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Article: RENOWNED SCIENTIST STEVEN PINKER TO DELIVER UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA'S BLOUNT INITIATIVE LECTURE
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- November 6, 2009
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Nov. 5 -- The University of Alabama issued the following news release:
Dr. Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists and a best-selling author, will speak Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. at the Bama Theatre in downtown Tuscaloosa on "The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature."
The lecture is part of The University of Alabama Blount Undergraduate Initiative's 10th Anniversary Lecture Series. The Initiative is a privately supported liberal arts program in UA's College of Arts and Sciences.
The lecture is free, open to the public and geared toward a general audience.
Pinker, a professor in Harvard University's psychology department, is an ...