In Cowbirds: "The Sopranos" Have Some Competition, Innovations-report
    2. Prey Synchronize Their Vigilant Behaviour With Other Group Members, Proc. Biol. Sc.
    3. Social Tolerance Allows Bonobos To Outperform Chimpanzees On A Cooperative Task, ScienceDaily
  9. Evolution of Robustness to Noise and Mutation in Gene Expression Dynamics, arXiv
    1. Yacht Voyage Yields Array Of New Genes, Boston.com
  10. Evolution: Robot Suggests How The First Land Animals Got Walking, Science
    1. Robo-salamander Goes Swimming, News@Nature
    2. From Swimming To Walking With A Salamander Robot Driven By A Spinal Cord Model, Science
  11. Robot That Roams The Body To Seek And Destroy Cancer, Daily Mail
  12. Living Long On Less? Mouse And Human Cells Respond To Slim Diets, Science News
    1. Cocoa Nutrient For 'Lethal Ills', BBC News
  13. Far More Mutations Than Thought Involved In Cancer, Scientific American
  14. Meteorology: A Dose Of Dust That Quieted An Entire Hurricane Season?, Science
    1. Inverse Relations Between Amounts Of Air Pollution And Orographic Precipitation, Science
  15. Not-So-Perma Frost - Warming Climate Is Taking Its Toll On Subterranean Ice, Science News
  16. Superconductivity Two Decades On, Nature
    1. Room-Temperature Quantum Hall Effect In Graphene, Science
  17. Materials Science: Silicon Life Forms, Nature
    1. Applied Physics: Oxide Electronics Emerge, Science
    2. Gold Nanorods Assemble Themselves Into Rings, EurekAlert
  18. A Smarter Web, Technology Review
    1. Peering into Video's Future, Technology Review
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. US Struggles To Ensure Funds Aid Fight Against Bioterrorism, Boston.com
    2. Governing Terror: The State Of Emergency Of Biopolitical Emergence, Int. Poli. Sociol.
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Complexity Digest 2007.10 Next Issue TOP

  1. Scientists Claim First In Using Brain Scans To Predict Intentions, AP Medical Writer
    1. Reporting for Duty, NY Times
  2. China Stumbles, Markets Tumble: Will the Volatility Continue?, Knowledge@Wharton
    1. The Other Somalia: An Island of Stability in a Sea of Armed Chaos, NY Times
  3. Darwin's God, NY Times
  4. Meet The Human Metabolome, Nature
    1. A Missing Link in Membrane Protein Evolution, Science
  5. How Common Viruses Can Turn Cells Cancerous, New Scientist
    1. Hot Baths May Cut Male Fertility, BBC News
  6. Model Puts New Spin On Hurricane Prediction, PhysicsWeb
    1. Forecasting Hurricane Intensity and Impacts, Science
    2. U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions, NY Times
  7. Venture Capitalists Want to Put Some Algae in Your Tank, NY Times
  8. New Graphene Transistors Show Promise, Technology Review
    1. The 'New Age' Of Super Materials, BBC News
    2. Water from First Principles, Science
  9. Science Behind The Soap Opera - The Cute And The Shocking At Meerkat Manor, Science News
    1. Ecology: How the Wood Moves, Science
  10. Brain Works More Chaotically Than Previously Thought, KurzweilAI.net
    1. Researchers Discover Key To Body's Ability To Detect Subtle Temperature Changes, Innovations-report
  11. Neuroanatomy: Brain Evolution Studies Go Micro, Science
    1. Deconstructing Brain Wiring, One Neuron At A Time, ScienceDaily
  12. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream, Science
    1. Rare Cell Prevents Rampant Brain Activity, Innovations-report
    2. Size Of Brain Areas Does Matter -- But Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better, ScienceDaily
  13. The Thinking Machine, Wired
  14. Passing Probe To Study 'Crop Circles' On Europa, New Scientist
    1. Pulsars May Shed Light On Mysterious Dark Matter, New Scientist
  15. Laser Physics: Extreme Light, Nature
    1. Observing the Formation of Long-Range Order during Bose-Einstein Condensation, Phys.
  16. The New Black: A Nanoscale Coating Reflects Almost No Light, Science News
  17. Accelerating Socio-Technological Evolution: from Ephemeralization and Stigmergy to the Global Brain, arXiv
    1. Assessing the Value of Coooperation in Wikipedia, arXiv
  18. Book Announcement: Philosophy and Complexity, World Scientific
    1. Analysis And Control Of Complex Nonlinear Processes In Physics, Chemistry And Biology, World Scientific Book
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Africa And The 'War On Terror', Mail and Guardian Online
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Complexity Digest 2007.09 Next Issue TOP

  1. Fractal Or Fake? - Novel Art-Authentication Method Is Challenged, Science News
  2. Islamic "Quasicrystals" Predate Penrose Tiles, PhysicsWeb
    1. Advanced Geometry of Islamic Art, BBC News
  3. Connections: Bringing Cartoons To Life, Nature
  4. Animal Behaviour: Planning For Breakfast, Nature
    1. Planning For The Future By Western Scrub-Jays, Nature
  5. Primate Behavior: Spear-Wielding Chimps Seen Hunting Bush Babies, Science
    1. Hunting Chimps May Change View Of Human Evolution, Reuters
  6. Adaptive Velocity Strategy For Swarm Aggregation, Phys
    1. Electrodes Used To Control Pigeons, The Sidney Morning Herald
  7. Do You Hear What I See?, Innovations-report
  8. Universal And Nonuniversal Features In A Model Of City Traffic, Phys.
  9. Vitamins 'Could Shorten Lifespan', BBC News
  10. A Critique of Pure Reason, NY Times
    1. Assessment: Standardized Tests Predict Graduate Students' Success, Science
    2. Grades Rise, but Reading Skills Do Not, NY Times
  11. A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source, NY Times
  12. Crisis, Charisma, And Consequences: Evidence From The 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, J. Politics
    1. Irreversible Opinion Spreading On Scale-Free Networks, Phys.
    2. Getting Back To The Rough Ground: Deception And 'Social Living', Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  13. Experimental Evolution In Robots Probes The Emergence Of Biological Communication, ScienceDaily
    1. Blogs to the Rescue!, News@Nature
  14. Plant Biology: The Flower Of Seduction, Nature
  15. Scientists Invent Real-Life 'Tricorder' For Chemical Analysis, Purdue Univ News
  16. Physical Chemistry: Oil On Troubled Waters, Nature
  17. Foundations For Cooperating With Control Noise In The Manipulation Of Quantum Dynamics, Phys.
  18. Limits Set On Size Of Dark Matter Clumps, PhysicsWeb
    1. Alien Light: Taking The Spectra Of Extrasolar Planets, Science News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Pakistan Denies Hosting Bin Laden, Camps, Boston Globe
    2. Religious Fundamentalisms, Territories And 'Globalization', Econ. & Soc.
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Complexity Digest 2007.08 Next Issue TOP

  1. Net Heads - Huge Numbers Of Brain Cells May Navigate Small Worlds, Science News
    1. While You Slumber, Your Brain Puts The World In Order, NewScientist.com
    2. Brain Creates 'New' Nerve Cells, BBC News
  2. Connections - Collective Minds, Nature
    1. Make Room, Wikipedia: Internet-based Collaboration Could Change the Way We Do Business, Knowledge@Wharton
    2. Key Biology Databases Go Wiki, Nature
    3. Socionics: Sociological Concepts for Social Systems of Artificial (and Human) Agents, JASSS
  3. Washington's $8 Billion Shadow, Vanity Fair
    1. The Largest Government Contractor You've Never Heard Of, WNYC
    2. Politics and Science: Chalk and Cheese?, BBC News
  4. Bush and the Psychology of Incompetent Decisions, truthout
  5. How Not to Talk to Your Kids - The Inverse Power of Praise., New York Magazine
    1. Po Bronson: The Problem with Praise, WBUR.org
  6. The Architecture Of Human Kin Detection, Nature
    1. Socially Intelligent Robots: Dimensions Of Human-Robot Interaction, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
    2. Neuroscience: Where Am I?, Science
    3. More Than Meets The Tongue: Color Of A Drink Can Fool The Taste Buds Into Thinking It Is Sweeter, ScienceDaily
    4. Largest Genomic Search Finds Genes That May Contribute To Autism, Science Daily
  7. Lab-Grown Replacement Teeth Fill The Gap, NewScientist.com
    1. Regrowing Teeth, Technology Review
  8. Surgeons Who Play Video Games More Skilled - U.S. Study, Reuters
  9. Bacterium Battles Against The Current, Physicsweb.org
  10. Maplike Representation of Celestial E-Vector Orientations in the Brain of an Insect, Science
    1. Is There A Pilot In The Insect?, ScienceDaily
    2. Chimpanzee Stone Age: Finds In Africa Rock Prehistory Of Tools, Science News
  11. Food Chains: Killer In The Kelp, Nature
    1. Fake Fruits Could Help Restore Rainforest, News@Nature
  12. Dolphin Social Intelligence: Complex Alliance Relationships In Bottlenose Dolphins, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  13. Conservation Biology: The Diversity Of Biodiversity, Nature
    1. The Wealth Of Species: Ecological Communities, Complex Systems And The Legacy Of Frank Preston, Ecol. Lett.
    2. What Recognizes What In Plant Disease Resistance?, Innovations-report
  14. Stroke Of Good Fortune: A Wealth Of Data From Petrified Lightning, Science News
    1. Action Plan For Killer Asteroids, BBC News
  15. Nanofluidics: Silicon For The Perfect Membrane, Nature
    1. Self-Assembling Batteries, Technology Review
    2. To Add Speed, Chipmakers Tune Structure, Business Week
    3. Magnet Misbehaves Near Absolute Zero, Physicsweb.org
  16. Quantum Mechanics: The Truth About Reality, Nature
    1. Dark Energy: Seeking The Heart Of Darkness, New Scientist
  17. The Problems in Modeling Nature, With Its Unruly Natural Tendencies, NY Times
    1. A Unified Approach To Attractor Reconstruction, Chaos
  18. China's True Dash of Flavor, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Al Qaeda Chiefs Are Seen to Regain Power, NY Times
    2. North Africa Feared as Staging Ground for Terror, NY Times
    3. Guantanamo Detainees Lose Appeal - Habeas Corpus Case May Go to High Court, Washington Post
    4. American Liberty at the Precipice, NY Times
    5. Almost All Justice Terror Stats Wrong, UPI
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Complexity Digest 2007.07 Next Issue TOP

  1. The HBR List - Breakthrough Ideas for 2007, Harvard Business Review
    1. "UpTick" Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students, HBS Working Knowledge
  2. Connections: A Clash Of Two Cultures, Nature
  3. In a Search Refinement, a Chance to Rival Google, NY Times
    1. Winning Ways, The Economist
  4. Cooperation, Collectives Formation And Specialization, Adv. Complex Sys.
  5. Quasiclassical Coarse Graining and Thermodynamic Entropy, SFI Working Papers
  6. Building The Cortex In Silicon, Technology Review
    1. Prototype Commercial Quantum Computer Demo'ed, IEEE Spectrum
    2. Mimicking How The Brain Recognizes Street Scenes, Innovations-report
  7. Decision-making: Demonstration Of Link Between Cognition And Execution, ScienceDaily
    1. The Brain Scan That Can Read People's Intentions, The Guardian
    2. Imaging Deception In The Brain - Can Brain Imaging Truly Detect Lies?, Technology Review
  8. Language as Shaped by the Brain, SFI Working Papers
  9. Thinking Bubbles?, Science Now
    1. Chemistry: Can Droplets And Bubbles Think?, Science
    2. Microfluidic Bubble Logic, Science
  10. Quantum Physics: Indistinguishable From Afar, Nature
    1. Coherent Control Of Optical Information With Matter Wave Dynamics, Nature
  11. Microbiology: Bright Insight into Bacterial Gliding, Science
    1. Evidence That Focal Adhesion Complexes Power Bacterial Gliding Motility, Science
  12. Could Lightning Give Rise To Life?, Innovations-report
  13. Biomass Recalcitrance: Engineering Plants and Enzymes for Biofuels Production, Science
  14. Stem Cell Candidates Proliferate, Science
    1. Gene Expression and Ethnic Differences, Science
  15. Scientists Discover Parallel Codes In Genes, ScienceDaily
  16. Climate Change 2007: What Price A Cooler Future?, Nature
    1. Energy Efficiency: Super Savers: Meters To Manage The Future, Nature
  17. New Universes Will Be Born From Ours, New Scientist
  18. If Leonardo Had Made Toys, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Fighting Suicide Terrorism, The News International
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Complexity Digest 2007.06 Next Issue TOP

  1. Hydrology: Tropical Rain Recycling, Nature
    1. Sudden Chill - Even A Limited Nuclear Exchange Could Trigger A Climate Catastrophe, Science News
    2. Mesoscale Iron Enrichment Experiments 1993-2005: Synthesis and Future Directions, Science
  2. Algae-Based Fuels Set To Bloom - Oil From Microorganisms Could Help Ease The Nation's Energy Woes., Technology Review
  3. Using Self-Dissimilarity To Quantify Complexity, Complexity
  4. Roots In Space: A Spatially Explicit Model For Below-Ground Competition In Plants, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  5. A Molecular Information Ratchet, Nature
    1. Maxwell's Demon Tamed, Physicsweb
  6. Mathematical Physics: On The Right Scent, Nature
    1. How Does Your Brain Tell Time? Study Challenges Theory Of Inner Clock, ScienceDaily
  7. Dimensions of Mind Perception, Science
  8. Understanding Complex Environmental Systems: A Dual Approach, Environmetrics
    1. In Many Habitats, Competition Is The Drama, But Benefactors Set The Stage, Innovations-report
  9. Quantum Physics: Photon Lab In A Circuit, Nature
  10. Stringing Physics Along, Physicsweb.org
    1. Scientists Devise Test For String Theory, EE Times
  11. Early Fix: Prion Disease Remedied In Mice, Science News
    1. Beyond The DNA: Chemical Signatures Reveal Genetic Switches In The Genome, EurekAlert
  12. Reproductive Biology: Sperm Alliance, Nature
    1. Evolution Of Species Interactions In A Biofilm Community, Nature
    2. Developmental Biology: Moonlighting At The Pole, Nature
  13. Fish Can Infer Social Rank By Observation Alone, Nature
  14. Nonvenomous Asian Snakes 'Borrow' Defensive Poison From Toxic Toads, Innovations-report
  15. Connections A Twenty-First Century Science, Nature
    1. Connections Biology's Next Revolution, Nature
  16. 'Electric' Fish Shed Light On Ways The Brain Directs Movement, Innovations-report
  17. Science Education: States Urged to Sign Up for a Higher Standard of Learning, Science
  18. Chemical Biology: Sticky Spices, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Interrogation Comes Under Fire, Nature
    2. Terror Network - For Today's Marketers, Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures, Boston Globe
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Complexity Digest 2007.05 Next Issue TOP

  1. Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?, HBS Working Knowledge
    1. The Neural Basis of Loss Aversion in Decision-Making Under Risk, Science
    2. The Neurology Of Self-Awareness, Edge
    3. Physicists Make Religion Crystal Clear, PhysicsWeb.org
  2. U.S. Cities Don't Make The Intelligence Cut, Network World
    1. The Social Brain?, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  3. "Crowd Turbulence" Has Deadly Consequences, PhysicsWeb.org
    1. Can Humanity Survive? Want to Bet on It?, NY Times
  4. Academic Research: Harvard Proposes One For The Team, Science
    1. Mapping The Bid Behavior Of Conference Referees, J. Informetrics
    2. Author Sequence and Credit for Contributions in Multiauthored Publications, PLoS Biol
  5. The Discover Interview: Marvin Minsky, Discover
  6. Google's Moon Shot - The Quest For The Universal Library, The New Yorker
  7. Artificiality in Social Sciences, arXiv
  8. Unhappy Meals, NY Times
    1. In Clue to Addiction, Brain Injury Halts Smoking, NY Times
  9. The Evolution Of Animal 'Cultures' And Social Intelligence, Phil. Tran. Biol. Sc.
  10. Strong Relationship Between DMS and the Solar Radiation Dose over the Global Surface Ocean, Science
    1. Atmospheres: The Jet-Stream Conundrum, Science
  11. PM Announces $10bn Water Plan, The Australian
  12. A Virus in a Fungus in a Plant: Three-Way Symbiosis Required for Thermal Tolerance, Science
  13. Loopy Lens Proteins Provide Squid With Excellent Eyesight, Science
    1. Recombination and the Nature of Bacterial Speciation, Science
    2. Ancient Glider: Dinosaur took to the air in biplane style, Science News
  14. Stonehenge Builders' Houses Found, BBC News
  15. Silicon Valley Rebounds, Led by Green Technology, NY Times
    1. Battery Breakthrough?, Technology Review
  16. Precursors Of Extreme Increments, Phys.
  17. Theory Of Collective Firing Induced By Noise Or Diversity In Excitable Media, Phys.Rev E
  18. Complex Channels: Scientists Discover How Ion Channels Are Organized To Control Nerve Cell Communication, ScienceDaily
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Complex International Relations, Orgnet.com
    2. Smuggler's Plot Highlights Fear Over Uranium, NY Times
    3. New U.S. Rules Won't Make Nuclear Plants Jet Proof, Reuters
    4. Good Literature And Bad History: The 9/11 Commission's Tale Of Strategic Intelligence, Intelligence & National Security
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Complexity Digest 2007.04 Next Issue TOP

  1. Industry Executives Urge Bush To Accept Mandatory Action Against Climate Change, AP/Intl Herald Tribune
    1. Bush Expected to Make Call for Improved Fuel Economy, NY Times
  2. Can Climate Change Explain Odd Weather?, NPR TOTN
    1. Your PCs Forecast Climate Future, BBC News
  3. 'Yahoo Research Uses Artificial Intelligence Everywhere', Financial Express
    1. Enabling Europe to Innovate, Science
  4. When Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Fixed Borders, State Weakness, And International Conflict, Int. Security
  5. Could This Be The Final Chapter In The Life Of The Book, The Sunday Times
    1. Putting a Second Life First, U.S. News and World Report
    2. Virtual Reality Spreading In Business World, CNN
  6. Neural Bottleneck Found That Thwarts Multi-tasking, ScienceDaily
    1. A New Language Barrier: Why Learning A New Language May Make You Forget Your Old One, ScienceDaily
    2. Neurobiology: A Surprising Connection Between Memory And Imagination, Science
    3. Wandering Minds: The Default Network and Stimulus-Independent Thought, Science
  7. Neural 'Extension Cord' Developed For Brain Implants, New Scientist
    1. Wiring Your Brain, PBS 22nd Century
    2. 'Altruistic' Brain Region Found, BBC News
    3. Studies Yield Insight Into The Numerical Brain, ScienceDaily
  8. Quantum Biology -- Powerful Computer Models Reveal Key Biological Mechanism, Innovations-report
  9. Weighing In On City Planning - Could Smart Urban Design Keep People Fit And Trim?, Science News
  10. Nonequilibrium Mechanics of Active Cytoskeletal Networks, Science
  11. Golden Eggs: Engineered Hens Lay Drugs, Science News
    1. In Live Bacteria, Food Makers See a Bonanza, NY Times
  12. Bat Echolocation Calls: Adaptation And Convergent Evolution, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  13. Statistics: Conviction By Numbers, Nature
  14. Going Under Down Under: Early People At Fault In Australian Extinctions, Science News
    1. Ecology: Managing Farming's Footprint on Biodiversity, Science
  15. Flying Dinos Had Bi-Plane Design, BBC News
    1. Biomechanics: Crab's Downfall Reveals a Hole in Biomechanics Studies, Science
  16. Neuroscience: A Push-Me Pull-You Neural Design, Science
    1. Balanced Inhibition and Excitation Drive Spike Activity in Spinal Half-Centers, Science
  17. White Beetle Dazzles Scientists, BBC News
  18. Putting the Brakes on Light Speed - Researchers Slow Waves While Maintaining Their Ability to Carry Information, Washington Post
    1. Cosmology: The Universe's Skeleton Sketched, Nature
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Turning Fiction Into Reality, The News
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Complexity Digest 2007.03 Next Issue TOP

  1. Eco(nomics/logy), J. Ecol. Res.
    1. Stern-Judging: A Simple, Successful Norm Which Promotes Cooperation under Indirect Reciprocity, PLoS Comput Biol
  2. Brain Power Focused On Future-Tech Quest, MSNBC
    1. In Traffic's Jam, Who's Driving May Be Surprising, NY Times
  3. Desktop Fabricator May Kick-Start Home Revolution, New Scientist
    1. Robo-Builder Threatens The Brickie, Times Online
    2. Teeny-Weeny Rules for Itty-Bitty Atom Clusters, NY Times
  4. Bioinformatics: Industrializing Neuroscience, Nature
  5. The Implications of Complexity for Integrated Resources Management, Environmental Modelling & Software
  6. Cellular Contortionist - Can DNA Easily Get Bent Out Of Shape?, Science News
    1. Shrinking Telomeres Linked To Heart Disease, New Scientist
    2. Scientists Find Potential 'Off-switch' For HIV Virus, ScienceDaily
  7. Brain Stem Cells Against Cancer?, Innovations-report
    1. New Study Supports A Stem Cell Origin Of Cancer, Physorg.com
  8. Digital Fingerprints - Tiny Behavioral Differences Can Reveal Your Identity Online, Science News
    1. Brain Activity Provides Novel Biometric Key, New Scientist
    2. Must-Know Terms For The 21st Century Intellectual: Redux, Blog Sentient Developments
    3. Quantum Games: States Of Play, Nature
  9. Complexity Science and Student Teacher Supervision, Teaching and Teacher Education
  10. Adaptive Immunity: Care For The Community, Nature
  11. Anthropology: The Missing Years for Modern Humans, Science
    1. Clues Found For Early Europeans, BBC News
  12. The Ancestor Within All Creatures, New Scientist
    1. Protection For 'Weirdest' Species, BBC News
    2. There's No Scent Like Home: Larval Fish Use Smell To Return To Coral Reefs, Innovations-report
  13. Taking Control of Electric Bill, Hour by Hour, NY Times
    1. Cutbacks Impede Climate Studies - U.S. Earth Programs In Peril, Panel Finds, Washington Post
  14. Musician In The Mirror: Brain Rapidly Forms Link Between Sounds And Actions That Produce Them, ScienceDaily
    1. From Thought To Action: The Parietal Cortex As A Bridge Between Perception, Action, And Cognition, Neuron
    2. Memories Are Made Of This Molecule, New Scientist
    3. Neurobiology: Fruit Fly Fight Club, Science
  15. Lightning Balls Created In The Lab, New Scientist
    1. Chemistry: Platinum in Fuel Cells Gets a Helping Hand, Science
  16. First Stars In Telescope's Sights, BBC News
    1. Particle Physics: Hard-Core Revelations, Nature
  17. The Bush Plan And The Petraeus Doctrine, BBC News
    1. Rice Says Bush Authorized Iranians' Arrest in Iraq, NY Times
    2. The Other Losing War, NY Times
  18. The Future of Robotics, Living on Earth
    1. Pint-Sized Soldier With A Big Wallop - Combat Robot Built At Picatinny, Star-Ledge
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. 9/11 As A European Event: The Novels, Euro. Rev.
    2. New US Rules On Terror Detainees, BBC News
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Complexity Digest 2007.02 Next Issue TOP

  1. Collective Intelligence for Decision Support in Very Large Stakeholder Networks: The Future US Energy System, SFI Working Papers
    1. Self-Organization and Hierarchy in Open Source Social Networks, SFI Working Papers
  2. Constructive Memory: The Ghosts Of Past And Future, Nature
    1. Time Past, Time Future Intricately Connected In The Brain: Study, Physorg.com
    2. Imaging Pinpoints Brain Regions That 'See The Future', Innovations-report
  3. What Memories Are Made Of: Researcher Studies Plasticity Of Recall, ScienceDaily
  4. Brain Scans Predict When People Will Buy Products, ScienceDaily
    1. Brain Studies Reveal Mechanisms Of Voluntary Control Of Visual Attention, ScienceDaily
  5. Social Sciences: Life's A Game, Nature
  6. Attack of the Zombie Computers Is Growing Threat, NY Times
    1. Researchers Use Wikipedia To Make Computers Smarter, Physorg.com
  7. Humanoid Avatar Plays A Competitive Game Of Table Tennis, Physorg.com
    1. Giving Robots Human Qualities, Mercedsun-Star.Com
  8. Developmental Biology: This Worm Is Not For Turning, Nature
    1. Darwin's Last Idea Is More Important Than Ever Thought: Reworking The Sediment Mixed/s Up The Earth, Innovations-report
    2. Big-Brained Birds Survive Better In Nature, Proc. Biol. Sc.
  9. Evolutionary Biology: Oxygen At Life's Boundaries, Nature
  10. Insects, Trees, and Climate: The Bioacoustic Ecology of Deforestation and Entomogenic Climate Change, SFI Working Papers
    1. Most Bees Live Alone - No Hives, No Honey, But Maybe Help For Crops, Science News
    2. Neurobiology: Scent Secrets Of Insects, Nature
  11. The DNA So Dangerous It Does Not Exist, New Scientist
  12. Energy: That's oil, folks..., Nature
  13. The Dark Side Of E. Coli, Nature
  14. Evolutionary Self-Organization in Complex Fluids, SFI Working Papers
  15. Physics: Negative Refractive Index At Optical Wavelengths, Science
    1. Light In Tiny Holes, Nature
  16. First 3D Map Of The Universe's Dark Matter Scaffolding, ESA Space Science
    1. Hubble Makes 3D Dark Matter Map, BBC News
    2. The Universe's Invisible Hand, Scientific American Magazine
  17. Atom Interferometer Measurement of the Newtonian Constant of Gravity, Science
  18. U.S. Bars Lab From Testing Electronic Voting, NY Times
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Getting the Middle East Back on Our Side, NY Times
    2. Why Terrorism Does Not Work, Int. Security
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Complexity Digest 2007.01 Next Issue TOP

  1. Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don't, NY Times
  2. Google's Answer to Filling Jobs: New Algorithm, NY Times
  3. Enron's Last Victim: American Markets, NY Times
    1. The Impact Of Asia On World Politics: China And India Options For The United States, Int. Studies Rev.
  4. This Is Your Brain on Drugs, Dad, NY Times
    1. Scan Shows How Brains Plot Future, BBC News
  5. Single Gene Could Lead to Long Life, Better Mental Function, Scientific American
  6. Researchers Uncover New Way Nature Turns Genes On And Off, ScienceDaily
  7. How Many Genes Does It Take To Learn? Lessons From Sea Slugs, ScienceDaily
    1. How Zebra Finches Learn Songs: Cellular Killer Also Important To Memory, ScienceDaily
    2. Word Length Effects In Long-Term Memory, J. Mem. & Lang.
  8. Complexity Constrains Evolution Of Human Brain Genes, ScienceDaily
  9. How Does A Zebrafish Grow A New Tail? The Answer May Help Treat Human Injuries, Innovations-report
  10. Kyoto For Commuters, Nature
  11. Gene-Engineered Cows Resist Mad Cow Disease -Study, Reuters
  12. Evolution: The Origin of Insects, Science
  13. Stochastic Amplification In Epidemics, Interface
    1. My Friend the Microbe, Time
  14. Inquiry Learning: Teaching Scientific Inquiry, Science
  15. Nondestructive Optical Measurements of a Single Electron Spin in a Quantum Dot, Science
  16. Physics: Gaps and Our Understanding, Science
  17. Inside Seagate's R&D Labs, Wired News
  18. Mars Rovers Are Taught New Tricks, BBC News
  19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    1. Localities Operate Intelligence Centers To Pool Terror Data, Washington Post
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