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“Abstract:
The evolutionary contagion of self-spreading ideas, or thought contagions, is introduced and applied to major topics in conflict dynamics. Beliefs are found to self-propagate by some surprising means, such as inducing evangelism, by manipulating imitation rates, by intimidating adherents of alternative ideas into silence, by refutation resistance, and by deterring dropouts. Even fairly subtle differences [...]

Some time ago I posted the following in a post the Virus list:
“How is an Haitian, fresh from his citizenship class and oath ceremony suddenly guilty and deserving of murder? How about Norberto Hernandez, a Puerto Rican chef who leaped - horribly burned - from the World Trade Centre. Why was he guilty and according [...]

Albanian pimp faces jail [Evening Telegraph]
“An Albanian pimp likened by detectives to a modern day slave trader is facing jail today after kidnapping a schoolgirl and making her work up to 20 hours a day as a prostitute in London.
The Romanian girl - who was 15 when she was smuggled into Britain - was [...]

“The scope of human ideas is infinite, some might say. But one researcher says he can count them, and he intends to do just that.
Darryl Macer, associate professor at the Institute of Biological Sciences at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, plans to create a human mental map — a database that would contain a [...]

This and other gems from John Barger’s interesting article on “An Internet way of self-knowledge”.
Here Jorn argues that the way to enlightenment lies through the practices of weblogging, journaling, meditation, essays writing, contributing to newsgroups, conducting ‘live’ research, living experimentally and attempting autobiography.