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#38261 From: "Hughes, James J." <James.Hughes@...>
Date: Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:54 pm
Subject: [wta-ann] Success! WTA Matching Grant Fund Drive Results
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Dear Fellow Transhumanists

It gives me great pleasure to announce the results of our Matching Grant
Fund Drive, which ended on February 2nd, 2008.

We received 165 donations, totaling $20,868.00 in cash.  However, Dan
Stoicescu not only donated $1,000 in cash, but pledged another $11,000
over the course of the year .  Pledges to be paid throughout the year
came to an additional $11,329, with a total amount raised for the Fund
Drive of $32,197.00!

Our Matching Grant donors, Bill Faloon of the Life Extension Foundation,
and Brian Cartmell, of Cartmell Holdings, further agreed that they would
increase the amount of their matching grant to cover the entire amount
of money raised!  That now gives the World Transhumanist Association a
total working budget for 2008 of nearly $65,000!  Thank you Bill, Brian,
and Dan for your tremendous generosity!

On behalf of all of the Board Members of the WTA, I want to again thank
all of you for your contributions and support of our organization.  We
have a lot of great plans for 2008, and can't wait to get things
rolling.

Best wishes,

James Clement
Executive Director
World Transhumanist Association

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#38260 From: "Hughes, James J." <James.Hughes@...>
Date: Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:34 pm
Subject: [wta-ann] 12 Hours Left for WTA Matching Grant Fund Drive
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Dear Fellow Transhumanists

With only 24-hours left for the Matching Grant, we have raised only
about $17,000 of the desired $25,000.  Please make your donation or join
the WTA  by Midnight, Jan. 31st, PST and have your contribution DOUBLED
through our Matching Grand Fund Drive!  Help us make the WTA the premier
grass-roots promoter of the transhumanist life stance.  If you are not
yet a paid member, I urge you to go to our Match page:

http://transhumanism.org/match

and donate now, we'll make sure your donation goes toward your
membership and is doubled by the Matching Grant.  If you are already a
paid member, please consider making an additional donation while our
Matching Grant Fund Drive is in progress.  For more information about
the fund drive and our plans for 2008, please see our Match page at

http://transhumanism.org/match.

Show your H+ spirit and make a donation today!

With sincere thanks,

James Clement,
Executive Director,
World Transhumanist Association

P.S. if you want, you can divide your donation up into monthly or
quarterly payments. Just change the frequency from "one-time" to
"monthly or quarterly."

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#38259 From: "Hughes, James J." <James.Hughes@...>
Date: Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:11 am
Subject: [wta-ann] January 2008 WTA Board Elections
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January 2008 WTA Board Elections

WTA Board members set policy goals and oversee their implementation,
contributing with their experience and expertise to the WTA's work.

Five WTA Board members' terms expire in January, and its time to think
about whether you want to run for the Board. Running for a board post
and voting in the election is open to all dues-paying, voting
("supporting" or "sustaining") members of the association in good
standing as of Saturday January 5th, 2008.

The Board meets and votes virtually, so no travel is required, although
Internet access is pretty important. If you can make it to the
Transvision conference each summer that would be great. We usually have
a face-to-face Board meeting at the Transvision conference.

The term of service is two years, which for these five open positions
means Jan 20, 2008 - Jan 20, 2010.

The period for self-nominations closes Sunday January 6th at noon GST.
Please send your candidate statements to WTA Secretary J. Hughes at
secretary@.... Candidate statements will be posted and
voting will take place from January 7th to January 11th.

Previous examples of candidate statements are here:

http://www.transhumanism.org/index.php/WTA/more/vote2006/

http://www.transhumanism.org/index.php/WTA/more/vote2007/

You can become a voting member here:

http://transhumanism.org/index.php/WTA/joinnow/

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James J. Hughes Ph.D.
Secretary, World Transhumanist Association
http://transhumanism.org
Williams 229B, Trinity College
300 Summit St., Hartford CT 06106
(office) 860-297-2376
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#38258 From: "Hughes, James J." <James.Hughes@...>
Date: Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:48 pm
Subject: [wta-ann] WTA Apponts New Executive Director
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James Clement Appointed Executive Director for the World Transhumanist Association

Posted : Tue, 28 Aug 2007

WILLINGTON, Conn., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of the World Transhumanist Association ("WTA") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. James Clement as its new Executive Director effective September 1, 2007.



About James Clement

Mr. Clement is an attorney and serial entrepreneur. His most recent position was C.O.O. of the Maximum Life Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to accelerate research into anti-aging and life- extension. Mr. Clement has successfully launched and operated a number of startup companies and held consulting and management positions in non-profit, government, and corporate organizations. He began his career in international business and real estate law, and worked for several years at Arthur Young & Company in New York City.

Mr. Clement has been awarded degrees from Truman State University, the University of California Hastings College of the Law, and the New York University School of Law.

Mr. Clement notes, "I'm looking forward to working on behalf of Transhumanism and the WTA. Never before have the tools to improve the human condition, including an end to starvation, mental and physical disease, and even death itself, been more powerful or readily available. I would like to see the WTA play an important role in encouraging the development and use of new technologies for positive change. I will work to help bring the Tranhumanists' 'Big Ideas' to more people around the world, and especially to college campuses, where these future technologies are being spawned."

Chair of the WTA and Director of the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute, Dr. Nick Bostrom, added: "Life extension, cognitive enhancement, and the use of biotechnology to enable lives that are 'better than well': these prospects are still opposed by some and regarded with indifference by many. We look forward to working with James Clement as he organizes the WTA, so it can achieve its mission -- to explain why these prospects are significant, and why they deserve to become social priorities."

About The World Transhumanist Association

The World Transhumanist Association is an international nonprofit membership organization which advocates the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities. We support the development of and access to new technologies that enable everyone to enjoy better minds, better bodies and better lives. In other words, we want people to be better than well.

Our website is: http://www.transhumanism.org/

Contact: Dr. James J. Hughes World Transhumanist Association Phone: 860-297-2376 Fax: 860-297-4136 secretary@...   http://www.transhumanism.org/

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#38257 From: "Hughes, James J." <James.Hughes@...>
Date: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:56 am
Subject: [wta-ann] JOB OPENING: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WTA
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JOB OPENING: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WORLD TRANSHUMANIST ASSOCIATION

The World Transhumanist Association is accepting applications for the
position of Executive Director. The Executive Director is responsible
for managing the affairs of the WTA under the Direction of the WTA Board
of Directors, including:

- directing the work of the Assistant Director
- re-designing and maintaining the transhumanism.org website
- fundraising
- managing WTA mailing lists, newsletters, and member communications
- maintaining contact with chapters and organizing committees, and
facilitating chapter growth
- maintaining contact with affiliates around the programmatic agenda
outlined by the Board
- representing the WTA and transhumanism in the media and other fora

Of these priorities, website re-design and maintenance is the highest
priority, and a candidate with website and graphic design experience
will be given careful consideration. Experience with organizational
management and fundraising, and an understanding of and commitment to
transhumanism, are also desired.

Location is irrelevant as the candidate will be expected to telework.
The successful candidate should be a fluent in English, with other world
languages a plus. (S)he is expected to have strong communication skills.

The position is voluntary, as funds are not yet sufficient to pay a
salary. However, the WTA Board of Directors looks forward to the point
at which fundraising enables some level of compensation for an ED, and
will periodically evaluate whether compensation is possible.

Applications will be accepted until July 30. A final decision will be
made by August 30, and the position will begin September 1.

Candidates should submit a letter of interest detailing relevant
experience and one's personal vision for the position to:
secretary@....

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#38256 From: "Hughes, James J." <James.Hughes@...>
Date: Sun Apr 15, 2007 4:37 am
Subject: [wta-ann] TransVision2007 - Register BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to receive $200 discount
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Dear Fellow Transhumanist:

This year, the World Transhumanist Association celebrates the 9th
anniversary of what has become one of the most important gatherings of
science, technology and policy leaders in the world: the TransVision
2007 global conference, to be held July 23-26 at the Fairmont Hotel in
Chicago, Illinois, USA.

http://transvision2007.com

I hope you can join us. The scope of the program and the quality of
speakers is unprecedented.

Do you believe that emerging technology will give society the ability to
solve the greatest challenges facing humanity?

What's the biggest priority: longevity therapies, sustainable energy,
clean water, a restored environment, or space development?

This is just a small sampling of the issues we'll discuss as we search
for answers to these challenges.

You'll have your choice of more than 30 speakers including:

Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D. acclaimed longevity scientist Raymond Kurzweil,
inventor, author, futurist
William Shatner, actor, environmentalist
Nick Bostrom, WTA chair and founder
Ron Bailey, Science Editor, Reason Magazine
Ed Begley Jr., actor & environmentalist
Danny Shechter, producer, filmmaker

You'll be able to network with hundreds of others who believe in the
possibility of a much brighter future or more. You'll enjoy four days of
intensive learning with some of the most influential academics, business
executives, decision-makers, and celebrities from the U.S. and around
the globe. You'll enjoy world-class entertainment, and can even choose
to experience zero-gravity on the Zero-G plane* as an additional
activity.

If you have never attended, you'll find that TransVison is unlike
anything you've experienced. Many participants will come to Chicago from
across the globe just to attend. You'll want to make sure you come this
year! It is only the second time in the history of the event to be held
in the United States.

I urge you to take a look at the program and list of confirmed speakers
on our web site - www.transvision2007.com.

I also urge you to register soon, as we will fill up and will cut off
registration once we reach capacity. If you register by Sunday, April
15th, you will receive a $200 discount off of the regular registration
fee. So don't wait.

Register today at: www.transvision2007.com

I hope you can make it.

Sincerely,

Charlie Kam
TransVision2007
Conference Chair

*Zero-G tickets sold separately and are not included in conference
registration fee.

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#38255 From: "Hughes, James J." <James.Hughes@...>
Date: Sat Apr 7, 2007 3:51 pm
Subject: [wta-ann] TransVision2007 - Register before April 15th to receive $200 discount
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Dear Fellow Transhumanist:

This year, the World Transhumanist Association celebrates the 9th
anniversary of what has become one of the most important gatherings of
science, technology and policy leaders in the world: the TransVision
2007 global conference, to be held July 23-26 at the Fairmont Hotel in
Chicago, IL.

http://transvision2007.com

I hope you can join us. The scope of the program and the quality of
speakers is unprecedented.

Do you believe that emerging technology will give society the ability to
solve the greatest challenges facing humanity?
What's the biggest priority: longevity therapies, sustainable energy,
clean water, a restored environment, or space development?

This is just a small sampling of the issues we'll discuss as we search
for answers to these challenges.

You'll have your choice of more than 30 speakers including:

Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D. acclaimed longevity scientist
Raymond Kurzweil, inventor, author, futurist
William Shatner, Emmy award winning actor, environmentalist
Nick Bostrom, WTA chair and founder

You'll be able to network with hundreds of others who believe in the
possibility of a much brighter future or more. You'll enjoy four days of
intensive learning with some of the most influential academics, business
executives, decision-makers, and celebrities from the U.S. and around
the globe. You'll enjoy world-class entertainment, and can even choose
to experience zero-gravity on the Zero-G plane* as an additional
activity.

If you have never attended, you'll find that TransVison is unlike
anything you've experienced. Many participants will come to Chicago from
across the globe just to attend. You'll want to make sure you come this
year! It is only the second time in the history of the event to be held
in the United States.

I urge you to take a look at the program and list of confirmed speakers
on our web site - www.transvision2007.com.
I also urge you to register soon, as we will fill up and will cut off
registration once we reach capacity. If you register by Sunday, April
15th, you will receive a $200 discount off of the regular registration
fee. So don't wait.

Register today at: www.transvision2007.com

I hope you can make it.

Sincerely,

Charlie Kam
TransVision2007
Conference Chair

*Zero-G tickets sold separately and are not included in conference
registration fee.

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#38254 From: "Hughes, James J." <James.Hughes@...>
Date: Mon Apr 2, 2007 12:13 am
Subject: Emergence - IEET News for the week ending April 01, 2007
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EMERGENCE

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
News for the week ending April 1, 2007

Editor: Dr. James J. Hughes
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IEET NEWS

Poll: Should Ecstasy be legalized?
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/poll20070401/

Poll:  Will ability to change skin, hair & body make racism irrelevant?
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/poll20070325/

IEET Launches Cyborg Buddha Project
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cybbuddha/


ARTICLES

J. Hughes: On The Compatibility of Religion and Transhumanism
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20070401/

Jamais Cascio: Augmented Fluid Intelligence
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20070401/

Russell Blackford: Prolegomena to any defence of human enhancement
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/blackford20070401/

Mike Treder: Congress and the Singularity
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20070401/

Jamais Cascio: Geoengineering and the Future of Desktop Fab
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20070330/

George Dvorsky: Facebook and the ongoing demise of anonymity
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/dvorsky20070330/

Jamais Cascio: Rehearsing the Future
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20070328/


MULTIMEDIA

Charlie Rose: The Science of Living Longer (04/01)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/roselivlong200704/

The Bionic Eye (04/01)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aim_bionic_eye/

Technogaian approaches to the climate crisis (04/01)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20070331/

Brain Machine Interface Videos (03/30)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/bmivideos/

Asteroid Impacts and Extinction (03/28)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/asteroid200703/


ETHICS & TECH IN THE NEWS

Wiring missing senses to existing ones
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/esp20070401/

German court to rule if chimps have human rights
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/chimprights200704/

Beating our genetic happiness set-point with behavioral interventions
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/genhapsetpnt200704/

Switching muscle genes to overdrive improves muscular dystrophy
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/msmuscgenes200704/

Building a gene bank from superathletes
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/superathgenes/

Meditation leads to well-being and virtue, which lead to health and longevity
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/medlonghlthvrtue/

Technology pushes sporting boundaries
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/techn200703/

US Congress Says Nano is "Coming Sooner Than You Think," Predicts Singularity
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ushnano200703/

Ten Important Differences Between Brains and Computers
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/brainscomps200703/

LVAD heart implants keep transplant listers alive
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/lvadheartlist/

Banking umbilical cord stem cells for regenerative tissue engineering (reg reqd)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/umbcordstem200703/

Implant lowers blood pressure
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hypertens200703/

Mice can think abstract concepts
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/np20070329/

Human Evolution Has Accelerated in Last 40,000 Years
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/humevol200703/

Building the Bionic Man
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/bionic_man200703/


IEET EVENTS

IEET-IHEU CONF: 21st CENTURY RIGHTS
NYC, NY USA
2007 May 11-13
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ieetiheu20070510/

Securing the Longevity Dividend: Building the Campaign for Anti-Aging Science
Chicago, Illinois
2007 Jul 23-23
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/londiv20070723/


ALL EVENTS

Advanced Tech in Medicine Conf
Jerusalem, Israel
2007 Apr 11-15
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ima2007/

Transgender Lives
Farmington, CT
2007 Apr 14-14
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/transgenderlives/

Hughes on H+ & Human Nature
Tempe, Arizona USA
2007 Apr 16-16
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20070416/

Applied Positive Psychology Conference
Univ of Warwick, UK
2007 Apr 18-20
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/apospsych200704/

Global Health and Human Rights: Theoretical Perspectives
Liverpool, UK
2007 Apr 19-20
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/liverpool20070419/

Somatechnics Conference
Sydney, Australia
2007 Apr 19-21
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/somatechnics2007/

Aubrey @ UBS Global Investors' Forum
London, UK
2007 Apr 19-19
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/20070419ubs/

The New Humanism: Multi-Cultural and Multi-National
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, USA
2007 Apr 20-22
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/newhumanism200704/

Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering
Brooklyn, NY, USA
2007 Apr 20-22
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/eibe/

4th Annual World Health Care Congress
Washington, DC, USA
2007 Apr 22-24
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/whcc2007/

Enhancement & Underrepresented Populations
Tempe AZ USA
2007 Apr 24-24
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tempe20070424/

15th Annual International Congress On Anti-Aging Medicine & Regenerative
Biomedical Technologies
Orlando, FL
2007 Apr 26-28
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/a4m15/

Human2.0: new minds, new bodies, new identities
Boston, MA USA
2007 May 9-9
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/human2mit/

IEET-IHEU CONF: 21st CENTURY RIGHTS
NYC, NY USA
2007 May 11-13
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ieetiheu20070510/

OECD Forum 2007
Paris, France
2007 May 14-15
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/oecd07/

Intl Assoc of Biomedical Gerontology
Greece
2007 May 20-24
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/20070520iabg/

Conf on Repro & Genetic Tech
Nanaimo, Canada
2007 May 24-26
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/reproconf20070524/

Reprotech & Parenthood Conference
Netanya, Israel
2007 Jun 1-3
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/reprotechisrael20070611/

Mind and Life Summer Research Institute
Garrison, New York, USA
2007 Jun 3-9
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/mlsri2007/

Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and
Technology
Toronto, Canada
2007 Jun 16-19
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ficcadat/

11th Int. Conf. on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons
Montréal, Canada
2007 Jun 18-21
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/transed2007/

Politics & Economics of Global Poverty & Health Care
Hiram, Ohio, USA
2007 Jun 21-24
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hiram2007/

Assoc for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
Las Vegas, Nevada USA
2007 Jun 22-25
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/assc11/

Intl Conf on Intelligent Processing & Manufacturing of Materials
Italy
2007 Jun 24-28
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/20070624ipmm/

Aubrey @ the National Council for Palliative Care
London, UK
2007 Jul 3-3
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/20070703ncpc/

VI European Congress of IAGG
St. Petersburg, Russia
2007 Jul 5-8
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/iaggvi/

International Association for Homes and Services for the Ageing 7th
International Conference
St. Julian's, Malta
2007 Jul 18-20
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/iahsa2007/

Securing the Longevity Dividend: Building the Campaign for Anti-Aging Science
Chicago, Illinois
2007 Jul 23-23
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/londiv20070723/

Toward a Science of Consciousness 2007
Budapest, Hungary
2007 Jul 23-26
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tsc2007/

Hughes, de Grey, Bostrom and more @ Transvision 2007
Chicago, IL USA
2007 Jul 24-26
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/tv20070724/

Generations United 14th International Conference
Washington, D.C., USA
2007 Jul 24-27
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/gu14/

Third Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence Conference
Cambridge, UK
2007 Sep 6-10
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/sens3/

Ethics, philosophy and public health
Cardiff, UK
2007 Sep 15-18
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cardiff20070915/

H. G. Wells, Science and Philosophy
London, UK
2007 Sep 28-29
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hgwells20070928/

Global Well-Being Forum
Wash DC, USA
2007 Oct 4-6
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/globalwellbeing200710/

Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics
Beijing, China
2007 Oct 21-25
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/20071021aorcgg/

Hughes@The Future of our Species - evolution, disease and sustainable
development
Heidelberg, Germany
2007 Nov 2-3
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/emboembl200711/

Genetics, Human Rights and the Next Phase of Human Evolution
U of Calgary, Canada
2007 Nov 15-17
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/genetics20071115/

Definition of Death Network
Havana, Cuba
2008 May 27-30
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/defdeath2008/

International Philosophical Congress
Seoul, South Korea
2008 Jul 30-5
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ipcxii/

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#38253 From: "Hughes, James J." <James.Hughes@...>
Date: Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:43 pm
Subject: Synthetic production of pharmaceuticals to dramatically lower cost
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Synthetic production of potential pharmaceuticals dramatically
simplified by Scripps research team

Findings could expand interest in natural products by making production
more cost-effective

Chemists are currently able to synthetically produce almost any
compound, but they must typically resort to expensive, complex processes
that can require dozens of individual steps. Such natural product
syntheses have traditionally relied on the ubiquitous use of "protecting
groups," which are extra compounds chemists use to shield reactive
portions of a molecule during specific stages of a synthesis scheme. The
protecting groups are eventually cleaved chemically to expose the
reactive portion during later chemical reactions to complete a product's
synthesis. Each protecting group used adds at least two steps to a
synthesis, and the groups themselves have reactivity of their own that
must be controlled to prevent adverse reactions.

"Protecting groups are almost always a direct result of an inability to
address selectivity in synthesis," says project leader Phil Baran, a
chemist with The Scripps Research Institute. "It is ironic that they
often add an additional layer of problems on top of the preexisting
ones."

Organic chemistry textbooks have long declared that the use of
protecting groups was essential in natural product synthesis. "Textbooks
have pointed out that avoiding protecting groups is like 'avoiding death
and taxes,'" says Baran, who, along with Scripps Research Kellogg School
of Science and Technology graduate students Thomas Maimone and Jeremy
Richter, has now disproved the belief.

To avoid the need for protecting groups, the Baran group took an
unorthodox approach. Rather than assume that reactive portions of a
molecule had to be shielded during various syntheses, the researchers
calculated ways to use such reactivity in an overall scheme to produce
the desired final product. Baran says the reason such an approach had
not been successfully developed before was likely a by-product of
education. "From the beginning, we were always taught that the way to
solve these types of problems is to protect functionality rather than to
try to embrace it," he says.

In the Nature paper, the group showed that, without using a single
protecting group, they could produce the representative members of a
whole family of over 60 different marine natural products produced by
the Stigonemataceae family of cyanobacteria. This family of products has
a wide range of bioactivities including anticancer and antibacterial,
and some may eventually be developed as commercial pharmaceutical
products. The compound family was only used as an example, however, as
the demonstrated concepts and principles should be applicable to the
synthesis of a wide range of marine and terrestrial natural products.

To synthesize the products, the team designed a variety of chemical
reactions that maximize the bonding of carbon atoms between different
molecules. In many cases, the products were synthesized in gram
quantities in less than 10 steps, as compared to traditional syntheses
using protecting groups that have taken as many as 30 steps to produce
milligrams of product.

Use of the techniques the group has developed could therefore lead to
substantially reduced production costs for natural products. This is a
critical concern, as identification of a reasonably economic means of
production for marine and other natural products is typically one of the
most challenging hurdles in a potential drug's commercial development.
An overly complex and expensive synthesis can even slow or halt the
development of an otherwise promising drug candidate.

Beyond economic ramifications, Baran hopes the research will offer
additional benefits to the drug discovery field. Many pharmaceutical
companies' potential drug pipelines are drying up, leading some to
suggest that interest in natural products should be renewed. A range of
drugs from aspirin to the widely used cancer treatment Taxol has been
discovered in nature, but the complexity of producing natural products
has made some companies reluctant to focus on them.

"There is this far-ranging and damaging perception that natural products
are too complex to be used in a drug discovery setting despite their
overwhelming track record in medicine," says Baran. "I think if our work
has helped in even a small way to revive the use of natural products,
then we've served our purpose."

The Baran team has focused its work to date on marine natural products,
because these chemical compounds from sponges, algae, and other
organisms have proven a rich source of bioactivity with pharmaceutical
potential, but have also been challenging to work with. Marine natural
products are ideal targets for simplified synthesis techniques because
they tend to be exceptionally complex, and because they are typically
difficult to collect. Researchers often struggle to amass marine
organism samples in quantities great enough to yield the volume of a
given compound needed for research and clinical trials, much less
commercial production, making better and cheaper production means all
the more critical.

For the production of some products, both natural and man-made, the use
of protecting groups will still be the most efficient route, says Baran.
"We are not advocating that one should blindly throw away the protecting
groups book just for the fun of throwing it away," he says. "It's
something that should be strategically applied."

###

Baran, Maimone, and Richter were all authors on the study, "Total
Synthesis of Marine Natural Products Without Using Protecting Groups."

This work was supported by The Scripps Research Institute, Amgen,
AstraZeneca, the Beckman Foundation, Bristol-Myers Squibb, DuPont, Eli
Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Roche, the Searle Scholarship Fund, the
Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the National
Institutes of Health.

The research is being published on March 22, 2007 in the journal Nature.

#38252 From: "Hughes, James J." <James.Hughes@...>
Date: Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:40 pm
Subject: NASA futurist thinktank to close
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     * 21:39 20 March 2007
     * NewScientist.com news service
     * Maggie McKee

NASA will likely shut down its Institute for Advanced Concepts, which
funds research into futuristic - and often far-out - ideas in
spaceflight and aeronautics, officials say. The controversial move
highlights the budgetary pressures the agency is facing as it struggles
to retire the space shuttles by 2010 and develop their replacement.

The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was established to "give
an opportunity for people outside of NASA to develop really
revolutionary and creative concepts for future aeronautics and space
missions", says Robert Cassanova, who has served as the institute's
director since its inception in February 1998.

The institute, which operates from an office in Atlanta, Georgia, US,
receives about $4 million per year from NASA. Most of that is used to
fund research into innovative technologies; recent grants include the
conceptual development of spacecraft that could surf the solar system on
magnetic fields, motion-sensitive spacesuits that could generate power
and tiny, spherical robots that could explore Mars.

Now, the future development of those and other projects has been thrown
into doubt, since NIAC was unofficially told by NASA last week that it
was to be shut down, perhaps in August. "We've been verbally informed
that that is likely to happen, but we don't have anything official yet,"
Cassanova told New Scientist.
Limited funding

The reason appears to be down to NASA's tight budget. The agency funds
NIAC through its exploration systems programme, which also pays for the
development of the shuttle's planned replacement - the Orion Crew
Exploration Vehicle and Ares rockets.

That programme is expected to lose an estimated $600 million or so in
the agency's 2008 budget due to the higher-than-expected costs of
returning the shuttles to flight after the Columbia disaster in 2003 and
new legislation limiting NASA's 2007 funding to that of 2006 (see Budget
cuts may delay shuttle replacement).

"NASA is in a very difficult position," Cassanova says. "The cuts have
to come from somewhere."

But Keith Cowing, editor of the independent website NASAWatch, which
broke news of the likely shutdown on Tuesday, says it does not make
sense for NASA to cut funding to the institute. "This is one of the few
places at NASA that embodies far-thinking, new stuff," he told New
Scientist. "When they're cutting stuff like this, they're desperate, or
stupid, or both."
Small investment

He acknowledges that NASA's chief, Mike Griffin, "does not have enough
money to do things that would normally be on NASA's plate". But he
argues that the research NIAC funds is "the sort of stuff that a very
small investment could yield a very great return".

Griffin has been criticised in the past for slashing NASA's science
budget to fund overruns in the space shuttle programme (see NASA to
divert cash from science into shuttle). If NASA now shuts down NIAC to
save $4 million in its annual $17 billion budget, it signals Griffin is
"cutting down the forest and ploughing up the fields and throwing it all
in the furnace", Cowing says.

"The more money you need, the harder it is to find," he says. "They've
been through that last year and the year before. Now they're going after
nickels and dimes."

NASA could not be reached for comment on the possible shutdown. But
Cassanova says he expects a formal, written announcement about it
"fairly soon".

"We're not complaining about NASA," he emphasises. "Obviously, we're
disappointed. A lot of good things have been accomplished over the last
nine years, and it's because NASA did put the money into it. We just
wish they had more funding to increase the pace of exploration."

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    #38250 From: Jeffrey Benner <jeffrey@...>
    Date: Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:09 am
    Subject: Fwd: Mars' South Pole Ice Deep and Wide
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    More exciting news: "New measurements of Mars' south polar region indicate extensive frozen water.  The polar region contains enough frozen water to cover the whole planet in a liquid layer approximately 11 meters (36 feet) deep."


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    Mars' South Pole Ice Deep and Wide
     
    Pasadena
    , Calif. -- New measurements of Mars' south polar region indicate extensive frozen water.  The polar region contains enough frozen water to cover the whole planet in a liquid layer approximately 11 meters (36 feet) deep. A joint NASA-Italian Space Agency instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft provided these data.
     
    This new estimate comes from mapping the thickness of the ice. The Mars Express orbiter's radar instrument has made more than 300 virtual slices through layered deposits covering the pole to map the ice. The radar sees through icy layers to the lower boundary, which is as deep as 3.7 kilometers (2.3 miles) below the surface.
     
    "The south polar layered deposits of Mars cover an area bigger than Texas. The amount of water they contain has been estimated before, but never with the level of confidence this radar makes possible," said Jeffrey Plaut of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena Calif.  Plaut is co-principal investigator for the radar and lead author of a new report on these findings published in the March 15 online edition of the journal Science.
     
    The instrument, named the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS), also is mapping the thickness of similar layered deposits at the north pole of Mars.
     
    "Our radar is doing its job extremely well," said Giovanni Picardi, a professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza," and principal investigator for the instrument.
     
    "MARSIS is showing itself to be a very powerful tool to probe underneath the Martian surface, and it's showing how our team's goals, such as probing the polar layered deposits, are being successfully achieved," Picardi said. "Not only is MARSIS providing us with the first-ever views of Mars subsurface at those depths, but the details we are seeing are truly amazing. We expect even greater results when we have concluded an ongoing, sophisticated fine-tuning of our data processing methods. These should enable us to understand even better the surface and subsurface composition."
     
    Polar layered deposits hold most of the known water on modern Mars, though other areas of the planet appear to have been very wet at times in the past. Understanding the history and fate of water on Mars is a key to studying whether Mars has ever supported life, since all known life depends on liquid water.
     
    The polar layered deposits extend beyond and beneath a polar cap of bright-white frozen carbon dioxide and water at Mars' south pole. Dust darkens many of the layers. However, the strength of the echo that the radar receives from the rocky surface underneath the layered deposits suggests the composition of the layered deposits is at least 90 percent frozen water. One area with an especially bright reflection from the base of the deposits puzzles researchers. It resembles what a thin layer of liquid water might look like to the radar instrument, but the conditions are so cold that the presence of melted water is deemed highly unlikely.
     
    Detecting the shape of the ground surface beneath the ice deposits provides information about even deeper structures of Mars. "We didn't really know where the bottom of the deposit was," Plaut said. "Now we can see that the crust has not been depressed by the weight of the ice as it would be on the Earth. The crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer than the Earth's, probably because the interior of Mars is so much colder."
     
    The MARSIS instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter was developed jointly by the Italian Space Agency and NASA, under the scientific supervision of the University of Rome "La Sapienza," in partnership with JPL and the University of Iowa, Iowa City.
    JPL manages NASA's roles in Mars Express for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
     
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    #38249 From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@...>
    Date: Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:48 pm
    Subject: [physnews@...: Physics News Update 815]
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    PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE
    The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News
    Number 815   March 16, 2007 by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein
    www.aip.org/pnu
    
    PHYSICS AND PROGRESS.  Why do science?  To learn more about the
    universe and to improve the material and intellectual conditions of
    people.  The recently concluded APS March meeting was a great arena
    for showcasing new fundamental ideas in physics and also for seeing
    how these ideas can be marshaled for producing practical commercial
    benefits.  Here are three examples:
    1. Metamaterials.  The architecture of these artificial
    nanoscale-engineered materials made of tiny ring-, strip-, and
    rod-shaped components serves to enhance the magnetic interaction
    between light and matter. This results in the material having a
    negative index of refraction and consequentially various novel
    optical properties.  One practical goal of negative-index optical
    research is superlensing, a process in which a thin flat panel of
    the metamaterial would be able to image an object at a spatial
    resolution better than the wavelength of the illuminating light.
    Since metamaterials were first realized in the lab for microwave
    light, physicists have been pushing negative-index behavior to
    shorter and shorter wavelengths. To bring about a negative-index
    condition, the material*s electric permittivity (a measure of a
    material's response to an applied electric field) must be negative,
    and in some cases also its magnetic permeability (a measure of the
    material's response to an applied magnetic field (to read more about
    these parameters and early reports of metamaterials, see
    http://www.aip.org/pnu/2000/split/pnu476-1.htm).  At last week*s APS
    meeting Vladimir Shalaev (Purdue University, shalaev@...)
    reported a negative-index material operating at a wavelength of 770
    nm (at the end of the visible spectrum), the shortest wavelength
    observed for a single-negative (negative permittivity) and the same
    material (but with a different light polarization) operating at a
    wavelength of 815 nm, the shortest wavelength observed for a
    double-negative material (both negative permittivity and
    permeability).  See Shalaev*s review article at Nature Photonics,
    January 2007.
    2.  Graphene, essentially one-atom-thin carbon sheets, were
    presented at last year*s meeting by no more than a few groups.  Now
    there are dozens.  The reasons for this are graphene*s adaptable
    mechanical and electrical properties and the very unusual behavior
    of electrons moving through a graphene landscape: you increase the
    electron*s energy but you don*t increase their velocity.  It*s as
    if
    the electrons were acting like slow-moving light waves.  Pablo
    Jarillo-Herrero (Columbia Univ, pj2168@...) reported the
    latest developments in this rapidly moving research area, including
    the useful development of graphene ribbons; the resistivity of the
    material changes according to the width of the ribbons, meaning that
    the semiconducting properties of graphene could be tailored to suit
    the application.   He also summarized out recent progress in the
    field, including the observation of superconducting graphene
    transistors (Delft), freely suspended graphene sheets, a
    room-temperature Hall effect, and room temperature single-electron
    transistors with graphene (Manchester).
    3.  Light-emitting diodes.  Moving from two new topics-metamaterials
    and graphene-to a more mature field-the production of light by
    combining holes and electrons inside a semiconductor junction-we see
    that considerable forward strides are still possible.  George
    Craford (Lumileds/Philips) described a new record-setting
    white-light high-power LED, with an inpu
    t current of 350 mA, the
    one-square-millimeter device produced light at a rate of 115 lumens
    per watt, representing the first time a high-power LED exceeded the
    100 Lm/W mark.  LEDs, because of their energy efficiency and their
    concentration, are already frequently used in traffic lights, brake
    lights, and in building lighting.  Craford predicted that some LEDs
    were to be used in cellphone flashes, in daytime automobile running
    lights, and (later this year) for auto headlights.
    
    WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF QUANTUM CODE over a distance of 144
    kilometers (89 miles) between two Canary Islands has been
    demonstrated by a team of researchers in Europe.  At the APS March
    Meeting, Anton Zeilinger of the University of Vienna
    (anton.zeilinger@...) described how he and his colleagues
    transmitted single photons from an astronomical observatory in La
    Palma Island to another one in Tenerife.  The transmitted photons'
    polarization states (representing 0s and 1s) formed the basis of a
    "quantum key," a stream of information that could be used to
    decipher a longer encrypted message.  The researchers used single
    photons because they are more secure than groups of photons, from
    which an eavesdropper could pluck information about the key.  To
    detect potential eavesdroppers even better, the researchers
    entangled the outgoing particles of light with photons kept at the
    transmitting station. They used astronomy stations because their
    telescopes are sensitive enough to detect individual photons.  The
    data transmission rate was low, only 178 photons in 75 seconds, but
    the photons are able to travel longer distances in free space
    (potentially thousands of kilometers or more) than they are in fiber
    optic cables (100 km) before they become undetectable.  In a
    proposed experiment to be coordinated by the European Space Agency
    (ESA, which operates the Tenerife telescope and which participated
    in the Canary Islands experiment) the International Space Station
    can transmit entangled key to two earthbound stations separated by
    distances ten times greater or more. (For a preprint, see Ursin et
    al., quant-ph/0607182)
    
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    "I think the next century will be the century of complexity." Stephen
    Hawking, 2000
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    01. Is The Universe A Fractal?, New Scientist
    01.01. Searching For The Dark Side, NY Times
    02. Connections: Control Without Hierarchy, Nature
    02.01. Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems, Cogprints
    03. Start-Up Fervor Shifts to Energy in Silicon Valley, NY Times
    04. Augmented Reality, Technology Review
    04.01. Animation Tool Puts You In The Frame, Or The Game, New Scientist
    05. Neuron Control, Technology Review
    06. Odor Cues During Slow-Wave Sleep Prompt Declarative Memory Consolidation,
    Science
    06.01. Neuroscience: Hunting for Meaning After Midnight, Science
    06.02. Biological Basis For Teenage Mood Swings Found, Medical News Today
    06.03. Scriptural Violence Can Foster Aggression, Nature
    07. To Buy Or Not To Buy: What You Decide Affects How You'll Feel Next Time,
    Innovations-report
    07.01. Subliminal Advertising Leaves Its Mark On The Brain, ScienceDaily
    08. Evolutionary Biology: The Elvis Paradox, Nature
    08.01. Evidence Of 'Mafia' Behavior In Cowbirds: "The Sopranos" Have Some
    Competition, Innovations-report
    08.02. Prey Synchronize Their Vigilant Behaviour With Other Group Members,
    Proc. Biol. Sc.
    08.03. Social Tolerance Allows Bonobos To Outperform Chimpanzees On A
    Cooperative Task, ScienceDaily
    09. Evolution of Robustness to Noise and Mutation in Gene Expression Dynamics,
    arXiv
    09.01. Yacht Voyage Yields Array Of New Genes, Boston.com
    10. Evolution: Robot Suggests How The First Land Animals Got Walking, Science
    10.01. Robo-salamander Goes Swimming, News@Nature
    10.02. From Swimming To Walking With A Salamander Robot Driven By A Spinal Cord
    Model, Science
    11. Robot That Roams The Body To Seek And Destroy Cancer, Daily Mail
    12. Living Long On Less? Mouse And Human Cells Respond To Slim Diets, Science
    News
    12.01. Cocoa Nutrient For 'Lethal Ills', BBC News
    13. Far More Mutations Than Thought Involved In Cancer
    14. Meteorology: A Dose Of Dust That Quieted An Entire Hurricane Season?,
    Science
    14.01. Inverse Relations Between Amounts Of Air Pollution And Orographic
    Precipitation, Science
    15. Not-So-Perma Frost - Warming Climate Is Taking Its Toll On Subterranean
    Ice, Science News
    16. Superconductivity Two Decades On, Nature
    16.01. Room-Temperature Quantum Hall Effect In Graphene, Science
    17. Materials Science: Silicon Life Forms, Nature
    17.01. Applied Physics: Oxide Electronics Emerge, Science
    17.02. Gold Nanorods Assemble Themselves Into Rings, EurekAlert
    18. A Smarter Web, Technology Review
    18.01. Peering into Video's Future, Technology Review
    19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    19.01. US Struggles To Ensure Funds Aid Fight Against Bioterrorism, Boston.com
    19.02. Governing Terror: The State Of Emergency Of Biopolitical Emergence, Int.
    Poli. Sociol.
    20. Links & Snippets
    20.01. Other Publications
    20.02. Webcast Announcements
    20.03. Conference Announcements
    20.04. Call for Papers - Course/Book Announcements
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    01. Is The Universe A Fractal? , New Scientist
    
    Excerpts: A researcher at the Meudon Observatory in Paris, Nottale set out to
    extend Einstein's principle of relativity - in which the laws of physics remain
    the same regardless of the motion of an observer - to a theory in which the law
    s
    of physics would remain the same regardless of the scale at which the universe
    is being observed. He found that the underlying space-time of such a theory
    would have to be fractal.
    
    * [4] Is The Universe A Fractal?, Amanda Gefter, 07/03/09, New Scientist
    
    [4]
    http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19325941.600;jsessionid=CBHFDLNNGGCD
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    01.01. Searching For The Dark Side , NY Times
    
    Excerpts:     Spiral Galaxy ESO 269-57. (European Southern Observatory)     It
    would be tidier, somehow, to lose the enigmatic dark matter, and exciting to
    discover a successor to Einstein's relativity. As George Bernard Shaw said in
    1930, ¡§Ptolomy invented a universe and it lasted 2000 years. Newton invented a
    universe and it lasted 200 years. Now Dr. Einstein has invented a new universe,
    and no one knows how long this one is going to last.¡¨
    
    * [5] Searching For The Dark Side, Chris Lintott, 07/03/11, NYTimes
    
    [5] http://acrosstheuniverse.blogs.nytimes.com/?th&emc=th
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    02. Connections: Control Without Hierarchy , Nature
    
    Excerpts: Understanding how particular natural systems operate without central
    control will reveal whether such systems share general properties. Because most
    of the dynamic systems that we design, from machines to governments, are based
    on hierarchical control, it is difficult to imagine a system in which the parts
    use only local information and the whole thing directs itself. To explain how
    biological systems operate without central control ¡X embryos, brains and
    social-insect colonies are familiar examples ¡X we often fall back on metaphors
    from our own products, such as blueprints and programmes.
    
    * [6] Connections: Control Without Hierarchy, Deborah M. Gordon, 07/03/08, DOI:
    10.1038/446143a, Nature 446, 143
    
    [6] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7132/full/446143a.html
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    02.01. Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems , Cogprints
    
    Excerpt: Complex systems are usually difficult to design and control. There are
    several particular methods for coping with complexity, but there is no general
    approach to build complex systems. In this thesis I propose a methodology to
    aid engineers in the design and control of complex systems. This is based on
    the description of systems as self-organizing.(...)
    
    * [7] Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems, [8] Carlos Gershenson,
    2007/03/07, Cogprints. PhD Thesis, Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary
    Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    * Contributed by [9] Carlos Gershenson
    
    [7] http://cogprints.org/5442/
    [8] http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/
    [9] http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    03. Start-Up Fervor Shifts to Energy in Silicon Valley , NY Times
    
    Excerpts: It is no secret that venture capitalists have begun pouring billions
    into energy-related start-ups with names like SunPower, Nanosolar and
    Lilliputian Systems. (...)  The same silicon used to make computer chips
    converts sunlight into electricity on solar panels, while the bioscience used
    to make new drugs can be employed to develop better ethanol processing.
    
    * [10] Start-Up Fervor Shifts to Energy in Silicon Valley, Matt Richtel,
    07/03/14, NYTimes
    
    [10] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/technology/14valley.html
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    04. Augmented Reality , Technology Review
    
    Excerpts:     Boxes appear on the phone's screen, highlighting known businesses
    and landmarks, such as the Empire State Building. The user can click one of
    these boxes to download information about that location from the Web. In
    Nokia's mobile-augmented-reality prototype, a user can point a phone's camera
    at a nearby building; the system calculates the building's location and uses
    that information to identify it. Credit: Jean Probert     The team added a GPS
    sensor, a compass, and accelerometers to a Nokia smart phone. Using data from
    these sensors, the phone can calculate the location of just about any object
    its camera is aimed at. Each time the phone changes location, it retrieves the
    names and geographical co?rdinates of nearby landmarks from an external
    database. The user can then download additional information about a chosen
    location from the Web--say, the names of businesses in the Empire State
    Building, the cost of visiting the building's observatories, or hours and menus
    for its five eateries.
    
    * [11] Augmented Reality, Erika Jonietz, 07/03/12, Technology Review
    
    [11] http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18291/
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    04.01. Animation Tool Puts You In The Frame, Or The Game , New Scientist
    
    Excerpts:     The movements of an actor (left) can be pasted onto detailed
    laser scans of other people (right) (Image: Edilson de Aguiar/Max Planck
    Institute for Computer Science     A 3D animation technique that could take the
    hard work out of acting has been developed by German researchers. It allows a
    high-resolution 3D scan of one person to be pasted on to another person's
    movements. (...) They can directly animate 3D laser scans of people using the
    motion of another individual collected using motion capture or using the
    pre-programmed motion of another character. The scans can be taken in less than
    a minute and are accurate to millimetres.
    
    * [12] Animation Tool Puts You In The Frame, Or The Game, Tom Simonite,
    07/03/12, NewScientist.com
    
    [12]
    http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11363-animation-tool-puts-you-in-the-
    frame-or-the-game.html
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    05. Neuron Control , Technology Review
    
    Excerpts:     Credit: Elaine Kurie     Karl Deisseroth's genetically engineered
    "light switch," which lets scientists turn selected parts of the brain on and
    off, may help improve treatments for depression and other disorders. (...)
    Intensive treatments, such as electro?convulsive therapy, can literally save
    such patients' lives, but often at the cost of memory loss, headaches, and
    other serious side effects. Deisseroth, who is both a physician and a
    bioengineer, thinks he has a better way: an elegant new method for controlling
    neural cells with flashes of light.
    
    * [13] Neuron Control, Emily Singer, 07/03/12, Technology Review
    
    [13] http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/18289/
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    06. Odor Cues During Slow-Wave Sleep Prompt Declarative Memory Consolidation ,
    Science
    
    Excerpts: In humans, a new memory formed in the presence of an odor is
    consolidated faster when the odor is used to induce neural activity in the
    hippocampus during subsequent sleep.  Sleep facilitates memory consolidation. A
    widely held model assumes that this is because newly encoded memories undergo
    covert reactivation during sleep. We cued new memories in humans during sleep
    by presenting an odor that had been presented as context during prior learning,
    and so showed that reactivation indeed causes memory consolidation during sleep
    .
    
    * [14] Odor Cues During Slow-Wave Sleep Prompt Declarative Memory
    Consolidation, Bj?rn Rasch,  Christian B?chel,  Steffen Gais,  Jan Born,
    07/03/09, Science : 1426-1429.
    
    [14] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5817/1426
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    06.01. Neuroscience: Hunting for Meaning After Midnight , Science
    
    Excerpts: Once the volunteers entered slow-wave sleep, the researchers gave
    some of them a puff of rose-scented air. They'd previously given some of the
    subjects a whiff of rose during their initial training session with the cards,
    reasoning that the odor would reactivate memories of the training session in
    these subjects without waking them. Indeed, functional magnetic resonance
    imaging (fMRI) scans in sleeping subjects revealed that the odor activated the
    hippocampus in those who had experienced it previously, even though the EEG
    showed no disruptions in the subjects' slumber.
    
    * [15] Neuroscience: Hunting for Meaning After Midnight, Greg Miller, 07/03/09,
    Science : 1360-1363.
    
    [15] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5817/1360
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    06.02. Biological Basis For Teenage Mood Swings Found , Medical News Today
    
    Excerpts: A new US study has revealed that teenage mood swings may be explained
    by biological changes in the adolescent brain. (...) Mood swings and anxiety,
    often caused by stress, are well known characteristics of puberty. A
    physiologist at the State University of New York, Sheryl Smith, and her
    research colleagues experimented on female adolescent mice and showed that
    their brains respond to stress in a different way to adults and pre-pubescent
    individuals.
    
    * [16] Biological Basis For Teenage Mood Swings Found, 07/03/12, Medical News
    Today
    
    [16] http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=65035
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    06.03. Scriptural Violence Can Foster Aggression , Nature
    
    Excerpts: Elements of religious texts seem to inspire bad behaviour.(...) But
    for both groups = whether the students were based in the Netherlands or the
    United States, and believed in God or not - the trend was the same: those who
    were told that God had sanctioned the violence against the Israelite were more
    likely to act aggressively in the subsequent exercise. (...) "People often use
    God as a justification for committing violent acts," (...).
    
    * [17] Scriptural Violence Can Foster Aggression, Heidi Ledford, 07/03/08, DOI:
    10.1038/446114b, Nature 446, 114-115
    
    [17] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7132/full/446114b.html
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    07. To Buy Or Not To Buy: What You Decide Affects How You'll Feel Next Time ,
    Innovations-report
    
    Excerpts: Consumers spend substantial proportions of their expenditures on
    products they had not intended to buy. Correspondingly, marketers spend
    billions of dollars every year trying to create moments of purchase
    serendipity. But how do consumers feel after they've been confronted with
    temptation? A new article (...) investigates the mixed emotions that result
    from unexpected shopping opportunities - such as surprise sales - and explores
    whether these emotions affect our response to tempting offers in the future.
    (...) People felt happy and a little guilty when they bought the item. When
    they resisted the impulse purchase, they were proud. (...)
    
    * [18] To Buy Or Not To Buy: What You Decide Affects How You'll Feel Next Time,
    2007/03/09, Innovations-report
    * Contributed by [19] Atin Das
    
    [18] http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/report-80529.html
    [19] mailto:dasatin@...
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    07.01. Subliminal Advertising Leaves Its Mark On The Brain , ScienceDaily
    
    Excerpts: University College London researchers have found the first
    physiological evidence that invisible subliminal images do attract the brain's
    attention on a subconscious level. (...) subliminal advertising, now banned in
    the UK but still legal in the USA, certainly do leave their mark on the brain.
    Using fMRI, the study looked at whether an image you aren't aware of -- but one
    that reaches the retina -- has an impact on brain activity in the primary visua
    l
    cortex, part of the occipital lobe. Subjects' brains did respond to the object
    even when they were not conscious of having seen it. (...)
    
    * [20] Subliminal Advertising Leaves Its Mark On The Brain, 2007/03/09,
    ScienceDaily & University College London
    * Contributed by [21] Atin Das
    
    [20] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070308121938.htm
    [21] mailto:dasatin@...
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    08. Evolutionary Biology: The Elvis Paradox , Nature
    
    Excerpts: Evidence for a universal driver of evolution across all timescales
    could mean that the venerable paradox of stasis is dead. (...) Estes and
    Arnold1 evaluate the degree to which six evolutionary models fit the observed
    data. All of these models are based on 'adaptive landscapes' ¡X an analytical
    framework that relates mean phenotypes (mean body size, for instance) to the
    expected mean fitness (that is, number of offspring) of a population (Box 1).
    Evolution on such landscapes tends towards 'hill climbing', where the mean
    phenotype of the population moves towards that which maximizes population
    fitness (a local fitness peak)8, 9.
    
    * [22] Evolutionary Biology: The Elvis Paradox, Andrew Hendry, 07/03/08, DOI:
    10.1038/446147a, Nature 446, 147-149
    
    [22] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7132/full/446147a.html
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    08.01. Evidence Of 'Mafia' Behavior In Cowbirds: "The Sopranos" Have Some
    Competition , Innovations-report
    
    Excerpts: Cowbirds have long been known to lay eggs in the nests of other
    birds, which then raise the cowbirds' young as their own. Sneaky, perhaps, but
    not Scarface. Now, (...) study finds that cowbirds actually ransack and destroy
    the nests of warblers that don't buy into the ruse and raise their young. (...)
    "It's the female cowbirds who are running the mafia racket at our study site,"
    said Hoover(...). "Our study shows many of them returned and ransacked the nest
    when we removed the parasitic egg." (...)
    
    * [23] UF Study First To Document Evidence Of 'Mafia' Behavior In Cowbirds:
    "The Sopranos" Have Some Competition -- Brown-Headed Cowbirds., 2007/03/07,
    Innovations-report
    * Contributed by [24] Atin Das
    
    [23] http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/report-80323.html
    [24] mailto:dasatin@...
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    08.02. Prey Synchronize Their Vigilant Behaviour With Other Group Members ,
    Proc. Biol. Sc.
    
    Excerpt: It is generally assumed that an individual of a prey species can
    benefit from an increase in the number of its group's members by reducing its
    own investment in vigilance. But what behaviour should group members adopt in
    relation to both the risk of being preyed upon and the individual investment in
    vigilance? Most models assume that individuals scan independently of one
    another. (...) Our results confirmed that the proportion of time an individual
    spent in vigilance decreased with group size. However, the time during which at
    least one individual in the group scanned the environment (collective vigilance
    )
    increased. (...)
    
    * [25] Prey Synchronize Their Vigilant Behaviour With Other Group Members, O.
    Pays ,  P.-C. Renaud ,  P. Loisel ,  M. Petit ,  J.-F. Gerard ,  P. J. Jarman,
    2007/03/06, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0204, Proceedings B: Biological Sciences
    * Contributed by [26] Atin Das
    
    [25]
    http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/(e3gyegaq4a2ora55jph5dk45)/app/home/contribu
    tion.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,3,21;journal,1,321;linkingpublicationresu
    lts,1:102024,1
    [26] mailto:dasatin@...
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    08.03. Social Tolerance Allows Bonobos To Outperform Chimpanzees On A
    Cooperative Task , ScienceDaily
    
    Excerpts: In experiments designed to deepen our understanding of how
    cooperative behavior evolves, researchers have found that bonobos, a
    particularly sociable relative of the chimpanzee, are more successful than
    chimpanzees at cooperating to retrieve food, even though chimpanzees exhibit
    strong cooperative hunting behavior in the wild. The work suggests that some
    social tendencies or emotions that are adaptive under certain
    circumstances--such as aggression during competition for mates--can hinder the
    potential for problem solving under other circumstances, such as sharing of a
    food resource. (...)
    
    * [27] Social Tolerance Allows Bonobos To Outperform Chimpanzees On A
    Cooperative Task, 2007/03/09, ScienceDaily & Cell Press
    * Contributed by [28] Atin Das
    
    [27] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070308121928.htm
    [28] mailto:dasatin@...
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    09. Evolution of Robustness to Noise and Mutation in Gene Expression Dynamics ,
    arXiv
    
    Excerpt: Phenotype of biological systems needs to be robust against mutation in
    order to sustain themselves between generations. On the other hand, phenotype o
    f
    an individual also needs to be robust against fluctuations of both internal and
    external origins that are encountered during growth and development. Is there a
    relationship between these two types of robustness, one during a single
    generation and the other during evolution? Could stochasticity in gene
    expression have any relevance to the evolution of these robustness? (...)
    
    * [29] Evolution of Robustness to Noise and Mutation in Gene Expression
    Dynamics, Kunihiko Kaneko, 2007/03/01, DOI: q-bio.PE/0703005, arXiv
    * Contributed by [30] Carlos Gershenson
    
    [29] http://uk.arXiv.org/abs/q-bio.PE/0703005
    [30] http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/
    
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    09.01. Yacht Voyage Yields Array Of New Genes , Boston.com
    
    Excerpts: A yacht voyage that genome pioneer Craig Venter took around the world
    has turned up a startling array of new genes and new gene families, his team
    reported yesterday. They have found genes that help microbes use the sun's
    energy in new ways, genes that help them use nitrogen, and genes that protect
    organisms from ultraviolet light, they reported. Writing in the Public Library
    of Science Journal PLoS Biology, Venter's team said they had identified more
    than 6 million new proteins.
    
    * [31] Yacht Voyage Yields Array Of New Genes, Maggie Fox, 07/03/14,
    Reuters/Boston.com
    
    [31]
    http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/03/14/yacht_voyage_y
    ields_array_of_new_genes/
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    10. Evolution: Robot Suggests How The First Land Animals Got Walking , Science
    
    Excerpts: Salamandra robotica is a triathlete. She walks. She crawls. She
    swims. One of very few robots capable of multiple modes of locomotion, this
    salamanderlike machine has demonstrated that it may have been relatively easy
    for early animals to take their first steps on land. From a neurological
    perspective, inducing a transition from swimming to walking is unexpectedly
    straightforward, explains Auke Ijspeert, a physicist at the Swiss Federal
    Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
    
    * [32] Evolution: Robot Suggests How The First Land Animals Got Walking,
    Elizabeth Pennisi, 07/03/09, Science : 1352-1353.
    
    [32] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5817/1352a
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    10.01. Robo-salamander Goes Swimming , News@Nature
    
    Excerpt:      A. Herzog / Biologically Inspired Robotics Group, EPFL      Auke
    Jan Ijspeert (...) and his team made the robot to help test their theories on
    the evolution of walking: that famous moment when the first 'fish' scurried up
    onto land. The robotic creature helps to confirm their notion that the
    transition between swimming and walking can be quite simple.
    
    * [33] Robo-salamander Goes Swimming, Emma Marris, 2007/03/08, DOI:
    10.1038/Robo-salamander Goes Swimming, News@Nature
    * VIDEO - [34] Robo-salamander crawling into the sea.
    * Contributed by [35] Carlos Gershenson
    
    [33] http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070305/pf/070305-9_pf.html
    [34] http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070305/multimedia/070305-9.mpg
    [35] http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~cgershen/
    
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    10.02. From Swimming To Walking With A Salamander Robot Driven By A Spinal Cord
    Model , Science
    
    Excerpts: Ijspeert's group developed a mathematical model of this transition,
    from which they concluded that the limbs' central pattern generator interfered
    with the other neural network's ability to set up the S-waves. This
    interference produced the slower body bending necessary for walking. Only when
    the limb's central pattern generator was shut down was the salamander's other
    network of nerve cells free to fire as fast as needed to generate swimming or,
    on land, crawling.
    
    * [36] From Swimming To Walking With A Salamander Robot Driven By A Spinal Cord
    Model, Auke Jan Ijspeert,  Alessandro Crespi,  Dimitri Ryczko,  Jean-Marie
    Cabelguen, 07/03/09, DOI: 10.1126/science.1138353, Science 315 (5817), 1416
    
    [36] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;315/5817/1416
    
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    11. Robot That Roams The Body To Seek And Destroy Cancer , Daily Mail
    
    Excerpts:     The robot measures 2cm in length by 1cm in diameter and can
    deliver drugs, collect data and treat affected body parts with a range of
    different attachments    The idea of a beetle moving around inside your body
    may be the stuff of horror films. But scientists believe an insect-shaped robot
    could be a major weapon in the fight against cancer. The device, just under an
    inch long, is designed to be inserted into the body through a small incision.
    Once inside, doctors can control its movements and direct it to areas where
    investigations are needed.
    
    * [37] Robot That Roams The Body To Seek And Destroy Cancer, 07/03/09, Daily
    Mail
    
    [37]
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_ar
    ticle_id=440948&in_page_id=1774&ito=1490/
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    12. Living Long On Less? Mouse And Human Cells Respond To Slim Diets , Science
    News
    
    Excerpts: Scientists have known since the 1930s that mice and other animals
    live 30 to 50 percent longer when placed on a diet that's low in calories yet
    nutritionally complete. (...) During the 6-month study, participants in both
    calorie-restricted groups showed a 20 to 35 percent increase in the number of
    mitochondria in their muscle cells and a 60 percent decrease in DNA damage. The
    mitochondria appeared to become more youthful and efficient.
    
    * [38] Living Long On Less? Mouse And Human Cells Respond To Slim Diets,
    Patrick L. Barry, 07/03/10, Science News
    
    [38] http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070310/fob1.asp
    
    _________________________________________________________________
    
    12.01. Cocoa Nutrient For 'Lethal Ills' , BBC News
    
    Excerpts:     Natural cocoa has a bitter taste     A nutrient in cocoa called
    epicatechin appears to lower the risk of four common killer diseases, work
    suggests. (...) Epicatechin, a type of flavonoid, is also found in teas, wine,
    chocolate and some fruit and vegetables. One of its actions is thought to be
    through elevating levels of nitric oxide in the blood, which helps relax the
    blood vessels and improves blood flow.
    
    * [39] Cocoa Nutrient For 'Lethal Ills', Michelle Roberts, 07/03/11, BBC News
    
    [39] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6430777.stm
    
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    13. Far More Mutations Than Thought Involved In Cancer
    
    Excerpts:     Far more mutations than thought involved in cancer A magnified
    (20x) stained section of a clear cell renal cancer. A painstaking scan of the
    DNA of tumor cells shows hundreds of previously unsuspected genes are involved
    in cancer, researchers said on Wednesday in a finding that offers new ways to
    fight the disease. REUTERS/Dr Bin Teh, Van Andel Research Institute/Handout
    "This is a lot larger number of cancer genes than we really expected to find,"
    added the Sanger Institute's Dr. Andrew Futreal, who also worked on the study,
    published in this week's issue of the journal Nature. "I would have guessed it
    would have been no more than 10, probably, given what we knew." The researchers
    chose a family of genes that are known to be involved in cancer, the kinases.
    Kinases are the basis of some of the new targeted cancer therapies that have
    had stunning results in a small number of patients.
    
    * [40] Far More Mutations Than Thought Involved In Cancer, 07/03/07, Scientific
    American
    
    [40]
    http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=960C30FA8429C4BEDEE945D
    0896D2351
    
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    14. Meteorology: A Dose Of Dust That Quieted An Entire Hurricane Season? ,
    Science
    
    Excerpts: The 2006 season was normal, and no hurricanes came anywhere near the
    United States or the Caribbean. Now two climatologists are suggesting that dust
    blown across the Atlantic from the Sahara was pivotal in the busted forecasts.
    The dust seems to have suppressed storm activity over the southwestern North
    Atlantic and Caribbean by blocking some energizing sunlight, they say. (...)
    But, unremarked by forecasters, an unusually heavy surge of dust began blowing
    off North Africa and into the western Atlantic at the 1 June beginning of the
    official hurricane season.
    
    * [41] Meteorology: A Dose Of Dust That Quieted An Entire Hurricane Season?,
    Richard A. Kerr, 07/03/09, Science : 1351.
    
    [41] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5817/1351a
    
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    14.01. Inverse Relations Between Amounts Of Air Pollution And Orographic
    Precipitation , Science
    
    Excerpts: Measurements over several decades in central China show that air
    pollution has dramatically reduced precipitation from ascending air masses in
    hilly regions.  Particulate air pollution has been suggested as the cause of
    the recently observed decreasing trends of 10 to 25% in the ratio between hilly
    and upwind lowland precipitation, downwind of urban and industrial areas. We
    quantified the dependence of this ratio of the orographic-precipitation
    enhancement factor on the amounts of aerosols composed mostly of pollution in
    the free troposphere, based on measurements at Mt. Hua near Xi'an, in central
    China.
    
    * [42] Inverse Relations Between Amounts Of Air Pollution And Orographic
    Precipitation, Daniel Rosenfeld,  Jin Dai, Xing Yu,  Zhanyu Yao,  Xiaohong Xu,
    Xing Yang, Chuanli Du, 07/03/09, Science : 1396-1398.
    
    [42] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5817/1396
    
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    15. Not-So-Perma Frost - Warming Climate Is Taking Its Toll On Subterranean Ice
    , Science News
    
    Excerpts:     TOP VIEW. Permafrost, depicted in various shades of purple,
    underlies about one-fourth of the Northern Hemisphere's land area. The darker
    the purple, the greater the percentage of local landscape that permafrost
    underlies. Intl. Permafrost Assn. and P. Rekacewicz/UNEP/GRID-Arendal
    Permafrost serves as a stable foundation for much of the Arctic's
    infrastructure, including pipelines, roads, buildings, and bridges. In many
    areas, that frozen ground also contains huge amounts of organic material, which
    could readily decompose and send carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into the
    atmosphere if the permafrost thaws (...) Whatever the rate of permafrost loss,
    Earth's rapidly warming climate will continue to gnaw at the long-frozen soil
    that serves as the bedrock of the Arctic. The carbon dioxide that will probably
    be released in the process will only tend to accelerate the permafrost's
    disappearance.
    
    * [43] Not-So-Perma Frost - Warming Climate Is Taking Its Toll On Subterranean
    Ice, Sid Perkins, 07/03/10, Science News
    
    [43] http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070310/bob10.asp
    
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    16. Superconductivity Two Decades On , Nature
    
    Excerpts: And the scientific field has also slowed. Although more than 100
    superconducting cuprate materials have been discovered, the record for
    superconductivity remains at 164 K, about halfway between absolute zero and
    room temperature. The theoretical understanding of the material is incomplete
    as well, says physicist Douglas Scalapino of the University of California,
    Santa Barbara. Although many researchers believe that electrons pairs underlie
    superconductivity even in these new materials, no one knows how the electrons
    bind together. "We don't understand what causes it," he says.
    
    * [44] Superconductivity Two Decades On, Geoff Brumfiel, 07/03/08, DOI:
    10.1038/446120a, Nature 446, 120
    
    [44] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7132/full/446120a.html
    
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    16.01. Room-Temperature Quantum Hall Effect In Graphene , Science
    
    Excerpts: The quantum Hall effect, usually seen near 0 degrees kelvin, occurs
    at room temperature within single graphene sheets, in which the charge carriers
    behave as massive relativistic particles. (...) This is due to the highly
    unusual nature of charge carriers in graphene, which behave as massless
    relativistic particles (Dirac fermions) and move with little scattering under
    ambient conditions (5, 6).
    
    * [45] Room-Temperature Quantum Hall Effect In Graphene, K. S. Novoselov,  Z.
    Jiang,  Y. Zhang,  S. V. Morozov,  H. L. Stormer,  U. Zeitler,  J. C. Maan,  G.
    S. Boebinger,  P. Kim,  A. K. Geim, 07/03/09, DOI: 10.1126/science.1137201,
    Science : 1379.
    
    [45] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5817/1379
    
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    17. Materials Science: Silicon Life Forms , Nature
    
    Excerpts: A simple chemical reduction process has been used to replicate
    intricate natural networks of silica at a relatively low temperature. The
    equally elaborate product is made of silicon = electronics' golden boy. On page
    172 of this issue, Bao et al.5 provide a powerful new tool for modifying
    biologically derived or inspired materials. They show how intricate glass
    skeletons, obtained from common algae, can be converted into silicon while
    maintaining their complex structure. Silicon is arguably the 'gold standard'
    among electronic materials, and this approach is akin to the magic touch of a
    modern Midas.
    
    * [46] Materials Science: Silicon Life Forms, David J. Norris, 07/03/08, DOI:
    10.1038/446146a, Nature 446, 146-147
    
    [46] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7132/full/446146a.html
    
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    17.01. Applied Physics: Oxide Electronics Emerge , Science
    
    Excerpts: Emergent phenomena ( [47] 2, [48] 3) in condensed matter cannot be
    understood in terms of simple interactions between pairs of particles. Examples
    of such phenomena are magnetic excitations in low-dimensional materials,
    superconductivity in "heavy electron" magnets, and fractionally charged
    particles in a two-dimensional electron gas. A traditional route to
    understanding these kinds of emergent states is to create them in new
    materials. In this way, one can study states with different characteristics and
    either test theoretical descriptions of such states or realize entirely new
    states of matter.
    
    * [49] Applied Physics: Oxide Electronics Emerge, Arthur P. Ramirez, 07/03/09,
    DOI: 10.1126/science.1138578, Science 315 (5817), 1377
    
    [47] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;315/5817/1377#ref2
    [48] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;315/5817/1377#ref3
    [49] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;315/5817/1377
    
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    17.02. Gold Nanorods Assemble Themselves Into Rings , EurekAlert
    
    Excerpts: Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny building blocks
    known as gold nanorods spontaneously assemble themselves into ring-like
    superstructures. This finding, which will be published as the inside cover
    article of the March 19 international edition of the chemistry journal
    Angewandte Chemie, could potentially lead to the development of novel
    nanodevices like highly sensitive optical sensors, superlenses, and even
    invisible objects for use in the military.
    
    * [50] Gold Nanorods Assemble Themselves Into Rings, B.J. Almond,
    balmond@..., 07/03/08, EurekAlert
    
    [50] http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/ru-gna030907.php
    
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    18. A Smarter Web , Technology Review
    
    Excerpts: Already, these techniques are helping developers stitch together
    complex applications or bring once- inaccessible data sources online. Semantic
    Web tools now in use improve and automate database searches, helping people
    choose vacation destinations or sort through complicated financial data more
    efficiently. It may be years before the Web is populated by truly intelligent
    software agents automatically doing our bidding, but their precursors are
    helping people find better answers to questions today.(...)
    
    * [51] A Smarter Web, John Borland, 07/03/12, Technology Review
    
    [51] http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18306/
    
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    18.01. Peering into Video's Future , Technology Review
    
    Excerpts: In P2P networks, by contrast, there are no central servers: each
    user's PC exchanges data with many others in an ever-shifting mesh. This means
    that servers and their overtaxed network connections bear less of a burden;
    data is instead provided by peers, saving bandwidth in the Internet's core. If
    one user leaves the mesh, others can easily fill the gap. And adding users
    actually increases a P2P network's power.
    
    * [52] Peering into Video's Future, Wade Roush, 07/03/12, Technology Review
    
    [52] http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18284/
    
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    19. Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Networks
    
    
    
    
    
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    19.01. US Struggles To Ensure Funds Aid Fight Against Bioterrorism , Boston.com
    
    Excerpts: More than five years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the
    government cannot show how the $5 billion given to public health departments
    has better prepared the country for a bioterrorism attack or flu pandemic.
    Congress responded to the 2001 strikes and anthrax-tainted letters sent to
    lawmakers by putting much more money toward emergency preparedness. State
    health departments typically get tens of millions of dollars per year to
    prepare for bioterrorism; it was in the hundreds of thousands before Sept. 11,
    2001.
    
    * [53] US Struggles To Ensure Funds Aid Fight Against Bioterrorism, 07/03/11,
    Boston.com
    
    [53]
    http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/03/11/us_struggles_t
    o_ensure_funds_aid_fight_against_bioterrorism/
    
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    19.02. Governing Terror: The State Of Emergency Of Biopolitical Emergence ,
    Int. Poli. Sociol.
    
    Excerpt: This paper argues that western security practices are as biopolitical
    as they are geopolitical. Explaining that biopolitical security practices
    revolve around "life" as species existence, the paper explores how
    biopoliticized security practices secure by instantiating a general economy of
    the contingent throughout all the processes of reproductive circulation that
    impinge upon species existence. For this reason, "Governing Terror" does not
    merely reference the massive global security effort that is now devoted to
    governing terror. It observes how western security practices are themselves now
    also governed by a widespread fear of terror. (...)
    
    * [54] Governing Terror: The State Of Emergency Of Biopolitical Emergence, M.
    Dillon, Mar. 2007, DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-5687.2007.00002.x, International
    Political Sociology
    * Contributed by [55] Pritha Das
    
    [54] http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2007.00002.x
    [55] mailto:prithadas01@...
    
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    20. Links & Snippets
    
    
    
    
    
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    20.01. Other Publications
    
    
    
    
    - Algorithmic Information Theory: a Brief Non-technical Guide to the Field,
    2007/03/06, arXiv, DOI: cs.IT/0703024
    - Bill Gates 'Anxious' About US Tech Leadership: Maintaining US Technology
    Competitiveness Requires More Tech Workers, 2007/03/08, vnunet.com
    - Worldwide Surfers Hit 747m In January: Global Internet Audience Up 10 Per
    Cent, 2007/03/07, vnunet.com
    - Human Pubic Lice Acquired From Gorillas Gives Evolutionary Clues, 2007/03/08,
    Innovations-report
    - On Detection Of Multi-Band Chaotic Attractors, 2007/03/06, Proceedings A:
    Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.1826
    - Radial Structure Of The Internet, 2007/02/13, Proceedings A: Mathematical,
    Physical and Engineering Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.1820
    - Rats Capable Of Reflecting On Mental Processes, 2007/03/09, ScienceDaily &
    University of Georgia
    - Climate Change: Could It Be Random?, 2007/03/09, ScienceDaily & Salk
    Institute
    - The Halfway House: Democracy, Complexity, And The Limits To Markets In Green
    Political Economy, Feb. 2007, Environmental Politics, DOI:
    10.1080/09644010601073648
    - Motivation, Emotion, And Their Inhibitory Control Mirrored In Brain
    Oscillations, 2006/12/04, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, DOI:
    10.1016/j.neubiorev.2006.10.004
    - The Supermarket Revolution In Developing Countries: Policies To Address
    Emerging Tensions Among Supermarkets, Suppliers And Traditional Retailers, Dec.
    2006, The European Journal of Development Research, DOI:
    10.1080/09578810601070613
    - Mafia Cowbirds: Do They Muscle Birds That Don't Play Ball? , 07/03/10,
    Science News,
    A new test offers the best evidence yet that cowbirds retaliate against birds
    that resist their egg scams.
    
    
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    20.02. Webcast Announcements
    
    
    
      [56] 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,
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    6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, Il, 06/05/15-18
    
    Ralph Abraham on Complexity Digest, , Calcutta, India, 05/12/27
      [57] An Afternoon with Michael Crichton, Washington, 05/11/06
      [58]
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      [59]
    Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems - Brainstorming
    Meeting, Paris, France 05/09/19-23
    
      [60]
    Complexity, Science & Society Conference 2005, U. Liverpool, UK 2005/09/11-14
    
      [61]
    ECAL 2005 - VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life,
    Canterbury, Kent, UK 2005/09/5-9
    
      [62]
    T. Irene Sanders, Executive Director and Founder, [63] The Washington Center
    for Complexity & Public Policy, 05/08/27, QuickTime video (10:38 min), [64]
    Podcast
    
    
      [65] 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
    
      [66] Understanding Complex Systems - Computational Complexity and
    Bioinformatics, Virtual Conference Network, Urbana-Champaign, Il, UIUC,
    05/05/16-19
    
      [67] 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
    
      [68]
    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
    
    
    
    [56]
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    [62] http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/Sanders0508/Sanders0508.mov target=new
    [63] http://www.complexsys.org/ target=new
    [64] http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/Sanders0508/Sanders.mp3
    [65] http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/05NASPSA/ target=new
    [66] http://complexity.vub.ac.be/~comdig/05UCS/ target=new
    [67] http://www.comdig2.de/Conf/Nicolis05/Target=new
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    20.03. Conference Announcements
    
    
    
    
    
    Unconventional Computation: Quo Vadis?, Santa Fe, NM, 07/03/20-23
    
    
    
    Complex Social Systems Course
    at the London School of Economics and Political Science,  London, United
    Kingdom, 07/03/20-28
    
    
      NEXUS for Change, Bowling Green, Ohio, 07/03/22-23
    
    
    
    Intl Conf on Morphological Computation, Venice, Italy, 07/03/26-28
    
    
    
    Narrative Techniques for Business, Seattle, 07/03/26, Boston, 07/03/29
    
    
    
    American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) 2007 Conference,
    Urbana IL, 07/03/29-04/01
    
    
    
    
    Storytelling and Complexity in Human Systems, Las Vegas, NV, USA,
    07/03/31-04/01
    
    
    4th Lake Arrowhead Conference on Human Complex Systems,
    Lake Arrowhead, CA, 07/04/25-29
    
    
    
    Intl Conf on Morphological Computation, Venice Italy, 07/03/26-28
    
    
    
    Capturing Business Complexity with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
    Useful, Usable, and Used Techniques - A Course on Business Applications,
    Argonne Natl Lab, Woodridge, IL, 07/04/16-20
    
    Complexity and Organizational Resilience
    ,
    The Village, Pohnpei, Micronesia, 07/05
    
    
    
    9th GEF -The World Festival of Creativity in Schools, Sanremo ITALY,
    07/05/02-06
    
    
    
    UCS 2007 - Understanding Complex Systems, Urbana-Champaign, Ill, 07/05/14-17
    
    
    
    Intl Conf On Network Science, 2007 (NetSCi07),
    New York City, 07/05/20-25
    
      2nd Intl Conf on Built Environment Complexity - Embracing complexity thinking
    in built environments, Cape Town South Africa, 07/05/21-25
    
    
    ECO 2007 Summit: Ecological Complexity and Sustainability: Challenges and
    Opportunities for 21st-Century Ecology, Beijing, China, 07/05/22-27
    
    
    2007 IEEE/ICME Intl Conf on Complex Medical Engineering-CME2007, Beijing,
    China, 07/05/23-27
    
    
    
    Analysis and Control of Complex Networks, Milan, Italy, 07/05/24-26
    
    
    
    The 7th Intl Workshop on Meta-Synthesis and Complex Systems, Beijing,
    07/05/27-30
    
    
      2nd Intl Wkshp on Engineering Emergence in Decentralised Autonomic Systems
    EEDAS 2007, Jacksonville, Fl, 07/06/11-15
    
    
    7th conf
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    Summer School In Complexity Science, London, UK, 07/07/08-17
    
    
    
    2007 Genetic And Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007), London, UK,
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    Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation Workshop
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    22nd European Conference on Operational Research
    EURO XXII, Prague, Czech Republic, 07/07/08-11
    
    
    
    SASO 2007 - First IEEE Intl Conf Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems
    , Boston, Mass., USA, 07/07/09-11
    
    
    
    IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning 2007,
    Imperial College London, 07/07/11-13
    
    
    NKS 2007 Wolfram Science Conference,
    Burlington, VT, 07/07/13-15
    
    
    
    Complex Change Webinar: Planning in the Midst of Chaos, 07/07/17
    
    
    
    Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences
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    Orange, Ca, USA, 07/07/27-29
    
    
    
    ICCM 2007 - 8th Intl Conf on Cognitive Modeling, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
    07/07/27-29
    
    
    Natural Complexity: Data and Theory in Dialogue, Cambridge, UK, 07/08/13-17
    
    
    ECAL 2oo7 - 9th European Conference on Artificial Life
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    ECAL 2007 Workshop on Machine Epigenesis , Lisbon, Portugal, 07/09/10
    
    
    
    European Conference on Complex Systems 2007 (ECCS'07) , Dresden, Germany,
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    2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM Intl Joint Conf on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent
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    Resources for Students and Teachers, 06/03/01
    
    
    
    
    
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    There's the man-made "volcano" that shoots gigatons of sulfur high into
    the air. The space "sun shade" made of trillions of little reflectors
    between Earth and sun, slightly lowering the planet's temperature. The
    forest of ugly artificial "trees" that suck carbon dioxide out of the
    air. And the "Geritol solution" in which iron dust is dumped into the
    ocean.
    
    "Of course it's desperation," said Stanford University professor Stephen
    Schneider. "It's planetary methadone for our planetary heroin addiction.
    It does come out of the pessimism of any realist that says this planet
    can't be trusted to do the right thing."
    
    NASA is putting the finishing touches on a report summing up some of
    these ideas and has spent $75,000 to map out rough details of the sun
    shade concept. One of the premier climate modeling centers in the United
    States, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, has spent the last
    six weeks running computer simulations of the man-made volcano scenario
    and will soon turn its attention to the space umbrella idea.
    
    And last month, billionaire Richard Branson offered a $25 million prize
    to the first feasible technology to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the
    air.
    
    Simon "Pete" Worden, who heads NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett
    Field, Calif., says some of these proposals, which represent a field
    called geoengineering, have been characterized as anywhere from "great"
    to "idiotic." As if to distance NASA from the issue a bit, Worden said
    the agency's report won't do much more than explain the range of
    possibilities.
    
    Scientists in the recent past have been reluctant to consider such
    concepts. Many fear there will be unintended side effects; others worry
    such schemes might prevent the type of reduction in greenhouse gas
    emissions that scientists say are the only real way to fight global
    warming. These approaches are not an alternative to cutting pollution,
    said University of Calgary professor David Keith, a top geoengineering
    researcher.
    
    Last month, Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of
    Sciences, told the nation's largest science conference that more
    research must be done in this field, but no action should be taken yet.
    
    Here is a look at some of the ideas:
    
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    The Geritol solution
    
    A private company is already carrying out this plan. Some scientists
    call it promising while others worry about the ecological fallout.
    
    Planktos Inc. of Foster City, Calif., last week launched its ship, the
    Weatherbird II, on a trip to the Pacific Ocean to dump 50 tons of iron
    dust. The iron should grow plankton, part of an algae bloom that will
    drink up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
    
    The idea of seeding the ocean with iron to beef up a natural plankton
    and algae system has been tried on a small scale several times since
    1990. It has both succeeded and failed.
    
    Planktos chief executive officer Russ George said his ship will try it
    on a larger scale, dumping a slurry of water and red iron dust from a
    hose into the sea.
    
    "It makes a 25-foot swath of bright red for a very short period of
    time," George said.
    
    The concept gained some credibility when it was mentioned in the 2001
    report by the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
    which cited it as a possible way to attack carbon emissions.
    
    Small experiments "showed unequivocally that there was a biological
    response to the addition of the iron," the climate report said. Plankton
    used the iron to photosynthesize, extract greenhouse gases from the air,
    and grow rapidly. It forms a thick green soup of all sorts of carbon
    dioxide-sucking algae, which sea life feast on, and the carbon drops
    into the ocean.
    
    However, the international climate report also cautioned about "the
    ecological consequences of large-scale fertilization of the ocean."
    
    Tim Barnett, a marine physicist at the Scripps Institution of
    Oceanography, said large-scale ocean seeding could change the crucial
    temperature difference between the sea surface and deeper waters and
    have a dramatic effect on marine life.
    
    Cicerone, a climate scientist who is president of the National Academy
    of Sciences and advocate for more geoengineering research, called the
    Geritol solution promising. However, he noted that such actions by a
    company, or country, can have worldwide effects.
    
    George, Planktos' CEO, said his company consulted with governments
    around the world and is only following previous scientific research. He
    said his firm will be dropping the iron in open international seas so he
    needs no permits. Most important, he said, is that it's such a small
    amount of iron compared to the ocean volume that it poses no threat.
    
    He said it's unfair to lump his plan in with geoengineering, saying his
    company is just trying to restore the ocean to "a more ecologically
    normal and balanced state."
    
    "We're a green solution," George said.
    
    Planktos officials say that for every ton of iron used, 100,000 tons of
    carbon will be pulled into the ocean. Eventually, if this first
    large-scale test works, George hopes to remove 3 billion tons of carbon
    from the Earth's atmosphere, half of what's needed. Some scientists say
    that's overstated.
    
    Planktos' efforts are financed by companies and individuals who buy
    carbon credits to offset their use of fossil fuels.
    
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    Man-made volcano
    
    When Mount Pinatubo erupted 16 years ago in the Philippines it cooled
    the Earth for about a year because the sulfate particles in the upper
    atmosphere reflected some sunlight.
    
    Several leading scientists, from Nobel Laureate Paul Crutzen to the late
    nuclear cold warrior Edward Teller, have proposed doing the same
    artificially to offset global warming.
    
    Using jet engines, cannons or balloons to get sulfates in the air,
    humans could reduce the solar heat, and only increase current sulfur
    pollution by a small percentage, said Tom Wigley of the National Center
    for Atmospheric Research.
    
    "It's an issue of the lesser of two evils," he said.
    
    Scientists at the Center for Atmospheric Research put the idea into a
    computer climate model. The results aren't particularly cheap or
    promising, said NCAR scientist Caspar Ammann. It would take tens of
    thousands of tons of sulfate to be injected into the air each month, he
    said.
    
    "From a practical point of view, it's completely ridiculous," Amman
    said. "Instead of investing so much into this, it would be much easier
    to cut down on the initial problem."
    
    Both this technique and the solar umbrella while reducing heating,
    wouldn't reduce carbon dioxide. So they wouldn't counter a dramatic
    increase in the acidity of the world's oceans, which happens with global
    warming, scientists said. It harms sea life, especially coral reefs.
    
    Despite that, Calgary's David Keith is working on tweaking the concept.
    He wants to find a more efficient chemical to inject into the atmosphere
    in case of emergency.
    
    ---
    
    Solar umbrella
    
    For far-out concepts, it's hard to beat Roger Angel's. Last fall, the
    University of Arizona astronomer proposed what he called a "sun shade."
    It would be a cloud of small Frisbee-like spaceships that go between
    Earth and the sun and act as an umbrella, reducing heat from the sun.
    
    "It really is just like turning down the knob by 2 percent of what's
    coming from the sun," he said.
    
    The science for the ships, the rocketry to launch them, and the
    materials to make the shade are all doable, Angel said.
    
    These nearly flat discs would each weigh less than an ounce and measure
    about a yard wide with three tab-like "ears" that are controllers
    sticking out just a few inches.
    
    About 800,000 of these would be stacked into each rocket launch. It
    would take 16 trillion of them - that's million million - so there would
    be 20 million launches of rockets. All told, Angel figures 20 million
    tons of material to make the discs that together form the solar
    umbrella.
    
    And then there's the cost: at least $4 trillion over 30 years, probably
    more.
    
    "I compare it with sending men to Mars.I think they're both projects on
    the same scale," Angel said. "Given the danger to Earth, I think this
    project might warrant some fraction of the consideration of sending
    people to Mars."
    
    ---
    
    Artificial trees
    
    Scientifically, it's known as "air capture." But the instruments being
    used have been dubbed "artificial trees" - even though these devices are
    about as treelike as a radiator on a stick. They are designed to mimic
    the role of trees in using carbon dioxide, but early renderings show
    them looking more like the creation of a tinkering engineer with lots of
    steel.
    
    Nearly a decade ago, Columbia University professor Klaus Lackner, hit on
    an idea for his then-middle school daughter's science fair project:
    Create air filters that grab carbon dioxide from the air using chemical
    absorbers and then compress the carbon dioxide into a liquid or
    compressed gas that can be shipped elsewhere. When his daughter was able
    to do it on a tiny scale, Lackner decided to look at doing it globally.
    
    Newly inspired by the $25 million prize offered by Richard Branson,
    Lackner has fine-tuned the idea. He wants to develop a large filter that
    would absorb carbon dioxide from the air. Another chemical reaction
    would take the carbon from the absorbent material, and then a third
    process would change that greenhouse gas into a form that could be
    disposed of.
    
    It would take wind and a lot of energy to power the air capture devices.
    They would stand tall like cell phone towers on steroids, reaching about
    200 feet high with various-sized square filters at the top. Lackner
    envisions perhaps placing 100,000 of them near wind energy turbines.
    
    Even if each filter was only the size of a television, it could remove
    about 25 tons of carbon dioxide a year, which is about how much one
    American produces annually, Lackner said. The captured carbon dioxide
    would be changed into a liquid or gas that can be piped away from the
    air capture devices.
    
    Disposal might be the biggest cost, Lackner said.
    
    Disposal of carbon dioxide, including that from fossil fuel plant
    emissions, is a major issue of scientific and technological research
    called sequestration. The idea is to bury it underground, often in old
    oil wells or deep below the sea floor. The Bush Administration, which
    doesn't like many geoengineering ideas is spending hundreds of millions
    of dollars on carbon sequestration, but mostly for power plant
    emissions.
    
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    The Earth Engineering Center of Columbia University:
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    #38246 From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@...>
    Date: Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:52 pm
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    7th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications
    (ISDA'07)
    
    October 22-24, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
    Conference URL:  http://www.isda07.eng.uerj.br
    
    Papers published by IEEE Press, USA
    
    Call for Papers
    
    
    *** Deadline for paper submission EXTENDED to March 30th, 2007 ***
    
    
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    ISDA'07 is technically co-sponsored by:
    
    - European Neural Network Society (ENNS)
    - European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT)
    - The World Federation on Soft Computing
    - IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (IEEE - SMC)
    - Brazilian Society of Computation (SBC)
    - Brazilian Society of Automatics (SBA)
    
    Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA'07) is the 7th
    International conference that brings together international soft computing,
    artificial intelligence, computational intelligence researchers, developers,
    practitioners and users. The aim of ISDA'07 is to serve as a forum to
    present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in
    this field.
    
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    ISDA'07 will focus on the following topics:
    
    A. Intelligent Systems Architectures and Applications
    B. Intelligent Image and Signal Processing
    C. Intelligent Internet Modeling
    D. Intelligent Data mining
    E. Intelligent Business Systems
    F. Intelligent Control and Automation
    G. Intelligent Agents
    H. Intelligent Knowledge Management
    
    Organised Workshops:
    
    * Workshop on Intelligent Systems in Bioinformatics
    * Workshop on Image Analysis and Biometrics
    * Workshop on Web & Grid-based Virtual Laboratories, Experimenting and
    Simulation
    * Workshop on Parallel Evolutionary Computation
    * Workshop on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Design and
    Applications
    * Workshop on Hardware for Genetic, neural and Fuzzy Systems
    * Workshop on Nature Imitation Methods - Theory and Practice
    * Workshop on Evolutionary Design Automation
    * Workshop on Collaborative System Design and Applications
    * Workshop on Dynamical Intelligent Systems
    * Workshop on Intelligent Text Categorization and Clustering
    * Workshop on Nature-inspired Algorithms in Fuzzy Modeling
    * Workshop on Innovative Applications of Data Mining in the Real World
    
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    Prospective authors are invited to submit a:
    - full paper of 6 pages (PDF), for oral presentation. Authors must use the
    double columns IEEE format.
    
    The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has not
    been submitted under review or copyright protected by the author if
    accepted. Besides papers in regular sessions, papers in in workshops are
    also invited. All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings (main
    and workshop tracks).
    
    All papers should be submitted electronically via Online Paper Submission
    System (http://www.isda07.eng.uerj.br/openconf/author/submit.php). The
    format of the initial submissions can be PDF. The file of the final accepted
    papers should be in either Word or Latex.
    
    All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the respective fields
    according to the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and
    clarity. The authors of accepted papers will have an opportunity to revise
    their papers and take into consideration the referees' comments and
    suggestions, before submitting the final papers. All accepted papers with
    paid registration will be included in the Proceedings of ISDA'07, to be
    published by IEEE Computer Science.
    
    After the conference, authors of best papers will be invited to submit an
    extended version of their papers for possible inclusion in the planned
    special issues of a selection of international journals:
    
    * Neurocomputing, Elsevier
    * New Generation Computing, Ohmsha & Springer
    * Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems, IOS
    * International Journal of System and Science, Francis & Taylor
    
    A specific research-topic focused books will be planned within the
    Intelligent Systems Engineering Book Series ( http://www.isebis.eng.uerj.br)
    is also planned.
    
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    Important Dates:
    * Paper Submission: March 16th, 2007 Extended to March 30th, 2007
    * Notification of Acceptance: June 1st, 2007
    * Final Paper Submission: June 15th, 2007
    
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    ISDA'07 Conference Organization:
    
    * General Chairs
    Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Ajith Abraham, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
    
    * Program Chairs
    Luiza de Macedo Mourelle, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
    
    * Workshop Chairs
    Maria do Carmo Nicoletti, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
    Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University, Taiwan
    
    * Tutorial Chairs
    Estevam Rafael Hruschka Junior, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
    Jose Ernesto de Araujo Filho, National Institute of Space Research, Brazil
    Khalid Saeed, Bialystok Technical University, Poland
    
    * Steering Commitee
    Ajith Abraham, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (Chair)
    Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janerio (chair)
    Janos Abonyi, University of Veszprem, Hungary
    Yuehui Chen, Jinan University, Jinan, China
    Lakhmi Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
    Halina Kwasnicka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
    Etienne Kerre, Ghent University, Belgium
    Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
    Marcin Paprzycki, SWPS, Poland
    Jeng-Shyang Pan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
    P. Saratchandran, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
    
    * Publicity Committee
    Ivan Nunes da Silva, São Paulo University, Brazil
    José Alfredo F. Costa, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
    Eduardo Raul Hruschka, Catholic University of Santos, Brazil
    Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt
    Arpad Kelemen, Niagara University, USA
    Crina Grosan, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
    Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
    Keshav Dahal, University of Bradford, UK
    
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    Marley Maria B. R. Vellasco, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de
    Janeiro, Brazil
    Felipe Maia Galvão França, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Carlos de Moura, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Maria Luiza Fernandez Velloso, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Priscila Machado Vieira Lima, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    
    * International Program Committee:
    (please, browse the conference webpage
    http://www.isda07.eng.uerj.br/commitees/ for the full list)
    
    *******************************************************
    Pleanary Speakers:
    * Dr. Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas, USA
    * Dr. Erkki Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
    * Dr. Jordan Pollack, Brandeis University, USA
    
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    #38245 From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@...>
    Date: Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:21 pm
    Subject: [jef@...: [extropy-chat] MIT Media Lab: h2.0]
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    FYI,
    
    - Jef
    
    
    The program will focus on the Media Lab's sweeping new research
    initiatives for augmenting mental and physical capability to vastly
    improve the quality of human life. Presenters will explore how
    today's—and tomorrow's—advances will seamlessly interact with humans,
    giving us a glimpse into a future where all humans will integrate with
    technology to heighten our cognition, emotional acuity, perception,
    and physical capabilities.
    
    hosts
    JOHN HOCKENBERRY
    award-winning journalist; distinguished Media Lab fellow
    HUGH HERR
    NEC Career Development Professor, MIT Media Lab
    
    keynote
    OLIVER SACKS
    
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    #38244 From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@...>
    Date: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:04 pm
    Subject: design and control of self-organizing systems
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    A nice Ph.D. thesis:
    
    	 http://cogprints.org/5442/01/thesis.pdf
    
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    #38243 From: "Hughes, James J." <James.Hughes@...>
    Date: Fri Mar 16, 2007 6:38 pm
    Subject: IEET Cyborg Life Project
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    IEET Cyborg Life Project
    
    IEET advisor Peter Houghton and IEET Executive Director James Hughes are
    writing a book, tentatively titled Cyborg Life: The Reality of Living
    With Artificial Parts. Peter is an artificial heart device recipient
    (LVAD) and the founder of several charities in the UK working on the
    technologies and needs of people with artificial organs. He has been
    collecting narratives of people with heart assist devices, insulin pumps
    and similar devices, and in this book we intend to describe the current
    experiences of people with implanted medical devices, and the public
    policy agenda to ensure universal access to safe, life enhancing devices
    in the future.
    
    The website - with resources and a blog - is here:
    
    http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/cyborglife
    
    We will be posting drafts of Cyborg Life's chapters for comment and
    revision. Please send me suggestions of resources you think should be
    included there. Hopefully we can make this a collaborative and
    multimedia project that helps improve the lives of people who need
    bio-implants, and fight for the right of everyone to have access to safe
    bio-implants in the future.
    
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    #38242 From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@...>
    Date: Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:05 pm
    Subject: [ntcrook@...: [Comp-neuro] IPCAT 2007 - second call for papers]
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    Seventh International Workshop on
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    29, 30, 31 August, Jesus College, Oxford, United Kingdom
    
    The IPCAT workshop series is concerned with the nature of biological
    information and the ways in which it is processed in both biological
    and artificial cells and tissues.
    
    All submitted papers will be refereed by the IPCAT2007 scientific
    committee based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality,
    and clarity.
    
    Selected papers from the proceedings of IPCAT2007 will be published in a
    special edition of
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    IMPORTANT DATES
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    -   Notification of acceptance:  15th June 2007
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    #38241 From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@...>
    Date: Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:21 pm
    Subject: [jef@...: [agi] DARPA Ends Brain Reverse Engineering Project]
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        FYI,
        - Jef
        An [1]article in the New Jersey Star-Ledger says DARPA has "quietly
        killed" their project to reverse engineering the human brain. The
        project, known as [2]Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
        (BICA), had been compared to other very difficult projects such as the
        atomic bomb or moon landing. DARPA has denied requests to explain why
        they dropped the project and neuroscientists who were involved said,
        "All we know is it's dead". The first phase was a $9.5 million project
        planning stage. The cancelled phase 2 was to be a $50-100 million
        attempt to design "psychologically-based and neurobiology-based
        cognitive architectures" based on the human brain. There is
        speculation that DARPA concluded phase 2 was simply to ambitious. For
        more detailed information see DARPA's [3]BICA Information Pamplhlet
        (PDF format) or the [4]reports from Phase 1 participants.
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    Velocity controlled anodization nanolithography with an atomic force microscope
    using Faradaic current feedback
    Matthew S. Johannes, Daniel G. Cole, and Robert L. Clark
    103106 (3 pages)
    
    Suspended nanowire web
    Volker Cimalla, Mike Stubenrauch, Frank Weise, Michael Fischer, Katja Tonisch,
    Martin Hoffmann, and Oliver Ambacher
    101504 (3 pages)
    
    Kinetically constraint zero- and one-dimensional heteroepitaxial island growth
    Zhipeng Li, Manish Kumar Singh, Eng Soon Tok, Joyce Pei Ying Tan, Ming Lin, and
    Yong-Lim Foo
    101914 (3 pages)
    
    Orientation control of pentacene molecules and transport anisotropy of the thin
    film transistors by photoaligned polyimide film
    Dong Guo, Kenji Sakamoto, Kazushi Miki, Susumu Ikeda, and Koichiro Saiki
    102117 (3 pages)
    
    Low-Temperature Structural Transitions: Circumventing the Broken-Ergodicity
    Problem
    Vladimir A. Sharapov, Dario Meluzzi, and Vladimir A. Mandelshtam
    105701 (4 pages)
    
    Size, temperature, and bond nature dependence of elasticity and its derivatives
    on extensibility, Debye temperature, and heat capacity of nanostructures
    M. X. Gu, Chang Q. Sun, Z. Chen, T. C. Au Yeung, S. Li, C. M. Tan, and V. Nosik
    125403 (9 pages)
    
    Erratum: Freezing of Fluids Confined in a Disordered Nanoporous Structure [Phys.
    Rev. Lett.                [bold 97], 105702 (2006)]
    B. Coasne, S. K. Jain, and K. E. Gubbins
    109902 (1 page)
    
    Heteroepitaxial growth and optical properties of ZnS nanowire arrays on CdS
    nanoribbons
    Y. Q. Li, J. X. Tang, H. Wang, J. A. Zapien, Y. Y. Shan, and S. T. Lee
    093127 (3 pages)
    
    Observation of the two-channel Kondo effect
    R. M. Potok, I. G. Rau, Hadas Shtrikman, Yuval Oreg, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon
    pp. 167-171
    
    Stabilization of electron emission from nanoneedles with two dimensional
    graphene sheet structure in a high residual pressure region
    Takahiro Matsumoto, Yoichiro Neo, Hidenori Mimura, Makoto Tomita, and Nariyuki
    Minami
    103516 (3 pages)
    
    Ferroelectric rods with adjustable dielectric tunability
    Yue Zheng, C. H. Woo, Biao Wang, and Z. Y. Zhu
    092905 (3 pages)
    
    Shunt quantum capacitance induced source switching in an electron Y-branch
    switch
    D. Hartmann, L. Worschech, S. Lang, and A. Forchel
    121302 (4 pages)
    
    Fabrication and characterization of a GaAs-based three-terminal nanowire
    junction device controlled by double Schottky wrap gates
    Tatsuya Nakamura, Seiya Kasai, Yuta Shiratori, and Tamotsu Hashizume
    102104 (3 pages)
    
    Nonequilibrium GW approach to quantum transport in nano-scale contacts
    Kristian S. Thygesen and Angel Rubio
    091101 (4 pages)
    
    Fano resonance study in impurity photocurrent spectra of bulk GaAs and GaAs
    quantum wells doped with shallow donors
    V. Ya. Aleshkin, A. V. Antonov, L. V. Gavrilenko, and V. I. Gavrilenko
    125201 (9 pages)
    
    Quantum Hall Effect in Polar Oxide Heterostructures
    A. Tsukazaki, A. Ohtomo, T. Kita, Y. Ohno, H. Ohno, and M. Kawasaki
    pp. 1388-1391
    
    Resistance Oscillations in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems Induced by Both ac
    and dc Fields
    W. Zhang, M. A. Zudov, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
    106804 (4 pages)
    
    Ground-state transitions beyond the singlet-triplet transition for a
    two-electron quantum dot
    Yoshifumi Nishi, Yasuhiro Tokura, James Gupta, Guy Austing, and Seigo Tarucha
    121301 (4 pages)
    
    Atomistic treatment of interface roughness in Si nanowire transistors with
    different channel orientations
    Mathieu Luisier, Andreas Schenk, and Wolfgang Fichtner
    102103 (3 pages)
    
    Conductance modulation by individual acceptors in Si nanoscale field-effect
    transistors
    Y. Ono, K. Nishiguchi, A. Fujiwara, H. Yamaguchi, H. Inokawa, and Y. Takahashi
    102106 (3 pages)
    
    Analysis of spin pumping in asymmetric ring conductors with the Aharonov-Casher
    effect
    B. H. Wu and J. C. Cao
    113303 (4 pages)
    
    Structures and magnetic properties of wurtzite Zn[sub 1x]Co[sub x]O dilute
    magnetic semiconductor nanocomposites
    Tongfei Shi, Sanyuan Zhu, Zhihu Sun, Shiqiang Wei, and Wenhan Liu
    102108 (3 pages)
    
    Lithographic engineering of anisotropies in (Ga,Mn)As
    S. Humpfner, K. Pappert, J. Wenisch, K. Brunner, C. Gould, G. Schmidt, L. W.
    Molenkamp, M. Sawicki, and T. Dietl
    102102 (3 pages)
    
    Nuclear spin population and its control toward initialization using an
    all-electrical submicron scale nuclear magnetic resonance device
    T. Ota, G. Yusa, N. Kumada, S. Miyashita, and Y. Hirayama
    102118 (3 pages)
    
    Hydrodynamic model for spin-polarized electron transport in semiconductors
    L. Villegas-Lelovsky
    053707 (8 pages)
    
    Spin-polarized standing waves at an electronically matched interface detected by
    Fermi-surface photoemission
    J. Schafer, M. Hoinkis, Eli Rotenberg, P. Blaha, and R. Claessen
    092401 (4 pages)
    
    Topological Insulators in Three Dimensions
    Liang Fu, C. L. Kane, and E. J. Mele
    106803 (4 pages)
    
    Kondo Effect in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
    K. I. Lee, S. J. Joo, J. H. Lee, K. Rhie, Tae-Suk Kim, W. Y. Lee, K. H. Shin, B.
    C. Lee, P. LeClair, J.-S. Lee, and J.-H. Park
    107202 (4 pages)
    
    Mn-doped AlN nanowires with room temperature ferromagnetic ordering
    Y. Yang, Q. Zhao, X. Z. Zhang, Z. G. Liu, C. X. Zou, B. Shen, and D. P. Yu
    092118 (3 pages)
    
    Tuning alloy disorder in diluted magnetic semiconductors in high fields to 89  T
    S. A. Crooker and N. Samarth
    102109 (3 pages)
    
    Direct Imaging of Lipid-Ion Network Formation under Physiological Conditions by
    Frequency Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy
    Takeshi Fukuma, Michael J. Higgins, and Suzanne P. Jarvis
    106101 (4 pages)
    
    Fresnel particle tracing in three dimensions using diffraction phase microscopy
    YongKeun Park, Gabriel Popescu, Kamran Badizadegan, Ramachandra R. Dasari, and
    Michael S. Feld
    pp. 811-813
    
    Spectral Degeneracy Breaking of the Plasmon Resonance of Single Metal
    Nanoparticles by Nanoscale Near-Field Photopolymerization
    H. Ibn El Ahrach, R. Bachelot, A. Vial, G. Lerondel, J. Plain, P. Royer, and O.
    Soppera
    107402 (4 pages)
    
    Conical Diffraction and Gap Solitons in Honeycomb Photonic Lattices
    Or Peleg, Guy Bartal, Barak Freedman, Ofer Manela, Mordechai Segev, and
    Demetrios N. Christodoulides
    103901 (4 pages)
    
    Quantum Vacuum Radiation Spectra from a Semiconductor Microcavity with a
    Time-Modulated Vacuum Rabi Frequency
    Simone De Liberato, Cristiano Ciuti, and Iacopo Carusotto
    103602 (4 pages)
    
    Coherent response of a quantum dot exciton driven by a rectangular spectrum
    optical pulse
    A. J. Ramsay, R. S. Kolodka, F. Bello, P. W. Fry, W. K. Ng, A. Tahraoui, H. Y.
    Liu, M. Hopkinson, D. M. Whittaker, A. M. Fox, and M. S. Skolnick
    113302 (4 pages)
    
    Stark effect on the exciton spectra of vertically coupled quantum dots:
    Horizontal field orientation and nonaligned dots
    B. Szafran, F. M. Peeters, and S. Bednarek
    115303 (7 pages)
    
    Quantum dot laser with 75  nm broad spectrum of emission
    A. Kovsh, I. Krestnikov, D. Livshits, S. Mikhrin, J. Weimert, and A. Zhukov
    pp. 793-795
    
    Temperature dependence of the photoluminescence emission from thiol-capped PbS
    quantum dots
    L. Turyanska, A. Patane, M. Henini, B. Hennequin, and N. R. Thomas
    101913 (3 pages)
    
    Ultrafast nonlinear optical tuning of photonic crystal cavities
    Ilya Fushman, Edo Waks, Dirk Englund, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, and Jelena
    Vu&#x010D;kovi&#x0107;
    091118 (3 pages)
    
    Submicron-diameter semiconductor pillar microcavities with very high quality
    factors
    G. Lecamp, J. P. Hugonin, P. Lalanne, R. Braive, S. Varoutsis, S. Laurent, A.
    Lemaitre, I. Sagnes, G. Patriarche, I. Robert-Philip, and I. Abram
    091120 (3 pages)
    
    Effective medium properties and photonic crystal superstructures of metallic
    nanoparticle arrays
    Elefterios Lidorikis, Shunji Egusa, and J. D. Joannopoulos
    054304 (7 pages)
    
    Focusing of light by a nanohole array
    Fu Min Huang, Nikolay Zheludev, Yifang Chen, and F. Javier Garcia de Abajo
    091119 (3 pages)
    
    High performance [Bi[sub 3]Fe[sub 5]O[sub 12]/Sm[sub 3]Ga[sub 5]O[sub 12]][sup
    m] magneto-optical photonic crystals
    S. I. Khartsev and A. M. Grishin
    053906 (6 pages)
    
    Tuning optical band gap of vertically aligned ZnO nanowire arrays grown by
    homoepitaxial electrodeposition
    Savarimuthu Philip Anthony, Jeong In Lee, and Jin Kon Kim
    103107 (3 pages)
    
    The effect of stationary ultraviolet excitation on the optical properties of
    electrochemically self-assembled semiconductor nanowires
    Rajesh A. Katkar and Gregory B. Tait
    053508 (7 pages)
    
    Temperature dependence of pulse duration in a mode-locked quantum-dot laser
    M. A. Cataluna, E. A. Viktorov, Paul Mandel, W. Sibbett, D. A. Livshits, J.
    Weimert, A. R. Kovsh, and E. U. Rafailov
    101102 (3 pages)
    
    Optical spectroscopy and confocal fluorescence imaging of upconverting Er[sup
    3+]-doped CaF[sub 2] nanocrystals
    G. A. Kumar, C. W. Chen, and R. E. Riman
    093123 (3 pages)
    
    Synthesis and photoluminescence of Mn-doped zinc sulfide nanoparticles
    Dongyeon Son, Dae-Ryong Jung, Jongmin Kim, Taeho Moon, Chunjoong Kim, and
    Byungwoo Park
    101910 (3 pages)
    
    Photoluminescence properties of a single GaN nanorod with GaN/AlGaN multilayer
    quantum disks
    S. N. Yi, Jong H. Na, Kwan H. Lee, Anas F. Jarjour, Robert A. Taylor, Y. S.
    Park, T. W. Kang, S. Kim, D. H. Ha, G. Andrew, and D. Briggs
    101901 (3 pages)
    
    Fabrication and characterization of microcavity lasers in rhodamine B doped SU8
    using high energy proton beam
    S. Venugopal Rao, A. A. Bettiol, K. C. Vishnubhatla, S. N. B. Bhaktha, D.
    Narayana Rao, and F. Watt
    101115 (3 pages)
    
    Room temperature emission from CdSe/ZnSSe/MgS single quantum dots
    R. Arians, T. Kummell, G. Bacher, A. Gust, C. Kruse, and D. Hommel
    101114 (3 pages)
    
    Phase delay and group velocity determination at a planar defect state in three
    dimensional photonic crystals
    J. F. Galisteo-Lopez, M. Galli, L. C. Andreani, A. Mihi, R. Pozas, M. Ocana, and
    H. Miguez
    101113 (3 pages)
    
    Strongly reduced exciton transfer between parallel quantum wires
    K. F. Karlsson, H. Weman, K. Leifer, A. Rudra, E. Kapon, and S. K. Lyo
    101108 (3 pages)
    
    Modeling of evanescent coupling between two parallel optical nanowires
    Keji Huang, Shuangyang Yang, and Limin Tong
    pp. 1429-1434
    
    Nanowire-array-based photonic crystal cavity by finite-difference time-domain
    calculations
    Tao Xu, Suxia Yang, Selvakumar V. Nair, and H. E. Ruda
    125104 (9 pages)
    
    Three-dimensional light focusing in inverse opal photonic crystals
    Kun Ren, Zhi-Yuan Li, XiaoBin Ren, Shuai Feng, Bingying Cheng, and Daozhong
    Zhang
    115108 (6 pages)
    
    Metamaterial homogenization approach with application to the characterization of
    microstructured composites with negative parameters
    Mario G. Silveirinha
    115104 (15 pages)
    
    Circular dichroism of planar chiral magnetic metamaterials
    M. Decker, M. W. Klein, M. Wegener, and S. Linden
    pp. 856-858
    
    Influence of doping on the performance of terahertz quantum-cascade lasers
    A. Benz, G. Fasching, A. M. Andrews, M. Martl, K. Unterrainer, T. Roch, W.
    Schrenk, S. Golka, and G. Strasser
    101107 (3 pages)
    
    Time-resolved spectroscopy of silver nanocubes: Observation and assignment of
    coherently excited vibrational modes
    Hristina Petrova, Chien-Hua Lin, Suzanna de Liejer, Min Hu, Joseph M. McLellan,
    Andrew R. Siekkinen, Benjamin J. Wiley, Manuel Marquez, Younan Xia, John E.
    Sader, and Gregory V. Hartland
    094709 (8 pages)
    
    Effective impedance model for analysis of reflection at the interfaces of
    photonic crystals
    Babak Momeni, Ali Asghar Eftekhar, and Ali Adibi
    pp. 778-780
    
    X-ray waveguide nanostructures: Design, fabrication, and characterization
    A. Jarre, J. Seeger, C. Ollinger, C. Fuhse, C. David, and T. Salditt
    054306 (6 pages)
    
    Constriction-limited detection efficiency of superconducting nanowire
    single-photon detectors
    Andrew J. Kerman, Eric A. Dauler, Joel K. W. Yang, Kristine M. Rosfjord, Vikas
    Anant, Karl K. Berggren, Gregory N. Gol'tsman, and Boris M. Voronov
    101110 (3 pages)
    
    Origin of luminescence from Ga[sub 2]O[sub 3] nanostructures studied using x-ray
    absorption and luminescence spectroscopy
    X. T. Zhou, F. Heigl, J. Y. P. Ko, M. W. Murphy, J. G. Zhou, T. Regier, R. I. R.
    Blyth, and T. K. Sham
    125303 (8 pages)
    
    Optical cooling of a micromirror of wavelength size
    I. Favero, C. Metzger, S. Camerer, D. Konig, H. Lorenz, J. P. Kotthaus, and K.
    Karrai
    104101 (3 pages)
    
    Electrostatic gating of a nanometer water channel
    Jingyuan Li, Xiaojing Gong, Hangjun Lu, Ding Li, Haiping Fang, and Ruhong Zhou
    pp. 3687-3692
    
    Strongly interacting Luttinger liquid states as those inherent in carbon
    nanotubes
    Igor N. Karnaukhov, Victor I. Kolomytsev, and Cees G. H. Diks
    125407 (4 pages)
    
    Room-Temperature Quantum Hall Effect in Graphene
    K. S. Novoselov, Z. Jiang, Y. Zhang, S. V. Morozov, H. L. Stormer, U. Zeitler,
    J. C. Maan, G. S. Boebinger, P. Kim,, and A. K. Geim
    p. 1379
    
    Magnetically assembled carbon nanotube tipped pipettes
    J. R. Freedman, D. Mattia, G. Korneva, Y. Gogotsi, G. Friedman, and A. K.
    Fontecchio
    103108 (3 pages)
    
    Prediction of the hydrogen storage capacity of carbon nanoscrolls
    V. R. Coluci, S. F. Braga, R. H. Baughman, and D. S. Galvao
    125404 (6 pages)
    
    Defect-induced magnetism in graphene
    Oleg V. Yazyev and Lothar Helm
    125408 (5 pages)
    
    Enhanced thermal conductivity of carbon fiber/phenolic resin composites by the
    introduction of carbon nanotubes
    Y. A. Kim, S. Kamio, T. Tajiri, T. Hayashi, S. M. Song, M. Endo, M. Terrones,
    and M. S. Dresselhaus
    093125 (3 pages)
    
    Structural and electronic properties of p-doped silicon clathrates
    D. Connetable
    125202 (10 pages)
    
    Structure and bonding nature of C[sub 60]/Si(100)-c(4 x 4): Density-functional
    theory calculations
    Ji Young Lee and Myung Ho Kang
    125305 (5 pages)
    
    Multiwall carbon nanotube absorber on a thin-film lithium niobate pyroelectric
    detector
    John H. Lehman, Katherine E. Hurst, Antonije M. Radojevic, Anne C. Dillon, and
    Richard M. Osgood, Jr.
    pp. 772-774
    
    Calculating van der Waals-London dispersion spectra and Hamaker coefficients of
    carbon nanotubes in water from ab initio optical properties
    R. F. Rajter, R. H. French, W. Y. Ching, W. C. Carter, and Y. M. Chiang
    054303 (5 pages)
    
    Confocal Raman spectroscopy of single poly(3-methylthiophene) nanotubes
    Hyun-Jun Kim, Dae-Chul Kim, Ryun Kim, Jeongyong Kim, Dong-Hyuk Park, Hyun-Seung
    Kim, Jinsoo Joo, and Yung Doug Suh
    053514 (4 pages)
    
    Focused ion beam milling as a universal template technique for patterned growth
    of carbon nanotubes
    Ying Chen, Hua Chen, Jun Yu, James S. Williams, and Vince Craig
    093126 (3 pages)
    
    Electrowetting devices with transparent single-walled carbon nanotube electrodes
    Liangbing Hu, George Gruner, Jian Gong, Chang-Jin CJ Kim, and Bjoern Hornbostel
    093124 (3 pages)
    
    Correlation of hole mobility, exciton diffusion length, and solar cell
    characteristics in phthalocyanine/fullerene organic solar cells
    Yuhki Terao, Hiroyuki Sasabe, and Chihaya Adachi
    103515 (3 pages)
    
    Organic solar cells from water-soluble poly(thiophene)/fullerene heterojunction
    Jihua Yang, Andres Garcia, and Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
    103514 (3 pages)
    
    Enhancement of tetracene photovoltaic devices with heat treatment
    Yan Shao, Srinivas Sista, Chih-Wei Chu, Douglas Sievers, and Yang Yang
    103501 (3 pages)
    
    Angle-resolved x-ray absorption near edge structure study of vertically aligned
    single-walled carbon nanotubes
    Zhongrui Li, Liang Zhang, Daniel E. Resasco, Bongjin Simon Mun, and Felix G.
    Requejo
    103115 (3 pages)
    
    Template fabrication of SiO[sub 2] nanotubes
    Xia Fan, Xiang-Min Meng, Xiao-Hong Zhang, Chun-Sing Lee, and Shuit-Tong Lee
    103114 (3 pages)
    
    Carbon contacted nanotube field effect transistors
    D. G. Austing, J. Lefebvre, J. Bond, and P. Finnie
    103112 (3 pages)
    
    Flexible field emitter made of carbon nanotubes microwave welded onto polymer
    substrates
    C. Y. Wang, T. H. Chen, S. C. Chang, T. S. Chin, and S. Y. Cheng
    103111 (3 pages)
    
    Effect of growth catalysts on gas sensitivity in carbon nanotube film based
    chemiresistive sensors
    M. Penza, G. Cassano, R. Rossi, A. Rizzo, M. A. Signore, M. Alvisi, N. Lisi, E.
    Serra, and R. Giorgi
    103101 (3 pages)
    
    Tuning electrical properties of conjugated polymer nanowires with the diameter
    Jean Luc Duvail, Yunze Long, Stephane Cuenot, Zhaojia Chen, and Changzhi Gu
    102114 (3 pages)
    
    Reversal modes in magnetic nanotubes
    P. Landeros, S. Allende, J. Escrig, E. Salcedo, D. Altbir, and E. E. Vogel
    102501 (3 pages)
    
    Electronic structure of Li-intercalated oligopyridines: A comparative study by
    photoelectron spectroscopy
    Walter J. Doherty, III, Rainer Friedlein, Thierry Renouard, Claude Mathis, and
    William R. Salaneck
    094708 (8 pages)
    
    Publisher's Note: Gate-Controlled Superconductivity in a Diffusive Multiwalled
    Carbon Nanotube [Phys. Rev. Lett.                [bold 98], 087002 (2007)]
    T. Tsuneta, L. Lechner, and P. J. Hakonen
    099904 (1 page)
    
    Electron-beam focusing characteristics of double-gated carbon nanofiber based
    field emission sources
    X. Yang, W. L. Gardner, L. R. Baylor, H. Cui, D. H. Lowndes, D. C. Joy, and M.
    L. Simpson
    pp. 394-399
    
    Information processing in generalized probabilistic theories
    Jonathan Barrett
    032304 (21 pages)
    
    Bound entangled states with a nonzero distillable key rate
    Dong Pyo Chi, Jeong Woon Choi, Jeong San Kim, Taewan Kim, and Soojoon Lee
    032306 (7 pages)
    
    Selective entanglement breaking
    Yuma Kinoshita, Ryo Namiki, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto
    032307 (5 pages)
    
    Role of memory errors in quantum repeaters
    L. Hartmann, B. Kraus, H.-J. Briegel, and W. Dur
    032310 (17 pages)
    
    Violation of Bell's inequality for two coupled quantum dots confined in a cavity
    Amitabh Joshi, Blake Anderson, and Min Xiao
    125304 (9 pages)
    
    Nonequilibrium thermal entanglement
    Luis Quiroga, Ferney J. Rodriguez, Maria E. Ramirez, and Roberto Paris
    032308 (5 pages)
    
    Self-assembled magnetic nanowire arrays
    Ming Liu, Jalal Lagdani, Hassan Imrane, Carl Pettiford, Jing Lou, Soak Yoon,
    Vincent G. Harris, Carmine Vittoria, and Nian. X Sun
    103105 (3 pages)
    
    Fixed p-i-n junction polymer light-emitting electrochemical cells based on
    charged self-assembled monolayers
    D. T. Simon, D. B. Stanislowski, and S. A. Carter
    103508 (3 pages)
    
    Electrical and optical studies of gap states in self-assembled molecular
    aggregates
    V. Burtman, G. Hukic, A. S. Ndobe, T. Drori, and Z. V. Vardeny
    054502 (7 pages)
    
    Symmetry-Breaking Model for X-Chromosome Inactivation
    Mario Nicodemi and Antonella Prisco
    108104 (4 pages)
    
    Gold nanoparticle multilayer films based on surfactant films as a template:
    Preparation, characterization, and application
    Yancai Li, Ji Zhou, Kai Zhang, and Changqing Sun
    094706 (7 pages)
    
    Mediated Enzyme Electrodes with Combined Micro- and Nanoscale Supports
    Scott Calabrese Barton, Yuhao Sun, Bhupesh Chandra, Sean White, and James Hone
    pp. B96-B100
    
    Tension dynamics in semiflexible polymers. I. Coarse-grained equations of motion
    Oskar Hallatschek, Erwin Frey, and Klaus Kroy
    031905 (14 pages)
    
    Tension dynamics in semiflexible polymers. II. Scaling solutions and
    applications
    Oskar Hallatschek, Erwin Frey, and Klaus Kroy
    031906 (20 pages)
    
    Mesoscopic simulations of the diffusivity of ethane in beds of NaX zeolite
    crystals: Comparison with pulsed field gradient NMR measurements
    George K. Papadopoulos, Doros N. Theodorou, Sergey Vasenkov, and Jorg Karger
    094702 (8 pages)
    
    Molecular diffusion on a time scale between nano- and milliseconds probed by
    field-cycling NMR relaxometry of intermolecular dipolar interactions:
    Application to polymer melts
    Markus Kehr, Nail Fatkullin, and Rainer Kimmich
    094903 (8 pages)
    
    Vertical flash memory with protein-mediated assembly of nanocrystal floating
    gate
    Joy Sarkar, Shan Tang, Davood Shahrjerdi, and Sanjay K. Banerjee
    103512 (3 pages)
    
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    How Pb-Overlayer Islands Move Fast Enough to Self-Assemble on Pb-Cu Surface
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    Single-Layer Model of the Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanomesh on the Rh(111)
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    Superstructure manipulation on a clean Ge(001) surface by carrier injection
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    First-principles study of the interfacial structures of Au/MgO(001)
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    Role of grain boundary and grain defects on ferromagnetism in Co:ZnO films
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    Increased real contact in thermal interfaces: A carbon nanotube/foil material
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    Diffusion in a one-dimensional system with nearest and next-nearest neighbor
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    S. H. Payne and H. J. Kreuzer
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    Chemical ordering and kinetic roughening at metal-electrolyte interfaces
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    films grown on TiN substrate by atomic layer deposition
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    Kang, and Byong-Ho Kim
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    Electrochemical route to the synthesis of ultrathin ZnO nanorod/nanobelt arrays
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    Synthesis and photoexcited charge carrier dynamics of beta-FeOOH nanorods
    Alan G. Joly, Gang Xiong, Chongmin Wang, David E. McCready, Kenneth M. Beck, and
    Wayne P. Hess
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    Chemical reduction of three-dimensional silica micro-assemblies into microporous
    silicon replicas
    Zhihao Bao, Michael R. Weatherspoon, Samuel Shian, Ye Cai, Phillip D. Graham,
    Shawn M. Allan, Gul Ahmad, Matthew B. Dickerson, Benjamin C. Church, Zhitao
    Kang, Harry W. Abernathy III, Christopher J. Summers, Meilin Liu, and Kenneth H.
    Sandhage
    pp. 172-175
    
    A Molecule Carrier
    K. L. Wong, G. Pawin, K.-Y. Kwon, X. Lin, T. Jiao, U. Solanki, R. H. J. Fawcett,
    L. Bartels, S. Stolbov, and T. S. Rahman
    pp. 1391-1393
    
    Crystallization of amorphous silicon by self-propagation of nanoengineered
    thermites
    Maruf Hossain, Senthil Subramanian, Shantanu Bhattacharya, Yuanfang Gao, Steve
    Apperson, Rajesh Shende, Suchi Guha, Mohammad Arif, Mengjun Bai, Keshab
    Gangopadhyay, and Shubhra Gangopadhyay
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    Ellipsometric study of percolation in electroless deposited silver films
    Anna Jo de Vries, E. Stefan Kooij, Herbert Wormeester, Agnes A. Mewe, and Bene
    Poelsema
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    Refractometry of organosilica microspheres
    Katrina Y. T. Seet, Robert Vogel, Timo A. Nieminen, Gregor Knoner, Halina
    Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Matt Trau, and Andrei V. Zvyagin
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    Identification of polar nanoclusters in PbMg[sub 1/3]Nb[sub 2/3]O[sub 3] from
    NMR spectra
    M. Vijayakumar, Gina L. Hoatson, and Robert L. Vold
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    Enhanced flux pinning in YBa[sub 2]Cu[sub 3]O[sub 7] layers by the formation of
    nanosized BaHfO[sub 3] precipitates using the chemical deposition method
    S. Engel, T. Thersleff, R. Huhne, L. Schultz, B. Holzapfel, S. Engel, T.
    Thersleff, L. Schultz, B. Holzapfel, and L. Schultz
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    Current-voltage curves for molecular junctions: Effect of substitutients
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    Nanocrystalline Rutile TiO[sub 2] Electrode for High-Capacity and High-Rate
    Lithium Storage
    Chunhai Jiang, Itaru Honma, Tetsuichi Kudo, and Haoshen Zhou
    pp. A127-A129
    
    Electrical characterization of superconducting single-photon detectors
    F. Mattioli, R. Leoni, A. Gaggero, M. G. Castellano, P. Carelli, F. Marsili, and
    A. Fiore
    054302 (5 pages)
    
    Microstructural Evolution and Irreversibility in the Viscoelastic Response of
    Mesoscopic Dusty-Plasma Liquids
    Chia-Ling Chan and Lin I
    105002 (4 pages)
    
    Spontaneous Thermal Runaway as an Ultimate Failure Mechanism of Materials
    S. Braeck and Y. Y. Podladchikov
    095504 (4 pages)
    
    
    
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    #38239 From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@...>
    Date: Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:48 am
    Subject: [dave@...: [IP] WELL WORTH READING -- re: Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users]
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    From: Meng Weng Wong <mengwong@...>
    Date: March 15, 2007 7:12:42 PM EDT
    To: dave@...
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    Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users
    
    On Mar 15, 2007, at 2:00 PM, David Farber wrote:
    
    >The pure thoughtlessness of supposedly intelligent human beings on
    >how to solve problems amazes me.   Punishing everyone for the sins
    >of a few (bots are not predominant) is a lazy form of thought.  And
    >it's abusive.
    >
    
    This argument, is off-topic in the first place, quickly becomes a
    rathole, so I'll try to keep it entertaining.
    
    
    Bots (zombied machines) are, in fact, predominant; they are
    responsible for the majority of spam sent today, and the infection
    rate is estimated as being as high as 1 in 3 Windows machines.
    
    The bad-guy industry is mature.  Zombie networks can be rented by the
    CPU-hour.
    
    The field is so mature, in fact, that different criminal gangs play
    "capture the flag", battling it out to re-own machines that were
    already owned by somebody else.
    
    Distributed computing has officially arrived :)
    
    Spammers today have access to more computational power, and at a
    lower price point, than Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, and TJ Watson put
    together.  This is a provocative statement.  I'll substantiate it
    below, with the caveat that the necessarily rough estimates do
    introduce substantial error.
    
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/technology/07net.html?
    ex=1325826000&en=cd1e2d4c0cd20448&ei=5090
    
    http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/Organized_crime_offers_rent-a-
    zombie_deals.asp
    
    Scotland Yard says zombie networks are available for approximately
    $100/hr for 10,000 machines.  At approximately 2 gigaflops per PC,
    $100 buys you one hour on a 20 Tflop/s zombie network (unclustered,
    of course, so you're not going to be modeling fusion reactions or
    protein folding, but we're going to pick a yardstick, we might as
    well use gigaflops.)
    
    If the typical zombie farmer makes 500,000 machines available for
    rent, a total of 1,000 teraflop/s is available for $5,000 per hour.
    
    http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/012079.html
    
    By comparison, LLNL's Blue Gene/L runs at 280 Tflop/s, Sandia's Red
    Storm runs at 101.4, and TJ Watson's box runs at 91.2.  For $10,000,
    you can rent a 180 gflops slice of Blue Gene for a week, for 108
    million gigaflops.  Or you can rent 1,000,000 zombie gigaflops for
    two hours, for a total of 7.2 billion gigaflops.
    
    http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb031505-story03.html
    http://www.top500.org/lists/2006/11
    
    If you believe these figures, and are willing to compare apple-
    gigaflops with orange-teraflops, the fastest supercomputer in the
    world costs 66 times as much as a zombie network, and offers one-
    third the raw computing power.  Of course, the flops aren't
    equivalent because the architectures and applications are completely
    different.
    
    And, of course, any economist will tell you that stolen goods cost
    less.  IBM owns its facilities; zombie networks 0wn theirs.
    
    But I'd like to think this disproves the original assertion that
    "bots are not predominant."
    
    >Rather than have to defend my very normal need to do this against
    >idiots, let's just vote them off the island.
    
    ISPs that do not block 25 are themselves being voted off the island
    by a growing population of receivers in the email community.  There
    is a small but growing industry which aims at filtering *outbound*
    mail, and at quarantining and remediating infected home users.  All
    of these costs are, of course, generally borne by ISPs, but are
    hidden from and largely unappreciated by the consumer.
    
    In 2007, email breaks down roughly like this:
    
    If you're a home consumer, you're expected to relay mail through your
    ISP's servers.  You can reach them on port 25.
    
    If you want to relay mail through some other server, say, your
    corporate server at work, you can submit on port 587, which remains
    unblocked.  That server will require a username and password, so it's
    not an open relay.  RFC2476 goes into more detail.
    
    If you want to send mail directly to a receiver's MX, you can't: port
    25 is blocked.  This is the recommendation of http://www.maawg.org/
    and several other industry organizations.  It is, as you say, based
    on the unfortunate logic that "most X are Y and most Y are X, and
    since we can't pinpoint X well enough, we approximate using Y."
    
    At present, if you really want port 25 unblocked, you have to sign up
    for business-class DSL, often called "static".
    
    This usually costs more.
    
    Now that port 25 is unblocked, you are assumed to run your own MTA
    software, and to have your own MTA administrator.
    
    If any of your machines get compromised, and emit spam, you will
    eventually appear on one of the numerous DNSBLs out there.  When that
    happens receivers may reject your mail, or file it to the spam folder.
    
    It is unfortunate that the end-to-end Internet is only available to
    "business-class" users.  If we want to get port 25 unblocked, all we
    have to do is (a) secure Windows, so that home users can keep them
    uninfected without doing any extra work, and (b) solve spam.
    
    
    
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    #38238 From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@...>
    Date: Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:00 am
    Subject: [arma@...: Work on Tor this summer, get paid by Google]
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    Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:17:00 -0400
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    Hi folks,
    
    We (EFF and Tor working together) have been accepted into Google's
    Summer of Code 2007. This means they'll fund several students to work
    with us this summer on projects related to Tor. International students
    are welcome too.
    
    The deadline for students submitting applications is _MARCH 24_.
    
    I've put up a page with more details here:
    http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/SummerOfCode
    and there's a big list of potential projects here:
    http://tor.eff.org/volunteer.html.en#Coding
    
    Please let us know if you're interested, and spread the word. The
    more applications we get, the more likely Google is to give us good
    students. So if you haven't filled up your summer plans yet, consider
    spending some time working with us to make Tor better!
    
    Thanks,
    --Roger
    
    
    
    
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    #38237 From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@...>
    Date: Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:19 am
    Subject: [goodman2@...: [Comp-neuro] Neuroinformatics Software Developer position, Harvard Center for Brain Science]
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    Neuroinformatics Software Developer
    Center for Brain Science
    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    
    Duties And Responsibilities:
    The Harvard Center for Brain Science and the Martinos Center for Biomedical
    Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital seek a highly motivated
    individual to work on neuroinformatics projects associated with human brain
    imaging.  The successful applicant will be responsible for developing software
    designed to aid in these studies.  Typical projects include visualization
    tools, databasing software and web applications.   These applications will be
    released to the general scientific community as open-source software, so
    documentation and structured programming techniques will be an important part
    of the job responsibilities.
    
    Required Education, Experience and Skills:
    Minimum requirements
    ·      Bachelor’s degree in computer science or software engineering
    ·      Strong and demonstrable knowledge of java, sql, xml, scripting
            languages, web application programming
    ·      Strong software engineering skills
    
    Preferred requirements
    ·      Master’s degree in computer science or software engineering strongly
            preferred.
    ·      5 or more years experience in Java and web programming
    ·      Proficiency in programming image databases and visualization
            applications
    ·      Interest in biomedicine and informatics
    
    Please send resume & cover letter or address inquiries to:
    
    Julie Goodman, PhD
    Administrative Director for Neuroimaging
    Harvard Center for Brain Science
    William James Hall, 282
    33 Kirkland St
    Cambridge, MA 02138
    Email: goodman2@...
    
    Harvard University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
    There is no relocation package associated with this position.
    
    
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    #38236 From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@...>
    Date: Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:03 pm
    Subject: [joshuatfox@...: Re: [singularity] Philanthropy & Singularity]
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        > Does anyone know what Bill Gates thinks about the singularity?
        >(Or for that matter, other great philanthropists.)
        Yes, I too have wondered why Singularity efforts have not received
        more funding. There are a lot of very rich high-tech zillionaires who
        want to give to charity but literally don't know what to give to.
        Take a look at Steve Kirsch's site, including this
        [1]http://www.kirschfoundation.org/who/reflection_4.html . Kirsch
        seems like a outstanding example of well-considered Silicon Valley
        philanthropy --
        [2]http://www.kirschfoundation.org/done/accomplish.html -- ask
        yourself if he is a potential Singularity donor.
        These people don't seem part of the well-oiled machine which funnels
        donations from "old money" to hospitals, museums, etc. Some pour huge
        amounts into space flight, including efforts which do not seem
        commercially viable.
        Why has the singularity and AGI not triggered such an interest?
        Thiel's donations to SIAI seem like the exception which highlights the
        rule.
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    #38235 From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@...>
    Date: Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:19 am
    Subject: [pgptag@...: [wta-talk] First steps to neural interfacing for consumers]
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    Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:07:35 +0100
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    http://transumanar.com/index.php/site/first_steps_to_neural_interfacing_for_cons\
    umers/
    
    The Economist has a good article on applications of Brain to Computer
    Interfacing to computer games: "the promises of, respectively, Emotiv
    Systems and NeuroSky, two young companies based in California, that
    plan to transport the measurement of brain waves from the medical
    sphere into the realm of computer games. If all goes well, their first
    products should be on the market next year. People will then be able
    to tell a computer what they want it to do just by thinking about it".
    
    "First applications are most likely to be single-player computer games
    running on machines such as Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's
    PlayStation 3. In the longer term, though, he thinks the system will
    be ideal for controlling avatars (the visual representations of
    players) in multiplayer virtual worlds such as Second Life".
    
    Before becoming available to Second Life users, the new neural
    interfaces might be available to PlayStation 3 owners in Sony's
    forthcoming new service, Home, that puts users into a real-time,
    networked 3D community, where they can interact, join online games,
    communicate, share content and even build and show off their own
    personal spaces.  Home will be available this fall as a free download
    from the PlayStation Store..
    
    Home looks impressive: Second Life with the graphic quality of a
    console videogame. Take a look here and imagine moving in this world
    and interacting with things by thought. Add fullly imemrsive headset
    displays… wow!
    
    The first applications of neural interfacing have been in the medical
    field. See for example the recent breakthroughs of Cyberkinetics,
    whose technology used in medical pilot projects has permitted severely
    disabled patients interacting with computers by thought. Now this
    technology is finding its way to the consumer market. I am not
    surprised at all to see that the first consumer applications of neural
    interfacing are developed for the computer gaming industry. In the
    computer gaming market there is a lot of money and there will be even
    more money, and game companies are able to attract very bright and
    creative people everywhere. I am more and more persuaded that other
    transhumanist holy grails, such as conscious artificial intelligence,
    will be first developed by the computer gaming industry.
    
    >From the Emotiv website: "Our mission is to create the ultimate
    interface for the next-generation of man-machine interaction, by
    evolving the interaction between human beings and electronic devices
    beyond the limits of conscious interface. Emotiv is creating
    technologies that allow machines to take both conscious and
    non-conscious inputs directly from your mind". From the NeuroSky
    website: "Brainwaves have been used in medical research and therapy
    for years. We're bringing it to the consumer world".
    
    So we will soon be able to think our way in Home and Second Life. If a
    computer can read information from our brains, it won't be long before
    it can also write information directly to our brains and very fast:
    two way neural interfaces that will make computer screens and headsets
    obsolete, a Second Life that goes directly to the brain bypassing the
    eyes. And when our virtual environments will contain artificial
    intelligences, perhaps smarter than us, we will be able to communicate
    with them at the speed of thought. Let's call things by their name:
    these first baby steps to neural interfacing for consumers will lead
    to *the* transhumanist Holy Grail: mind uploading, the transfer of
    human consciousness out of the brain into much higher performance
    supports, where we will be able to interact and merge with our AI mind
    children.
    
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    #38233 From: "Hughes, James J." <James.Hughes@...>
    Date: Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:27 pm
    Subject: Human2.0 conf - MIT - May 9, 2007
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    http://h20.media.mit.edu/
    
    Human2.0: new minds, new bodies, new identities
    
    A One-Day Symposium, 5/9/2007 at MIT
    
    Ushering in a New Era for Human Capability
    
    The story of civilization is the story of humans and their tools. Use of
    tools has changed the human mind, altered the human body, and
    fundamentally reshaped human identity. Now at the dawn of the 21st
    century, a new category of tools and machines is poised to radically
    change humanity at a velocity well beyond the pace of Darwinian
    evolution.
    
    A science is emerging that combines a new understanding of how humans
    work to usher in a new generation of machines that mimic or aid human
    physical and mental capabilities. Some 150 million of us are over the
    age of 80, while 200 million of us suffer from severe cognitive,
    emotional, sensory, or physical disabilities. Giving all or even most of
    this population a quality of life beyond mere survival is both the
    scientific challenge of the epoch and the basis for a coming revolution
    over what it means to be human. To unleash this next stage in human
    development, our bodies will change, our minds will change, and our
    identities will change. The age of Human 2.0 is here.
    
    Hosts
    
    JOHN HOCKENBERRY
    award-winning journalist; distinguished Media Lab fellow
    
    HUGH HERR
    NEC Career Development Professor, MIT Media Lab
    
    keynote
    OLIVER SACKS
    
    special guests
    MICHAEL GRAVES
    MICHAEL CHOROST
    JOHN DONOGHUE
    AIMEE MULLINS
    DOUGLAS H. SMITH
    
    The program will focus on the Media Lab's sweeping new research
    initiatives for augmenting mental and physical capability to vastly
    improve the quality of human life. Presenters will explore how
    today's-and tomorrow's-advances will seamlessly interact with humans,
    giving us a glimpse into a future where all humans will integrate with
    technology to heighten our cognition, emotional acuity, perception, and
    physical capabilities.
    
    The Media Lab at the Center
    
    In a dramatic and crucially important new initiative, h2.0, the MIT
    Media Lab seeks to advance on all fronts to define and focus this
    scientific realignment. The Lab will leverage a new understanding of
    human cognition, emotion, perception, and movement to produce machines
    that better serve humanity.
    
    Positioning itself at the center of a confluence of new science is a
    familiar place for the Media Lab. Understanding the adaptive impulse of
    humans and harnessing it for the pursuit of a new generation of machines
    is an endeavor as world shattering as anything the Media Lab has ever
    undertaken. The goal? New Minds, New Bodies, New Identities.
    Please Join Us

    #38232 From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@...>
    Date: Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:53 pm
    Subject: [andrew@...: [ccm-l] OpenCourseWare - More education]
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    From: Dr Andrew Thorniley <andrew@...>
    Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:48:54 +0000
    To: Critical Care Medicine Listserv <ccm-l@...>
    Subject: [ccm-l] OpenCourseWare - More education
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        Here's a news bulletin..
        According to EETimes, [1]MIT is planning on putting its entire 1800
        course curriculum online for free by the end of the year:
    
          On Tuesday, school officials revealed plans to make available the
          university's entire 1,800-course curriculum by year's end.
          Currently, some 1.5 million online independent learners log on the
          MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site every month and more than 120
          universities around the world have inaugurated their own sites for
          independent learners. MIT has more than 1,500 course curriculums
          available online to date.
          Who are MIT's independent learners? One MIT calculation found that
          17% were educators elsewhere, 32% students everywhere, and 49% were
          self learners. Other learners come from nations all over the world,
          from Antarctica to Darfur. He notes that the highest traffic in the
          United States comes from leading high-tech states Massachusetts and
          California. South Korea has a sizable base, accounting for a higher
          number of learners than, for instance, in China, its neighbor. Many
          learners are college teachers and professors, who want to sharpen
          their own teaching courses and methods. In a typical example,
          physics professor Younes Attaourti of Marrakesh, Morocco, has used
          MIT materials for his courses on statistical physics and quantum
          theory.
    
        This address will get you to a page of the OCW consortium and the
        courses available.
        [2]http://www.ocwconsortium.org/use/index.html
        and this one will get you to TUFTS and a section on infectious
        diseases.
        [3]http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/6
        or
        [4]http://ocw.tufts.edu/CourseList
    --
    Dr Andrew Thorniley
    Consultant Anaesthetist
    Clinical Director of Anaesthesia and Surgery
    The Hillingdon Hospital
    Uxbridge
    
    References
    
        1.
    http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=AVUPWC314LSUUQSN\
    DLSCKHA?articleID=198000598
        2. http://www.ocwconsortium.org/use/index.html
        3. http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/6
        4. http://ocw.tufts.edu/CourseList
    
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