Steven Pinker

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• A Gladwell beat down...

  
  You heard me! — Authority: 128
  If youve read The Tipping Point , Blink , or Outliers then no doubt Malcolm Gladwell is preferred non-fiction reading for you. I know I have learned quite a bit from TTP , Blink and a number of his New Yorker pieces. I also get into MIT Professor of Language and the Brain, Steven Pinker and his ...
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• The “New Biology” with Steven Pinker, Noga Arikha & Melvin Konner

  
  ThoughtCast — Authority: 92
  Brave New World? The Center for the Humanities at Tufts University recently held a panel discussion on “The New Biology and the Self”, an apt topic for the likes of Steven Pinker , the Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University,  Noga Arikha , a historian ...
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• More On Pinker & Gladwell

  
  memoirs on a rainy day — Authority: 145
  Lloyd explains why Pinker and Gladwell don’t agree , which is partly based upon Gladwell’s new book, What the Dog Saw ., a collection of essays that were published in the New Yorker. Posted in asides, entertainment, politics-social-racism Tagged: asides, books, malcolm gladwell, Neal Stephenson, New Yorker, ...
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• Why Pinker and Gladwell Disagree

  
  Lone Gunman — Authority: 425
  If you didn’t already know, Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, What the Dog Saw , is a collection of his best essays as published in The New Yorker ( all of which are available on his site for free , if you prefer to read them there). Since its publication, journalists and scientists have ...
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• Steven Pinker talks to Robert Wright.

  
  Althouse — Authority: 739
  On Bloggingheads. Theyre talking about language and evolution.
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• Pinker, Blinkin’, and (Shaggy) Dog

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 489
  Clash of the Bushy-Headed, Best-Selling Metaphorical Eponyms, as Harvard cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker ( The Lan guage Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, The Stuff of Thought ) assays tress-same-made* trendspotting journo Malcolm Gladwell ’s ( The Tipping ...
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• Malcolm Gladwell Responds to Steven Pinker

  
  Paper Cuts — Authority: 616
  An exchange of letters between Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Pinker on the subject of Pinkers recent review of Malcolm Gladwells "What the Dog Saw."
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• Omni Daily News

  
  Omnivoracious — Authority: 605
  M.G. gets a G.G.: At the venerable Governor Generals Awards in Canada, ex-pat Kate Pullinger slipped past bigger names like Alice Munro, Michael Crummey, and Annabel Lyon at the post to win the fiction prize for The Mistress of Nothing , while two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji won the nonfiction award ...
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• Gladwell vs. Pinker

  
  spincitydotorg — Authority: 430
  On the one hand, I think it would take an overly self-involved person to email people who review your books. On the other hand, this is pretty great: Gladwell vs. Pinker . [ via ]
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• Gladwell Responds to Pinkers Review of His New Book

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 439
  Steven Pinker shredded Malcolm Gladwells new book - and Gladwell himself - this weekend in the New York Times Book Review . Here is a snippet of the review: The common thread in Gladwell’s writing is a kind of populism, which seeks to undermine the ideals of talent, intelligence and analytical prowess in favor ...
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• Malcolm Gladwell Pens Zingy Letter To NYT Editor Over Book Review

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 791
  Over the weekend, renowned Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker penned a reasonably critical review of Malcolm Gladwell ’s latest, What The Dog Saw , a collection of his New Yorker features. But whereas many “bad” reviews resort to sloppy ad hominem arguments or sound merely like the settling of personal ...
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• Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers

  
  Omnivoracious — Authority: 605
  New York Times: Sunday Book Review cover: Steven Pinker on What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell: "The themes of the collection are a good way to characterize Gladwellhimself: a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards ofstatistical reasoning and who occasionally blunders into spectacularfailures. ...
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• Trip’s morning reading: More Medicaid money could be coming to NM

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 568
  Help to states might be on the way. Tucked within the U.S. House’s version of health reform legislation last week is a $23.5 billion pot of money meant for states to pay for six more months of extra Medicaid funding , The Washington Post reports. State officials across the land are crossing their fingers hoping ...
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• Malcolm Gladwell: Eclectic Detective

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 129
  By STEVEN PINKER Have you ever wondered why there are so many kinds of mustard but only one kind of ketchup? Or what Cézanne did before painting his first significant works in his 50s? Have you hungered for the story behind the Veg-O-Matic, star of the frenetic late-night TV ads? Or wanted to know where Led Zeppelin ...
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• The Igon Value Problem

  
  monkey's uncle — Authority: 100
  Priceless. Steve Pinker wrote a spectacular review of Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures , in the New York Times today. I regularly read and enjoy Gladwell’s essays in the New Yorker , but I find his style sometimes problematic, verging on anti-intellectual, and ...
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• Steven Pinker at Harvard Law School

  
  The Situationist — Authority: 512
  On Tuesday, November 17, The HLS Student Association for Law and Mind Sciences (SALMS) and the HLS Harvard Graduate Mind, Brain, and Behavior (MBB) Steering Committee are hosting a talk by Steven Pinker entitled “A History of Violence: How We Became Less Violent.” Steven Pinker is Harvard College Professor ...
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• Pinker on Gladwell

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 736
  Steven Pinker takes Malcolm Gladwell to task in a NYT book review . "But Gladwell frequently holds forth about statistics and psychology, and his lack of technical grounding in these subjects can be jarring." "The common thread in Gladwells writing is a kind of populism, which seeks to undermine the ideals of talent, ...
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• Steven Pinker Reviews Malcolm Gladwell

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 439
  One "all knowing" social scientist reviews another - partial truths all around. Pinke ris not kind his assessment - a smell a feud brewing. WHAT THE DOG SAW And Other Adventures By Malcolm Gladwell 410 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $27.99 Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective Todd ...
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• Deep Rationality

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
    Charles Darwin and Daniel Kahneman: Radical changes are in store when these two men are properly introduced to one another.  Behavioral economics has become an increasingly popular topic over the last few years, as demonstrated by the success of a string of books like Predictably Irrational, Nudge, and ...
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• Watch Steven Pinker’s “Language and Thought” talk at TED

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 131
  In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought , Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds — and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize. Steven Pinker’s books have been like bombs tossed into the eternal nature-versus-nurture debate. ...
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