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No Cure for Songs Stuck in Your Head
Found : No Cure for Songs Stuck in Your Head ALBANY, N.Y. – Unexpected and insidious, the earworm slinks its way into the brain and refuses to leave. Symptoms vary, although high levels of annoyance and frustration are common. There … Continue reading
William Burroughs, parasitism, language and the virus
Found : William Burroughs, parasitism, language and the virus "Which came first, the intestine or the tapeworm?" In this epigram, Burroughs suggests that parasitism–corruption, plagiarism, surplus appropriation–is in fact conterminous with life itself. The tapeworm doesn't simply happen to attach … Continue reading
Chandra Wickramasinghe on the extraterrestrial origins of the SARS virus
Found : Chandra Wickramasinghe on the extraterrestrial origins of the SARS virus LONDON, England (CNN) — The SARS virus might have originated in outer space, according to a scientist in Britain. In a letter to The Lancet medical journal, professor … Continue reading
The Incredibly Strange Story of Intelligent Design
Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #97, expanded and revised with original illustrations. A fascinating survey of alternative human origins theories and their links to Gnostic mythology! Continue reading
Posted in Magazine Articles
Tagged Adam, aliens, Burroughs, cavemen, colonization, creation, Dembski, Eve, evolution, exobiology, extraterrestrial, Genesis, ID, panspermia, polytheism, UFO, virus
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Biological Disaster Story
“Burroughs imagines the beginning of humanity as a biological disaster story. Apes become human as a result of a virus infection that kills most of the species and mutates the rest. The survivors feel a painful invasion of their bodies … Continue reading
Posted in Notes and Annotations
Tagged apes, Burroughs, cannibalism, cavemen, creation, panspermia, sex, virus
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Memes
"One of the most important new ideas of our times is that of 'memes,' – the vision of ideas as autonomous entities, leaping from brain to brain in much the same way that viruses leap from body to body, spreading … Continue reading
