“Meme,” coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, has been used in Times articles about genes, stocks and of course, Bernie Sanders. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or ...

Richard Dawkins has reflected on coining the term “meme”. The word was first shared by the scientist in his 1972 bestselling book The Selfish Gene, where it referred to the self-replication of genes ...

Nonsense-shouting silly man Stephen A. Smith needs an ESPN producer to teach him how to pronounce the word "meme." I would recommend sparing yourself from listening to the entire thing (I certainly ...

The Internet Meme has become quite the phenomenon over the past few years. If you spend as much time on Facebook as I do, you will find quickly that there’s a meme for pretty much any topic, from ...

Once the Internet had introduced us to the concept of the meme, we started seeing them everywhere. Mostly because they had always been there and the word “meme” hadn’t become a, well, meme yet. Memes ...

As news feeds swarm with cat videos, it’s hard to imagine our digital lives without memes. But believe it or not, memes aren’t a recent cultural phenomenon. In fact, the word “meme” itself is rooted ...

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