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 ...

Richard Dawkins reflects on inventing the word ‘meme’ - Author invented the term ‘meme’, which was first brought to public ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines ... the line from a Facebook meme as the former president ...

But believe it or not, memes aren’t a recent cultural phenomenon. In fact, the word “meme” itself is rooted in Greek, meaning “that which is imitated.” And imitated they are. Memes are ...