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Steven Pinker on the Colbert Report

Category: Psychology
Posted on: February 12, 2007 11:07 AM, by NotoriousLTP

Harvard Psychologist Steven Pinker was on the Colbert Report. Priceless. Videos under the fold:

Part 1

Part 2

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"It's a complicated subject, but - How does the brain work? in five words or less?"

Hard question! Fair play to Pinker for coming up with an answer!

Posted by: tom | February 14, 2007 3:37 AM

I can't believe I missed this episode! Luckily my advisor was surfing around and found it on your blog. Small world eh?

Posted by: nick | February 14, 2007 7:59 PM

Thanks for this gem.

Posted by: MarkP | February 15, 2007 12:41 AM

Very funny. Thanks for putting this up. A week ago, I wrote a post about a lecture that Steven Pinker gave at my school. I'm going to update the post with a link to yours (my post).

Posted by: Dan | April 10, 2007 7:29 PM

Steven Pinker gave two talks at TED that are well worth a look. Look him up at TED.com.

Posted by: Miles | August 19, 2008 11:28 PM