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Spaulding, a biological anthropology concentrator, was fortunate to get into Hauser’s lab research class, Psychology 1152, which is limited to 12 spaces usually reserved for psychology concentrators. She spends her time in the lab testing how well Pinker, Newport, Hrdy and Wrangham—four tamarins named after scientists—can work with tools. She conducts means-means-end experiments to determine whether the tamarins can realize that by using one tool, they can move another tool which will bring them a sugar-coated marshmallow...
Sometimes events are unexpectedly successful. A panel discussion sponsored by the Harvard Book Store upon the release of the Houghton Mifflin American Heritage Dictionary was one such event. The panel, which consisted of Steven Pinker, Wendy Kaminer and Robert Pinsky, provided a very lively discussion about words, their meanings and their usage. In a previous reading, Mark Doty, a slight-looking poet who will finish the season for the Grolier Poetry Shop, transformed himself strikingly by throwing himself into the poem, but without the shouting or posturing that might spring to mind when one thinks of poetry readings...
...that they came from different disciplines: Thomas Cech, who heads the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1989, while Herbert Pardes, the president of New York Presbyterian Hospital, teaches psychiatry at Columbia, and J. Richard Gott is an astrophysicist at Princeton. M.I.T.'s Steven Pinker and Harvard's Stephen Kosslyn specialize in brain and cognitive sciences; Thomas Lovejoy is a tropical biologist who serves as chief biodiversity adviser to the president of the World Bank; and Michael Novacek, provost of science at the American Museum of Natural History, is a vertebrate paleontologist...
...Pinker is a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at M.I.T. and author of Words and Rules, How the Mind Works and The Language Instinct
...panel of scientific advisors, which included Steven Pinker, MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences, and Stephen Kosslyn, Professor of Psychology, chose the 18 winners from a list of 100 experts in science and medicine...