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Bill Gates: A Conversation with Steven Pinker: Has the World Become More or Less Violent over Time?
Steven Pinker’s book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined stands out as one of the most important books I’ve ever read. I recently had a chance to sit down with Steven and discuss some of the points from the book in greater detail.
Related book: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Related previous post: Authors@Google: Steven Pinker
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Links
Bill Gates: We Need Clean-Energy Innovation, and Lots of It (LINK) Mohnish Pabrai on How to be a Mentor (LINK) Related book: The Education of a Value InvestorValue Investing Podcast: Robert Hagstrom on the Art of Value Investing (LINK) Related...
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Nassim Taleb Quote
A little different take than Steven Pinker's case, as I understand it, in his book The Better Angels of Our Nature. “Some people have fallen for the naive turkey-style belief that the world is getting safer and safer, and of course they naively...
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Science Writing: How Do You Make Complex Issues Accessible And Readable?
As London's Royal Society prepared to award its annual book prize, we asked five top writers – Steven Pinker, James Gleick, Brian Greene, Lone Frank and Joshua Foer – to debate what makes good science writing in a technically minded age ...................
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The Better Angels Of Our Nature
The Better Angels of our Nature from The RSA on Vimeo..................... Related book: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has DeclinedRelated previous post: Authors@Google: Steven Pinker
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Steven Pinker Profile
Steven Pinker was a 15-year-old anarchist. He didn’t think people needed a police force to keep the peace. Governments caused the very problems they were supposed to solve. Besides, it was 1969, said Dr. Pinker, who is now a 57-year-old psychologist...
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