From: "Richard Brodie" <richard@brodietech.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Subject: Institute for Memetic Research (was: Critical Thinking in Memetics)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:04:20 -0700
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980616102105.00c37a00@popmail.mcs.net>
Aaron Lynch wrote:
<<However, if you can tell me the train stop for the "Institute for Memetics
Research," I would be impressed.>>
Your difficulty may be that you have a slight error in the name. It's
"Institute for Memetic Research" (not "Memetics"). The last address I have
for them is
PO Box 16327
Panama City FL 32406-1327
Panama city is at the west end of the Florida Panhandle, on the Gulf coast
near the capital Tallahassee. I don't travel much by train, but you could
try http://www.amtrak.com if you can get through -- their server is as
unreliable as their trains.
The Institute for Memetic Research published the first memetics journal in
existence, Journal of Ideas, of which I have several issues in front of me.
One of them has an article by an A. Lynch -- any relation?
Unfortunately, I don't think they are around any longer and I have lost
touch with Elan Moritz, the director of the Institute and editor of the
Journal. Dr. Moritz kindly gave me a very nice quote to use on the dust
jacket of my book "Virus of the Mind", which you can read on the Amazon.com
page if you like,
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0963600117/memecentralA along with a
whole bunch of reviews from readers, many of them quite amusing. My favorite
is from the reader who says my book is so bad, don't bother buying a copy,
go find his where he left it on the beach in Mexico.
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie
Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
Visit Meme Central! http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
===============================================================
This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
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