#1743 - Steven Pinker

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Rationality

I wrote an op-ed in the New York Times called 'Nuclear Power Can Save the World,' and one of the big impediments is a feature of psychology that I al…

County Monte Cristo

I had, uh, we were talking about phones and cameras and- The fact that compact camera is essentially dead. I had an Apple camera, I don't know if you…

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Steven Pinker is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His newest book, "Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters," is available now.

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I wrote an op-ed in the New York Times called 'Nuclear Power Can Save the World,' and one of the big impediments is a…

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I had, uh, we were talking about phones and cameras and- The fact that compact camera is essentially dead. I had an A…

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Rationality

“I wrote an op-ed in the New York Times called 'Nuclear Power Can Save the World,' and one of the big impediments is a feature of psychology that I also write about in my book Rationality, namely the availability bias.”

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“I had, uh, we were talking about phones and cameras and- The fact that compact camera is essentially dead. I had an Apple camera, I don't know if you remember them. No. But it was a, I think it was one megapixel, and it was about the size of this book County Monte.”

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