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Friday, February 23, 2007
Steven Pinker on Point of Inquiry
Be sure to check out this week's episode of the Point of Inquiry podcast with guest Steven Pinker. Pinker is one of the "superstars" of the academic world and has done a lot of work with language and human cognition, including some research with implications for linguistic anthropology. One of my personal heroes, Pinker could read the phone book and one would be enthralled for hours.
I hate to sound like an advertisement, but for those unfamiliar with Point of Inquiry it is a weekly podcast produced by the Center for Inquiry. I've been hooked for about a year now because it's so damn enlightening. Past guests include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, James Randi, Paul Kurtz, and many of the writers and editors for the magazines Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry. Both magazines and their contributors have been major influences in my "escape to reality".
Posted by Will at February 23, 2007 05:32 PM in General Science