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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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pinker.wjh.harvard.edu
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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Feb 13

    A famed Harvard professor explains why the world is actually becoming a much better place (nice WAPO interview by Emma Seppala, director of Compassion/Altruism/Emotional Intelligence Ctrs at Stanford & Yale).http://wapo.st/2o32Gif?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.dfc06086c310 …

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      1. Andrei Teyalski‏ @Tirpstil Feb 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        Steven, your argument would that much more convincing if you could bring yourself to mention, if only in passing, the elephant in the room — the world's deepening ecological crisis.

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      1. PunkAsScience‏ @PunkAsScience Feb 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        I've got what I think is an important and rarely asked question. How much better do things have to get before we start PERCEIVING them as better? Seems like news media will always find the darkest anecdotes that make us think the world is going to hell.

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      1. Pete Smillie‏ @mequantum Feb 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        Oy, the fame! You know of course that it's emotionally neglectful, even abusive to tell people who are feeling bad that they really are not. #TrumpXiety

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      1. Earl Mountbatten of Burma‏ @ForeverGrumps Feb 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        I read "farmed". And stared at the flower. A coffee will make the world a better place, at least for me.

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      1. John David Jordan‏ @johndjordan31 Feb 15
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        Wealthy, priviledged white male tells everyone else 'stop moaning'.

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      1. Frank McMains‏ @frankiii Feb 14
        Replying to @sapinker

        The world is a better place so stop giving cover to Charles Murray. Your defense of Right firebrands falls flat for red state moderates…

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      1. Jiten Sin Fronteras‏ @listojiten Feb 14
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        What’s the difference between “famed” and “famous”?

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      1. Peter Hodges‏ @punter05 Feb 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        You really have to take the rose tinted spectacles off, Steven. You're not fooling anyone.

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      1. John Champagne‏ @TallPhilosopher Feb 13
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        We have an unsustainable society. So these gains are also unsustainable. To make a society stable over the long term, we must make basic principles manifest in reality. The idea that natural wealth belongs to all implies that industries should pay the people when pollution is putpic.twitter.com/irE6j1Axj2

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      1. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb Feb 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        Read the first thirty pages of the new book today. Not bad for a couple of train rides to and from work.

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      1. Jane Ayres‏ @janeayres Feb 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        Except, in UK, mortality rates getting worse, people dying younger :( And the climate. Don't forget the climate.

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      1. Eric Conrad‏ @ballet_conrad Feb 13
        Replying to @sapinker

        I really needed this today. Saw you on Joe Rogan, appreciate you.

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      1. Da Az‏ @Daaz40a Feb 13
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        😁😲😲

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      1. Marcus Tullius‏ @pavo_burel Feb 13
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        #MWGA

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