#Steven Pinker

Author: Scotty Hendricks / Source: Big Think A new report by Oxfam argues that wealth inequality is causing poverty and misery around the world. In the last year, the world’s billionaires saw their wealth increase by 12%, while the poorest 3.8 billion people on the planet lost 11% of their

Author: Orion Jones / Source: Big Think Steven Pinker is many things: linguist, psychologist, optimist, Harvard professor, and author. When it comes to writing, he’s a student and a teacher. Here’s are his 13 rules for writing better, more simply, and more clearly. 1. Reverse-engineer what

Author: Kevin Dickinson / Source: Big Think We admire people who make a big show of their altruism, but some of the most praiseworthy accomplishments occur outside popular attention. This Thanksgiving, we give thanks to seven scientists who made the world a safer, healthier place to live.

Author: Andy Corbley / Source: Good News Network The Lesson: The decorated psychologist Steven Pinker outlined in his recent book, Enlightenment Now, a convincing case that the world is far better off than modern media would lead us to believe. In Africa, “Homegrown Philanthropy” is rising from

It’s no surprise that the largest employer of mathematicians in the United States is the National Security Agency.  These jobs are not all ‘codebreakers’ – why does the NSA employ so many mathematicians, second only to Wall St.?   The biggest secret propaganda and sales tool used by experts in the