Canadian - Scientist | September 18, 1954 -
We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.
Steven Pinker
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If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.
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We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
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The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.
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Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.
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I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.
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There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.
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Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.
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Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.
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Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.
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Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.
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Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.
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