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Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers

Steven Pinker: Good and Evil in 30 Seconds

Season 2013 Episode 39

Steven Pinker is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Among many other subjects, he researches and explores cognition, language and the history of human violence. In his off-hours, he appears on "The Colbert Report" where he endures endless jokes about his hair from host Stephen Colbert.

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