Steven Pinker

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Cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. Advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.

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Article Mar 29, 2023

Do You Live in a ‘Tight’ State or a ‘Loose’ One? Turns Out It Matters Quite a Bit.

by Thomas Edsall

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Article Mar 13, 2023

We need the right kind of climate optimism

by Hannah Ritchie

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Article Mar 7, 2023

Interview: Kevin Kelly, editor, author, and futurist

by Kevin Kelly and Noah Smith

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Article Feb 22, 2023

Don't be a doomer

by Noah Smith

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Article Feb 9, 2023

The Dawn of Nuclear Energy Abundance

by Lea Booth

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Blog

Reading Matters

by Mark Seidenberg

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Article Jan 31, 2023

The Difference Between Speaking and Thinking

by Matteo Wong

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Article Jan 25, 2023

Some Criticisms Of Effective Altruism Are Silly And Far Too Hypothetical

by Jesse Singal

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Article Aug 7, 2022

Siri or Skynet? How to separate AI fact from fiction

by Gary Marcus

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Article Apr 3, 2022

Opinion | The Enemies of Liberalism Are Teaching Us What It Is

by Ezra Klein

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Book 2009

Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

by Stewart Brand

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Article Mar 28, 2022

‘Whole Earth’ Review: A Man in Whole

by Michael Shermer

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