Re: Giving a presentation on memetics

From: Kate Distin (memes@distin.co.uk)
Date: Fri 20 Jan 2006 - 19:35:59 GMT

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    Well done, Ben. You deserve this. It didn't become "easily the best" presentation to date just because of our input.

    Kate

    > Just to say a *big* thanks to everyone who contributed ideas for my
    > memetics presentation in December. I found out today I'd got an A
    > (combined mark for both the presentation plus a written component).
    > Comments were:
    >
    >
    > Presentation:
    > Congratulations - we thought this was easily the best presentation we
    > saw to date and this is reflected in the mark. It was delivered in a
    > confident manner, you used lots of techniques to make it more
    > interesting and it was well referenced and gave a balanced view.
    >
    > Wiki:
    > The wiki pages are equally good - they reflect and add to the
    > presentation and are very well referenced and illustrated.
    >
    >
    >
    > The techniques I think he is referring to are the use of props and the
    > copying experiment - which were suggested on this list. I'm chuffed
    > with this because it all counts towards the class of degree I receive.
    > So many thanks for the input people!
    >
    >
    >
    > On a related note, and possibly of interest to people, I had the exam
    > last week, and one of the choices of questions was:
    >
    > What is "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" and why does Daniel Dennett seem to
    > think some researchers are scared of embracing it? [50 marks]
    >
    >
    > And in looking through the past exam papers, on the 2005 paper there
    > was:
    >
    > Could the key ideas of dualism be said to form the basis of a very
    > successful meme? [50 marks]
    >
    >
    >
    > Ben
    >
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    > Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
    > For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
    > see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
    >
    >
    >

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