His openness of mind spread: online comments responding to an article he wrote made him realise, to his shame, that though he had read many scientific papers on global warming he had never read any on genetically modified crops.
The spread of Bill James's ideas on baseball, from mimeographed sheets to the front offices of the Red Sox, is a nice instance of how a scientific turn of mind spread to a place where science hadn't usually gone.
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon have this to say about memes: For those unfamiliar with "meme," we should explain that it's a term coined by biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976, and it denotes an idea or behavior that is passed from person to person, mind to mind, spreading through the culture in a way analogous to genes as they replicate.
Crisis, or at least a crisis state of mind, spreads instantaneously today.
I know you're listening, so would you mind spreading the word that Book Club has been changed from Tuesday to Thursday, and while you're at it, that Susie Smith's husband was overheard flirting with the nanny?
Weighing heavily on everyone's mind (spreading paranoia, in essence) was the fear that they would repeat the infamous predictive disaster of 2000's Presidential election, when first NBC, and then other networks (working from exit-poll returns) wrongly called Florida for Al Gore and not George W Bush. Well guess what? - there was a something of a repeat in 2004.
I could almost fix upon the moment when this truth dawned upon her mind, and spread its light to her countenance.
During that period, it was common for the dividend yield on shares to be higher than the nominal corporate bond yield - never mind the spread.
PSYCHOANALYSIS and its ideas about the unconscious mind have spread to every nook and cranny of the culture from Salinger to "South Park," from Fellini to foreign policy.
At the same time, however, it is also a remarkably hardy and widespread meme that has taken hold of the nation's collective unconscious -- a mind virus spread by word of mouth and amplified by our electronic media, an epidemic that has united the country, but united it in anxiety and dread.
I started this assignment with a specific medical phenomenon in mind – the spread of drug resistance – but in researching this I've spent a lot of time thinking about how important concepts of citizenship can be to healthcare, and what happens to those who fall between the cracks.
