Word: pinkerã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hundreds of students each semester elect to take Steven Pinker??s famous course, expecting an easy, fun class about brains. The verdict? A common one for Science B classes, unfortunately. To wit: “That class was so much fucking bullshit...
...huge picture window in Pinker??s office offers him a panoramic view of Harvard’s spires and cupolas. At MIT, where Pinker taught for 21 years, he says he spent most of the time in an office that had only a narrow slit for a window...
During the recruitment process, Pinker says, Summers invited him to a dinner at his house with a number of Harvard professors from different departments who shared Pinker??s interest in human evolution, including Glimp Professor of Economics Edward L. Glaeser and Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham...
...meal with Gates and Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Elaine Scarry that first whetted Pinker??s appetite for a position at Harvard...
Pinker says he and Scarry discussed the use of imagery in fiction and the way the mind processes imagery. And Gates, Pinker says, was enthusiastic about Pinker??s then-forthcoming book, “The Blank Slate,” which emphasizes the role of genetics in human behavior...