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2009:

  1. A conversation about Personalized Medicine with Steven Pinker, Anne Wojcicki, George Church and Linda Avey
    A conversation about Personalized Medicine with Steven...

    with Linda Avey, George Church, Steven Pinker and more on Jun 19, 2009

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    30 min
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  2. Daily Highlights Friday June 19, 2009
    Daily Highlights Friday June 19, 2009

    with Steven Pinker, David Ignatius, David Brooks and more on Jun 19, 2009

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    6 min
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2008:

  1. A conversation with Steven Pinker of Harvard
    A conversation with Steven Pinker of Harvard

    with Steven Pinker on Mar 13, 2008

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    21 min
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    13 comments
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1999:

  1. An hour panel discussion about the greatest minds and breakthroughs of the 20th century
    An hour panel discussion about the greatest minds and...

    with Peter Gay, Maxine Singer, Robert Gallo and more on Mar 22, 1999

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    54 min
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1995:

  1. An interview with Gene Searchinger & Steven Pinker
    An interview with Gene Searchinger & Steven Pinker

    with Gene Searchinger and Steven Pinker on Feb 9, 1995

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    60 min
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Steven Arthur Pinker is a prominent Canadian born American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and popular science writer known for his spirited and wide-ranging advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. He was named one of “Time” Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and one of “Prospect and Foreign Policy’s” 100 top public intellectuals in 2005.

Pinker’s academic specializations are visual cognition and language development in children, and he is most famous for popularizing the idea that language is an “instinct”. His four books for a general audience, “The Language Instinct”, “How the Mind Works”, “Words and Rules” and “The Blank Slate” have won numerous awards. Pinker is currently the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard having previously been director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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