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2 unusual facts about meme


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Prominent researchers in evolutionary psychology and anthropology, including Scott Atran, Dan Sperber, Pascal Boyer, John Tooby and others, argue the possibility of incompatibility between modularity of mind and memetics.

The 1981 book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process by Charles J. Lumsden and E. O. Wilson proposed the theory that genes and culture co-evolve, and that the fundamental biological units of culture must correspond to neuronal networks that function as nodes of semantic memory.


1746 in art

The French philosopher Charles Batteux publishes Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of les beaux arts, the fine arts.

Accidental Tourist

Tourist guy, an internet meme of altered photos showing a tourist in unusual locations

Charles Brifaut

He was associated with the editing of the memoirs of the actress Lola Montez, one of the lovers of Alexandre Dumas (Aventures de la celèbre danseuse raconté par elle-même, 1847).

Fantasticar

In an element of product placement, the Fantasticar has the Dodge logo (presumably inspired by the Juggernaut meme) on its front end, prompting Johnny to ask if it is powered by a Hemi.

Four boxes of liberty

Taking a less positive view of the meme, in April 2010 the Anti-Defamation League noted that it is frequently used by anti-government extremists to justify violence to gain their ends on the grounds that all else has failed, and cites a typical comment on the Pat Dollard Web Site: "we've tried the soap box & the ballot box to no avail. Maybe it's time to start thinking INSIDE the box - the bullet box".

Futaba Channel

Futaba has spawned a number of strange visual gags and characters; the OS-tans would be one such meme that has spread to western internet culture.

Guantanamo detainees' medical care

Documentary film director Michael Moore used these claims as a central meme in his film Sicko to argue that American citizens should receive better medical care.

It's the Same Old Song

Claude François released a cover version of the song in French called "C'est la même chanson".

Kaleidoscope Century

In the 2010s, the Organization abandoned Joshua, who then joined the Reconstruction after the Eurowar and worked in Quito, Ecuador on the GeoSync Cable and saw with Alice the beginning of the development of memes that would unify all countries and religions, leading to the War of the Memes (referred to in some of Barnes' other books) that culminated in the takeover of Earth by One True.

Meme IDE

Meme IDE is a software platform for developing mobile applications.

Même pas fatigué !!!

"Même pas fatigué !!!" is a 2009 song recorded as duet by Magic System and Khaled.

Mèmè Placca Fessou

Mèmè Placca Fessou (born 31 December 1994) is an Togolese footballer who plays as a striker for OC Agaza.

Metamagical Themas

Major themes include: self-reference in memes, language, art and logic; discussions of philosophical issues important in cognitive science/AI; analogies and what makes something similar to something else (specifically what makes, for example, an uppercase letter 'A' recognisable as such); and lengthy discussions of the work of Robert Axelrod on the prisoner's dilemma and the idea of superrationality.

Mohammed Tchité

Mohammed 'Meme' Tchité (born 31 January 1984) is a Belgian-Burundian footballer who plays for Club Brugge K.V. in the Belgian First Division, as a striker.

Mperience

The resulting pages are named Memes on the site, supposedly with reference to Richard Dawkins’ concept of meme.

National Kid

A series of graffiti with the phrase "Celacanto Provoca Maremoto" ("coelacanth causes tsunami"), referencing the villains' submarine, appeared in several spots of Rio de Janeiro in 1977 as a meme.

Negroponte switch

In the 1980s Professor Nicholas Negroponte of the Media Lab at MIT originated the meme, that came to be known as the "Negroponte Switch".

Paffendorf

Their song, Under My Skin, had become an Internet meme, featuring Momo, a character from the anime series Sumomomo Momomo repetitively imitating a train engine with her hands and jumping up and down.

SpokAnarchy!

Several of the cast have achieved notoriety since the perod depicted in the film, including Paul D'Amour, the original bassist for the band Tool, circus sideshow performer Zamora the Torture King, and the creator of Internet meme Keyboard Cat.

The '90s Are All That

The week before Memorial Day 2013 featured "Meme-orial Week," in which fans submitted their '90s Nick-themed memes for air during the block.

The Bride Stripped Bare

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même), most often called The Large Glass, an artwork by Marcel Duchamp

Timothee Besset

The system was actually named by Christian Antkow based on the Zero Wing meme.

Viral art

In truth, viral art likely started in the streets of New York and London in the form of street memes, self-replicating ideas that grow and spread around us, such as, stickers, stencils, posters and pavement art, such as Julian Beever's, that are copied, mutated and posted again throughout the city streets of the world.


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