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3 days ago · In the book “Blank Slate: The Contemporary Denial of Human Nature” Steven Pinker writes that the widespread fear of all artificial and genetically modified foods is patently irrational if the ...
1 day ago · Dr. Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist and prolific author, has often been described as a cheerleader for science, reason, and humanism. He is often maligned by his critics as a defender of the ...
1 day ago · Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker; Celebrating Progress and Combating Complacency: An Interview with Virginia Postrel; Centers of Progress: An Interview with Chelsea Follett; Interview with Alex Epstein, Founder of Center for Industrial Progress; The Anti-Progress Crusade against Flight
6 days ago · The most recent instance occurred in the Saturday edition of The Boston Globe, when psychologist Steven Pinker took aim at bioethicists. Pinker lauds the opportunities offered by scientific advancement. These include increased lifespan, decreased rates of premature death, and curing disease.
2 days ago · Steven Pinker: THE BLANK SLATE, post 5 Posted on 24 July 2024 by Mark R. Kelly After being distracted by Texas affairs, politics, Riven, and reading Brian Greene and others, let’s get back to this book and try to finish summarizing it and capturing key points.
4 days ago · It’s unclear when ancient humans first arrived on the shores of Sulawesi, a 71,898-square-mile Indonesian island west of Borneo. The oldest-known skeleton dates back to between 16,000 and 25,000 ...
6 days ago · Steven Pinker in his book Enlightenment Now almost grasps the Cynefin Framework and recognises that in the complex domain we need to perform experiments to make sense of things in order to make good. decisions. In Cynefin-speak: we need to "probe-sense-respond",
