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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Feb 20

    Times Literary Supplement asks whom I prefer, Beyonce or Bob Dylan, and 19 other questions. Twenty Questions with Steven Pinkerhttps://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/twenty-questions-steven-pinker/ …

    4:20 PM - 20 Feb 2018
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      2. Gary Smyth  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🏁‏ @WeirdPsyience Feb 20
        Replying to @sapinker

        As The Winstons once said “Amen Brother” 🙏 🙏🙏pic.twitter.com/C7SO1C46ea

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      3. Gary Smyth  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🏁‏ @WeirdPsyience Feb 20
        Replying to @WeirdPsyience @sapinker

        @jordanbpeterson ouch.

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      4. Darwinian Evolution & Human Behavior‏ @joaoaroantunes Feb 20
        Replying to @WeirdPsyience @sapinker @jordanbpeterson

        Was about to comment that epic response about Nietzsche. Summarizes perfectly what i always thought of his writings.

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      5. Gary Smyth  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🏁‏ @WeirdPsyience Feb 20
        Replying to @joaoaroantunes @sapinker @jordanbpeterson

        @sapinker Is a master when it comes to nailing stuff. He is easily one of the top thinkers in relation to issues like this. Very balanced but a razor sharp ability to get through the meat of the issue and down to bones of it. Pretty special really.

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      6. Gene Callahan‏ @DrGeneCallahan Feb 20
        Replying to @WeirdPsyience @joaoaroantunes and

        Or, just can’t understand philosophy.

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      7. Gary Smyth  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🏁‏ @WeirdPsyience Feb 20
        Replying to @DrGeneCallahan @joaoaroantunes and

        Maybe Peterson is blinded by his hero worship for Nietzsche. Who knows. But I will tell you this mate, Pinker understands what he is saying more than most can appreciate. You don’t have to like him that’s your right. It doesnt mean Petersons is the correct interpretation.

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      1. COEXISTential #FBPE‏ @COEXISTential Feb 20
        Replying to @sapinker

        So, Beyoncé, then? ;-)

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      1. I Could Be Wrong‏ @dansblog1 Feb 20
        Replying to @sapinker

        I'm old enough to remember when serious publications like TLS would never stoop to cheap celebrity treatments of their interview subjects

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      2. ♕Deborah G. Mayo♕‏ @learnfromerror Feb 20
        Replying to @sapinker

        You mean they didn't ask you "boxers or briefs?"

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      1. oofyprosser‏ @jubjubjab Feb 20
        Replying to @sapinker

        Liked 'sociopathic ravings' description of Nietzche `philosophy'. Utterly puzzling he is considered a moral thinker by many.

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      1. Eidólon  📜 🏞‏ @Fairweatherism Feb 20
        Replying to @sapinker

        Please God not Beyoncé.

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      1. the underground man‏ @fucnpr2 Feb 20
        Replying to @sapinker

        The Apollonian or Dionysian? According to your book Better Angels, ... Apollonian. Dylan? Better “Morrison or Dylan?”

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      1. JULIO CESAR GODOY‏ @jcg1601 Feb 21
        Replying to @sapinker

        Do you know the band's music Secos e Molhados?

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      1. Robert Whitehouse‏ @Robertwhitehou1 Feb 21
        Replying to @sapinker @TheTLS

        Nobody who reads your books cares who you prefer.

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      1. Krème de la Krèmlin‏ @ztarasj Feb 20
        Replying to @sapinker

        It was great how you were like “the humanities isn’t important, ask my pet robot, Pinky, and he will tell you, this interview is over!”

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      1. Mitchell Gilks‏ @MitchellGilks Feb 20
        Replying to @sapinker

        Man in the long black coat means he deserved the noble prize.

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      1. The Chingchok Hunter‏ @simplelogical Feb 20
        Replying to @sapinker

        I'm going to assume that your 'ARE YOU FREAKIN’ KIDDING ME?' answer was because the answer you'd give is obviously Bob Dylan?? If it's not I'll never buy your book 😉

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