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• Bigots hissed, but no stopping carnival of letters (Lit Fest Review)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 506
  Jaipur, Jan 25 (IANS) The absent Salman Rusdhie may have stolen the headlines, but the five-day Jaipur Literary Festival will be remembered for its many incandescent moments when poetry intersected with polemics, science duelled with spirituality, rationalists cohabited with mystics and the truths of art competed ...
  1 week ago

• Is Mankind Becoming More Peaceful?

  
  The Ponds of Happenstance — Authority: 117
  Article first published as Is Mankind Becoming Less Violent? on Technorati. Steven Pinker--in his new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined --argues that we are. From the books description: Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think ...
  1 week ago

• Has violence declined over the years?

  
  Techno-Guru - Latest Technology News India, Latest Breaking Bollywood News of India, Online Shopping — Authority: 133
  We are living in a world where paid assassins threaten the freedom of an individual, terrorists don’t think twice before blowing up innocents and suicide bombing has become a profession for many, but Stephen Pinker, a Canadian-American experimental psychologist and cognitive scientist, believes that we’ve never ...
  1 week ago

• Singularity Summit 2012 - Speakers Confirmed

  
  33rd Square — Authority: 430
  The annual Singularity Summit was founded in 2006 by Ray Kurzweil and Peter Thiel as the first academic symposium for Singularity dialogue. Past speakers have included Doug Hofstadter (author of Gödel, Escher, Bach), Peter Norvig (Google Director of Research), Sebastian Thrun (Stanford AI Lab Director), Rodney ...
  2 weeks ago

• Better Angels in Super Hornets

  
  xpostfactoid — Authority: 504
  The continued U.S. military engagement on behalf of Hamid Karzais government in Afghanistan is viewed by increasing numbers of Americans as a legacy struggle -- seen to varying degrees from different perspectives as wasteful, futile, brutal.  Maybe so. At the same, whatever the prospects for success however defined, ...
  2 weeks ago

• So Last Week 113

  
  jamYe waXman. seX matters. — Authority: 89
  In this week’s So Last (Two) Weeks, we look back at some of the stories I would have put up last week had I posted So Last Week. But alas, while working the floor at the Xbiz Retail Expo in Los Angeles, CA, I didn’t. So sorry. However, now you can enjoy more than five extra stories this week (from two weeks ...
  2 weeks ago

• What if Doomday Clock is slow?

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 581
  Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker thinks the world is becoming less violent , but scientists believe we’ve taken a step back in our efforts to avert nuclear catastrophe: It is five minutes to midnight. Two years ago, it appeared that world leaders might address the truly global threats that we face. In many ...
  3 weeks ago

• If I ruled the world: Steven Pinker

  
  WANDERLUST — Authority: 127
  Steve Pinker: My first edict as global overlord would be to impose the following rule on pundits: No one may bemoan a decay, decline, or degeneration without providing (1) a measure of the way the world is today; (2) a measure of the way the world was at some point in the past; (3) a demonstration that (1) is worse ...
  3 weeks ago

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