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Steven Pinker: Enlightenment Now
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Length:
67 minutes
Released:
May 28, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
I spoke with Harvard's Dr. Steven Pinker about the immense improvements in human living conditions that are now happening with amazing speed almost everywhere in the world -- as detailed in his new book, Enlightenment Now! (https://amzn.to/2jDwv7D) -- a careful, clear-headed and data-driven defense of the rational/scientific worldview that helped make such improvement possible). Dr. Pinker grew up in Montreal and earned his BA from McGill and his PhD from Harvard. Currently Johnstone Professor of P
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Released:
May 28, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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11 - Dr. James W Pennebaker: Dr. James W. Pennebaker is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Executive Director of Project 2021, aimed at rethinking undergrad education at that university.I first encountered Dr. Pennebaker's work when I was working o by The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast