Steven Pinker
 @sapinker

Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

 Boston, MA
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Joined January 2010
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Excited about the new Harvard institute to study natural, artificial intelligence: One thing I miss from my MIT years was the close connection between cognitive science and AI, vital for both enterprises. news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto… via @Harvard

New Harvard institute to study natural, artificial intelligence

University-wide initiative made possible by gift from Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg.

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Happy 93rd, Noam!
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Happy Birthday, Noam Chomsky! newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
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Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work. Not a gyroscopic effect; steering converts forward momentum into sideways nudges that keep the rider over the bike. piped.kavin.rocks/9cNmUNHSBac via @YouTube

Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work

Why are bicycles stable? The most common answer is gyroscopic effects, but this is not right. This video was sponsored by Kiwico. Get 50% off your first mont...

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BBC Radio 4 - Think with Pinker - Earlier episodes can be streamed or downloaded here. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011lt…
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What is it like to be a conspiracy theorist? Editor Ellen Cushing recounts how she got in and out of belief in the Illuminati, while Jonathan Rauch explains how we get reliable knowledge in BBC Radio 4's Think with Pinker, Episode 3, In Touch with Reality bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001214…

BBC Radio 4 - Think with Pinker, In touch with reality

Why do so many of us believe in quackery and conspiracy?

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A few words on Think with Pinker (the BBC podcast & radio series) and Rationality (the book). The former has conversations w experts & practitioners: Charlie Munger, Anna Rosling-Ronnlund, Siddartha Mukherjee, Talithia Williams, Bill Gates, Tom Friedman, Maria Konnikova, others
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Does America really need 225,000 troops in 175 countries in an era of declining war & the ascension of soft power? @RichardHanania says no. richardhanania.substack.com/…

America as a "Phantom Empire"

Foreign commitments have costs, but few real benefits for the US

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Misinformation fuelled by ‘tsunami’ of poor research, says science prize winner theguardian.com/science/2021…

Misinformation fuelled by ‘tsunami’ of poor research, says science prize winner

Dutch microbiologist Elisabeth Bik, winner of prestigious John Maddox prize, says trust in science is being undermined

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Why does "being on the ice is prohibited" sound anomalous? The explanation involves the semantics of aspect (the distribution of an event or state over time) and the concept of voluntary action. See...
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...the discussion of the language of time in The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature. stevenpinker.com/publication…

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No, Evolution is Not Random | Psychology Today by @LaithAlShawaf psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…

No, Evolution is Not Random

And natural selection is not a chance process.

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Just re-released: Video of my on-stage conversation a few years ago with the late #StephenSondheim in the Rubin Museum Brainwave series -- many delightful moments with this gentle genius. piped.kavin.rocks/-vQ7o-92tI0 via @YouTube

Rubin Museum Brainwave with Stephen Sondheim and Steven Pinker

During the Brainwave Emotion program on March 9, 2016 at the Rubin Museum of Art, psychologist Steven Pinker discusses how speech tonality triggers different...

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Rubin Museum of Art on Instagram: ““Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. ” (excerpt from my public conversation with the late #StephenSondheim a few years back. instagram.com/tv/CXCAtPEIqex…

Rubin Museum of Art (@rubinmuseum) • Instagram video

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Not-so-sneak preview of my #whatibelieve interview with @HumanistsUK
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A new episode of our podcast #WhatIBelieve is out tomorrow, with cognitive scientist psychologist, @sapinker. Here's a sneak preview... Episodes out every Thursday. Listen here 🎧 ➡️ bit.ly/3fAkJJ8
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What I Believe podcast

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Some worry that technology creates new existential risks-but it can also avert existing ones. Harvard astrophysicist (and presumably a fellow member of the LFHCfS) on NASA’s mission to head off Armageddon news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto… via @Harvard

Harvard astrophysicist on NASA’s mission to head off Armageddon

Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics explains the science and objectives guiding the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test.

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The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists, that is: improbable.com/hair-club/
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Dislike meritocracy? Consider the time-honored alternatives: nepotism, patronage, cronyism, inheritance, racial & ethnic discrimination. We dismantle it at our peril, says Adrian Wooldridge persuasion.community/p/the-w…

The War on Meritocracy

Meritocracy made the modern world. Now the revolt against merit threatens to unmake it.

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A reason for optimism on Omicron: Our immune systems are not blank slates statnews.com/2021/12/01/a-re… via @statnews

Cause for optimism on Omicron: Our immune systems aren't blank slates

“Dealing with naive people is never the same as even if you have some memory. It's never like square one,” one expert said.

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Raising Resilient Children May Require You to Rethink Homework Help: Evidence from cognitive psychologist Dan Willingham. shar.es/aWArdI

Raising Resilient Children May Require You to Rethink Homework Help - Worth

Your parents didn’t teach you how to raise children during a pandemic; you had to innovate and adapt. And you can help your children develop that same sort of resourcefulness.

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