Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA20140 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:45:39 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745D0C@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: The Demise of a Meme Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:42:30 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Only four people between you and Darwin? They must have been very old.
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> From: wilkins
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 11:53 pm
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme
>
> <<File: wilkins.vcf>>
> Scott Chase wrote:
> >
> > >From: Chris Taylor <Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk>
> > >Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> > >To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> > >Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme
> > >Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:11:44 +0000
> > >
> > >No, Jimmy Page is the only god (and he's made a fair profit).
> > >
> > >
> > Aleister Crowley's "memes" connect Jimmy Page and Ozzy Osbourne. I
> wonder
> > what their Bacon numbers are.
> >
> > For those not familiar with the "Bacon number", it is an index of how
> far
> > removed someone is from the prolific actor Kevin Bacon. It's a degrees
> of
> > separation thang. People are actually experts on this sort of
> triviality.
> >
> A much better one is the Erdös number - which is the number
> mathematicians have that indicates how many steps they are from having
> coauthored a paper with Paul Erdös. Most have a number no more than 4.
>
> I prefer to work out the Darwin number. My own is 4. I have shaken hands
> with someone who shook hands with someone who shook hands with Darwin.
> Assuming nobody washed in that time, I might get Chagas disease :-)
>
>
> --
> John Wilkins, Head, Communication Services, The Walter and Eliza Hall
> Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
> Homo homini aut deus aut lupus - Erasmus of Rotterdam
> <http://www.users.bigpond.com/thewilkins/darwiniana.html>
>
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