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Interview: 20 Questions with Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist, linguist, and bestselling popular science author 

Interview: 20 Questions with Steven Pinker, cognitive psychologist, linguist, and bestselling popular science author  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.the-tls.co.uk - February 24, 2018 5:53 AM
To what extent, in your view, is writing a political act? Steven Pinker: "It’s dangerously anti-human to claim that everything is political."
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Steven Pinker is the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011) and, most recently, Enlightenment Now.
 
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Interview: Bill Nye, scientist, television star and author of a new book on climate change: 'You can shoot the messenger but climate is still changing'

Interview: Bill Nye, scientist, television star and author of a new book on climate change: 'You can shoot the messenger but climate is still changing' | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.theguardian.com - August 10, 2017 6:07 AM
The acclaimed scientist and television star talks about his new book and the damaging effects of ignoring the planet’s changing climate
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Gender & Science: New books reviewed by Carol Tavris, renowned social psychologist and author

Gender & Science: New books reviewed by Carol Tavris, renowned social psychologist and author | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.the-tls.co.uk - June 8, 2017 2:39 PM
How women are viewed, after people attempt to explain gender differences with both bigotry and biology, and how this should change as gender has changed
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Biography & Science: 'Priest of Nature,' Rob Iliffe's examination of Isaac Newton's religious ideas, exploring the spiritual life of a man who was "equal parts litigator, millenarian, numerologist,...

Biography & Science: 'Priest of Nature,' Rob Iliffe's examination of Isaac Newton's religious ideas, exploring the spiritual life of a man who was "equal parts litigator, millenarian, numerologist,... | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.the-tls.co.uk - February 24, 2018 5:39 AM
One of the shocks of reading Rob Iliffe’s study of Isaac Newton is that its subject fancied himself as something very much like a mujaddid
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Racism & Science: 'Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture' by Britt Rusert

Racism & Science: 'Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture' by Britt Rusert | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.aaihs.org - August 9, 2017 4:34 AM
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