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...uncomfortable locale that is NOT your or anyone else’s bed, most likely in lecture. You will subsist for the following six hours on Red Bull. Rinse. Repeat.   Dream: You’re sitting around a dinner table, eating caviar with Mankiw and Pinker, intelligently discussing the Prisoner’s Dilemma and its implications.   Predictions:  You’re that kid in section. You will be obnoxious and everyone will glare at you. Please be quiet. On the plus side, you’ll probably ace that...

Author: By NORA A. TUFANO, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Dream Come True? | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...have long suspected that this classical model of language was too simple,” said Psychology Professor Steven Pinker, who co-authored the study with Nedim T. Sahin, a post-doctoral fellow in the UCSD radiology department and in the Harvard psychology department...

Author: By CAROLINE A. SOLOMON, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Broca’s Area May Have New Function | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...kind of an accidental experiment,” Pinker said. “We were fortunate that neurosurgeons implant electrodes in the brains of patients with epilepsy...

Author: By CAROLINE A. SOLOMON, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Broca’s Area May Have New Function | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...Lamont this afternoon, perhaps trying to cram for next week's midterm for Stephen Pinker's class ("Why is it so hard? It's supposed to be a Core!") or catch up in one sitting on the whole last month's worth of reading for Paul Farmer's upcoming exam, FlyBy suggests that you take a break and go outside—down by the river, to be exact...

Author: By Anita B. Hofschneider | Title: The Real Reasons to Check Out HOTC | 10/17/2009 | See Source »

...little Austin Powers-ish,” explains Pinker. “I used to wear it in the 70’s but not these days...

Author: By CATHERINE J. ZIELINSKI, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Cribs Presents: Steven A. Pinker | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

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