On my radar: Steven Pinker’s cultural highlights
by Steven Pinker/the Observer from on (#J6QF)
The psychologist and popular science author on data graphics, spectacular planet photography and the ambitious comedy of Amy Schumer
Steven Pinker is a Canadian experimental psychologist renowned for his work in the fields of cognitive science and linguistics. He is a professor at Harvard and a prolific author, with bestsellers on how the mind works (the title of one of his two Pulitzer-nominated books) and the science of language. In his controversial 2011 work, The Better Angels of Our Nature, he argues that violence in human societies is on the wane. Pinker regularly crops up on lists of top global thinkers. His most recent book is The Sense of Style, in which he offers guidelines for achieving clarity in non-fiction writing. Killian Fox
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