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This is a twine for all aspects of memes and memetics, the study of memes. Memes are the cultural equivalent of genes, first introduced by Richard Dawkins in 'The Selfish Gene'. The exact nature of memes is a matter of debate, but they can be said to be replicators that pass from brain to brain and are how ideas and concepts, as well as cultural patterns, are spread. This twine will attempt to be a resource for all and welcomes everybody interested in this area.
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YouTube - Information LandscapesBack in 1994, Muriel Cooper, one of the co-founders of the MIT Media Lab where she taught interactive media design as the head of the Visible Language Workshop, presented her work at the TED5 conference in Monterey, CA. Her presentation would initiate a new era of data visualization, and it ...
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Meme- Share text, photos, videos and audio. Spread it!Seems to be an attempt to do something like Twine
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Dan Dennett on dangerous memes | Video on TED.comTalks About this talk Starting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memes -- ...
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Synthetic ExistenceWe'll live on ... not through our genes but through our memes
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China's favorite Internet craze: 'Jia Junpeng, your mom is calling you to come home and eat.' -- latimes.comVirality on the Chinese Web
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20Mind-Culture Coevolution. The ranks theory of cultural evolution developed by William L. Benzon and David G. Hays.An alternative non-memetic view of cultural evolutionAl Wood added 5 months ago
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20Edge: DANIEL C. DENNETT: The Evolution of CultureHidayat, if you are interested in philosophy there are various twines on that as well. See http://www.twine.com/search?type=&text=PhilosophyAl Wood added 5 months ago
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20Edge: DANIEL C. DENNETT: The Evolution of CultureHi Hidayat. Glad to be of some help, even outside communication. And welcome to Twine!Al Wood added 5 months ago
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Edge: DANIEL C. DENNETT: The Evolution of CultureIts great you introduced this article to us sir. It certainly help me when doing my philosophy assignment. Cultural evolution is way too complex to be deciphered by using scientific theories.Hidayat Ismail added 5 months ago
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13Government moves to staunch massive Medicare fraud - Yahoo! NewsRemember whose "watch" this particular case happened on. But then again, that "watch" was all for "business" and all against "government" (except to fatten the purses of their cronies). Otherwise, where was THEIR enforcement initiatives?JDP added 7 months ago
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