Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970805145840.006b4504@popmail.mcs.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 14:58:40 -0500
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Aaron Lynch <aaron@mcs.net>
Subject: New memetics article online
Here is an introductory article which nevertheless contains fresh material
not found in THOUGHT CONTAGION. The new material concerns "the Word," the
Roswell UFO rumor, and the Heaven's Gate affair.
Thought Contagion and Heaven's Gate
(http://www.heise.de/tp/englisch/special/mem/2160/1.html)
Aaron Lynch diskutiert die Theorie der Memetik anhand der UFO-Sekte
Heaven's Gate - gefaehrliche Ansteckung.
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/mem/2167/1.html
----Aaron Lynch
THOUGHT CONTAGION: How Belief Spreads Through Society The New Science of Memes Basic Books. Info and free sample: http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/thoughtcontagion.html
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