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

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01. Selection Spurred Recent Evolution, Researchers Say , NY Times

Excerpts: By dating the time that each of the genes came under selection, they
have found that the rate of human evolution was fairly steady until about
50,000 years ago and then accelerated up until 10,000 years ago, they report in
the current issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The
high rate of selection has probably continued to the present day, Dr. Moyzis
said, but current data are not adequate to pick up recent selection.

* [4] Selection Spurred Recent Evolution, Researchers Say, Nicholas Wade,
07/12/11, NYTimes

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/science/11gene.html

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01.01. Are Humans Evolving Faster? Findings Suggest We Are Becoming More
Different, Not Alike , PhysOrg.com

Excerpts: Researchers discovered genetic evidence that human evolution is
speeding up - and has not halted or proceeded at a constant rate, as had been
thought - indicating that humans on different continents are becoming
increasingly different. ¡§We used a new genomic technology to show that humans
are evolving rapidly, and that the pace of change has accelerated a lot in the
last 40,000 years, especially since the end of the Ice Age roughly 10,000 years
ago,¡¨ says research team leader Henry Harpending, a distinguished professor of
anthropology at the University of Utah.

* [5] Are Humans Evolving Faster? Findings Suggest We Are Becoming More
Different, Not Alike, 07/12/10, PhysOrg.com

[5] http://www.physorg.com/news116529402.html

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01.02. Why Leaders Must Evolve , CIO Leader

Excerpts: Leaders who can adapt themselves to change have a competitive edge in
a world where the traditional model of management is in danger of becoming
obsolete. The management model is being challenged. The weakening economy, an
escalating credit crisis and the rising price of oil have led to market jitters
and the departures of CEOs of major financial institutions like CitiCorp and [6
]
Merrill Lynch. With those events as the backdrop, [7] New York Times reporter
Nelson D. Schwartz wondered in an article last month if we would see the rise
of the CEO 3.0.

* [8] Why Leaders Must Evolve, John Baldoni, 07/12/10, CIO Leader

[6] http://www.cio.com/article/162851/subject/Merrill+Lynch+%26+Co.+Inc.
[7] http://www.cio.com/article/162851/subject/The+New+York+Times+Company
[8] http://cxolyris.cxomedia.com/t/1415588/2974068/14888/0/

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02. The Economic Fundamentals of Global Warming , SFI Working Papers

Excerpt: If unpriced emission of greenhouse gases imposes real costs on future
generations, both present and future generations can enjoy a higher consumption
of economic goods and services through the correction of this unpriced
externality, so there is no real economic opportunity cost to mitigation of
global warming. The misperception that control of global warming is costly
rests on the mistaken assumption that the investment allocation of the world
economy without mitigation measures is efficient, but in the presence of an
externality the world economy is not on its efficiency frontier. (...)

* [9] The Economic Fundamentals of Global Warming, Duncan K. Foley, DOI: SFI-WP
07-12-044, SFI Working Papers
* Contributed by [10] Carlos Gershenson

[9] http://www.santafe.edu/research/publications/wpabstract/200712044
[10] http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/

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02.01. Dynamics of Technological Development in the Energy Sector , SFI Working
Papers

Excerpt: This paper reviews the literature on trends of technological
improvement, focusing on the energy sector. We discuss the extent to which past
trends can be used to predict the future improvement paths of technologies. The
historical trends for certain technologies, such as wind and photovoltaics,
have been much more regular than those of other technologies, such as nuclear
fission or natural gas. (...)

* [11] Dynamics of Technological Development in the Energy Sector, J. Doyne
Farmer and Jessika Trancik, DOI: SFI-WP 07-12-046, SFI Working Papers
* Contributed by [12] Carlos Gershenson

[11] http://www.santafe.edu/research/publications/wpabstract/200712046
[12] http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/

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03. Humans Appear Hardwired To Learn By 'Over-Imitation' , ScienceDaily

Excerpts: Children learn by imitating adults--so much so that they will rethink
how an object works if they observe an adult taking unnecessary steps when usin
g
that object, (...). "Even when you add time pressure, or warn the children not
to do the unnecessary actions, they seem unable to avoid reproducing the
adult's irrelevant actions," said Derek Lyons, (...). "They have already
incorporated the actions into their idea of how the object works." Learning by
imitation occurs from the simplest preverbal communication to the most complex
adult expertise. It is the basis for much of our success as a species, (...).

* [13] Humans Appear Hardwired To Learn By 'Over-Imitation', 2007/12/06,
ScienceDaily
* Contributed by [14] Atin Das

[13] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071205102433.htm
[14] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in

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03.01. Brain Sensor for Market Research , Technology Review

Excerpts:     Mind the marketing: Emsense has developed a sensor-laden headset
(above) that testers in market-research studies wear. It tracks brain activity
using a single electroencephalography sensor (EEG) at the forehead, as well as
other sensors that monitor breathing rate, head motion, heart rate, blink rate,
and skin temperature. Credit: Emsense     (...) collecting data on how viewers
reacted to specific events in commercials and games, such as an intense battle
scene, or a joke or a sales pitch in an ad. The company used this data to build
mathematical models describing how physiological signals change in response to
specific events. The technology, he claims, can let a game maker know the point
at which people get sucked into a game and the point at which they lose
interest. An advertiser can learn if its sales pitch comes at a time when
commercial watchers have a positive or a negative feeling about the ad, Lee
says.

* [15] Brain Sensor for Market Research, Kate Greene, 07/12/07, Technology
Review

[15] http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/19833/

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04. Subliminal Smells Bias Perception About A Person's Likeability ,
ScienceDaily

Excerpts: Anyone who has bonded with a puppy madly sniffing with affection gets
an idea of how scents, most not apparent to humans, are critical to a dog's
appreciation of her two-legged friends. Now new research from Northwestern
University suggests that humans also pick up infinitesimal scents that affect
whether or not we like somebody. "We evaluate people every day and make
judgments about who we like or don't like," said Wen Li, (...). "We may think
our judgments are based only on various conscious bits of information, but our
senses also may provide subliminal perceptual information that affects our
behavior." (...)

* [16] Subliminal Smells Bias Perception About A Person's Likeability,
2007/12/08, ScienceDaily
* Contributed by [17] Atin Das

[16] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071206163437.htm
[17] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in

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04.01. Smell Experience During Critical Period Alters Brain , ScienceDaily

Excerpts: Unlike the circuitry of the visual system, that of the olfactory
system was thought to be hardwired: Once the neurons had formed, no amount of
sensory input could change their arrangement. Now researchers (...) have
upturned this scientific dogma by showing that there is a sensitive period
during which the external environment can alter a circuit in the fly brain that
detects carbon dioxide, a gas that alerts flies to food and mates. This researc
h
may suggest that this brain plasticity isn't limited to the carbon dioxide
detection circuit. Rather, it may be a general feature of the olfactory system
itself. (...)

* [18] Smell Experience During Critical Period Alters Brain, 2007/12/06,
ScienceDaily
* Contributed by [19] Atin Das

[18] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071205122546.htm
[19] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in

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05. Picture-Sorting Dogs Show Human-Like Thought , New Scientist

Excerpts:     Four dogs were simultaneously shown photographs of a landscape
and of a dog, and were rewarded if they selected the latter using a
paw-operated computer (Image: Huber et al / Springer)     It seems dogs can
place photographs into categories the same way humans do, an ability previously
identified only in birds and primates. (...) trained dogs to distinguish
photographs that depicted dogs from those that did not. "We know they can
categorise 'food' or 'enemies' from experience," says Range, "but this is the
first time we've taught them an abstract concept - 'a dog' - and shown they can
transfer this knowledge to a new situation."

* [20] Picture-Sorting Dogs Show Human-Like Thought, 07/12/08, NewScientist

[20]
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19626333.900-picturesorting-dogs-show-hum
anlike-thought.html

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06. The Robots Among Us , S.F. Chronicle

Excerpts: In fact, today's 'bots are so primitive some may wonder, why take
them seriously? Perhaps because high-tech and biotech pioneers are among their
cheerleaders. Watching the DARPA race in November Apple co-founder Steve
Wozniak likens robotics today to computing in the mid-1970s. Genentech chief
executive Art Levinson was also in the stands, rooting for his 24-year-old son
Jesse Levinson, a graduate student who helped write the Stanford robo-car's
software. "He says what I do is too easy," says the biotech exec.

* [21] The Robots Among Us, Tom Abate, 07/12/09, S.F. Chronicle

[21] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/09/CMT8TBLM9.DTL

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06.01. Toyota Tunes Up Robo-Violinist: Robotics To Be A 'Core Business' By 2020
, vnunet.com

Excerpts: Toyota has announced a major push into robotics, showing off its
latest creations including human-sized robot that can play the violin. The
company demonstrated a 5ft robot with 17 joints in each hand and arm performing
a full rendition of Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance. The rendition was note
perfect, but was described by some as "stilted". A video of the robot is
available on YouTube. "Over the next two to three years, we will put the robots
to the test through trial applications and see what kind of business
possibilities they present," Toyota president Katsuaki Watanabe told The
Guardian. (...)

* [22] Toyota Tunes Up Robo-Violinist: Robotics To Be A 'Core Business' By
2020, I. Thomson, 2007/12/07, vnunet.com
* Contributed by [23] Atin Das

[22] http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2205306/toyota-unveils-robot-violinist
[23] mailto:dasatin at yahoo.co.in

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06.02. Warning Sounded Over 'Flirting Robots' , CNET News.Com

Excerpts: A program that can mimic online flirtation and then extract personal
information from its unsuspecting conversation partners is making the rounds in
Russian chat forums, (...). "As a tool that can be used by hackers to conduct
identity fraud, CyberLover demonstrates an unprecedented level of social
engineering," PC Tools senior malware analyst Sergei Shevchenko said in a
statement. Among CyberLover's creepy features is its ability to offer a range
of different profiles from "romantic lover" to "sexual predator." It can also
lead victims to a "personal" Web site, which could be used to deliver malware,
PC Tools said.

* [24] Warning Sounded Over 'Flirting Robots', Ina Fried, 07/12/07, CNET
News.Com

[24] http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9831133-56.html

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06.03. Micro-Robot Olympics Reveal Champion Swimmer , NewScientist.com

Excerpts:     3D models of micro-swimming robots could help researchers find
the best designs (Image: Dennis Rapaport)     All the simulations carried out
so far have been in two dimensions. The designs tested were all rod shaped and
about 26 nanometres in length but with many different forms of propulsion,
including jets, paddles, and snaking tails.  In the efficiency stakes, a design
dubbed "tracks" was found to be the winner. This design has a surface that move
s
from its front to its back, like a caterpillar's tracks, "or the longitudinal
surface waves of cilia," says Rapaport.

* [25] Micro-Robot Olympics Reveal Champion Swimmer, Tom Simonite, 07/12/12,
NewScientist.com

[25]
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13041-microrobot-olympics-reveal-c
hampion-swimmer.html

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06.04. Virtual 3D Nanorobots Could Lead To Real Cancer-Fighting Technology ,
PhysOrg.com

Excerpts:     Nanorobots search for organ-inlets demanding protein injection.
Image credit: Adriano Cavalcanti, et al.     From eliminating the side effects
of chemotherapy to treating Alzheimer's disease, the potential medical
applications of nanorobots are vast and ambitious. In the past decade,
researchers have made many improvements on the different systems required for
developing practical nanorobots, such as sensors, energy supply, and data
transmission.  (...) a group of researchers has recently developed an
innovative approach to help in the research and development of nanorobots -
virtual reality.  (...) the NCD [Nanorobot Control Design, Ed.] simulations
show how to interact and control a nanorobot inside the body.¡¨

* [26] Virtual 3D Nanorobots Could Lead To Real Cancer-Fighting Technology,
Lisa Zyga, 07/12/05, PhysOrg.com

[26] http://physorg.com/news116071209.html

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07. Do Our Brains Work Like Google? , New Scientist

Excerpts: Google's patented and powerful search algorithm, PageRank, may mimic
the way the human brain retrieves information. Our memory for words can be
modelled as a network in which each point represents a different word, with
each linked to words that relate to it. Psychologist Tom Griffiths and
colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, wondered whether the ease
with which the brain retrieves words is similar to the way that websites are
ranked by PageRank: by the number of sites that link to them.

* [27] Do Our Brains Work Like Google?, 07/12/08, New Scientist

[27]
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/brain/mg19626335.500-do-our-brains-w
ork-like-google.html
,

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07.01. Neuroscience: Gene Variant May Influence How People Learn From Their
Mistakes , Science

Excerpts: "Once burned, twice shy" works for most people. But some people are
slow to learn from bad experiences. Now, a team of neuroscientists in Germany
reports on page [28] 1642 that people with a particular gene variant have more
difficulty learning via negative reinforcement.  The research, which combined
brain imaging with a task in which participants chose between symbols on a
computer screen, centers on the A1 variant, or allele, of the gene encoding the
D2 receptor, a protein on the surface of brain cells activated by the
neurotransmitter dopamine.

* [29] Neuroscience: Gene Variant May Influence How People Learn From Their
Mistakes, Constance Holden, 07/12/07, Science : 1539.

[28] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5856/1642
[29] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5856/1539a

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08. Cancer: Immune Pact With The Enemy , Nature

Excerpts: Progress comes from the latest investigations into a long-standing
question in immunology - the role of the immune system in maintaining small,
potentially cancerous lesions in a state of dormancy. (...) A downside of such
treatment [immunosuppressive chemotherapy or irradiation, Ed.] could be the
escape of dormant tumour cells from immune control. Dormant cells themselves
are likely to be less susceptible to these treatments, which primarily target
rapidly dividing cells.
Editor's Note: See also [30] 
Dean LeBaron's webcast  of Oct, 10, 2007: 
[31] 
Cancer Cures Suggest Terror Cures 

* [32] Cancer: Immune Pact With The Enemy, Cornelis J. M. Melief, 07/12/06,
DOI: 10.1038/nature06363, Nature 450, 803-804

[30] http://www.deanlebaron.com/realmedia/index.html Target= new
[31] http://easylink.playstream.com/virtualquest/oct07/101007.rm Target= new
[32] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7171/full/nature06363.html

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08.01. Adaptive Immunity Maintains Occult Cancer In An Equilibrium State ,
Nature

Excerpts: Herein we use a mouse model of primary chemical carcinogenesis and
demonstrate that equilibrium occurs, is mechanistically distinguishable from
elimination and escape, and that neoplastic cells in equilibrium are
transformed but proliferate poorly in vivo. We also show that tumour cells in
equilibrium are unedited but become edited when they spontaneously escape
immune control and grow into clinically apparent tumours. These results reveal
that, in addition to destroying tumour cells and sculpting tumour
immunogenicity, the immune system of a naive mouse can also restrain cancer
growth for extended time periods.

* [33] Adaptive Immunity Maintains Occult Cancer In An Equilibrium State,
Catherine M. Koebel,  William Vermi,  Jeremy B. Swann,  Nadeen Zerafa,  Scott
J. Rodig,  Lloyd J. Old,  Mark J. Smyth,  Robert D. Schreiber, 07/12/06, DOI:
10.1038/nature06309, Nature 450, 903-907

[33] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7171/abs/nature06309.html

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08.02. Breast Cancer Spread by Blocking Tumor-Killing Gene, Study Says ,
Bloomberg.com

Excerpts: One of the most drug-resistant forms of breast cancer is caused by a
cellular mutation that destroys a tumor-fighting gene, researchers said. Women
carrying a defective copy of the BRCA1 gene have up to an 80 percent lifetime
risk of developing the disease, doctors have found. Scientists now say they've
uncovered the process that makes this form of breast cancer so hard to stop.

* [34] Breast Cancer Spread by Blocking Tumor-Killing Gene, Study Says, Lisa
Rapaport, 07/12/09, Bloomberg.com

[34]
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aYwzc.iLgtg4&refer=news

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08.03. Keeping At-Risk Cells From Developing Cancer , PhysOrg.com

Excerpts: Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that cancers arising
from epigenetic changes - in this case the inappropriate activation of a
normally silent gene - develop by becoming addicted to certain growth factors.
Reporting online in next week's Early Edition of the Proceedings of the
National Academies of Sciences, the team shows that blocking this "addiction"
can greatly prevent cancer growth. "If this is translatable to people, it could
be really exciting," (..). "It means we might be able to do something about
at-risk cells before cancer develops, and treat these cells biochemically and
specifically, rather than using current drugs that are nonspecific and kill
everything in their path."

* [35] Keeping At-Risk Cells From Developing Cancer, 07/12/10, PhysOrg.com

[35] http://www.physorg.com/news116529597.html

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08.04. Why the Switch Stays On: Scientists Discover Reasons Behind Cancerous
Cellular Interactions , PhysOrg.com

Excerpts: Cellular processes, such as when to multiply, are often regulated by
switches that control the frequency and timing of interactions between
proteins. North Carolina State University scientists have discovered the way in
which a specific protein-protein interaction prevents the cell from turning one
of its switches off, leading to uncontrolled cell proliferation - one of the
hallmarks of cancer.

* [36] Why the Switch Stays On: Scientists Discover Reasons Behind Cancerous
Cellular Interactions, 07/12/11, PhysOrg.com

[36] http://physorg.com/news116612970.html

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09. New Computational Technique Can Predict Drug Side Effects , Science Daily

Excerpts: Early identification of adverse effects of drugs before they are
tested in humans is crucial in developing new therapeutics, as unexpected
effects account for a third of all drug failures during the development
process. (...) Drug molecules are designed to bind to targeted proteins in
order to achieve a therapeutic affect, but if the small drug molecule that
functions as a "key" attaches to an off-target protein that has a similar
binding site, or "lock," side effects can result.

* [37] New Computational Technique Can Predict Drug Side Effects, 07/12/13,
ScienceDaily

[37] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071211232919.htm

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09.01. Remotely Controlled Drugs - Nanoparticles Can Be Activated By Radio
Frequencies. , Technology Review

Excerpts:     Remote-controlled drugs: Nanoparticles implanted in model tumors
in mice release a drug (dyed green) into surrounding tissues when the mouse is
exposed to radio-frequency waves. Credit: Sangeeta Bhatia, MIT     The only way
for doctors to verify that cancer drugs are reaching a patient's tumor is to
scan patients after weeks of treatments to see if the tumor has shrunk. In the
hopes of shortening this process, improving outcomes for cancer patients, and
reducing the side effects of chemotherapy, MIT engineers are developing
remote-controlled, multipurpose nanoparticles. These compounds act as both
precise drug-delivery vehicles and contrast agents for magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI). (...) The nanoparticles, made by Sangeeta Bhatia of MIT's
Division of Health Sciences and Technology, are iron-oxide spheres bound to
tumor-targeting peptides and strands of DNA.

* [38] Remotely Controlled Drugs - Nanoparticles Can Be Activated By Radio
Frequencies., Katherine Bourzac, 07/12/06, Technology Review

[38] http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/19823/

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10. Glow-In-The-Dark Cat Could Help Cut Disease , Telegraph.co.uk

Excerpts:     One of the modified kittens    Scientists have genetically
modified three kittens so they appear fluorescent under ultra-violet light in a
procedure which could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases. (...)
To clone the cats the team used skin cells of the mother cat and modified its
genes to make them fluorescent by using a virus, which was transplanted into
the ova. The ova were then implanted into the womb of the donor cat.(...)

* [39] Glow-In-The-Dark Cat Could Help Cut Disease, Lucy Cockcroft, 07/12/13,
Telegraph.co.uk

[39]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/13/ncat113.xml

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11. Microbiology: Bilingual Bacteria , Nature

Excerpts: Many bacteria use chemical signals to coordinate group behaviour. A
signal that suppresses virulence has been identified in the bacterium that
causes cholera, and could be a new therapeutic target. Like people, many
bacteria do things in groups that they don't do on their own. These communal
activities can be spectacular; the marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri, for
example, produces bioluminescence in the light organs of deep-sea fish.

* [40] Microbiology: Bilingual Bacteria, Matthew R. Parsek, 07/12/06, DOI:
10.1038/450805a, Nature 450, 805-807

[40] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7171/full/450805a.html

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11.01. Host - Parasite 'Red Queen' Dynamics Archived In Pond Sediment , Nature

Excerpts: Dormant stages of both the water flea Daphnia and its microparasites
are conserved in lake sediments, providing an archive of past gene pools. Here
we use this fact to reconstruct rapid coevolutionary dynamics in a natural
setting and show that the parasite rapidly adapts to its host over a period of
only a few years. A coevolutionary model based on negative frequency-dependent
selection, and designed to mimic essential aspects of our host-parasite system,
corroborated these experimental results. In line with the idea of continuing
host-parasite coevolution, temporal variation in parasite infectivity changed
little over time.

* [41] Host - Parasite 'Red Queen' Dynamics Archived In Pond Sediment, Ellen
Decaestecker,  Sabrina Gaba,  Joost A. M. Raeymaekers,  Robby Stoks,  Liesbeth
Van Kerckhoven,  Dieter Ebert,  LucDe Meester, 07/12/06, DOI:
10.1038/nature06291, Nature 450, 870-873

[41] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7171/full/nature06291.html

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12. Plant Science: The Power Of The Pyramid , Science

Excerpts: The use of crops that are genetically engineered to produce Bacillus
thuringiensis (Bt) toxins has risen rapidly to more than 32 million hectares in
2006, resulting in substantially reduced use of insecticides and increased
grower profit. However, with the increased use of Bt crops, such as corn and
cotton (see the figure), comes the threat that target pests may develop
resistance to these toxins. To date, there have been no reports of Bt
resistance occurring in field populations of insects during the 11 years that
Bt crops have been commercialized.

* [42] Plant Science: The Power Of The Pyramid, William J. Moar,  Konasale J.
Anilkumar, 07/12/07, DOI: 10.1126/science.1151313, Science Vol. 318. no. 5856,
pp. 1561 - 1562

[42] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5856/1561

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12.01. Ecology: How Do Roots Interact? , Science

Excerpts: Several studies have shown that roots respond to neighboring roots in
a very specific manner that depends on the identity of the neighbor ( [43] 4-
[44] 6). Root extension tends to be greater when roots grow into substrate
containing "nonself " roots of a genetically different individual or a detached
plant with the same genotype than when "self " roots of the same (physiological
and genetic) individual are encountered. Dudley and File have recently shown
that plants of the Great Lakes Sea Rocket (Cakile edentula) invested more
biomass in fine roots when they competed with unrelated individuals than when
they competed with siblings ( [45] 7).

* [46] Ecology: How Do Roots Interact?, Hans de Kroon, 07/12/07, Science :
1562-1563.

[43] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5856/1562#ref4
[44] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5856/1562#ref6
[45] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5856/1562#ref7
[46] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5856/1562

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13. Ancient Flood Brought Gulf Stream To A Halt , New Scientist

Excerpts: It was the biggest climate event of the last 10,000 years and caused
the most dramatic change in the weather since humans began farming. And it may
yet hold important lessons about climate change in the 21st century. Just over
8000 years ago, a huge glacial lake in Canada burst, and an estimated 100,000
cubic kilometres of fresh water rushed into the North Atlantic. Researchers now
say they know for sure that this catastrophic event shut down the Gulf Stream
and cooled parts of the northern hemisphere by several degrees for more than a
hundred years.

* [47] Ancient Flood Brought Gulf Stream To A Halt, Fred Pearce, 07/12/06,
NewScientist.com

[47]
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn13013?DCMP=NLC-nletterbanne
r&nsref=dn13013

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14. A Hierarchy Of Timescales In Protein Dynamics Is Linked To Enzyme Catalysis
, Nature

Excerpts: The synergy between structure and dynamics is essential to the
function of biological macromolecules. Thermally driven dynamics on different
timescales have been experimentally observed or simulated, and a direct link
between micro- to milli-second domain motions and enzymatic function has been
established. However, very little is understood about the connection of these
functionally relevant, collective movements with local atomic fluctuations,
which are much faster. Here we show that pico- to nano-second timescale atomic
fluctuations in hinge regions of adenylate kinase facilitate the large-scale,
slower lid motions that produce a catalytically competent state.

* [48] A Hierarchy Of Timescales In Protein Dynamics Is Linked To Enzyme
Catalysis, 07/12/06, DOI: 10.1038/nature06407, Nature 450, 913-916

[48] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7171/full/nature06407.html
Katherine A. Henzler-Wildman$ Ming Lei$ Vu Thai$ S. Jordan Kerns$ Martin
Karplus $Dorothee Kern

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14.01. Lightning Bolts Within Cells - A New Nanoscale Tool Reveals Strong
Electric Fields Inside Cells. , Technology Review

Excerpts:     The cell electric: Encapsulated in a polymer shell just 30
nanometers across, voltage-sensitive dyes (red) emit red and green light when
illuminated with blue light. These encapsulated dyes make it possible to
measure electric fields inside cells. Credit: Raoul Kopelman, University of
Michigan      [49] Jerry S.H. Lee, a nanotechnology project manager also at the
National Cancer Institute, says that Kopelman's research bolsters the set of
nanoscale tools that scientists are developing to probe cells' physical
properties, such as special microscopic probes for measuring cell stiffness.
(See " [50] The Feel of Cancer Cells.") In the past decade, researchers have
improved cancer diagnosis by examining protein markers and genetic signatures.
Now they're "thinking of how nanotechnology can make tools to look at
additional signatures" like electric fields, says Lee.

* [51] Lightning Bolts Within Cells - A New Nanoscale Tool Reveals Strong
Electric Fields Inside Cells., Katherine Bourzac, 07/12/10, Technology Review

[49] http://nano.cancer.gov/about_alliance/bios_alliance.asp#Lee target=_blank
[50] http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/19808/ target=_blank
[51] http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19841/

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15. Researchers Develop Better Membranes For Water Treatment, Drug Delivery ,
PhysOrg.com

Excerpts: Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new
generation of biomimetic membranes for water treatment and drug delivery. The
highly permeable and selective membranes are based on the incorporation of the
functional water channel protein Aquaporin Z into a novel A-B-A triblock
copolymer. The experimental membranes, currently in the form of vesicles, show
significantly higher water transport than existing reverse-osmosis membranes
used in water purification and desalination. (...). "We took a close look at
how kidneys so efficiently transport water through a membrane with aquaporins,
and then we found a way to duplicate that in a synthetic system," (...).

* [52] Researchers Develop Better Membranes For Water Treatment, Drug Delivery,
07/11/29, PhysOrg.com

[52] http://physorg.com/news115565918.html

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16. Role Models for Complex Networks , SFI Working Papers

Excerpt: We present a framework for automatically decomposing
("block-modeling'') the functional classes of agents within a complex network.
These classes are represented by the nodes of an image graph ("block model'')
depicting the main patterns of connectivity and thus functional roles in the
network. Using a first principles approach, we derive a measure for the fit of
a network to any given image graph allowing objective hypothesis testing. (...)

* [53] Role Models for Complex Networks, Joerg Reichardt and Douglas R. White,
DOI: SFI-WP 07-12-045, SFI Working Papers
* Contributed by [54] Carlos Gershenson

[53] http://www.santafe.edu/research/publications/wpabstract/200712045
[54] http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/

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16.01. Synchrony In Silicon: The Gamma Rhythm , Neural Networks

Excerpt: In this paper, we present a network of silicon interneurons that
synchronize in the gamma frequency range (20-80 Hz). The gamma rhythm strongly
influences neuronal spike timing within many brain regions, potentially playing
a crucial role in computation. Yet it has largely been ignored in neuromorphic
systems, which use mixed analog and digital circuits to model neurobiology in
silicon. Our neurons synchronize by using shunting inhibition (conductance
based) with a synaptic rise time. Synaptic rise time promotes synchrony by
delaying the effect of inhibition, providing an opportune period for
interneurons to spike together. (...)

* [55] Synchrony In Silicon: The Gamma Rhythm, Arthur, J. V. ,  Boahen, K. A.,
Nov. 2007, online 2007/11/05, DOI: 10.1109/TNN.2007.900238, Neural Networks,
IEEE Transactions
* Contributed by [56] Pritha Das

[55]
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?isnumber=4362511&arnumber=435918
5&count=36&index=20
[56] mailto:prithadas01 at yahoo.com

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17. Optical Quantum Computing , Science

Excerpts: In 2001, all-optical quantum computing became feasible with the
discovery that scalable quantum computing is possible using only single-photon
sources, linear optical elements, and single-photon detectors. Although it was
in principle scalable, the massive resource overhead made the scheme
practically daunting. However, several simplifications were followed by
proof-of-principle demonstrations, and recent approaches based on cluster
states or error encoding have dramatically reduced this worrying resource
overhead, making an all-optical architecture a serious contender for the
ultimate goal of a large-scale quantum computer.

* [57] Optical Quantum Computing, Jeremy L. O'Brien, 07/12/07, DOI:
10.1126/science.1142892, Science: Vol. 318. no. 5856, pp. 1567 - 1570

[57] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5856/1567

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17.01. Optical Supercontinua Finally Explained , EE Times

Excerpts: When short pulses of light are sent down the photonic crystal fibers
that create supercontinua, the broadening of their wavelengths across the
entire visible and infrared spectrum is caused by solitons that block the light
pulses behind them, forcing them to shorten in wavelength and become
progressively bluer, while the solitons themselves lengthen, becoming redder.
This dual effect broadens the spectrum at both ends simultaneously, resulting
in ultrabroad-bandwidth light the fibers emit that is characteristic of
supercontinua.

* [58] Optical Supercontinua Finally Explained, R. Colin Johnson, 07/12/13, EE
Times

[58] http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204802888

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17.02. Turning Optical-Fibre Messages Into Sound Could Help Store The
Information. , Nature

Excerpts:     Light fantastic: sometimes you need to slow down
information.Corbis     They first send optical data as a stream of light pulses
into a short piece of standard optical fibre. Into the other end of the fibre
they send a different short pulse: the 'write' pulse. When the two sets of
pulses collide, they interfere, and an interference pattern is set up in the
fibre with areas of high and low intensity. This interference pattern in turn
affects the physical properties of the fibre, setting up an acoustic wave
because of a phenomenon called electrostriction. (...) (...) a 2-nanosecond
pulse could be held in the fibre for up to 12 nanoseconds.

* [59] Turning Optical-Fibre Messages Into Sound Could Help Store The
Information., Katharine Sanderson, 07/12/13, Nature News

[59] http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071213/full/news.2007.376.html

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18. Astronomy: A Texture in the Sky? , Science

Excerpts: If confirmed, the identification of a cosmic texture in the sky will
have provided us with good evidence that a phase transition in matter occurred
at an energy of roughly 1016 GeV, many orders of magnitude higher than energy
scales that can be reached in terrestrial experiments. The energy scale
involved in the candidate texture is close to the elusive Planck scale, an
energy where quantum gravity becomes important. A lesson to be learned from
this work is that Planck-scale physics may well be testable in the very near
future in cosmological observations.

* [60] Astronomy: A Texture in the Sky?, Robert Brandenberger, 07/12/07,
Science : 1560-1561.

[60] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5856/1560

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19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks 

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19.01. Bioterrorism: Panel Provides Peer Review of Intelligence Research ,
Science

Excerpts: A panel of life scientists from universities, companies, and
nongovernmental organizations has begun to assess the merit of projects
proposed and conducted by researchers at the 16 agencies under the aegis of the
Director of National Intelligence (DNI), as well as grant applications submitte
d
to the agencies. The Biological Sciences Expert Group (BSEG), with 24 core
members and an extended network of 40 others, has already met five times this
year at DNI's National Counterproliferation Center in McLean, Virginia. In
addition to helping screen and design projects to combat bioterrorism, the
group will analyze research findings, review the scientific validity of
intelligence assessments, and occasionally conduct its own studies.

* [61] Bioterrorism: Panel Provides Peer Review of Intelligence Research,
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, 07/12/07, Science : 1538.

[61] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/318/5856/1538

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19.02. Waterboarding Recounted - Ex-CIA Officer Says It 'Probably Saved Lives'
but Is Torture , Washington Post

Excerpts: Zayn Abidin Muhammed Hussein abu Zubaida, the first high-ranking
al-Qaeda member captured after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, broke in less than
a minute after he was subjected to the technique and began providing
interrogators with information that led to the disruption of several planned
attacks, said John Kiriakou, who served as a CIA interrogator in Pakistan.

* [62] Waterboarding Recounted - Ex-CIA Officer Says It 'Probably Saved Lives'
but Is Torture, Joby Warrick. Dan Eggen, 07/12/11, Washington Post

[62]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/10/AR2007121002091
.html

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20. Links & Snippets 

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20.01. Other Publications 

- Ten Simple Rules for Graduate Students, 2007/11/30, PLoS Comput Biol 3(11):
e229, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030229
- Computational Chemotaxis in Ants and Bacteria over Dynamic Environments,
2007/12/05, arXiv, DOI: 0712.0744
- Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data, SFI Working Papers, DOI: SFI-WP
07-12-049
- Coupled Contagion Dynamics of Fear and Disease: Mathematical and
Computational Explorations, SFI Working Papers, DOI: SFI-WP 07-12-048
- Damage Spreading and Criticality in Finite Random Dynamical Networks, SFI
Working Papers, DOI: SFI-WP 07-12-043
- New Direction For Chance Discovery?, 2007/12/07, Innovations-report
- Nanorings: Variable Nanocomposites: Small, Rigid DNA Rings With A Gap For The
Incorporation Of Functional Molecules, 2007/12/06, Innovations-report
- Cold Seeps Are Hot Spots For Life: New Deep-Sea Images Disprove Doctrine,
2007/12/07, Innovations-report
- African Elephants Have Expectations About The Locations Of Out-Of-Sight
Family Members, 2007/12/04, Biological Letters, DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0529
- Population Synchrony In Small-World Networks, 2007/12/04, Proceedings B:
Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1546
- The Effect Of Network Mixing Patterns On Epidemic Dynamics And The Efficacy
Of Disease Contact Tracing, 2007/12/04, Interface, DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2007.1272
- Online Library Gives Readers Access To 1.5 Million Books, 2007/12/06,
ScienceDaily
- Gene Implicated In Human Language Affects Song Learning In Songbirds,
2007/12/05, ScienceDaily
- Out Of Time?. The End Of Oil, Sep.-Nov. 2007 online 2007/11/06, Public Policy
Research, DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-540X.2007.00489.x
- Postcard From America. Why Poverty Is Back In The Spotlight, Sep.-Nov. 2007
online 2007/11/06, Public Policy Research, DOI:
10.1111/j.1744-540X.2007.00489.x
- What's So Special About China's Exports? A Comment, Sep.-Oct. 2007, online
2007/11/02, China & World Economy, DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-124X.2007.00081.x
- My Genome, Myself: Seeking Clues in DNA, 07/11/17, NYTimes
- Economics of Overexploitation Revisited, 07/12/07, Science : 1601. Profits
from fisheries are maximized at population sizes larger than those that produce
a sustainable yield, suggesting a way to counter industry opposition to lower
harvests.
- A Cosmic Microwave Background Feature Consistent with a Cosmic Texture,
07/10/25, Science : 1612-1614. An unusual cold spot in the cosmic microwave
background has properties expected of a cosmic texture, a predicted relic of
the decoupling of photons and atoms just after the Big Bang., DOI:
10.1126/science.1148694
- Genetically Determined Differences in Learning from Errors, 07/12/07,
Science: 1642-1645. A gene variant that leads to fewer dopamine receptors also
prevents people from learning from their mistakes and inhibits feedback to a
brain area that registers bad outcomes.
- Invention: Green Power Special, 07/12/10, NewScientist.com
- Ten Technology Letdowns of 2007, 07/12/10, CIO Leader, We had much to hail
this year, including rising IT salaries and better virtualization tools. But
plenty of other IT trends and products fell short. Read on about what's got us
feeling cheated this year.
- Strategies To Improve Teaching, 07/12/08, ScienecNews.The National Research
Council recommends that schools present fundamental concepts gradually over
several years (...).
- Earliest Galaxies Had Building Blocks Of Life, 07/12/08, NewScientist, The
universe might have been hospitable for life 500 million years earlier than we
thought, (...).

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20.02. Webcast Announcements 

 7th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 07/10/28-11/02

 [63] 
Reseau Nationale des Systemes Complexes , (in French), 2007

 [64] World Economic Forum , Davos, Switzerland, 07/01/24-28

TED Talks, TED Conferences LLC , since 2006

Talking Robots: The PodCast on Robotics and AI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne, Switzerland, 06/11/03

Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media 2006,
Budapest, Hungary, 06/08/03-05

 6th Intl Conf on Complex Systems (ICCS), Boston, MA, 06/06/25-30

Artificial Life X, 
10th Intl Conf on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Bloomington,
IN, USA. 2006/06/03-07

6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18

Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
 [65] An Afternoon with Michael Crichton, Washington, 05/11/06
 [66] 
Illuminating the Shadow of the Future, Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25

 [67] 
Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming
Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23

 [68] 
Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14

 [69] 
ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life, 
Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9

 [70] 
T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, [71] The Washington Center
for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), [72]
Podcast 

 [73] 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

 [74] Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and
Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC,
05/05/16-19

 [75] 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

 [76] 
1st European Conference on Complex Systems, Torino, Italy, 04/12/5-7

>From Autopoiesis to Neurophenomenology: A Tribute to Francisco Varela
(1946-2001), Paris, France, 2004/06/18-20

Evolutionary Epistemology, Language, and Culture, Brussels, Belgium,
04/05/26-28

International Conference on Complex Systems 2004, Boston, 04/05/16-21

Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos: Lab Demonstrations, Strogatz, Steven H.,
Internet-First University Press, 1994

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

[63] http://webcast.in2p3.fr/RNSC/ target=new
[64]
http://gaia.world-television.com/wef/worldeconomicforum_annualmeeting2007/Targe
t=new
[65] http://www.complexsys.org/news.htm target=new
[66] http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/05ISF/index.html target=new
[67] http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/ONCECS05/ target=new
[68] http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/CSS05/ target=new
[69] http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/ECAL2005/ target=new
[70] http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/Sanders0508/Sanders0508.mov target=new
[71] http://www.complexsys.org/ target=new
[72] http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/Sanders0508/Sanders.mp3
[73] http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/05NASPSA/ target=new
[74] http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/05UCS/ target=new
[75] http://www.comdig2.de/Conf/Nicolis05/Target=new
[76] http://www.comdig2.de/Conf/ECCS04/Target=new

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20.03. Conference Announcements 

The 3rd Indian Intl Conf on Artificial Intelligence
(IICAI-07), Pune, INDIA, 07/12/17-19

Winter School 2008: Chemical Discrimination and Localization using Biologically
Based Olfactory Processing,
San Diego, CA, 08/01/10-12

 [77] 
Evolution and Physics Concepts, Models and Applications,
Bad Honnef, Germany, 08/01/21-23

The 1st Conf on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08), Memphis, Tennessee,
USA, 08/03/01-03

The 3rd Intl Nonlinear Sciences Conference (INSC), Tokyo, Japan, 08/03/13-15

19th European Meeting On Cybernetics And Systems Research, (EMCSR 2008), 
Vienna, Austria, 08/03/25-28 

2nd KES Intl Symp on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems : Technologies and
Applications, Incheon, Korea, 08/03/26-28

[78] 
Fumee 1 - 1St Futures Meeting - Understanding Anticipatory Systems, Rovereto
(Italy), 08/04/10-12

1st Intl Conf on Social Entrepreneurship & Complexity,  Garden City, NY, USA,
08/04/10-12

[79] 
CHAOS2008
Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, Chania, Crete,
Greece, 08/06/03-06

Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Tenth Annual... Applying Systems Biology, San
Francisco, CA, 08/06/09-11

 [80] 
The 14th Intl Conf on Auditory Display (ICAD), Paris, France, 08/06/24-27

The 12th World Multi-Conf on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI
2008, Orlando, Florida, USA, 08/06/29-07/02

>From Animals To Animats 10 - The 10th Intl Conf on the Simulation Of Adaptive
Behavior (SAB'08), Osaka, Japan, 08/07/07-12

Stochastic Resonance 2008, Perugia, Italy, 08/08/17-21

[77] http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/staff/andrea-scharnhorst/heraeus.php
TARGET=new
[78] http://www.mitteleuropafoundation.org/events.html TARGET=new
[79] http://www.asmda.net/chaos2008/ TARGET=new
[80] http://http://icad08.ircam.fr TARGET=new

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20.04. Other Announcements 

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Wolfram Research is Now the Official Math Brain 
Trust for the Hit CBS Series NUMB3RS. 07/10/05

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