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Dr. Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist and prolific author, has often been described as a cheerleader for science, reason, and humanism. He is often maligned by his critics as a defender of the ...

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AMES, Iowa – Will artificial intelligence render the human mind irrelevant? Acclaimed scientist and author Steven Pinker will answer that question when he presents the 2024 Goldtrap Lecture at Iowa ...

Before boarding a flight to South Africa in 2013, Justine Sacco sent a sardonic joke to her 170 Twitter followers: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding—I’m white!” By the time her ...

They say that truth is the first casualty of war. But all too often, the truth goes missing even in discussion of war. Imagine a high-profile expert stands before a distinguished audience and argues ...