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Steven Pinker
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TODAY. Tune in live to watch bestselling author & cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, BA'76, DSc'99, in conversation with McGill Professor Jennifer Welsh. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…
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Steven Pinker
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TODAY. Tune in live to watch bestselling author & cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, BA'76, DSc'99, in conversation with McGill Professor Jennifer Welsh. New York, Thursday May 16. Livestream will begin around 7:15pm EST: lnkd.in/gCSg5a
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Steven Pinker
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More about the Sullivan case at Harvard (including my letter to the Dean). whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2019/05/15/mor… via @Evolutionistrue
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Pessimists Archive Podcast
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Each generation is called worse than the previous:
1865: Kids of today GROW UP TOO FAST!
1883: Kids of today READ TOO MUCH!
1909: Kids of today PLAY TOO MUCH!
1929: Kids of today are EGOTISTICAL!
1939: Kids of today are ADDICTED TO RADIO!
Our new podcast: soundcloud.com/pessimistsarc/… pic.twitter.com/chlAtZQwUA
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Steven Pinker
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Join me at the Inaugural @UNECOSOC Presidential Lecture “Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress in Creating the Future We Want” on Monday, May 20th at 10 a.m. EST @UN bit.ly/2vXtyVt #GlobalGoals #SDGs
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Steven Pinker
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15 de mai |
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My colleague, the legal scholar Randall Kennedy is worth reading on anything. Today he writes on our colleague Ron Sullivan: Harvard Betrays a Law Professor — and Itself nyti.ms/30kKCT7
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Steven Pinker
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14 de mai |
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And just to show that I'm more than a pair of pretty feet: "Steven Pinker: What is the Meaning of Life?" excellencereporter.com/2015/03/30/ste… via @excell_reporter
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Steven Pinker
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14 de mai |
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My brief career as a shoe mannequin: The Freudian Loafer, the Intellectual and the Politician’s Son nytimes.com/2019/05/14/fas…
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Steven Pinker
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14 de mai |
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Here is an alternative answer: youtu.be/PopVW_GGLAg
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Steven Pinker
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14 de mai |
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Sometimes people ask me, "What is the meaning of life?" Sometimes I answer. twitter.com/share
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Steven Pinker
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14 de mai |
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Our World in Data post on the safety of different energy sources. ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-sa…
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Steven Pinker
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14 de mai |
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What is the safest form of energy? Check out the data here: Death rates from energy production per TWh ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-…
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Steven Pinker
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14 de mai |
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From the excellent periodical Democracy: A Journal of Ideas @demjournal : A Very Inconvenient Truth: Renewables can’t meet all our energy needs. democracyjournal.org/arguments/a-ve…
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Steven Pinker
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14 de mai |
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Harvard shames itself: fails to renew faculty deans at Winthrop house in the wake of students objecting to one of them taking Harvey Weinstein as a client whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2019/05/11/har… via @Evolutionistrue
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Steven Pinker
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11 de mai |
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Secular Morality Does Not Depend on Faith quillette.com/2019/05/11/sec… via @Quillette @evolutionistrue
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Steven Pinker
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11 de mai |
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On Jordan Peterson, Religion, & Atheism by @Dio_of_Mayberry link.medium.com/EbzPYuDLBW
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Steven Pinker
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11 de mai |
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No risk, no future. By your German Humanist swag here: Die Humanisten shop.spreadshirt.de/parteiderhuman…
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Steven Pinker
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11 de mai |
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Die Humanisten: A new political party in Germany: Rational. Liberal. Progressive. @DieHumanisten diehumanisten.de
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Steven Pinker
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11 de mai |
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A strange anti-science bias: People object to experiments that compare two policies or treatments, but have no problem when those programs are simply implemented. @cfchabris pnas.org/content/early/…
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Steven Pinker
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11 de mai |
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The theory that the Iraq War was about oil never made sense, and is ably refuted here: quillette.com/2019/05/06/the… via @Quillette
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