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To: elmatador who wrote (65525)	6/26/2005 4:49:37 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

ElM, Leonardos and Einsteins are a dime a dozen, but we can only put one on a magazine cover at a time and people are conditioned to have 'heroes'. So people tend to lionize a few individuals and being in the fan club confers some cachet on the fan. It's a kind of tribalism. To come up with something which really rattles all our cages is pretty good. But it doesn't necessarily get the front page. Contraception for example has had a vast impact on human life. For the first time in biological history a female easily selects her fertility. Having children escapes hormones and enters the mind. The result has been a cultural shift around the world to women not replacing the population. That is very very big time. It means a short supply of cannon fodder spare landless, jobless males for a start [though Islamic Jihad finds plenty of ammunition in the seething mobs]. But I have no idea who invented contraception. I've heard of Leonardo who painted a bit and drew pictures of potential helicopters or something. And Einstein who got relativity under way and Newton came up with the good old gravitational constant. npl.washington.edu Mqurice