An antidote is to look at trends. Actual data seldom tells a simple tale of disaster or triumph, but in this case, indicators ...

The headline declared that it had “Ruined Countless Lives.” When the celebrated Harvard cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker shared an article about Calkins on X, he bemoaned “the scandal of ed ...

Bill Maher spoke directly to undecided voters, or as he calls them, "the Christmas Eve shoppers of politics," on the latest ...

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This year, Harvard professor Steven Pinker topped Bill Gates' top book list with "Enlightenment Now," which challenges people's questions about world progress. According to Pinker, the world is ...

Q: Can you talk about our origins in Africa? A: The genetic evidence suggests that we evolved in Africa. We know that people reached Australia by forty thousand years ago, maybe earlier, which ...

We asked Harvard professor and the author of "Enlightenment Now" Steven Pinker about his thoughts on the meaning and significance behind two of president's favorite phrases. Steven Pinker ...

"Real Time" host and comedian Bill Maher joked about undecided voters on his HBO show Friday, pushing them to make up their ...

Professor Steven Pinker has spent his life thinking about thinking. Now he wants us to join him. For this series Professor Pinker has created a critical thinking toolkit which he hopes will help ...

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While there is demand for authentic human writing, there are still concerns that online search engines will inadvertently rank AI content higher than human results.

This raises a question: should we sacrifice now to benefit our future selves? Steven Pinker is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, the author of Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems ...