Beth posed a very pertinent question in the comments to the On Music entry, she writes: Hey Pete. This is going to be rather silly, but (let’s start off with some flattery) you know almost everything, and I was wondering if you knew anything about the origin of the word “meme” being used to describe internet [...]
I’m sure you’ve heard about the stir caused when Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers told a group at Harvard that the disproportion of women in the sciences may be because men could be predisposed to being better at that sort of thing. You might not know that he didn’t support the theory, he merely [...]