Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
On March 23, 2017, Director of the CWCI, Suzanne Smith, hosted a Writer’s Night with Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology.
Learn more about the CWCI: https://gsas.harvard.edu/student-life/harvard-resources/center-writing-and-communicating-ideas
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Sorry, I can't stand to listen to her hit the microphone anymore. Can somebody please just transcribe the interview so that it can be read?
Laughter is always sweet to one's ears. Hers however hurt mine. I hope her mouth wasn't too close to the mic.
Omg this woman making noises the entire time. even Steven towards the end picked it up and started slightly.
I'm sorry – why doesn't this have 10 million views?
Idiotic and arrogant: not writing for "chicken pluckers and truck drivers because they do not buy books"? Only for "doctors, lawyers" and your posh "college roommates"? And, these are, so called, "popular books"? I am a small scale chicken plucker and an occasional truck driver and I indeed do not buy such wasteful things as books: I listen/read to them for free using library (cheers to excellent hoopla!!!). Academicians, beware of a "basket of deplorables"!
Suzanne Smith: I most tell, but I'm a little reluctant to do so. But if I don't, no chances of empathy with the audience will be granted.
Steven is (for people like me that mostly hate psychology) a candle in the dark. I'm always delighted by listening to him. However, you made it very hard. You speak very low with your voice breaking as if you are about to cry. Makes me turn the volume up. Then you laugh as a psychopath that is about to kill granny with a hammer, very loud, and makes me quick turn the volume down.
Your noises and interruptions almost made this gem of a talk a very one hard to swallow. Your face all the time reminded me of the "sad emoji". You may be "Director of CWCI" (whatever that may mean) but you need to delegate those parts of your job that someone else can perform better, like appear in front of Steven Pinker for a Writer's Night.
–Steven mentioning Bertrand Russell and you came up with C.S. Lewis. This sentence is an example of how stupid you made yourself the entire time. Is embarrassing to mention that idiotic Christian Apologetic and shame of a writer when Pinker is answering to your question regarding Inspiration.
There are no useful links at the video description, and the one there is lazy on explaining what is the talk about.
I enjoy Steven Pinker's work, but the host looks either pretentious or uncomfortable. Or both…
"to make strange, what is familiar "…that's the essence of all artistic oeuvre
trough the process of wriring and rewriting, we could refine our thought, and transform what was complicate at first hand to more obvious afterword, or what was obvious to a more complicate thi,ng: writing is used for abstracting complicated relationships, so that it will be easyier to understand these relationships during studying a phenomenon. we could find many examples inthis sort: denombrement of places we have seen during one touristic journey, and so on
Wow, some of these comments are savage for a lecture video
I dont think the host is being pretentious, she's literally just so excited to be interviewing steven pinker. She's gushing. Those who've left negative comments, clearly don't understand what a big deal this would've been for her. The man is a legend, I would be giggling too
How can she nod even before he began speaking. A literal Wackeldackel! lol and that moaning. Parasites! Aristotle reborn! But leaving my inner troll aside – through her manner the whole talk entered a very personal level, not that usual sterile academic world of talk. Actually the talk is of the most inspiring ones I watched in a while. I loved how they also talked about what is this stuff all about what we are doing. Thank you!
Btw, what is the name of the history book about the nuclear threat?
RIP headphone users.