NPR : Steven Pinker Comes to the ‘F’ Word’s Defense (tags: Psychology language) Cognitive Daily: Casual Fridays: What charity gimmicks are most effective? (tags: charity)
Basic instincts | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books (tags: Psychology Evolution brain biology)
Cognitive Daily: The curse of knowledge: Mistaking your beliefs for those of others (tags: science Psychology)
Steve Salerno on the Self-Help Dangers on National Review Online (tags: science.psychology)
Running SQLPlus and PL/SQL Commands From A Shell Script | TimArcher.com (tags: oracle sqlplus shell scripting) Babel’s Dawn: Pinker’s Anti-Whorfian Hypothesis (tags: science.psychology books linguistics evolution)
In defense of dangerous ideas :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Other Views (tags: economics philosophy politics questions science science.psychology)
Edge: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE By Steven Pinker “If the wars of the twentieth century had killed the same proportion of the population that die in the wars of a typical tribal society, there would have been two billion deaths, not 100 million.” (tags: philosophy history science.psychology science culture politics statistics community) The Evolutionary Psychology…
At lunch, I got to the section about “disgust” and “distaste” in How the Mind Works.