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Handcuffs, lipstick, lingerie, a straitjacket, a martini glass, and a naked woman have conspicuously snuck onto the cover of a science book. Something is afoot.Looking at the fluorescent assortment of seemingly random images on the jacket of Harvard psycholinguist Steven Pinker’s “The Stuff of Thought,” one gets a sense of what to expect from this charming and provocative investigation into language.For its author, language is a reflection of our conception of the world—and, consequently, human nature.Fittingly, Pinker uses cultural references, sexy verbs, and toilet allusions to describe...
Georgia's Dinnan was one of nine faculty members who voted, 6 to 3, to deny tenure to Psycholinguist Maija Blaubergs, 33, a teacher in the college of education since 1972. It was the third time in as many years that Blaubergs had been denied promotion and tenure, and she sued the University of Georgia, charging sexual discrimination. During pretrial interrogation, Dinnan refused to disclose how he had voted. Instead he asked: "If academic freedom is not the right to judge one's peers free from outside pressure or intimidation, then what...
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