Charlie Rose with Peter Gaye, Maxine Singer, Steven Pinker, Robert Gallo, Bruce Sterling & Daniel Dennett (March 22, 1999)
gladwell.com (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
In Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, Steven Pinker responds to my description of him as occupying the “lonely ice floe of IQ fundamentalism”: What Malcolm Gladwell calls a “lonely ice floe” is what psychologists call “the mainstream.” In a...
Unenlightened Commentary. (Free subscription) | yesterday
Amanda Craig writes about the "pink stinks" campaign to stop little girls wearing pink. She references one of the most important popular science books of the last decade to make her point: While our daughters squabbled over whose turn it was to use the glittery pink crayon, we would moan on about the tyranny of this repulsive colour. Where had we all gone so wrong? If...
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... and funny guy — the book looks quirky, chock full of his personality. This one looks like fun. • Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature What language reveals about the Human framework of basic cognitive concepts. • David Wessel, In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic Yes, it will be homework — but Wessel is a good writer, and I...
e-conomist (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
I saw Steven Pinker present a more recent book of his last year at Britain's annual Hay Literary Festival, held in June at Hay-on-Wye. A dapper man, with a pre-Raphaelite coiffure, Pinker made a persuasive case for a return of...
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Catgirls (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... 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...
Shunya's Notes (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Earlier this year, one of my favorite blogs, 3 Quarks Daily, where I also write a monthly column, launched four annual contests for the best blog posts in Science, Philosophy, Politics, and Arts & Literature, respectively. Contests such as these can bubble up good writing to our attention, recognize merit, and encourage new talent. The already concluded Science contest was judged by Steven...
VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Malcolm Gladwell begins his latest tussle with Steven Pinker with these confidence-inducing words: In Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, Stephen Pinker responds to my description of him as occupying the “lonely ice floe of IQ fundamentalism”: If you’re going to wrestle with Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker over who is a more credible...
Vox Popoli (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... attempt to steer the discussion away from his egregious blunder by attacking "Stephen" Pinker. (The man's name is actually Steven Pinker - you'd think Gladwell could get it straight by his second letter addressing Pinker's criticism.) 1. Something Gladwell thinks about what most people would agree about an article. Who cares what Gladwell thinks about what...
VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
As many have pointed out, Malcolm Gladwell stuck to his guns over his obviously false assertion that there’s “no connection” between draft rank and NFL quarterback performance in his attack on Steven Pinker because that was just a proxy for IQ and race. Now, Gladwell goes on the attack against Pinker on IQ with exactly what [...]
Out of My Gord (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Metaphors are more than just a play on words. Many, including Steven Pinker , believe the way we link linguistic concepts together gives us a direct window into the workings of the mind. To see how widespread our use of metaphors is, just look at how many I've used in these opening lines. "A play on words", "link linguistic concepts", "direct window into the mind"...
