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...designer Zac Posen and from Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer to chef Jacques Pépin. The field of 83 experts—“well-known, well-respected, and influential,” according to Hopkins—counts 11 Harvard professors, including psychology professor Steven Pinker, law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, and Rev. Peter J. Gomes, as well as three presidential hopefuls. “We have a pretty broad set of interests, anything intelligent people might have a fancy for,” Hopkins said. “In that regard, there?...
...symposium will take place at The Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub, and Hauser said tentative speakers include Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker...
...Steven Pinker, Jane Goodall and Richard Wrangham sit on the tenth floor of William James Hall munching on Froot Loops. They shriek in unison whenever a stranger enters the room, and they poop all the time...
...Pinker, Goodall, and Wrangham are members of a colony of approximately 24 cotton-top tamarins that dwell in Harvard’s Cognitive Evolutionary Laboratory. The lab, led by psychology professor Marc D. Hauser, tries to better understand human cognitive ability by studying our distant evolutionary cousins...
...Freud was right about some things," Pinker said. "Right or wrong, the theory is so influential that educated students need to know what it says...