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9 days agoIf people are wondering how traffic noise is so deadly, it’s usually things like hypertension and the effects of chronic sleep disturbance
If people are wondering how traffic noise is so deadly, it’s usually things like hypertension and the effects of chronic sleep disturbance
Totally unrelated though, and just a coincidence. The word meme in the way we use it today was coined by Richard Dawkins in (IIRC) The Extended Phenotype. I presume it’s an abbreviation of Mental Gene, or something like that. The idea was that a meme is an idea or concept that can fight for survival amongst other ideas, just as a gene tries to survive being being a good fit to its environment