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Renowned linguist Steven Pinker speaks at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters about his book "The Stuff of Thought." This event took place on September 24, 2007, as part of the Authors@Google series. For more information about Steven Pinker, please visit http://pinker.wjh.ha rvard.edu/books/stuf f/index.html
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http://www.ted.com - In a preview of his next book, Steven Pinker takes on violence. We live in violent times, an era of heightened warfare, genocide and senseless crime. Or so we've come to believe. Pinker charts a history of violence from Biblical times through the present, and says modern society has a little less to feel guilty about.
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Why is it that we often don't say what we mean? Why don't we make grammatical sense when we swear? What does our language tell us about ourselves? Find out in The Stuff of Thought, the new book by Steven Pinker
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Renowned linguist Steven Pinker discusses concepts from his book, "The Stuff of Thought"