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	Podcast:		Saturday Morning
	Episode:		Steven Pinker: why being rational is human and matters now
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:49:03
	Publish Date:		2021-11-26 20:05:00
	Description:		Is the world losing its mind? While our understanding of the world through science grows, fake news and conspiracy theories have never seemed stronger. That might lead you to believe that humans are ultimately irrational. It's not so, says Steven Pinker. In Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters Pinker argues that we act in ways that are sensible in the context of most of the ways we live, but then we don't always take advantage of the tools of reasoning our greatest thinkers have developed over millennia.
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