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VICE: How do you feel about the internet’s sabotage of the word?

Richard Dawkins: I’m quite amused by it, except that the internet uses just one tiny example of a meme. A meme is a much more general concept than that. But the internet is a very fertile ecosystem for the spread of memes.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d35ana/richard-dawkins-told-us-what-he-thinks-about-memes

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See also:

https://naturalhistory.si.edu/education/teaching-resources/written-bone/forensic-anthropology/forensic-anthropology-smithsonian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bones_(TV_series)#Premise#Premise)

... the fictional Jeffersonian Institute Medico-Legal Lab, a federal institution that collaborates with the FBI. This reflects the historical relationship between the FBI and scientists of the Smithsonian Institution.

(edit: added link to Bones article at Wikipedia)

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The Thomas Crowne Affair

1968 or 1999?

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What could be the potential causes for still waking up tired from tons of sleep?

(Not OP.) Sleep apnea is a common cause of this.