[Paleopsych] Complexity Digest 2005.02
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"I think the next century will be the century of complexity." Stephen
Hawking, 2000
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01. God (or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a Leap, NY
Times
02. A Tale of 2 Systems, NY Times
02.01. Social Networks and Business Success: The Role Of Subcultures In An
African Context, Ameri. J. Econ. Sociol.
02.02. King of the Island, Science NOW
02.03. Temples Of Boom: Ancient Hawaiians Took Fast Road To Statehood,
Science
News
03. Food Colorings, Science News
04. The Role Of Social Interaction In Bird Song Learning, Current Dir.
Psycho.
Sc.
04.01. Nutrient-Specific Foraging in Invertebrate Predators, Science
04.02. Policing Insect Societies, Science
05. A Genomic View of Animal Behavior, Science
05.01. Twinkle Toes: How Geckos' Sticky Feet Stay Clean, Science News
05.02. Environment: Early Ant Plagues In The New World, Nature
06. Laughing, Tickling, And The Evolution Of Speech And Self, Current Dir.
Psycho. Sc.
07. HIV Impacts Human Genome, Science NOW
07.01. Frankenstein's Chips, Science News
08. Antibiotic Recipe Keeps Neurons Alive, Science NOW
08.01. Beat Generation: Genetically Modified Stem Cells Repair Heart, Science
News
08.02. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Deconstructs Brain's Complex Network,
EurekAlert
08.03. Scientists Find That The Human Nose Is More Complicated Than A Jumbo
Jet, BBSRC Media Releases
09. Scents And Emotions Linked By Learning, ScienceDaily
09.01. Motherhood is a Drug, Science NOW
09.02. Brain Can Be Trained To Process Sound In Alternate Way, ScienceDaily
09.03. Parkinson's Symptoms Reversed in Monkey Study, NPR TOTN
10. Faces Must Be Seen To Be Recognized, ScienceDaily
10.01. Physiology: An End To Adolescence, Nature
11. Mapping Environments At Risk Under Different Global Climate Change
Scenarios, Ecol. Lett.
11.01. Weighing the Tsunami's Environmental Impact, NPR TOTN
11.02. Triple Slip Of Tectonic Plates Caused Seafloor Surge, Nature News
11.03. Tsunami Disaster: Scientists Model The Big Quake And Its Consequences,
Science News
11.04. A Divided World, Nature News
11.05. The Hydrogen Economy, Physics Today
11.06. As Hybrid Cars Multiply, So Do Carpooling Gripes, Washington Post
12. Deflecting Near-Earth Space Hazards, NPR TOTN
12.01. In Search Of Hidden Dimensions, Nature
12.02. The Long-Distance Thinker, Nature
12.03. Gorging Black Hole Makes Its Mark, Science NOW
13. Mmmmm, Toxicants, Science NOW
13.01. The Enigma of Prokaryotic Life in Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins,
Science
13.02. Microbes Brave Briny Basins, Nature News
14. Bridging The Gap, Nature
14.01. Nanomotors Rev Up, Science Now
15. Advances towards a General-Purpose Societal-Scale Human-Collective
Problem-Solving Engine, arXiv
15.01. Building a Smarter Search Engine, Business Week
15.02. Search Looks at the Big Picture, Wired
15.03. Computing Takes a Giant Leap, Pile Systems Press Release
15.04. The BlackBerry Brain Trust, Wired
16. Games Win For Blu-Ray DVD Format, BBC News
16.01. TiVo Adds Portability to the Mix, NY Times
16.02. DirecTV Machine Will Compete With TiVo, NY Times
17. Toyota Launches Robot Workforce, NEWS.com.au
18. Super-selection Rules Modulating Complexity: An Overview, Chaos,
Solitons &
Fractals
18.01. Power Laws, Pareto Distributions and Zipf's Law, arXiv
19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
19.01. The Spy Who Billed Me
19.02. Detainee Seeking to Bar His Transfer, NY Times
19.03. Guantánamo - An Icon Of Lawlessness
20. Links & Snippets
20.01. Other Publications
20.02. Webcast Announcements
20.03. Conference & Call for Papers Announcements
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01. God (or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a Leap , NY
Times
Excerpts: What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?"
This was the question posed to scientists, futurists and other creative
thinkers by John Brockman, a literary agent and publisher of Edge, a Web site
devoted to science. The site asks a new question at the end of each year.
(...)
Richard Dawkins (...)
I believe, but I cannot prove, that all life, all intelligence, all
creativity and all "design" anywhere in the universe, is the direct or
indirect product of Darwinian natural selection.
* [4] God (or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a Leap,
05/01/04, NYTimes
[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/04/science/04edgehed.html
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02. A Tale of 2 Systems , NY Times
Excerpts: Over the past 50 years, we've been having a big debate over two
rival economic systems. Conservatives have tended to favor the American
model, with smaller government and lower taxes, but less social support.
Liberals have supported programs that lead to the European model, with
bigger government, more generous support and less inequality.
(...) In the next few decades both models are going to confront a big test:
aging populations. The U.S. model is going to be challenged by this problem,
but the European model is flat-out unsustainable.
* [5] A Tale of 2 Systems, David Brooks, 05/01/04, NYTimes
[5] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/04/opinion/04brooks.html
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02.01. Social Networks and Business Success: The Role Of Subcultures In An
African Context , Ameri. J. Econ. Sociol.
Excerpt: The main objective of this paper is to illuminate social and
cultural preconditions for networking and success in business in an
African context. By in-depth studies of small-scale entrepreneurs in the
wood business in Tanzania, we find that people belonging to an Asian
subculture probably have a better standing for entering and thriving in
business, due to group cohesion, mobility, and level of education. Through
high-quality social networks, characterized by a high number and variety
of relations, certain groups seem to be in a better position to enact
their business environment (...).
* [6] Social Networks and Business Success: The Role Of Subcultures In An
African Context, [7] S. Kristiansen, Nov. 2004, Online 2004/12/08, DOI:
10.1111/j.1536-7150.2004.00339.x, American Journal of Economics and Sociology
* Contributed by [8] Pritha Das
[6]
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.1536-7150.2004.00339.x/abs/
[7] mailto:Stein.Kristiansen at hia.no
[8] mailto:prithadas01 at yahoo.com
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02.02. King of the Island , Science NOW
Excerpts: Power base. Ruins on Maui suggest that the island's first king
exerted control by quickly building temples, such as those seen elsewhere
by Captain Cook (inset). Credit: : P.V. Kirich; (Inset) By Permission Of
The National Library Of Australia
Hawaiian legends say a ruler named Pi'ilani brought peace to Maui by
routing rival chiefs, marrying a powerful queen, and setting himself up as
absolute ruler. Indeed, religious states that emphasized divine kingship
emerged on several Hawaiian islands. Now a preliminary study of temples on
Maui, described in the 7 January issue of Science, suggests this may have
happened within a single generation just as the stories suggest.
The most sophisticated and stratified societies in the Pacific evolved on the
Hawaiian Islands.
* [9] King of the Island, Erik Stokstad, 05/01/06, ScienceNOW
[9] http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/106/3?etoc
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02.03. Temples Of Boom: Ancient Hawaiians Took Fast Road To Statehood ,
Science
News
Excerpts: A boom in temple construction on two Hawaiian islands around 400
years ago marked the surprisingly rapid formation of an early political
state.
* [10] Temples Of Boom: Ancient Hawaiians Took Fast Road To Statehood,
05/01/08, ScienceNews
[10] http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050108/fob3ref.asp
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03. Food Colorings , Science News
Excerpts: Wheel Of Color. Orange carrots are a relatively new food,
dating only from the 16th century. Scientists are adapting older red,
blue, and yellow typesmost of them from Asiato U.S. soils, climate, and
tastes. S. Ausmus/USDA Flavonoids include beta-carotene and related
carotenoids, which are responsible for many of the yellows, oranges, reds,
and greens in produce. Other reds and most of the blues, purples, and
blackish tintsespecially in berries and potatoestrace to flavonoids called
anthocyanins. These chemicals are considered antioxidants because they
quash free radicals, naturally forming molecular fragments that have
several damaging effects. (...) began developing new lines of crops
explicitly for their intense antioxidant pigments.(...) Probably the most
famous example is known as golden rice.
* [11] Food Colorings, Janet Raloff, 05/01/08, ScienceNews
[11] http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050108/bob9.asp
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04. The Role Of Social Interaction In Bird Song Learning , Current Dir.
Psycho.
Sc.
Excerpt: Bird song learning has become a powerful model system for
studying learning because of its parallels with human speech learning,
recent advances in understanding of its neurobiological basis, and the
strong tradition of studying song learning in both the laboratory and the
field. Most of the findings and concepts in the field derive from the
tape-tutor experimental paradigm, in which the young bird is tutored by
tape-recorded song delivered by a loudspeaker in an isolation chamber.
This paradigm provides rigorous experimental control of auditory
parameters, but strips song learning of any social context, (...).
* [12] The Role Of Social Interaction In Bird Song Learning, [13] M. D.
Beecher, J. M. Burt, Dec. 2004, Online 2004/11/24, DOI:
10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00313.x, Current Directions in Psychological Science
* Contributed by [14] Atin Das
[12]
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00313.x/abs/
[13] mailto:beecher at u.washington.edu
[14] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in
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04.01. Nutrient-Specific Foraging in Invertebrate Predators , Science
Summary: Picky Eaters It is widely assumed in foraging theory that
predators cannot balance their nutrient intake, but instead maximize their
energy intake subject to prey size, abundance, and time constraints.
Mayntz et al. (p. 111) show that this is not the case, using three species
of invertebrates (ground beetles, wolf spiders, and web spiders) with
widely different feeding biology. When the diet of the predators was
manipulated to render them either protein- or lipid-deficient, the animals
adjusted their feeding to make good the specific deficit. Compensatory
nutrient selection occurred either by selecting among foods of different
nutritional composition, by adjusting consumption of a single prey type,
or by extracting nutrients selectively from within individual prey items.
* [15] Nutrient-Specific Foraging in Invertebrate Predators, David Mayntz,
David Raubenheimer, Mor Salomon, S?ren Toft, Stephen J. Simpson, 04/01/07,
Science : 111-113
[15] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/307/5706/111
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04.02. Policing Insect Societies , Science
Excerpts: Within both human and insect societies, conflicts arise because
the interests of individuals differ. In insect societies, conflict
revolves around reproduction. Reproducing individuals gain by being more
closely related to the young males and queens reared in their colony. By
reproducing, society members also exploit the colony and this can be
costly. First, uncontrolled reproduction upsets the division of labor
between queen and workers and results in a less efficient colony. Second,
the offspring reared are often genetically less related and so are less
valuable to other society members.
* [16] Policing Insect Societies, Francis L. W. Ratnieks , Tom Wenseleers,
05/01/07, Science : 54-56
[16] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/307/5706/54
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05. A Genomic View of Animal Behavior , Science
Excerpts: (...) in one case, they transformed normally promiscuous rodents
into faithful partners. (...) Instead of just probing the minutiae of how
a gene works in one organism, scientists are increasingly investigating
how a particular gene operates in multiple species. (...) gene influenced
how likely nematodes were to explore their environment.(...) In the
traditional approach, Hofmann would have tried to track individual genes
involved in these transformations. Instead, he turned to microarrays and,
in less than a year, has identified 100 genes that likely shape the male's
social status.
* [17] A Genomic View of Animal Behavior, Elizabeth Pennisi, 05/01/07,
Science
: 30-32
[17] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/307/5706/30
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05.01. Twinkle Toes: How Geckos' Sticky Feet Stay Clean , Science News
Excerpts: Toe Print. When the underside of a gecko toe (left) was dusted
with microspheres and pressed onto glass, millions of sticky fibers in the
thin, platelike structures shed microspheres onto the glass, leaving a
print visible under laser light (right). Autumn
To find out how gecko feet clean themselves, the team considered the van
der Waals forces that a surface, such as a wall, exerts on a microsphere.
They then compared that attraction with the hold on the particle by toe
fibers. Using simplified geometric models that represent the ends of the
fibers as shallow cups or flexible strips, the scientists calculated that
from 26 to 59 of the fibers would have to cling to each microsphere to
keep it from sticking to the wall as the gecko steps away.
Yet in most cases, "when you look under an electron microscope, you don't
observe that many [fibers] actually attached to a single dirt particle,"
Autumn notes. Hence, when the fibers and the surface compete for a dirt
particle, the surface usually wins.
* [18] Twinkle Toes: How Geckos' Sticky Feet Stay Clean, Peter Weiss,
05/01/08,
ScienceNews
[18] http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050108/fob6.asp
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05.02. Environment: Early Ant Plagues In The New World , Nature
Excerpts:
Solenopsis geminata
HORMIGA DE FUEGO
(Fire ant)
The Hispaniolan plague ant is easily characterized from the first-hand
account of Las Casas. The ant he described was very aggressive; it had a
painful sting; it occurred in dense populations in the root systems of
shrubs and trees; it did not cut above-ground vegetation yet somehow
damaged the root systems; and it was also a pest in houses and gardens.
The only species also present in the modern West Indian ant fauna that has
all these qualities is the tropical fire ant, Solenopsis geminata.
* [19] Environment: Early Ant Plagues In The New World, Edward O. Wilson,
05/01/06, DOI: 10.1038/433032a, Nature 433, 32
[19]
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7021/full/433032a_fs.html
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06. Laughing, Tickling, And The Evolution Of Speech And Self , Current Dir.
Psycho. Sc.
Excerpt: Laughter is an instinctive, contagious, stereotyped,
unconsciously controlled, social play vocalization that is unusual in
solitary settings. Laughter punctuates speech and is not typically humor
related, speakers often laugh more often than their audience, and male
speakers are the best laugh getters. Laughter evolved from the labored
breathing of physical play, with the characteristic "pant-pant" laugh of
chimpanzees and derivative "ha-ha" of humans signaling ("ritualizing") its
rowdy origin. Laughter reveals that breath control is why humans can speak
and chimpanzees cannot. (...) Because you cannot tickle yourself, tickle
involves a neurological self/nonself discrimination, providing the most
primitive social scenario.
* [20] Laughing, Tickling, And The Evolution Of Speech And Self, [21] R. R.
Provine, Dec. 2004, Online 2004/11/24, DOI: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00311.x,
Current Directions in Psychological Science
* Contributed by [22] Atin Das
[20]
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00311.x/abs/
[21] mailto:provine at umbc.edu
[22] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in
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07. HIV Impacts Human Genome , Science NOW
Excerpts: No vacancy. When CCL3L1 (red) occupies the CCR5 receptor on CD4
cells, it blocks HIV's entry. Credit: K. Sutliff/Science
People typically have two copies of each gene (one from each parent), but
stretches of DNA sometimes appear repeatedly. Many of the known
duplications include immunity genes, inspiring the notion that these
so-called segmental duplications protect against invaders. Sunil Ahuja,
(...), wondered whether HIV might be the target of such an evolutionary
response. The researchers focused on one human gene, CCL3L1. The gene
codes for a signalling chemical called a chemokine, and it docks onto the
same white blood cell receptor grabbed by HIV when the virus infects
cells.
* [23] HIV Impacts Human Genome, Jon Cohen, 05/01/07, ScienceNOW
[23] http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/107/1?etoc
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07.01. Frankenstein's Chips , Science News
Excerpts: As evidence mounts that drug-safety trials can miss dangerous
effects, scientists are building living, miniature models of animals and
people to enhance drug and chemical tests.
* [24] Frankenstein's Chips, 05/01/08, ScienceNews
[24] http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050108/bob8ref.asp
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08. Antibiotic Recipe Keeps Neurons Alive , Science NOW
Excerpts: People who develop ALS lose control of their muscles and usually
die within 1 to 5 years. Previously, researchers have tried to correct two
biochemical problems that kill neurons in ALS. A third had yet to be
exploited successfully: Motor neurons die when their surfaces are
overexposed to the neurotransmitter glutamate. ALS patients suffer from
this because their neurons have trouble vacuuming glutamate back inside
the cells, where it does no harm. (...) coax neurons to make more of this
transporter protein, and whether that would protect the nerve cells from
dying.
* [25] Antibiotic Recipe Keeps Neurons Alive, Mary Beckman, 05/01/06,
ScienceNOW
[25] http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/106/1?etoc
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08.01. Beat Generation: Genetically Modified Stem Cells Repair Heart ,
Science
News
Excerpts: Tissue engineers have for the first time used genetically modified
human stem cells to repair damaged hearts in guinea pigs.
* [26] Beat Generation: Genetically Modified Stem Cells Repair Heart,
05/01/08,
ScienceNews
[26] http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050108/fob2ref.asp
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08.02. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Deconstructs Brain's Complex Network ,
EurekAlert
Excerpts: Chialvo and colleagues described how fMRIs from healthy
individuals showed that tens of thousands of discrete brain regions form a
network that has the same qualitative features as other complex networks,
such as the Internet (technological), friendships (social) and metabolic
(biochemical) networks.
The fMRI technology provided, in each recording session, hundreds of
consecutive images of brain activity discretized in thousands of tiny
cubes (voxels). The image intensity at each cube usually indicates the
amount of brain activity at that site.
* [27] Magnetic Resonance Imaging Deconstructs Brain's Complex Network,
05/01/04, EurekAlert
[27] http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-01/nu-mri010405.php
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08.03. Scientists Find That The Human Nose Is More Complicated Than A Jumbo
Jet
, BBSRC Media Releases
Excerpts: Winter colds can give you a blocked up nose that stops you
smelling chimney smoke, roasting chestnuts, warming winter puddings and
the other seasonal scents. Now researchers (...) have not only discovered
how air moves through the nose bringing you those smells but their work
may lead to new ways of unblocking it and helping you to breathe more
easily. They have even found that the airflow through the human nose is
more complicated than that over a jumbo jet's wing. (...) The fluid
dynamics of the nose is one of the most complex in the body, (...).
* [28] Scientists Find That The Human Nose Is More Complicated Than A Jumbo
Jet, 2005/01/06, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
(BBSRC)
* Contributed by [29] Atin Das
[28] http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/pressreleases/05_05_01_06_nose.html
[29] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in
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09. Scents And Emotions Linked By Learning , ScienceDaily
Excerpts: Whether emotional responses to scent are a product of nature or
nurture is a matter of scientific debate. But a Brown University study,
(...) comes down on the nurturing side. In an experiment that involved
computer games and custom-made scents, researchers found that responses to
new odors depended on emotions experienced while the new odor was present.
If participants had a good time playing the game, they were more likely to
report liking the odor they smelled. If they had an unpleasant experience,
they were more likely to dislike the scent. (...)
* [30] Scents And Emotions Linked By Learning, Brown Study Shows, 2004/01/06,
ScienceDaily & Brown University
* Contributed by [31] Atin Das
[30] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050106105622.htm
[31] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in
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09.01. Motherhood is a Drug , Science NOW
Excerpts: High on nursing. In rats, suckling stimulates the same reward
centers in the brain as cocaine. Credit: Jack Novak/Superstock New
research shows that brain scans of suckling moms are indistinguishable
from those of virgin rats on cocaine, supporting the idea that nature
rewards mothers for nurturing their pups. The work, described in 5 January
issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, also sets the stage to better
understand the mother-child bond in humans.
When given the choice, rats with babies under 8 days of age will choose
suckling their pups over cocaine. Researchers believe this strong
motivation to nurse has evolved to help mothers bond with their offspring.
* [32] Motherhood is a Drug, Mary Beckman, 05/01/04, ScienceNOW
[32] http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/104/1?etoc
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09.02. Brain Can Be Trained To Process Sound In Alternate Way , ScienceDaily
Excerpts: UCSF scientists have found that the brains of rats can be
trained to learn an alternate way of processing changes in the loudness of
sound. The discovery, they say, has potential for the treatment of hearing
loss, autism, and other sensory disabilities in humans. It also gives
clues, they say, about the process of learning and the way we perceive the
world. "We addressed a very fundamental question (...) When we notice a
sound getting louder, what happens in our brain so that we know it's
getting louder?" (...).
* [33] Brain Can Be Trained To Process Sound In Alternate Way, 2004/01/03,
ScienceDaily & University Of California - San Francisco
* Contributed by [34] Atin Das
[33] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041219180618.htm
[34] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in
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09.03. Parkinson's Symptoms Reversed in Monkey Study , NPR TOTN
Excerpts: In studies with monkeys, researchers in Japan have reversed some of
the degeneration seen in Parkinson's disease in monkeys using embryonic stem
cell therapy, according to a report published this week in the Journal of
Clinical Investigation. We discuss the findings.
* [35] Parkinson's Symptoms Reversed in Monkey Study, 05/01/07, NPR TOTN
[35] http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=4273768
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10. Faces Must Be Seen To Be Recognized , ScienceDaily
Excerpt: Recognizing faces is an innate ability in primates; even the
youngest infants respond to Mom's face. So, a fascinating and central
question in neurobiology is where in the hierarchy of visual processing
face recognition takes place. Through a series of precise experimental
manipulations of perception in human subjects, Farshad Moradi and his
colleagues have gained new insight into the process. They have found that
identifying a face depends on actually seeing it, as opposed to merely
having the image of the face fall on the retina. (...)
* [36] Faces Must Be Seen To Be Recognized, 2004/01/07, ScienceDaily & Cell
Press
* Contributed by [37] Atin Das
[36] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050106120038.htm
[37] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in
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10.01. Physiology: An End To Adolescence , Nature
Excerpts: 'Puberty' and 'adolescence' are not synonyms, although both
terms describe that awkward age between childhood and adulthood. Puberty
is defined as the period during which the reproductive system matures. It
has a clearly defined marker for when it ends: when bone growth ceases.
Adolescence, by contrast, is part physiological, part psychological, part
social construct. Chronobiologists joke that people suffer adolescence
twice once themselves, and again when their own children hit the teenage
years. But, frustratingly, they have not been able to define precisely
when it ends.
* [38] Physiology: An End To Adolescence, Alison Abbott, 05/01/06, DOI:
10.1038/433027a, Nature 433, 27
[38]
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7021/full/433027a_fs.html
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11. Mapping Environments At Risk Under Different Global Climate Change
Scenarios , Ecol. Lett.
Excerpts: All global circulation models (...) project profound changes,
but there is no consensus on how to map their environmental consequences.
Our multivariate representation of environmental space combines stable
topographic and edaphic attributes with dynamic climatic attributes. We
divide that environmental space into 500 unique domains and map their
current locations (...). The environmental domains found across half the
study area today disappear under the higher emissions scenario, but
persist somewhere in it under the lower emissions scenario. Locations
affected least and those affected most under each scenario are mapped.
This provides an explicit framework for designing conservation networks
(...).
* [39] Mapping Environments At Risk Under Different Global Climate Change
Scenarios, [40] E. Saxon, B. Baker , W. Hargrove , F. Hoffman , C.
Zganjar, Jan. 2005, Online 2004/12/15, DOI:
10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00694.x, Ecology Letters * Contributed by [41]
Pritha Das
[39]
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00694.x/abs/
[40] mailto:esaxon at tnc.org
[41] mailto:prithadas01 at yahoo.com
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11.01. Weighing the Tsunami's Environmental Impact , NPR TOTN
Excerpts: As the people of Southeast Asia struggle to recover from the
Asian tsunami, we take a look at the environmental and ecological impacts
of all that seawater. Plus, anecdotal reports suggest that most large
mammals in the area escaped harm. We talk with a scientist about whether
animals can sense an oncoming tsunami.
* [42] Weighing the Tsunami's Environmental Impact, 05/01/07, NPR TOTN
[42] http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=4273776
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11.02. Triple Slip Of Tectonic Plates Caused Seafloor Surge , Nature News
Excerpts: The earthquake followed almost two centuries of tension during
which the India plate pressed against the Burma microplate, (...). The
plates move against one another at an average rate of about 6 centimetres
a year, but this movement does not occur smoothly. There has not been a
very large quake along this fault since 1833 ?a fact that may have
contributed to the huge force of this one. The India plate's jarring slide
released the tension on the Burma microplate, causing it to spring
violently upwards.
* [43] Triple Slip Of Tectonic Plates Caused Seafloor Surge, Michael Hopkin,
05/01/05, Nature News
[43] http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050103/full/433003b.html
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11.03. Tsunami Disaster: Scientists Model The Big Quake And Its
Consequences , Science News
Excerpts: Pumped Up. The sudden rise of seafloor during the magnitude 9.0
quake of Dec. 26, 2004 (epicenter at star), caused tsunamis that scoured
coasts around the Indian Ocean. In all, slippage occurred along about
1,200 km of the interface between the tectonic plates(...). At some spots
along the interface, one plate may have slid as much as 20 meters past the
other, says Ji. In the most-affected region, a broad expanse of
seafloorand thus the sea above it was abruptly thrust upward as much as 5
m. The waves spilling away from that sudden bump raced across the Indian
Ocean at jetliner speeds, says Ji. The first tsunami may have been 15 m
high when it slammed into Sumatran shores about 15 minutes after the
quake.
* [44] Tsunami Disaster: Scientists Model The Big Quake And Its Consequences,
Sid Perkins, 05/01/08, ScienceNews
[44] http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050108/fob1.asp
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11.04. A Divided World , Nature News
Excerpts: The most important component of such preparation is public
education, so that local inhabitants are aware, for example, of the fact
that a dramatic recession of the ocean is in itself a warning of an
impending event. The next most important component is the construction of
a simple network that will quickly convey warning information from the
seismological stations to some central point (...) and back out again to
local radio and television channels, perhaps using siren systems in
regions that can afford them.
* [45] A Divided World, 05/01/05, Nature News
[45] http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050103/full/050103-4.html
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11.05. The Hydrogen Economy , Physics Today
Excerpts: If the fuel cell is to become the modern steam engine, basic
research must provide breakthroughs in understanding, materials, and
design to make a hydrogen-based energy system a vibrant and competitive
force.(...) Hydrogen can be converted to electricity in fuel cells, but
the production cost of prototype fuel cells remains high: $3000 per
kilowatt of power produced for prototype fuel cells (mass production could
reduce this cost by a factor of 10 or more), compared with $30 per
kilowatt for gasoline engines.
* [46] The Hydrogen Economy, George W. Crabtree, Mildred S. Dresselhaus,
Michelle V. Buchanan, 04/12, Physics Today
[46] http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-57/iss-12/p39.html
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11.06. As Hybrid Cars Multiply, So Do Carpooling Gripes , Washington Post
Excerpts: "I'd say 95 percent of the people who buy a Prius say it's to
get into HOV [High Occupancy Vehicle = more than one person in a car,
Ed.]," (...). "They talk about the tax break and the HOV, and once in a
while they say they prefer it for the gas mileage as well."
(...) That year [2000, Ed.], there were 32 cars in all of Virginia with
"clean fuel" tags (...).
By April 2003, that number had grown to 2,500 in Northern Virginia, and by
the end of 2004 the region had 6,800 hybrid vehicles registered with
"clean special fuel" plates.
* [47] As Hybrid Cars Multiply, So Do Carpooling Gripes, Steven Ginsberg,
Carol Morello, 05/01/07, Washington Post
[47]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54561-2005Jan6.html?referrer=email
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12. Deflecting Near-Earth Space Hazards , NPR TOTN
Excerpts: We look at a new NASA probe on a deliberate collision course with a
comet, and at efforts to protect planet Earth against other space-borne
threats.
* [48] Deflecting Near-Earth Space Hazards, 05/01/07, NPR TOTN
[48] http://www.npr.org/rundowns/segment.php?wfId=4273770
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12.01. In Search Of Hidden Dimensions , Nature
Excerpts: (...) detect the extra dimensions predicted by the [string, Ed]
theory (...) (...) some of these extra dimensions might be as large as a
millimetre (...). But gravity, they think, might be able to seep into
these extra dimensions. (...).
(...) some of the energy created by particle collisions in the machine
could escape into extra dimensions, carried off by leaking gravity, if
those dimensions are large enough. The result would be an apparent
violation of the conservation of energy ?a dramatic sign that string
theorists are on the right track.
* [49] In Search Of Hidden Dimensions, Geoff Brumfiel, 05/01/06, DOI:
10.1038/433010a, Nature 433, 10
[49]
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7021/full/433010a_fs.html
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12.02. The Long-Distance Thinker , Nature
Excerpts: [Loop quantum gravity, Ed] a framework in which physical laws do
not break down at the Big Bang singularity (...). His results suggest that
at extremely small scales, quantum gravitation can be repulsive, which
prevents the collapse of space-time into a singularity. This effect, which
would contradict general relativity, might be a consequence of the
quantization of Einstein's equations, (...).
Freed from the singularity, Bojowald can now look back to a time 'before'
the Big Bang. He finds an inverted universe on the other side ?a
mirror-image of ours ?expanding outwards as time runs backwards.
* [50] The Long-Distance Thinker, Quirin Schiermeier, 05/01/06, DOI:
10.1038/433012a, Nature 433, 12
[50]
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7021/full/433012a_r.html
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12.03. Gorging Black Hole Makes Its Mark , Science NOW
Excerpts: Gaping holes. X-rays from hot gas in a cluster of galaxies
(left) outline two "supercavities" cleared out by an eruption from a
central black hole (artist's view, right). Credit: B. Mcnamara Et. Al.
/Nasa/Cxc/Ohio University
Gigantic "super-cavities" in galaxy cluster reveal the most powerful
eruption ever seen (...)
Radio images had revealed a classic double-sided jet of energy streaming
away from this central galaxy. Astronomers assumed that a large black hole
inside the galaxy gorged on infalling gas, spouting powerful jets into
space from the superhot region close to the hole.
(...) the black hole has driven the jets by devouring an average of three
times the mass of our sun each year for the last 100 million years.
* [51] Gorging Black Hole Makes Its Mark, 05/01/05, ScienceNOW
* VIDEO - [52] Animations of MS 0735.6+7421
[51] http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/105/1?etoc
[52] http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/ms0735/animations.html#bh_erupt
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13. Mmmmm, Toxicants , Science NOW
Excerpts: TCE-hungry. Dehalococcoides consumes dangerous pollutants.
Credit: Steve Zinder, Cornell University. Genome sequence reveals how a
bacterium breaks down toxic pollutants
For just about every substance, there's a microbe that eats it. That's
even true for man-made pollutants that didn't exist 60 years ago.
Take Dehalococcoides ethenogenes. In 1997, microbiologist Steve Zinder of
Cornell University isolated the microbe from sewage sludge contaminated
with the chemical tetrachloroethene (PCE). The strain, it turned out,
consumes PCE or its chemical cousin, the engine-degreasing chemical
trichloroethene (TCE), as food. The chemicals are widely used by dry
cleaners, electronics companies, and the military.
* [53] Mmmmm, Toxicants, Dan Ferber, 05/01/07, ScienceNOW
[53] http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/107/3?etoc
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13.01. The Enigma of Prokaryotic Life in Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins ,
Science
Summary: Salt Survivors Immense salt deposits beneath the Mediterranean
floor are the legacy of its having evaporated to dryness about 6 million
years ago. Van der Wielen et al. (p. 121) have explored the microbiology
of deep hypersaline anoxic remnants. A picture emerges of whole microbial
communities that are far from being biogeochemical dead-ends. Rather they
are contributing to global cycles while thriving in some of the most
saline environments known.
* [54] The Enigma of Prokaryotic Life in Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins,
Paul W. J. J. van der Wielen, Henk Bolhuis, Sara Borin, Daniele
Daffonchio, Cesare Corselli, Laura Giuliano, Giuseppe D'Auria, Gert J. de
Lange, Andreas Huebner, Sotirios P. Varnavas, John Thomson, Christian
Tamburini, Danielle Marty, Terry J. McGenity, Kenneth N. Timmis, BioDeep
Scientific Party, 05/01/07, Science : 121-12
[54] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/307/5706/121
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13.02. Microbes Brave Briny Basins , Nature News
Excerpts: Inspired by microbes such as the Haloferax mediteranei
bacterium, which survive in briny lakes, scientists sought and found new
microbes in even saltier waters. ? SPL A community of microorganisms has
been discovered in one of the saltiest environments on Earth,
ultra-saturated salt basins deep in the Mediterranean Sea. The salt
solution there is so concentrated, microbiologists are mystified as to how
the organisms are able to survive.
About 6 million years ago, the Mediterranean had dried up, (...). Over
time, sediment covered the salty deposits in the desolate basin.
Now, places where these underwater salty deposits are exposed are
exceptionally briny, containing up to 476 grams of magnesium chloride per
litre.
* [55] Microbes Brave Briny Basins, Roxanne Khamsi, 05/01/06, Nature News
[55] http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050103/full/050103-7.html
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14. Bridging The Gap , Nature
Excerpts: By looking at evolving tissue as a complex biological system,
mathematical models can provide just such a holistic understanding. The
use of agent-based models to interpret stem-cell systems is beginning to
show promise in offering new ways of thinking about tissue evolution. In
these models, cells are considered as distinct entities (or agents)
positioned on an appropriate lattice, and simple cellular behaviours are
prescribed, (...). But on the global scale, structure is seen to emerge
from long-range summation of these low-level behaviours.
* [56] Bridging The Gap, Ben D. MacArthur, Richard O. C. Oreffo, 05/01/06,
DOI: 10.1038/433019a, Nature 433, 19
[56]
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7021/full/433019a_r.html
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14.01. Nanomotors Rev Up , Science Now
Excerpts: They used the catalytic activity of platinum to propel tiny gold
rods. In an aqueous solution, the platinum-tipped rods continuously
converted hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water. The oxygen-rich region
lowered the surface tension between the tips of the rod and the liquid.
Because the rest of the gold rod was attracted to the region of the low
surface tension, the rod moved in that direction, generating more oxygen
as it went. (...) So by simply moving a magnet, the researchers could
steer their rods.
* [57] Nanomotors Rev Up, Robert F. Service, 05/01/07, ScienceNOW
[57] http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2005/107/2?etoc
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15. Advances towards a General-Purpose Societal-Scale Human-Collective
Problem-Solving Engine , arXiv
Abstract: Human collective intelligence has proved itself as an important
factor in a society's ability to accomplish large-scale behavioral feats.
As societies have grown in population-size, individuals have seen a
decrease in their ability to activeily participate in the problem-solving
processes of the group. Representative decision-making structures have
been used as a modern solution to society's inadequate
information-processing infrastructure. With computer and network
technologies being further embedded within the fabric of society, the
implementation of a general-purpose societal-scale human-collective
problem-solving engine is envisioned as a means of furthering the
collective-intelligence potential of society. This paper provides both a
novel framework for creating collective intelligence systems and a method
for implementing a representative and expertise system based on
social-network theory.
* [58] Advances towards a General-Purpose Societal-Scale Human-Collective
Problem-Solving Engine, Marko Rodriguez, 2005/01/03, DOI: cs.CY/0501004,
arXiv
* Contributed by [59] Carlos Gershenson
[58] http://arXiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0501004
[59] http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/
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15.01. Building a Smarter Search Engine , Business Week
Excerpts: Clusty also provides this laundry list of results. But on the
left side of its results Web page, it provides folders entitled Navy,
Music, and Harbor Seal. By clicking on any of these groups, individuals
drill down into more topic-specific results.
To pull together the results, Clusty uses metasearch technology, which
means it searches the results of other search engines and indexes, (...).
Then it applies the artificial intelligence to pick out the major themes
found within the results for each search and organizes them into folders.
* [60] Building a Smarter Search Engine, Heather Green, 05/01/04, Business
Week
[60]
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2005/tc2005014_2937.htm
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15.02. Search Looks at the Big Picture , Wired
Excerpts: (...) visualization software that can identify objects contained
within one of the web's fastest-growing content categories -- video
streams. The Marvel software identifies groups of objects within a frame
to form concepts that can be easily searched, such as an airplane with a
cloud and sky backdrop that would be categorized as travel, (...).
Using people to scan video streams to label the content is too slow and
costly, (...). The software can be trained to recognize images by
providing it with a group of similar images, he said.
* [61] Search Looks at the Big Picture, John Gartner, 05/01/06, Wired
[61] http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,66185,00.html
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15.03. Computing Takes a Giant Leap , Pile Systems Press Release
Excerpts: Such a solution must cover two principal aspects: reduce
exponential explosion of complication and thus computing resources in
traditional mechanical structures (e.g. databases) to a linear growth.
This could be called the problem of “harnessing complexity?
Enable scalable mapping of complex dynamic systems (e.g. social
interactions, language, weather, foodwebs etc.) without exponential
explosion of computing resources. This could be called the problem of
“harvesting complexity?
(...) Pile implements a new, non-hierarchical “architecture of logic?which
the company refers to as ‘polylogic? “Pile is much closer to human
thinking, which combines logic and synthetic operations and blends
different logic domains? Polylogic computing will be easier and more
intuitive, but requires a new understanding of data, representation and
ordering, (...).
* [62] Computing Takes a Giant Leap, 04/12/21, Pile Systems Press Release
[62] http://www.pilesys.com/Computing%20Takes%20a%20Giant%20Leap.htm
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15.04. The BlackBerry Brain Trust , Wired
Excerpts: Perimeter is among the handful of places that, over the coming
decade or two, have the best chance of unifying relativity and quantum
mechanics, one of the biggest goals in physics. Among other things,
researchers are also working on the fundamentals of quantum computing. Of
course, like all efforts to advance physics, Perimeter runs the risk of
abject failure. It is 100 years since Einstein published his papers on
relativity, and we're still grappling with problems that stumped him.
* [63] The BlackBerry Brain Trust, Duff McDonald, 05/01/, Wired
[63] http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/perimeter_pr.html
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16. Games Win For Blu-Ray DVD Format , BBC News
Excerpts: Blu-ray DVDs will hold much more data A Blu-ray disc will be
able to store 50GB of high-quality data, while Toshiba's HD-DVD will hold
30GB.
Mr Doherty added that it was making sure the discs could satisfy all
high-definition needs, including the ability to record onto the DVDs and
smaller discs to fit into camcorders.
Both Toshiba and Blu-ray are hopeful that the emerging DVD format war,
akin to the Betamax and VHS fight in the 1980s, can be resolved over the
next year when next-generation DVD players start to come out.
* [64] Games Win For Blu-Ray DVD Format, Jo Twist, 05/01/07, BBC News
[64] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4153813.stm
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16.01. TiVo Adds Portability to the Mix , NY Times
Excerpts: The new technology, called TiVoToGo, is neither a product nor a
service. It's a software feature that TiVo, in a phased rollout, is beaming
into existing TiVo recorders. (...)
TiVo, of course, is a digital video recorder - a box that records cable,
satellite or antenna-based TV broadcasts onto a built-in hard drive. (...)
TiVo effortlessly bends TV broadcasting to suit your schedule instead of
the other way around, which explains why its customers tend to be
wide-eyed TiVo boosters.
* [65] TiVo Adds Portability to the Mix, David Pogue, 05/01/07, NYTimes
[65] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/technology/circuits/06stat.html
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16.02. DirecTV Machine Will Compete With TiVo , NY Times
Excerpts: DirecTV subscribers using the new recorder will also be able to
record several pay-per-view movies at a time (...).
DirecTV also said that it would offer local high-definition TV broadcasts
in 12 markets beginning later this year. To increase its channel capacity,
the company will launch several satellites designed to carry HDTV
programming.
DirecTV will market a home media center by the end of this year that will
permit customers to transmit programming stored on a digital recorder to
any other television in the house.
* [66] DirecTV Machine Will Compete With TiVo, Eric A. Taub, 05/01/07,
NYTimes
[66] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/07/technology/07tele.html
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17. Toyota Launches Robot Workforce , NEWS.com.au
Excerpts: The robots would be able to carry out multiple tasks
simultaneously with their two arms, achieving efficiency unseen in human
workers and matching the cheap wages of Chinese laborers, (...).
Japan's top automaker currently uses 3000 to 4000 less-advanced robots at
its domestic factories but their use has been confined mostly to welding,
painting and other potentially hazardous tasks, (...). The new robots
would also be used in finishing work, such as installation of seats and
car interior fixtures, that have been too complex for conventional robots
up to now, (...).
* [67] Toyota Launches Robot Workforce, 05/01/05, NEWS.com.au
[67]
http://finance.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11866894%255E14305,00.html
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18. Super-selection Rules Modulating Complexity: An Overview , Chaos,
Solitons & Fractals
Abstract: Complex systems comprising a large number of elements are
potentially capable of finding themselves in a huge variety of states
arising by combining the states of their parts. If such a combinatorial
explosion were indeed materializing, the observed behavior would resemble
to random noise. It is therefore essential that physically relevant
complex systems be capable of developing mechanisms for selecting a
meaningful subset of states out of the large set of a priori available
states. In this communication some generic mechanisms for reducing
complexity are analyzed and illustrated on case studies.
* [68] Super-selection Rules Modulating Complexity: An Overview, John S.
Nicolis, 2004/12/23, DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2004.10.002, Chaos, Solitons &
Fractals, Article in Press, Corrected Proof
* Contributed by [69] Carlos Gershenson
[68] http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2004.10.002
[69] http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/
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18.01. Power Laws, Pareto Distributions and Zipf's Law , arXiv
Abstract: When the probability of measuring a particular value of some
quantity varies inversely as a power of that value, the quantity is said
to follow a power law, also known variously as Zipf's law or the Pareto
distribution. Power laws appear widely in physics, biology, earth and
planetary sciences, economics and finance, computer science, demography
and the social sciences. For instance, the distributions of the sizes of
cities, earthquakes, forest fires, solar flares, moon craters and people's
personal fortunes all appear to follow power laws. The origin of power-law
behaviour has been a topic of debate in the scientific community for more
than a century. Here we review some of the empirical evidence for the
existence of power-law forms and the theories proposed to explain them.
* [70] Power Laws, Pareto Distributions and Zipf's Law, M. E. J. Newman,
2004/12/01, DOI: cond-mat/0412004, arXiv
* Contributed by [71] Carlos Gershenson
[70] http://arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0412004
[71] http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/
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19. Complex Challenges: Global Terroist Networks
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19.01. The Spy Who Billed Me
Excerpts: In the post-9/11 rush to beef up intelligence, the government
has outsourced everything from spy satellites to covert operations -- and
well-connected companies are cashing in.
(...) critics are beginning to question whether private companies should
be in the business of handling some of the government’s most sensitive
work. (...) the kind of military intelligence work (...) is particularly
ripe for problems because intelligence agencies “operate under unusual
authority.?He adds: “I don’t think the current oversight system is
equipped to monitor the activities of contractors. That is one of the
central lessons of the Abu Ghraib affair.? * [72] The Spy Who Billed Me,
Tim Shorrock, 05/01-02, MotherJones.com
[72] http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2005/01/12_400.html
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19.02. Detainee Seeking to Bar His Transfer , NY Times
Excerpts: A lawyer for one of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has
asked the federal district court here to block the Bush administration
from sending the detainee to Egypt, asserting that he would be tortured
there.
The motion was filed in November on behalf of the detainee, Mamdouh Habib,
and asserts that he was tortured in an Egyptian prison for nearly six
months in 2001 before being transferred to Guantánamo. The filing, which
was declassified and released on Wednesday, includes details of the
alleged torture, (...).
* [73] Detainee Seeking to Bar His Transfer, Neil A. Lewis, 05/01/06, NYTimes
[73] http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/politics/06gitmo.html
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19.03. Guantánamo - An Icon Of Lawlessness
Excerpts: Also in December, six months after the US Supreme Court's
ruling, the government notified the detainees that they can file habeas
corpus petitions in federal court. It even gave them the address of a US
District Court in which to file them. In this Kafkaesque world of
Guantánamo, however, the government has argued to that very same court
that the detainees have no basis in constitutional or international law on
which to challenge the lawfulness of their detentions. It maintains that
review by the Combatant Status Review Tribunal and the Administrative
Review Board is more than sufficient due process. Meanwhile, the vast
majority of the detainees have still not had access to lawyers.
* [74] Guantanamo - An Icon Of Lawlessness, 05/01/06, Amnesty International
[74]
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ECC6D058DBAB4C8C80256F80005829F3
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20. Links & Snippets
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20.01. Other Publications
- Essential Properties of Language from the Point of View of Autopoiesis,
2004/12/28, Cogprints
- Hierarchical Characterization of Complex Networks, 2005/01/01, arXiv, DOI:
cond-mat/0412761
- Pattern Formation in a Stochastic Model of Cancer Growth, 2004/09/21,
arXiv,
DOI: q-bio.CB/0501007
- Evolutionary Dynamics in Complex Networks of Competing Boolean Agents,
2004/11/26, arXiv, DOI: cond-mat/0411664
- Genetic Networks with Canalyzing Boolean Rules are Always Stable,
2004/11/30,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101 (2004), 17102-17107 (Open Access), DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0407783101
- Complex Regulatory Control in Boolean Networks, 2004/12/17, arXiv, DOI:
cond-mat/0412443
- The Déj?Vu Illusion, Dec. 2004, Online 2004/11/24, Current Directions in
Psychological Science, DOI: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00320.x
- Relationships, Human Behavior, And Psychological Science, Dec. 2004, Online
2004/11/24, Current Directions in Psychological Science, DOI:
10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00315.x
- Stimulus Complexity Dependent Memory Impairment And Changes In Motor
Performance After Deletion Of The Neuronal Gap Junction Protein Connexin36 In
Mice, 2005/02/10, Online 2004/08/17, Behavioural Brain Research, DOI:
10.1016/j.bbr.2004.06.023
- Pigeons Shift Their Preference Toward Locations Of Food That Take More
Effort
To Obtain, 2004/11/30, online 2004/08/28, Behavioural Processes, DOI:
10.1016/j.beproc.2004.07.001
- On The Control Of Chaotic Systems Via Symbolic Time Series Analysis, Dec.
2004, online 2004/10/28, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear
Science, DOI: 10.1063/1.1796071
- Estimation Of Initial Conditions And Parameters Of A Chaotic Evolution
Process From A Short Time Series, Dec. 2004, online 2004/11/01, Chaos: An
Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, DOI: 10.1063/1.1811548
- Musical Constructions Of Nationalism: A Comparative Study Of Bartók And
Stravinsky, Oct. 2004, online 2004/10/20, Nations and Nationalism, DOI:
10.1111/j.1354-5078.2004.00183.x
- Stem Cells Could Reveal Secrets Of Illness In Later Life, 2005/01/06,
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
- Exploring Ocean Life And Color On The Internet, 2004/01/03, ScienceDaily &
National Aeronautic And Space Administration
- Elegant Shape Of Eiffel Tower Solved Mathematically By University Of
Colorado
Professor, 2004/01/07, ScienceDaily & University Of Colorado
- Why Environmental Scientists Are Becoming Bayesians, Jan. 2005, Online
2004/12/15, Ecology Letters, DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00702.x
- The Spatial Spread Of Invasions: New Developments In Theory And Evidence,
Jan. 2005, Online 2004/11/04, Ecology Letters, DOI:
10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00687.x
- Uncertainty About Uncertainty And Delay In Bargaining, Jan. 2005, Online
2004/12/03, Econometrica, DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2005.00565.x
- Facts, Fiction, And The Fourth Estate: The Washington Post And "Jimmy's
World", Nov. 2004, Online 2004/12/08, American Journal of Economics and
Sociology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2004.00331.x
- Tech Gadget Show Features Hottest Products, 05/01/04, NYTimes/AP
- Election Results to Be Certified, With Little Fuss From Kerry, 05/01/06,
NYTimes
- Primordial Fungus, 05/01/06, Loopy. Fused filaments suggest that this
fossil was an ancient fungus. Credit: N. J. Butterfield New fossils date
back to long before the dawn of animals ScienceNOW
- Coral 230Th Dating of the Imposition of a Ritual Control Hierarchy in
Precontact Hawaii, 05/01/07, Science : 102-10
- Giant Eagle had Lilliputian Origins, 05/01/04, Fearsome predator.
Haast's
eagle evolved rapidly from a small ancestor, allowing it to attack even 200
kilogram moas. Credit: John Megahan ScienceNOW
- CRP as Key as Cholesterol?, 05/01/07, NPR TOTN,A new study says that levels
of a blood protein known as CRP may be as important as cholesterol levels in
predicting the risk of heart disease.
- Writer Crichton Questions Global Warming Fears, 05/01/07, NPR TOTN, In his
new book State of Fear, Michael Crichton blends fact with fiction in a
critical
look at the science of global warming. The premise asks whether concerns
about
climate change are overblown. We speak with Crichton about his book and about
the politics of the global warming debate.
- N Korea Wages War On Long Hair, Men's Hairstyles Reflect Their 'Ideological
Spirit', 05/01/08, BBC, North Korea has launched an intensive media assault
on
its latest arch enemy - the wrong haircut.
- For Sale: One Biosphere, Gently Used, 05/01/09, NPR WE, NPR's Ted Robbins
reports that the 3-acre terrarium known as Biosphere 2 is up for sale.
Billionaire Ed Bass funded the facility, which contained several
self-sufficient earth habitats within a sealed greenhouse-like structure. But
infighting and financial problems resulted in the original experiment being
abandoned.
- Stopping the Bum's Rush, 05/01/04, NYTimes
- Even Einstein Had His Off Days, 05/01/02, NYTimes, While we should laud
Einstein's achievements, we may learn a more valuable lesson by investigating
his greatest failure.
- Gigantic Photoresponse in -Filled-Band Organic Salt (EDO-TTF)2PF6,
05/01/07,
Science : 86-89.
- Normalization of Tumor Vasculature: An Emerging Concept in Antiangiogenic
Therapy, 05/01/07, Rakesh K. Jain Science : 58-62 In clinical trials,
"anti-angiogenic" drugs, which are designed to destroy the blood vessels that
feed tumors, have limited efficacy when administered as single agents.
- A Comprehensive Survey of the Plasmodium Life Cycle by Genomic,
Transcriptomic, and Proteomic Analyses, 05/01/07, Science : 82-86. (...)
transcriptional profiling and proteomic analysis of several species of
parasite
has helped tease apart aspects of the little understood sexual cycle of these
parasites.
- Genome Sequence of the PCE-Dechlorinating Bacterium Dehalococcoides
ethenogenes, 05/01/07, Science : 105-108 Dehalococcoides ethenogenes is the
only bacterium known to reductively dechlorinate groundwater pollutants,
tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene (TCE), to ethylene.
- Decoding Calcium Signaling, 05/01/07, Science : 56-57.
- Spindle Multipolarity Is Prevented by Centrosomal Clustering, 05/01/07,
Science : 127-129.
- The Centromeric Protein Sgo1 Is Required to Sense Lack of Tension on
Mitotic
Chromosomes, 05/01/07, Science : 130-133.
- Atom Collision-Induced Resistivity of Carbon Nanotubes, 05/01/07, Science:
89-93
- Disks Around Stars and the Growth of Planetary Systems, 05/01/07, Science :
68-71
- The Kuiper Belt and the Solar System's Comet Disk, 05/01/07, Science :
71-75
- Black Hole Accretion, 05/01/07, Science : 77-80
- Oldest Civilization in the Americas Revealed, 05/01/07, Science : 34-35
- Carbon Trading Grows Into New Year, 05/01/07, Nature News, Volume rises as
price falls in first week of EU trading scheme.
- Terror Shows Only In The Eyes, 05/01/05, Nature News, Knowing where to look
is key to recognizing others' emotions.
- Inadequate Warning System Left Asia At The Mercy Of Tsunami, 05/01/05,
Nature
News, Scientists and governments were caught unprepared.
- Linguistic Perception: Neural Processing Of A Whistled Language, 05/01/06,
Nature 433, 31 - 32 A rare surrogate of Spanish highlights the adaptability
of
the brain's language regions., DOI: 10.1038/433031a
- A Mechanism For Impaired Fear Recognition After Amygdala Damage, 05/01/06,
Nature 433, 68 - 72, DOI: 10.1038/nature03086
- Reflections On Insecticides: Mirror Forms Of Agrochemicals Set Risk,
05/01/08, ScienceNews, The toxicity of an insecticide or how long it persists
in the environment depends on which mirror-image form of the chemical is
present.
- Bad Combo? Some Antidepressants May Hamper Breast Cancer Drug, 05/01/08,
ScienceNews, Certain widely used antidepressants and a woman's own genes
might
diminish the effect of tamoxifen, a frontline breast cancer drug.
- Ring Robber, Science News. Images taken by the Cassini spacecraft provide
graphic evidence of Saturn's moon Prometheus stealing particles from the
planet's narrow F ring.
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20.02. Webcast Announcements
[75]
1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7
[76]
Neurobiological Foundation For The Meaning Of Information, Kolkata, India,
Conference Webcast, 04/11/22-25
[77] ALife 9: Ninth International Conference on Artificial Life, Boston, MA,
04/09/12-15
The 4th Intl Workshop on Meta-synthesis and Complex System, Beijing, China,
04/07/22-23
Intl Conf on Complex Networks: Structure, Function and Processes, Kolkata,
India, 04/06/27-30
>From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela
(1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20
ECC8 Experimental Chaos Conference, Florence, Italy,
04/06/14-17
Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium,
04/05/26-28
International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21
Life, a Nobel Story, Brussels, Belgium, 04/04/28
Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics Days, Brussels, Belgium,
04/04/26-27
Science Education Forum for Chinese Language Culture, Panel Discussion,
Taipei, Taiwan, 04/05/01
Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology, ,
Lausanne,Switzerland, 04/01/29-30
Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H.,
Internet-First University Press, 1994
[78] World Economic Forum 2004, Davos, Switzerland [79] Riding the Next
Democratic Wave, Al-Thani, Khan, Vike-Freiberga, Wade, Soros, Zakaria, World
Economic Forum, 04/01/25
[80] The Future of Global Interdependence, Kharrazi, Held, Owens, Shourie,
Annan, Martin, Schwab, World Economic Forum, 04/01/25 [81] Why Victory
Against Terrorism Demands Shared Values
CODIS 2004, International Conference On Communications, Devices And
Intelligent Systems, 2004 Calcutta, India, 04/01/09-10 EVOLVABILITY &
INTERACTION: Evolutionary Substrates of Communication, Signaling, and
Perception in the Dynamics of Social Complexity, London, UK, 03/10/08-10
The Semantic Web and Language Technology - Its Po tential and
Practicalities, Bucharest, Romania, 03/07/28-08/08 ECAL 2003, 7th European
Conference on Artificial Life, Dortmund, Germany, 03/09/14-17 New Santa Fe
Institute President About His Vision for SFI's Future Role, (Video, Santa
Fe, NM, 03/06/04) SPIE's 1st Intl Symp on Fluctuations and Noise, Santa
Fe, NM, 2003/06/01-04 NAS Sackler Colloquium on Mapping Knowledge Domains,
Video/Audio Report, 03/05/11 13th Ann Intl Conf, Soc f Chaos Theory in
Psych & Life Sciences, Boston, MA, USA, 2003/08/08-10 CERN Webcast
Service, Streamed videos of Archived Lectures and Live Events Dean
LeBaron's Archive of Daily Video Commentary, Ongoing Since February 1998
Edge Videos
[75] http://www.comdig2.de/Conf/ECCS04/Target=new
[76] http://www.comdig2.de/Conf/ICONIP04/ Target=new
[77] http://www.comdig2.de/Conf/ALife9 Target=new
[78]
http://www.worlductx.com/worldeconomicforum_annualmeeting2004/default.asp
[79] http://www.worlductx.com/worldeconomicforum_annualmeeting2004/_S9958.asp
[80]
http://www.worlductx.com/worldeconomicforum_annualmeeting2004/_S10881.asp
[81]
http://www.worlductx.com/worldeconomicforum_annualmeeting2004/_S10895.asp
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20.03. Conference & Call for Papers Announcements
[82] Online Course on Genetic Programming, with Lee Altenberg,
University of Hawaii Outreach College 2005/01/10 to 2005/05/13.
Complex Systems and International Security, Washington, DC, 05/02/01
Kondratieff Waves, Warfare And World Security, NATO Advanced Research
Workshop , Covilh? Portugal, 05/02/14-17
2005 Meeting Arbeitskreis Physik sozio-onomischer Systeme, AKSOE
(Socio-Economic-Physics), Physik seit Einstein, Berlin, Germany,
05/03/04-09
2005 World Exposition " [83]
Nature's Wisdom, Aichi, Japan, 05/03/25-09/25
FINCO 2005: Foundations Of Interactive Computation, Edinburgh, Scotland,
05/04/09
5th Creativity And Cognition Conference, London.UK, 05/04/12-15
Social Intelligence and Interaction in Animals, Robots and Agents, Hatfield,
UK, 05/04/12-15
2005 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show
Nanotech 2005, Anaheim, California, U.S.A., 05/05/08-12
2ndShanghai Intl Symposium on Nonlinear Science and Applications, Shanghai,
05/06/03-07
IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium
Pasadena, California, USA, 05/06/08-10
Powders & Grains 2005, Stuttgart, Germany, 05/06/18-22
6th Intl Conf Symmetry in Nonlinear Mathematical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine,
05/06/20-26
Workshop on Complexity and Policy Analysis, Cork, Ireland, 05/06/22-24
2005 Genetic And Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005),
Washington,
DC, USA, 05/06/25-29
5th Gathering on?Biosemiotics, Urbino, Italy, 05/07/22-24
ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, Canterbury, Kent,
UK, 05/09/05-09
Complexity, Science and Society Conf 2005, Liverpool, UK, 05/09/11-14
18th International Conference on Noise and Fluctuations (ICNF 2005),
Salamanca, Spain, 05/09/19-23
CSDS-2005 Intl Conf on CONTROL AND SYNCHRONIZATION OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS ,
Leon, Guanajuato, MEXICO, 05/10/04-07
3rd International Complexity Science and Educational Research Conference,
Robert, Louisiana, 05/11/20-22, see also: Complicity: An International
Journal of Complexity and Education, Inaugural issue - Free Online Access
[82] http://dynamics.org/UH_ICS/691_GP/Announcement.html target=new [83]
http://www.expo2005.com/expo_facts.htm Target=new
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