(Oddly, he makes no mention of the biologist Richard Dawkins, whose analogy between "memes" -- infectious ideas -- and viruses had, I thought, itself spread widely even among the literati).
According to the theory of memes--which is the study of infectious ideas--there are two primary ways for an up-and-coming religious group to get its message out.
It's an abstraction of cellular life, or in my practice, I use this imagery to communicate infectious ideas.
In it, I also mentioned that you, your books, and your overly infectious ideas are what gave me the courage to pursue a career in documentary filmmaking and writing screenplays.
Historian Jennifer Brier, director of gender and women's studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of the book Infectious Ideas: U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis, also praised Fauci's decision to speak frankly at TEDMED about this contentious moment in AIDS history.
"The total apathy in the mainstream press was because the people who were dying in early 1980s were not newsworthy," said Jennifer Brier, the director of the gender and women's studies program at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Infectious Ideas: US Political Response to the AIDS Crisis.
Of course, one particularly postmodern irony is that nothing is more infectious than an idea intended not to be infectious--nothing is more desirable than what's behind the velvet rope., The Heaven's Gate Web site is now jammed.
After a decade off the table, the idea that infectious diseases are a security threat, as well as a humanitarian one, will be back on it.This idea comes and goes.
