This media lesson focuses on content related to how humans tranform memes and how they, in turn transform human culture. It also introduces the new concept of "temes."

As a listening, this media lesson also focusses on skills related to listening for main idea and specific detail, and taking notes from a lecture.

View this TED talk by memetics expert Susan Blackmore and complete the exercises in the lesson document.

Video with subtitles.

Susan Blackmore: Memes and "temes"

Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus.

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