El instinto del lenguaje / The Language Instinct: Como crea el lenguaje la mente/ How the Mind Creates Language (Spanish Edition)
Grains of Sand (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... Our collective challenge in dealing with the Internet is to nurture these kinds of progress. -- Steven Pinker If the new world brought about by digital technologies is to enhance Darwinian effects in human affairs, then digital culture will devour itself, becoming an ouroboros that will tighten into a black hole and evaporate. Unless, that is, the Pirates can become immortal through...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... thoughts, Brockman invited other bright folks to respond, including the likes of George Dyson, Steven Pinker, John Perry Barlow, Doug Rushkoff, and Nick Bilton. Here's a taste of Schirrmacher, from "The Age of the Infomavore": We are apparently now in a situation where modern technology is changing the way people behave, people talk, people react, people think, and people...
India Uncut (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... Mwenda takes a new look at Africa . Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen . Steven Pinker on the myth of violence . Dan Dennett on dangerous memes . Really, there are so many wonderful TED Talks that picking out a handful of favourites seems sacrilegious. See them all ! The India Uncut Blog © 2007 Amit Varma. All rights reserved. Visit: India Uncut * The IU...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
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The Daily Doubter (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... when he said, "You taught me language, and my profit on't is, I know how to curse."' - Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Catgirls (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... Mayhew Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker The Half Life of Stars by Louise Wener Life of Pi by Yann Martel Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear Churchill by Roy Jenkins Islands by Dan Sleigh Schoolgirl Milky Crisis by Jonathon Clements The Bumper book of Government waste 2008 by Matthew Elliot and Lee Rotherham The Virtues...
Mixotricha (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Who said there that humans stopped evolving because their technical means took over the necessity ? Steve Jones (here) Eric Bruce (here) Steven Pinker (here) Apparently this is not true ! It seems that on the contrary since humans started spreading over the entire world some 50,000 years ago their evolution speed shifted to a higher gear. Some examples of evolution [...]
FIRE (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... Harvey Silverglate and Harvard professor, bestselling author, and FIRE Board of Advisors member Steven Pinker. We will also join a panel to discuss FIRE's work and contemporary issues affecting freedom of expression on campus. The Templeton Freedom Award for Student Outreach was established in 2003 through funding from the John Templeton Foundation , founded by the late investor and...
A Glimpse of the World (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... Herrigel with an introduction by D.T. Suzuki Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes and Bruce Chatwin Steven Pinker John Kenneth Galbraith Below are the 5 most recently updated albums in the . Click on the thumbnails below to view the complete album.
Times Online - Daniel Finkelstein (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
I would go farther. In his book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Steven Pinker cites evidence that civilisation has brought with it fewer wars and a reduced tendency to kill those who do not belong to our immediate social group. You could argue that global media is part of the reason for this reduced tendency. The more we have in common, the more strange faces we see...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
... When you stumble upon a dubious claim, the program automatically highlights that section in pink. For example, Dispute Finder will highlight “Eskimos have many words for snow.” Curious users can click on the pink text to find out why. A little explainer appears as a pop-up bubble. It says: “ ‘Contrary to popular belief, the Eskimos do not have more words for snow than do speakers...
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
For example, Dispute Finder will highlight “Eskimos have many words for snow.” Curious users can click on the pink text to find out why. A little explainer appears as a pop-up bubble. It says: “ ‘Contrary to popular belief, the Eskimos do not have more words for snow than do speakers of English,’ according to linguist Steven Pinker in his book ‘The Language Instinct.’ ‘Counting...
Ben Casnocha: The Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... human nature. Sowell sorts human nature into two camps: the Tragic Vision and the Utopian Vision. Steven Pinker summarizes it in The Blank Slate , which is where the quote in my first paragraph comes from. Excerpt: In the Tragic Vision, humans are inherently limited in knowledge, wisdom, and virtue, and all social arrangements must acknowledge those limits. "Mortal things suit mortals...
A Glimpse of the World (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... Herrigel with an introduction by D.T. Suzuki Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes and Bruce Chatwin Steven Pinker John Kenneth Galbraith Below are the 5 most recently updated albums in the . Click on the thumbnails below to view the complete album.
baithak (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
... the chances are you don't understand it yourself." Prune That Prose The Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker , however, isn’t so sure. In an e-mail exchange, Pinker sensibly points out that thinking precedes writing and that the reason we sound smarter when writing is because we deliberately set out to be clear and precise, a luxury not usually afforded us in conversation....
