Complexity Digest 2010.24

2010/11/19

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

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Content

  1. Complex dynamics of life at different scales, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A
    1. Complex dynamics of our economic life on different scales: insights from search engine query data, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A
  2. Benoît Mandelbrot (1924"2010), Nature
    1. Benoît B. Mandelbrot (1924"2010), Science
  3. Irremediable Complexity?, Science
  4. Exploiting temporal network structures of human interaction to effectively immunize populations, arXiv
  5. Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers, TED.com
    1. Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity, TED.com
    2. Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty, TED.com
  6. Society: The rise of the 'technium', Nature
  7. A Law by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet, Science
  8. Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges, Science
  9. The moment of truth for WIMP dark matter, Nature
  10. Life is physics: evolution as a collective phenomenon far from equilibrium, arXiv
  11. There will be blood, Nature
  12. Cooperation and the Commons, Science
    1. Conditional Cooperation and Costly Monitoring Explain Success in Forest Commons Management, Science
  13. Prosocial behaviour emerges independent of reciprocity in cottontop tamarins, Proc. R. Soc. B
  14. Interdependence of Cell Growth and Gene Expression: Origins and Consequences, Science
  15. "Meaning" as a sociological concept: A review of the modeling, mapping, and simulation of the communication of knowledge and meaning, arXiv
  16. The Uncertainty Principle Determines the Nonlocality of Quantum Mechanics, Science
  17. Identification of an ant queen pheromone regulating worker sterility, Proc. R. Soc. B
  18. Why a Grand Unified Theory Is Neither Feasible nor Desirable, Science
  19. Book Announcements
    1. Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
    2. Extreme Environmental Events: Complexity in Forecasting and Early Warning, Springer
    3. Nonlinear Science and Complexity, Springer
    4. Diversity and Complexity, Princeton University Press
    5. The Science of Synthesis: Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory, University Press of Colorado
  20. Links & Snippets
    1. Other Publications
    2. Event Announcements
    3. Webcast Announcements
    4. Other Announcements

  1. Complex dynamics of life at different scales, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The special issue, Complex dynamics of life at different scales: from genomic to global environmental issues, puts together a set of comprehensive works in complex systems research focusing life at different scales: viral quasi-species, genetic regulatory dynamics; cellular signaling, blood flows; neuronal response, the brain; population dynamics and epidemics; social and economical systems; the environment. Besides furnishing new relevant results on those subjects, the selected works provide an overview of the more recent techniques and methodological approaches to tackle the study of the complex phenomenon of life.

    1. Complex dynamics of our economic life on different scales: insights from search engine query data, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpts: Search engine query data deliver insight into the behaviour of individuals who are the smallest possible scale of our economic life. Individuals are submitting several hundred million search engine queries around the world each day. We study weekly search volume data for various search terms from 2004 to 2010 that are offered by the search engine Google (...) We find clear evidence that weekly transaction volumes of S&P 500 companies are correlated with weekly search volume of corresponding company names. Furthermore, (...) we find a clear tendency that search volume time series and transaction volume time series show recurring patterns.

  2. Benoît Mandelbrot (1924"2010), Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: “The financiers and investors of the world are, at the moment, like mariners who heed no weather warnings.” Those words were written by Benoît Mandelbrot four years before the recent financial crisis. Mandelbrot, a mathematician world-famous for his work on fractal geometry, died on 14 October at the age of 85. His financial prescience was a natural outgrowth of his original and penetrating view of the world.

    1. Benoît B. Mandelbrot (1924"2010), Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Excerpt: Fractal geometry was created by Benoît B. Mandelbrot nearly 40 years ago, and with the 1982 publication of his seminal book, “The Fractal Geometry of Nature,” its application took off, opening our eyes to patterns in nature on all scales and across diverse disciplines. On 14 October, he died of cancer in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He fundamentally and irrevocably changed our view of the world and left us a tool that will continue to unveil nature's most peculiar commonalities that might otherwise be left aside as insignificant.

  3. Irremediable Complexity?, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Many of the cell's macromolecular machines appear gratuitously complex, comprising more components than their basic functions seem to demand. How can we make sense of this complexity in the light of evolution? One possibility is a neutral ratchet-like process described more than a decade ago, subsequently called constructive neutral evolution. This model provides an explanatory counterpoint to the selectionist or adaptationist views that pervade molecular biology.
    • Source: Irremediable Complexity?, Michael W. Gray, Julius Lukeš, John M. Archibald, Patrick J. Keeling, and W. Ford Doolittle, DOI: 10.1126/science.1198594, Science Vol. 330 no. 6006 pp. 920-921, 2010/11/12

  4. Exploiting temporal network structures of human interaction to effectively immunize populations, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: If we can lower the number of people needed to vaccinate for a community to be immune against contagious diseases, we can save resources and life. A key to reach such a lower threshold of immunization is to find and vaccinate people who, through their behavior, are more likely to become infected and effective to spread the disease than the average. Fortunately, the very behavior that makes these people important to vaccinate can help us finding them. People you have met recently are more likely to be socially active and thus central in the contact pattern, and important to vaccinate. We propose two immunization schemes exploiting temporal contact patterns. (...)

  5. Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers, TED.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

    About this talk: From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach -- calculation by hand -- isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming.

    1. Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity, TED.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      About this talk: Ecologist Eric Berlow doesn't feel overwhelmed when faced with complex systems. He knows that more information can lead to a better, simpler solution. Illustrating the tips and tricks for breaking down big issues, he distills an overwhelming infographic on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan to a few elementary points.

    2. Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty, TED.com Next Article Bookmark and Share

      About this talk: TED collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton's provocative theory on beauty -- that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply "in the eye of the beholder," are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins.

  6. Society: The rise of the 'technium', Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt:
    In What Technology Wants, writer Kevin Kelly radically rethinks the relationship between humans and technology. Scientific inventions have become so complex and interwoven with our lives, he says, that humans have less and less sway over how mechanical systems evolve. Nor can we stop the spread of technologies. Consequently, when assessing future risks, we should adopt a proactive approach of trial and error and revision, rather than strict precaution.

  7. A Law by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt:
    Biologist Daniel McShea and philosopher of biology Robert Brandon dive into this debate with their provocative Biology's First Law: The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems. McShea and Brandon (both at Duke University) boldly contend that they have uncovered a “zero-force law” for biology that is analogous to Newton's first law (also called “the law of inertia”).

  8. Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Tremendous progress has been made in understanding the functioning of the Earth system and, in particular, the impact of human actions. Although this knowledge can inform management of specific features of our world in transition, societies need knowledge that will allow them to simultaneously reduce global environmental risks while also meeting economic development goals

  9. The moment of truth for WIMP dark matter, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: We know that dark matter constitutes 85 per cent of all the matter in the Universe, but we do not know of what it is made. Amongst the many dark matter candidates proposed, WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) occupy a special place, because they arise naturally from new theories that seek to extend the standard model of particle physics. With the advent of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and a new generation of astroparticle experiments, the moment of truth has come for WIMPs: either we will discover them in the next five to ten years, or we will witness their inevitable decline.

  10. Life is physics: evolution as a collective phenomenon far from equilibrium, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Evolution is the fundamental physical process that gives rise to biological phenomena. Yet it is widely treated as a subset of population genetics, and thus its scope is artificially limited. As a result, the key issues of how rapidly evolution occurs, and its coupling to ecology have not been satisfactorily addressed and formulated. The lack of widespread appreciation for, and understanding of, the evolutionary process has arguably retarded the development of biology as a science, with disastrous consequences for its applications to medicine, ecology and the global environment. This review focuses on evolution as a problem in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (...)

  11. There will be blood, Nature Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: In a feat of cellular alchemy, human skin cells have been transformed into blood cells without first being sent through a primordial, stem-cell-like state. For the developers of patient-specific cell therapies, the result could be safer and simpler than induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells " reprogrammed adult cells that can differentiate into many cell types.

  12. Cooperation and the Commons, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Sustainably managing common natural resources, such as fisheries, water, and forests, is essential for our long-term survival. Many analysts have assumed, however, that people will maximize short-term self-benefits"for example, by cutting as much firewood as they can sell"and warned that this behavior will inevitably produce a “tragedy of the commons” (1), such as a stripped forest that no longer produces wood for anyone.
    • Source: Cooperation and the Commons, Björn Vollan and Elinor Ostrom, DOI: 10.1126/science.1198349, Science Vol. 330 no. 6006 pp. 923-924, 2010/11/12

    1. Conditional Cooperation and Costly Monitoring Explain Success in Forest Commons Management, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Abstract: Recent evidence suggests that prosocial behaviors like conditional cooperation and costly norm enforcement can stabilize large-scale cooperation for commons management. However, field evidence on the extent to which variation in these behaviors among actual commons users accounts for natural commons outcomes is altogether missing. Here, we combine experimental measures of conditional cooperation and survey measures on costly monitoring among 49 forest user groups in Ethiopia with measures of natural forest commons outcomes to show that (i) groups vary in conditional cooperator share, (ii) groups with larger conditional cooperator share are more successful in forest commons management, and (iii) costly monitoring is a key instrument with which conditional cooperators enforce cooperation. Our findings are consistent with models of gene-culture coevolution on human cooperation and provide external validity to laboratory experiments on social dilemmas.

  13. Prosocial behaviour emerges independent of reciprocity in cottontop tamarins, Proc. R. Soc. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Overall, results indicated that reciprocity increased food transfers. However, temporal analyses revealed that when the tamarins' behaviour was evaluated in relation to the non-social control, results were best explained by (i) an initial depression in the transfer of rewards to partners who recently denied rewards, and (ii) a prosocial effect that emerged late in sessions independent of reciprocity.

  14. Interdependence of Cell Growth and Gene Expression: Origins and Consequences, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: In bacteria, the rate of cell proliferation and the level of gene expression are intimately intertwined. Elucidating these relations is important both for understanding the physiological functions of endogenous genetic circuits and for designing robust synthetic systems. We describe a phenomenological study that reveals intrinsic constraints governing the allocation of resources toward protein synthesis and other aspects of cell growth. A theory incorporating these constraints can accurately predict how cell proliferation and gene expression affect one another, quantitatively accounting for the effect of translation-inhibiting antibiotics on gene expression and the effect of gratuitous protein expression on cell growth. The use of such empirical relations, analogous to phenomenological laws, may facilitate our understanding and manipulation of complex biological systems before underlying regulatory circuits are elucidated.

  15. "Meaning" as a sociological concept: A review of the modeling, mapping, and simulation of the communication of knowledge and meaning, arXiv Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: The development of discursive knowledge presumes the communication of meaning as analytically different from the communication of information. Knowledge can then be considered as a meaning which makes a difference. Whereas the communication of information is studied in the information sciences and scientometrics, the communication of meaning has been central to Luhmann’s attempts to make the theory of autopoiesis relevant for sociology.

  16. The Uncertainty Principle Determines the Nonlocality of Quantum Mechanics, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Abstract: Two central concepts of quantum mechanics are Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and a subtle form of nonlocality that Einstein famously called “spooky action at a distance.” These two fundamental features have thus far been distinct concepts. We show that they are inextricably and quantitatively linked: Quantum mechanics cannot be more nonlocal with measurements that respect the uncertainty principle. In fact, the link between uncertainty and nonlocality holds for all physical theories. More specifically, the degree of nonlocality of any theory is determined by two factors: the strength of the uncertainty principle and the strength of a property called “steering,” which determines which states can be prepared at one location given a measurement at another.

  17. Identification of an ant queen pheromone regulating worker sterility, Proc. R. Soc. B Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt: Ordinarily sterile workers can usually reproduce given the right conditions, so the factors regulating reproductive division of labour may provide insight into why eusociality has persisted over evolutionary time. [...] These results suggest that the pheromone has a central role in colony organization and support the hypothesis that worker sterility represents altruistic self-restraint in response to an honest quality signal.

  18. Why a Grand Unified Theory Is Neither Feasible nor Desirable, Science Next Article Bookmark and Share

    Excerpt:
    In From Populations to Ecosystems: Theoretical Foundations for a New Ecological Synthesis, Michel Loreau argues that an effective way forward is to give up building a single unified theory of ecology altogether. Loreau (...) believes that “a monolithic unified theory of ecology is neither feasible nor desirable.” As an alternative approach, he advocates theoretical merging of closely related, yet separately developed subdisciplines.

  19. Book Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Conflict, Complexity and Mathematical Social Science, Emerald Group Publishing Limited Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book provides a foundational mathematical approach to the modelling of social conflict. The modelling of social conflict is viewed as an application of mathematical social science and relevant models are drawn from each field of mathematical psychology, mathematical sociology, mathematical political science and mathematical economics. Unique in its multidisciplinary focus the book brings together powerful mathematical conceptualisations of the social world from a wide range of separate areas of inquiry, thereby providing a strong conceptual framework and an integrated account of social situations. It’s a vital resource for researchers in mathematical modelling in the social sciences and complexity theory.

    2. Extreme Environmental Events: Complexity in Forecasting and Early Warning, Springer Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book is an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the basic tenets of complexity and systems theory to the prediction, monitoring, and evaluation of major natural phenomena. These phenomena are often highly destructive, and include earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, climate change and weather. Early warning, damage, and the immediate response of human populations to these phenomena are also covered from the point of view of complexity and nonlinear systems. World experts in each field apply such tools and concepts as fractals, cellular automata, solitons game theory, network theory, and statistical physics to an understanding of these complex geophysical phenomena.

    3. Nonlinear Science and Complexity, Springer Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book contains selected papers of NSC08, the 2nd Conference on Nonlinear Science and Complexity, held 28-31 July, 2008, Porto, Portugal. It focuses on fundamental theories and principles, analytical and symbolic approaches, computational techniques in nonlinear physics and mathematics. Topics treated include: Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Classic and Quantum Systems, Complexity and Nonlinearity in Molecular Dynamics and Nano-Science, Complexity and Fractals in Nonlinear Biological Physics and Social Systems, Lie Group Analysis and Applications in Nonlinear Science, Bifurcation and Stability in Nonlinear Dynamic Systems, Nonlinear Oscillations and Control, Nonlinear Mechanics and Nonlinear Structural Dynamics.

    4. Diversity and Complexity, Princeton University Press Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity plays a different role in a complex system than it does in an equilibrium system, where it often merely produces variation around the mean for performance measures. In complex adaptive systems, diversity makes fundamental contributions to system performance. Scott Page gives a concise primer on how diversity happens, how it is maintained, and how it affects complex systems. (...)
      • Source: Diversity and Complexity, Scott E. Page, Princeton University Press, 2010/11/23
      • Contributed by Anton Joha - antonjohaagmail.com

    5. The Science of Synthesis: Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory, University Press of Colorado Next Article Bookmark and Share

      Summary:
      This book explores the development of general systems theory and the individuals who gathered together around that idea to form the Society for General Systems Research. In examining the life and work of the SGSR's five founding members (including Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Kenneth Boulding and James Grier Miller), Hammond traces the emergence of systems ideas across a broad range of disciplines in the mid-twentieth century. A metaphor and a framework, the systems concept as articulated by its earliest proponents highlights relationship and interconnectedness among the biological, ecological, social, psychological, and technological dimensions of our increasingly complex lives. (...)

  20. Links & Snippets Next Article Bookmark and Share

    1. Other Publications Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Mathematical link of evolving aging and complexity, Byung Mook Weon and Jung Ho Je, 2010/11/12, arXiv:1011.2829
      2. Emergence of cooperation with self-organized criticality, Hyeong-Chai Jeong and Sangmin Park, 2010/11/9, arXiv:1011.2013

    2. Event Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Science and Innovation Week 2010, Mexico City, Mexico, 2010/11/22-26
      2. JMS2010 Modeling and Simulation Symposium 2010, Mérida, Venezuela, 2010/11/24-26
      3. IPG '10 (Integrative Post-Genomics), Lyon, France, 2010/11/25-26
      4. The 5th Int'l Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information and Computing Systems, Boston, MA, USA, 2010/12/1-3
      5. 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science CACS 2010, Singapore, 2010/12/4-6
      6. 5th CNRS-MPG joint workshop on Systems Biology, Paris, France, 2010/12/09-10
      7. IEEE/IFIP EUC 2010 (Embedded and ubiquitous computing), Hong Kong SAR, China, 2010/12/11-13
      8. The 14th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2010), Tozeur, Tunisia, 2010/12/14-17
      9. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY Bottom-up, Top-down and Cell-free approaches, Intellectual Property issues, Evry, France, 2010/12/15-16
      10. The Second World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC2010), Kitakyushu, Japan, 2010/12/15-17
      11. Winter School on Complex Systems, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2011/01/03-14
      12. Winter Meeting on Statistical Physics, Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico, 2011/1/4-7
      13. Winter School in Network Theory and Applications, Coventry, UK, 2011/01/5-8
      14. Echelles et modélisations multi-niveaux, Rochebrune, France, 2011/01/16-23
      15. International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Beppu, Oita, Japan, 2011/01/27-29
      16. 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2011), Rome, Italy, 2011/01/28-30
      17. IWSOS 2011, Fifth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems , Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011/02/23-25
      18. ImagineNano, Bilbao, Spain, 2011/04/11-14
      19. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - SSCI 2011, Paris, France, 2011/04/11-15
      20. EVOSTAR 2011, Torino, Italy, 2011/04/27-29
      21. Science Beyond Fiction: European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary, 2011/05/4-6
      22. 1st European Conference of Microbiology and Immunology, Budapest, Hungary, 2011/05/12-14
      23. Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2011/05/31-06/01
      24. 7th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Athens, Greece, 2011/06/13-16
      25. International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, 2011/06/20-25
      26. International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS 2011), Boston, MA, USA, 2011/06/26-07/01
      27. Origins 2011 ISSOL and Bioastronomy Joint International Conference, Montpellier, France, 2011/07/3-8
      28. The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2011), Istanbul, Turkey, 2011/07/4-8
      29. Lipari School on the Game Theoretic Approach to Computational Complex Systems, Lipari Island, Italy, 2011/07/9-16
      30. GECCO 2011: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 2011/07/12-16
      31. IJCAI 2011, the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona, Spain, 2011/07/16-22
      32. Third International Workshop on nonlinear Dynamics and Synchronization -- INDS'11 Sixteenth International Symposium on Theoretical Electrical Engineering -- ISTET'11, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria, 2011/07/25-27
      33. International Workshop on Game Theory and Society: Models of Social Interaction in Sociological Research, Zurich, 2011/07/27-30
      34. ECAL 11: European Conference on Artificial Life, Paris, France, 2011/08/8-12
      35. European Conference on Complex Systems 2011, Vienna, Austria, 2011/09/12-16
      36. The 15th WOSC INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS on CYBERNETICS and SYSTEMS, Nanjing, China, 2011/09/15-18
      37. World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, 2011/09/26-30

    3. Webcast Announcements Next Article Bookmark and Share

      1. Lakeside Research Days 2010.
      2. Smarter Cities NYC. Posted on 2009/10/05
      3. ASSYST Digital Library. Since 09/09
      4. Complex Systems Teleconferences. Since 09/09
      5. Symmetry Festival 2009, Budapest, Hungary, 09/08/1-4.
      6. International Workshop on Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, 09/06/8-12
      7. Memorial Service for Dr Gottfried Mayer, Founding Editor Complexity Digest, Taipei, Taiwan (1954-2009). Video [RM], 09/02/13
      8. Making Connections: In Memory and Celebration of the Life of Dr. Gottfried Mayer (1954-2009). Video [RM] [MPG], 09/02/13
      9. Eulogy for Gottfried Mayer by Dean LeBaron [WMV, 25 Mb], [RM, 10 Mb], 09/02/10
      10. Can Ants Solve Traffic Jams?, Danielle Parsons, Slatev.com, 08/07/22
      11. Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007
      12. World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 08/01/22-27
      13. TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006
      14. Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03
      15. Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006, Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05
      16. 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30
      17. Artificial Life X, 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington, IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07
      18. 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
      19. Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
      20. Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
      21. Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
      22. ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
      23. T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, The Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), Podcast
      24. North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity 2005 Conference, Virtual Conference Network, St. Pete's Beach, Florida, 05/06/09-11
      25. Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC, 05/05/16-19
      26. Nonlinearity, Fluctuations, and Complexity, with a celebration of the 65th birthday of Gregoire Nicolis. , Complexity Session, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 05/03/16
      27. 1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
      28. From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela (1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
      29. Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 04/05/26-28
      30. International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
      31. Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H., Internet-First University Press, 1994
      32. CERN Webcast Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events
      33. Dean LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
      34. Edge Videos

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