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\nSteven Pinker: What our language habits reveal\n

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\nIn an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.\nIn an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.\n
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17:29
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12th - Higher Ed
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Social Studies & History
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\nTED Talks\n\n
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2007
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English
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culture, human nature, force, space
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