Steven Pinker

Pinker is a professor of psychology at Harvard. His most recent book is 'Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress'

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Steven Pinker's Tribute to the 'Low-Key Extravagance' of Microsoft's Paul Allen

The technologist was also the founder of the Allen Institute for Brain Science

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Harvard Professor Steven Pinker on Why We Refuse to See the Bright Side, Even Though We Should

According to the latest data, people are living longer and becoming healthier, better fed, richer, smarter, safer, more connected–and, at the same time, ever gloomier about the state of the world. As the political scientist...

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