An evolutionary biologist blended the ancient Greek word mimeme—meaning something imitated—with ... lead to a comparison to Hitler and the Holocaust. In the op-ed, titled ‘Meme, Counter-Meme,’ Godwin ...

It wasn't long ago that the word "meme" was something you wouldn't utter in polite company — not because it was rude, but because no one knew it meant. The word was consigned to teenage boys ...

Even if you’re not extremely online, you’ve probably participated in a meme trend, knowingly or not. The word “meme” has been used in the New York Times Crossword 60 times since the puzzle ...

Some of them stick for a while, some don’t. Those that linger are branded as memes. But what exactly is a meme? In 1976, English evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins proposed an idea in his ...

Along with memes comes memetics. The word now is defined as "the study of memes" but memetics describes how ideas reproduce, change and evolve. Dawkins used "meme" to represent any piece of ...

How do all of these different people refer to their memes? I asked SwiftKey, a popular smartphone keyboard app acquired by Microsoft a couple years ago, for data on English words commonly used by ...