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<P>Not different memes. Different languages. People are simply are more comfortable speaking in the language that traditionally has accompanied the meme. Especially if it is their 'native tongue.'</P>
<P>I gave a talk at the LA Futurist Salon a couple of weeks ago on Charles and Ray Eames, in conjunction with someone else (Troy Gardner) showing the film "The Powers of Ten" and discussing the general concept of exponential growth and its application in a variety of ways. The Eames, best known as the 20th C.'s most iconic designers, understood better than anyone that for science and math to reach a broad audience, they had to change the language it was traditionally spoken in. Thus "The Powers of Ten," "Mathmetica" and the dozens of other films, exhibits and books they created to communicate science education to the mass audience. Along the way, they invented the multi-media presentation.</P>
<P>Same ideas. Different language.</P>
<P>PJ</P>
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<P>> people with Asperger's Syndrome<BR>> naturally gravitate to the sciences.<BR><BR>[snip]</P>
<P>people on the autism spectrum depend on direct perception of the surrounding environment in order to gain information about it, while more neurologically typical people depend more on socially-transmitted information. Different groups seem "susceptible" to different memes, perhaps.<BR><BR></P>
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