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For meme freaks.
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Greetings!
Thanks for your feedback about my previous rant.
N E W S ------- I updated Evolution and Science News. Note the story "Guppy Evolution Fast Forwards" where new findings indicate that natural selection acts much quicker than previously thougt.
see: http://www.spacelab.net/~catalj/news.htm#selected
Aaron Lynch and Memetics in "Newsweek" -------------------------------------- Aaron Lynch, the author of "Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society: The New Science of Memes", is featured in this weeks "Newsweek" (April 14th) in a one-page article titled "Viruses of the Mind: How Odd Ideas Survive" on page 14.
Newsweek is not online so I cannot link to it, but you can see Aaron Lynch's comments about the Heaven's Gate cult on his homepage:
http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/thoughtcontagion.html
------------ best wishes, John ------------
John Catalano + catalj@spacelab.net + New York, USA "The World of Zoologist Richard Dawkins" + http://www.spacelab.net/~catalj
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