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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. A meme is a shortcut to a universal human emotion. But to ...

The emergence of the Internet in this age has surely made us more creative and humorous than ever, giving us opportunities to take part in a community, albeit virtually. But before linguists can let ...

“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 ...

Once in a while — it’s not very often — I encounter a “new” word. My English background and reading habits limit this meeting to only a few opportunities. Recently, I did stumble on one that I first ...

From Pepe the Frog to the Arthur Fist, millions of memes are shared on the internet every day. There’s no doubt that memes have rapidly grown to be a fundamental part of social media, but what do the ...

Editor’s note: Salon celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Since being founded in 1995 (under the much-worse domain salon1999.com), Salon has published over 300,000 articles; as one of the first ...