http://booktalk.yuku.com/forums/44 Book #9: July & August 2003 - Visit the new forum for The Blank Slate - The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker on Amazon.com ]]> en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:07:58 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://booktalk.yuku.com/forums/44 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3984/t/BookTalk-has-a-new-home.html www.booktalk.org!

If you are a past BookTalk.org member wishing to access your old ezboard account on our new book discussion forums please send me an email at chris AT booktalk DOT org. Tell me your ezboard name and the email address you would like used with your new account and I will email you a new password. Once you have your new password you should go to feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3984 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:49:51 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3985/t/Rate-this-book-.html feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3985 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:50:32 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3987/t/Companian-Book.html I like to offer a suggestion on what to read along with the Blank Slate. Synaptic Self By Joseph LeDoux.
Kyle ]]> feeds@yuku.com (StarlightCode) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3987 Thu, 05 May 2005 02:47:28 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3988/t/new-member.html
Like i said, i just don't know where to begin. I guess i will start by thanking prof. pinker for having the mind that he does. I've never felt more in tune with an author while reading their work. I'm not a biologist or anything even close to one... just a weird, odd person who has always heard the overtones of human... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3988 Sun, 11 Jul 2004 19:45:36 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3989/t/Pinker-on-CNN.html Pinker says it's nature, not nurture
Monday, April 19, 2004 Posted: 10:22 AM EDT (1422 GMT)

(CNN) -- According to Steven Pinker, every human exclamation, every chuckle, every expression of love stems not from life experience, but from millions of years of human development.

The best-selling author and Harvard professor argues that evolution, more than environment, has shaped the human mind -- echoing Charles... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3989 Tue, 04 May 2004 22:57:26 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3990/t/definition-of-personality.html Is personality the built-in formula for determining what a person will do in a given situation?

Pinker shows us that personality is determined partly by genetics and partly by the random growth patterns of our brain tissue.

After reading this I considered a thought expiriment:

What if identical twins were somehow engineered to have the exact same growth patterns of their brain tissue? Probably this is... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (markahlquist) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3990 Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:44:25 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3986/t/Chat-transcript-Professor-Stephen-Pinker-9-02-2003.html Pinker Hello, everyone.

Monty_Vonn Cool! He's here!

System: You may wish to go thru the actual chat page on BookTalk. You can float and dock this room too.

Jeremy1952 Hi! Welcome

feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3986 Sat, 06 Sep 2003 01:27:10 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3995/t/The-Red-Queen.html

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Science is neither a philosophy nor a belief system. It is a combination of mental operations that has become increasingly the habit of educated peoples, a culture of illuminations hit upon by a fortunate turn of history that yielded the most effective way of learning about the real world ever conceived. E.O.Wilson ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jeremy1952) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3995 Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:10:03 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3994/t/What-was-your-favorite-part-of-the-book-.html "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always want to be."-- Leonardo da Vinci ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3994 Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:55:08 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3993/t/Political-Impact.html feeds@yuku.com (seanf 2003) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3993 Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:48:59 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3997/t/Who-plans-on-attending-the-Pinker-chat-.html "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always want to be."-- Leonardo da Vinci ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3997 Sun, 24 Aug 2003 23:07:46 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3998/t/opposition.html feeds@yuku.com (seanf 2003) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3998 Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:02:52 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3999/t/Trinity-Debunked-Now-What-.html feeds@yuku.com (pctacitus) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3999 Thu, 21 Aug 2003 23:00:05 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4001/t/-Quotable-quotes-.html
Chris

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always want to be."-- Leonardo da Vinci

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4001 Thu, 21 Aug 2003 06:31:27 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4000/t/Interesting-tidbits-.html
Examples....

Ch. 4 Pg. 62

Pinker here talks about how small children seem to be born with an inherent ability to... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4000 Thu, 21 Aug 2003 05:55:22 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3992/t/The-chat-has-been-rescheduled-.html Please mark your calendars everyone...

The chat with Professor Stephen Pinker has been rescheduled from Thursday night to Tuesday night. In other words, it has been moved 2 days earlier.

Old Date: Thursday, September 4, 2003 9:00pm eastern
New Date: Tuesday, September... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3992 Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:53:43 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3991/t/Chat-room-suggestions-needed-.html
Anyone that knows of quality chat software please let me know right away!!

We need to be able to have at least 100 people in the chat room. I also need the ability to "gag" everyone other than the "allowed... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3991 Sun, 10 Aug 2003 01:51:17 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4005/t/Professor-Pinker-has-accepted-our-invitation-.html I am pleased to announce that Professor Stephen Pinker has accepted our invitation to be our guest in the BookTalk chat room on Thursday, September 4, 2003 at 9:00pm Eastern. Mark your calendars folks!
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Chris OConnor) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4005 Thu, 07 Aug 2003 22:51:15 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3996/t/Why-Steven-Pinker-is-right-and-where-he-is-wrong.html
The three targets of his attack are "the blank slate", "the noble savage" and the "ghost in the machine". Speaking very broadly this triad of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (PeterDF) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/3996 Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:28:18 GMT http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4002/t/demonstrating-the-illusion-of-the-unified-self.html feeds@yuku.com (tarav) http://booktalk.yuku.com/topic/4002 Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:59:24 GMT