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...arguably the world??s most famous experimental psychologist. His books make waves in academia and on The New York Times Bestseller List. An October 28, 2007 New York Times article cited his belief that there are over 1,200 words for “vagina.” FM catches up with the language-guru psychology professor Steven Pinker.1. Fifteen Minutes: Your ideas are intuitive but not obvious. How do you come up with them? Do they dawn on you while you’re making breakfast or are you a slave to your desk until you?...
Representatives from UBS will visit Harvard’s Faculty Club on Nov. 14 to recruit summer interns for their firm. They will advertise the fact that UBS is one of the world??s leading investment banks and that it manages assets worth well over $2 trillion. But there is one aspect of UBS’s operations that might escape mention at the recruitment session: The bank plays an important role in underwriting the supporters of Sudan’s genocidal government.The Swiss-based bank is arranging a massive stock offering that could raise more than...
...largely responsible for the state of the world??s environment. Global warming is caused by the greenhouse effect, or the retention of “greenhouse gases,” like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane, within the atmosphere. In 1990, the year that the 1997 Kyoto Protocol took into account when setting emission reduction goals, the U.S. produced 36% of all global emissions, making it the world??s biggest net polluter. More recent evidence suggests China has now surpassed the U.S. as biggest net polluter; the U.S., however, still emits more greenhouse gases...
...Flash forward several years and Gore’s an Oscar-winning, PowerPoint junkie. He’s included in Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World?? under scientists and thinkers. By all accounts he’s single-handedly credited with teaching an entire nation about global warming—and the Nobel committee agrees...
...global warming has become a mainstream topic of conversation; daily we’re presented with news segments or articles discussing some facet of the world??s climate. We, the larger public, listened to Gore and others like him precisely because they’re not just attention-whores from D.C. Gore’s brilliant maneuvering, based upon meaningful change, proves that a political solution and mass collective action are not mutually exclusive...