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...around casual science talk exists not only because of its intricate nature or sometimes theoretical nature. Plenty of theoretical disciplines in the social sciences develop their own vocabularies and pursue lines of research so obscure that they’re impossible to discuss with anyone outside the field. Perhaps academia itself, especially when it has no immediate application or use to society, is uninteresting and difficult to talk about. Still, science seems to suffer from an unusual silence, thanks in large part to cultural norms that portray scientific research as absurdly dorky, hopelessly technical and often fruitless to society...
...past two years, Harvard’s once-in-a-generation curricular review held the promise of a complete and visionary overhaul of undergraduate education at the University. 59 years ago, the same process introduced the very notion of a core curriculum to American academia. And the last time University dons gathered to rethink Harvard’s pedagogical orientation—in the 1970s—the College adopted its commitment to teaching “approaches to knowledge” in the Core and beyond. But the recently released Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR) report, which contains initial...
...Pinker’s ability to bridge two other worlds—those of academia and the general public—may prove to be one of his greatest legacies...
...hand, you can tell he is a member of academia. Beyond one shoulder, a multi-colored model of the human brain sits on a windowsill; beyond the other and lofted above his desk lies three bookshelves containing his own written works, “including all the foreign translations and British editions, hardback and paperback,” he says...
Like those of the greatest members of academia, Pinker’s revolution is a revolution of knowledge, yet like Jagger’s musical revolution, his is also one that reaches the masses. Pinker’s books question psychology’s conventional wisdom that environment rather than genes determines one’s character. Yet in defending “nature, not nurture,” Pinker’s language remains uncannily lucid and accessible to the “lay public” that does not call psychology its profession...