Salon, Proud atheists: “Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein, America’s brainiest couple, confess that belonging to one of America’s most reviled subcultures doesn’t mean they believe scientists can explain everything.”
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Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein – Proud atheists
November 16th, 2007
Tags: atheism · language · rebecca goldstein · science · spinoza · steven pinker
Why We Curse. What the F***?
October 17th, 2007
“But perhaps the greatest mystery is why politicians, editors, and much of the public care so much. Clearly, the fear and loathing are not triggered by the concepts themselves, because the organs and activities they name have hundreds of polite synonyms. Nor are they triggered by the words’ sounds, since many of them have respectable [...]
Tags: cursing · language · psychology · steven pinker
TED: Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence
September 19th, 2007
TED Talks: Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence: “In a preview of his next book, Steven Pinker takes on violence. We live in violent times, an era of heightened warfare, genocide and senseless crime. Or so we’ve come to believe. Pinker charts a history of violence from Biblical times through the present, and says [...]
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