Dec. 15, 2004, 6:00-7:30 PM WMBR-FM 88.1, Steven Pinker appeared on "Dinnertime Sampler" to play a collection of the songs he uses to introduce his lectures in "The Human Mind" course at Harvard.
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Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence
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Steven Pinker on his book The Blank Slate
Harvard University Psychology professor, Steven Pinker delivers a lecture on the modern denial of human nature with a specific focus on his 2003 book The Blank Slate.
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Podcast: Steven Pinker on Violence and Human Nature
Is the world getting less violent? It seems unlikely. But Steven Pinker has amassed empirical evidence to show that it is. In this interview with Nigel Warburton for the Social Science Bites podcast he explains some of the possible causes of this transformation.
http://www.socialsciencespace.com/2012/11/podcast-steven-pinker-on-violence-and-human-nature/