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Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Steven Pinker: If the World is Safer, Why Can I Still Die?
Season 2013
Episode 40
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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