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Sandshrew is truly a versatile Pokemon in Little Cup. Not only is it able to abuse its massive physical bulk to support its teammates with both Stealth Rock and Rapid Spin, but it is also able to utilize its above-average Attack stat along with its decent base Speed and passable offensive movepool to abuse Swords Dance to boost its Attack and present a formidable offensive threat in LC if given a sufficient amount of support from its teammates. Sandshrew can easily be classified as one of the most efficient, though overlooked Pokemon in the tier of Little Cup.
With massive natural bulk and excellent utility, Sandshrew makes a fine supporting Pokemon. Stealth Rock and Rapid Spin are both staples on this set, as they are the best support options Sandshrew is able to muster from its movepool. Earthquake and Rock Slide are both advised on this set as they provide Sandshrew with attacking options coming off an impressive base 75 Attack stat, ensuring that Sandshrew is not completely vulnerable to Taunt users or set-up bait for sweepers; the two aforementioned moves also have great offensive coverage with each other, forming the infamous "EdgeQuake" combination.Team Options & Additional Comments >>>
With passable Attack and decent Speed, along with an impressive amount of bulk and access to Swords Dance, Sandshrew is perfectly capable of playing an offensively-oriented role as a sweeper. Earthquake is used as a strong, reliable STAB attack, while Stone Edge is paired with Earthquake to provide coverage. Night Slash rounds out the set by giving Sandshrew unresisted coverage in Little Cup, although Substitute can be used over Night Slash to ease prediction when Sandshrew is performing a sweep. Additionally, Sandshrew's ability, Sand Veil, when used in conjunction with Substitute, will make landing an attack on Sandshrew harder in sandstorm.Team Options & Additional Comments >>>
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Outside of the above sets, Sandshrew unfortunately doesn't have many other options to choose from, as many of them are largely outclassed by other Pokemon. A RestTalk set can be utilized, but the stall-ish nature of said set isn't very suitable for the fast paced, offensively inclined Little Cup metagame. In terms of possible move changes, Sandshrew has a couple to choose from: X-Scissor, Brick Break, and Gyro Ball are all viable, but when compared to the sheer power and coverage that Earthquake, Rock Slide, and Night Slash give, they aren't smart choices.
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Water-types spell doom for Sandshrew, as it's quite vulnerable on the special side. Mantyke, Chinchou, and Staryu can all easily dispose of Sandshrew with simple STAB attacks; even Totodile, who is usually physically inclined, can cause major problems for Sandshrew because it has a strong STAB that hits Sandshrew for super effective damage. Croagunk and Dratini are also troublesome if they pack strong, super effective moves, but both must beware of switching into boosted attacks. Also, both Bronzor and Baltoy are able to check the defensive set, but must beware of Night Slash from the Swords Dance variant, as Sandshrew will usually carry that move in its arsenal. Lastly, Gastly and Duskull are immune to Sandshrew's STAB attack and can easily dispatch of it with their STAB attacks or simply start to set up on it.


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AUSTIN -- Early voting in the November election will wrap up on Friday.
Nearly two dozen early polling locations are spread out across Austin for Travis County voters. Most polls will close at 7:00 p.m., but the Mega Center at Highland Mall in North Austin will remain open until 9:00 p.m.
Travis County is pushing to get more voters to the polls before Election Day next Tuesday.
"The best advice I can give to voters though is take advantage of early voting. You can go at the most convenient time for you," explained Travis County Clerk Dana Debeauvoir.
People started casting their ballot last Monday. Early voting has continued every day since then. The wait lines are typically smaller during early voting. Some who made it to the polls Thursday say the process took about 10 minutes.
The Travis County ballot is a long one with numerous candidates and a handful of propositions.
"Our voter's guide has over 50 ballot races discussed in it, and the most important ones for people to pay attention to, in my opinion, are the judicial races and the State Board of Education," said Susan Morrison with the League of Women Voters of Texas.
Currently, statewide turnout is up, but in Travis County it's taking a hit. As of Thursday, the Travis County Elections Office reported nearly 32 percent of registered voters had cast a ballot in the early election. At the same time in 2008, about 43 percent had voted. By the time polls closed to early voting in 2008, more than 49 percent had voted.
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One way to judge the virtues of the city of Richmond's initiative to use eminent domain to help its strapped mortgage borrowers is by the hysterical reaction of the banks and investors holding the mortgage loans.
Wells Fargo & Co. and Bank of New York have sued the East Bay city in federal court to throttle the plan even before its birth. (A court hearing on their request for an injunction is set for Sept. 13.)
They've enlisted federal regulators in their hand-wringing over the damage little Richmond (pop. 105,000) might wreak on the mortgage market nationwide. The real estate interests have even cajoled some of their housebroken congressmen, such as John Campbell (R-Irvine), into introducing legislation to stop Richmond in its tracks.
So there must be something to the city's idea.
A lot of flapdoodle has been pumped into the public consciousness about Richmond's plans, most of it from the financial sector. It says Richmond is planning to seize underwater mortgages from lenders by condemning them by eminent domain for low-ball prices. It says there's no precedent for using eminent domain for the city's stated purpose of arresting blight — it's just for building things like schoolhouses and highway onramps. This is all about "the misuse of public power for private benefit," to quote Bank of New York's lawsuit.
But that's not quite true. It's really all about the failure of the federal government and the banking industry to bring desperately needed mortgage relief to homeowners wrecked on the shoals of the housing crash — many of them steered onto the rocks by unscrupulous mortgage bankers.
The government's major program for mortgage relief, the Home Affordable Modification Program, has served only 20% to 25% of the 5 million homeowners it was designed to assist. Richmond is stepping into a genuine vacuum.
It's also about arresting a slide in Richmond's economy. "I want to stabilize our neighborhoods," says Patrick Lynch, the city's housing director. "I know what a blighted property costs us to board it up and send the fire department out on calls."
You may think Richmond's effort is outdated. After all, home values are rising again and the foreclosure wave is ebbing. That's true generally, but the trend has passed Richmond by. In the city, which is 40% Latino and 25% black, more than half the homeowners are still underwater — their homes are worth less than they owe on their mortgages — by an average of 45%.
Richmond's goal is to bring some financial relief to those homeowners. They're prime candidates for relief, because the deeper underwater a loan is, the greater the chance that it will end up in default and then foreclosure.
It's well understood in the housing industry that the most effective way of staving off these defaults is to cut the principal due on the loans to a figure bearing some rational relationship to the home's value.
The toughest mortgages to work out, according to Richmond officials and their financial advisors, are those held in securitized pools, which can be owned by hundreds of thousands of investors; banks that service those pools tend to be uncertain about their legal authority to modify those mortgages unless they're right on the verge of foreclosure, so they tend not to be proactive.
So Richmond's City Council voted to offer banks servicing mortgage pools a deal: The city would buy underwater mortgages. Then, with the help of the San Francisco investment firm Mortgage Resolution Partners, the mortgages would be extinguished and refinanced so their balances would come to about 95% of the homes' current market value, on average. They'd no longer be underwater, and the risk of default would be much lower.
The targeted loans should meet two criteria, according to Robert Hockett, a Cornell University law professor who originated the idea of backing up mortgage refinancings with eminent domain. They should be loans so deeply underwater they're at high risk of default, "so their value can actually be increased by writing down the principal balances," he told me. Second, they should be loans that are hard to write down voluntarily, because of the questions about the loan servicers' authority to do so.
The city's eminent domain power plays a dual role in this initiative. First, it's a threat: If the banks refused to deal with the city, the mortgages could be seized. But it's also a tool: It removes all legal doubt about the banks' authority to sell or modify the loans; they would be required to do it.
Richmond started the ball rolling July 31 by making an offer to Wells Fargo and other servicing banks for 624 loans with unpaid balances totaling about $242 million. More than two-thirds had the oddball features that made for toxic loans during the housing crash — adjustable rates, negative amortization, interest-only payments.
The city's offer came to $126.5 million, or a little over 52% of the unpaid balances. "The prices being offered for these loans are wildly low-ball numbers, points and points and points below fair value in this market," says Daniel Ivascyn, head of the mortgage portfolio team at the Newport Beach investment firm PIMCO, which owns some of the mortgage pools at issue and is pressing for the injunction. That said, the mortgages sought by the city average out at 37% underwater. That's a level at which the risk of default is high, even if they're not yet delinquent.
Here are some important points: The city made clear these were opening bids — it invited the banks to counter "if for any reason you are not satisfied with this offer." Second, a true low-ball offer wouldn't survive the eminent domain process, because under state law, the owner of seized property can demand a reappraisal from a court. Third, the city hasn't actually started any eminent domain proceedings — that will require a separate vote by the City Council. In other words, the banks have gone to court to stop a program that doesn't actually exist yet.
The mortgage industry has responded to Richmond with all the fatuous flimflam you would expect from a gang that has never owned up to its responsibility for the housing disaster.
In a declaration filed with the Wells Fargo lawsuit, Mortgage Bankers Assn. Chief Executive David Stevens characterizes the typical mortgage contract as a homeowner's "unconditional promise" to repay the loan in full, "regardless of the future value of the house or any other set of circumstances." His point is that using eminent domain interferes with this sacred relationship.


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BASTROP, Texas -- The dead trees are a reminder of the wildfires that raged through Bastrop State Park on Labor Day weekend last year. Charred ground shows where the fires were the most destructive.
Now, there are signs of life in this park. Shrubs and grass are growing again, putting some color back in this gray forest. The wildfires burned 96 percent of the park wiping out tens of thousands of loblolly pine trees.
Two loblolly pine seedlings are an example of what will be planted this weekend and throughout the months of December and January here at Bastrop State Park.
These examples are naturally growing but since most of the pine trees were wiped out during the fire, the park is bringing in many more of these seedlings to help supplement the growth.
Park superintendent Jamie Hackett said the Texas Forest Service harvested pine seeds here 50 years ago. They stored those seeds and grew them in nurseries in Texas, Louisiana, and Georgia.
Now, 220,000 of these seedlings will be delivered beginning this weekend. Volunteers will then carefully plant each by hand, to give new life to Bastrop State Park.
"It feels amazing. Really, it's a rare opportunity in someone's career to be able to influence the landscape at this level," said Hackett.
To Hackett, it was heart-wrenching to see these trees burn.
"A lot of folks were tied to this place as am I and so it meant a lot to see it burn, but it means just as much to be able to bring it back and influence the future of this place," she said.
For Rosario Lovelace and her son, Dakota, who were visiting from San Antonio, the signs of life in the forest were a surprise.
"You can see color on the ground now where the dead trees are, so I was excited about that, but you know there's seedlings being planted is really exciting," Rosario said.
"I think that's really cool to know that they're trying to do something to fight back against what the fire destroyed, and bring back some new life into this place," said Dakota.
It's life that begins with a newly planted seedling, growing into a stately pine.
Bastrop State Park has enough volunteers for this weekend (December 1st and 2nd), but park rangers need help planting the seedlings throughout December and January.
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|Steven Pinker
Pinker in 2011
|Steven Arthur Pinker
September 18, 1954
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
|Evolutionary psychology, experimental psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, visual cognition
|Alma mater
|Dawson College,
McGill University,
Harvard University
|Known for
|How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature
|Noam Chomsky, Thomas Sowell, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Schelling1
|Notable awards
|Troland Award (1993, National Academy of Sciences),
Henry Dale Prize (2004, Royal Institution),
Walter P. Kistler Book Award (2005),
Humanist of the Year award (2006, issued by the AHA),
George Miller Prize (2010, Cognitive Neuroscience Society)
|Nancy Etcoff (1980–1992; divorced)
Ilavenil Subbiah (1995–2006; divorced)
Rebecca Goldstein (2007-present)
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist, and popular science author. He is a Harvard College Professor and the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University,3 and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
Pinker's academic specializations are visual cognition and psycholinguistics. His experimental subjects include mental imagery, shape recognition, visual attention, children's language development, regular and irregular phenomena in language, the neural bases of words and grammar, and the psychology of innuendo and euphemism. He published two technical books which proposed a general theory of language acquisition and applied it to children's learning of verbs. In his popular books, he has argued that language is an "instinct" or biological adaptation shaped by natural selection. He is the author of six books for a general audience: The Language Instinct (1994), How the Mind Works (1997), Words and Rules (2000), The Blank Slate (2002), The Stuff of Thought (2007), and The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011).
Early life, education and career
Pinker was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1954, to a middle-class Jewish family. His parents were Roslyn and Harry Pinker.4 He graduated from Dawson College in 1971. He received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from McGill University in 1976, and then went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy in experimental psychology at Harvard University in 1979. He did research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a year, after which he became an assistant professor at Harvard and then Stanford University.
From 1982 until 2003, Pinker taught at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, and eventually became the director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, taking a one-year sabbatical at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1995–96. As of 2003, he is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard; from 2008 to 2013 he also held the title of Harvard College Professor in recognition of his dedication to teaching.5 In June 2011 it was announced he would give lectures as a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, a private college in London.6
Pinker was named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential scientists and thinkers in the world in 20047 and one of Prospect and Foreign Policy's 100 top public intellectuals in both years the poll was carried out, 20058 and 2008;9 in 2010 and 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers.1011 His research in cognitive psychology has won the Early Career Award (1984) and Boyd McCandless Award (1986) from the American Psychological Association, the Troland Research Award (1993) from the National Academy of Sciences, the Henry Dale Prize (2004) from the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the George Miller Prize (2010) from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. He has also received honorary doctorates from the universities of Newcastle, Surrey, Tel Aviv, McGill, and the University of Tromsø, Norway. He was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in 1998 and in 2003.
In January 2005, Pinker defended Lawrence Summers, President of Harvard University, whose comments about a gender gap in mathematics and science angered much of the faculty. Pinker noted that Summers's remarks, properly understood, were hypotheses about overlapping statistical distributions of men's and women's talents and tastes, and that in a university such hypotheses ought to be the subject of empirical testing rather than dogma and outrage.12
On May 13, 2006, Pinker received the American Humanist Association's Humanist of the Year award for his contributions to public understanding of human evolution.13
In 2009, Pinker wrote a mixed review of Malcolm Gladwell's essays in The New York Times criticizing his analytical methods.14 Gladwell published a rebuttal in the Times regarding Pinker's comments about the importance of IQ on teaching performance and by analogy, the effect, if any, of draft order on quarterback performance in the National Football League. Pinker then responded to Gladwell's rebuttal.15 The exchange prompted Advanced NFL Stats to step in and address the issue statistically, siding with Pinker in that draft order is indeed correlated with quarterback performance. The differences in Gladwell and Pinker's respective methodologies caused the disagreement. Gladwell evaluated a performance on a per-play basis, whereas Pinker and Advanced NFL Stats evaluated performance based on total overall productivity based on the assumption that starters were superior players to backups.16
Pinker has served on the editorial boards of journals such as Cognition, Daedalus, and PLOS One, and on the advisory boards of institutions for scientific research (e.g., the Allen Institute for Brain Science), free speech (e.g., the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), the popularization of science (e.g., the World Science Festival and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry), peace (e.g., the Peace Research Endowment), and secular humanism (e.g., the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the Secular Coalition for America).
Since 2008, he has chaired the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary, and wrote the essay on usage for the fifth edition of the Dictionary, which was published in 2011.
Personal life
His father, a lawyer, first worked as a manufacturer's representative, while his mother was first a home-maker then a guidance counselor and high-school vice-principal. He has two younger siblings. His brother is a policy analyst for the Canadian government. His sister, Susan Pinker, is a psychologist and writer, author of The Sexual Paradox.1718 Pinker married Nancy Etcoff in 1980 and they divorced in 1992; he married Ilavenil Subbiah in 1995 and they too divorced.19 His current wife, whom he married in 2007, is the novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein.20 He has two stepdaughters: the novelist Yael Goldstein Love and the poet Danielle Blau.
He has said, "I was never religious in the theological sense... I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew."21 As a teenager, he says he considered himself an anarchist until he witnessed civil unrest following a police strike in 1969.22 Pinker identifies himself as a feminist, specifically an equity feminist, and in The Blank Slate defines equity feminism as "a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology".23 He has reported the result of a test of his political orientation that characterized him as "neither leftist nor rightist, more libertarian than authoritarian."24 Pinker confesses to having "experienced a primitive tribal stirring" after his genes were shown to trace back to the Middle East.25
In June 2013 he was the guest on UK BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. His choices were "Further On Up the Road" by Eric Clapton, "Der Alter Bulgar" by the Andy Statman Klezmer Orchestra (with Itzhak Perlman), "God's Comic" by Elvis Costello, "Olé" by John Coltrane, "Yellow Moon" by The Neville Brothers, "I'm Your Man" by Leonard Cohen, "Machine Gun" by Jimi Hendrix and "Lullaby of Birdland" by Sarah Vaughan.26
Research and theory
Pinker's research on visual cognition, begun in collaboration with his thesis adviser, Stephen Kosslyn, showed that mental images represent scenes and objects as they appear from a specific vantage point (rather than capturing their intrinsic three-dimensional structure), and thus correspond to the neuroscientist David Marr's theory of a "two-and-a-half-dimensional sketch."27 He also showed that this level of representation is used in visual attention, and in object recognition (at least for asymmetrical shapes), contrary to Marr's theory that recognition uses viewpoint-independent representations.
In psycholinguistics, Pinker became known early in his career for promoting computational learning theory as a way to understand language acquisition in children. He wrote a tutorial review of the field followed by two books that advanced his own theory of language acquisition, and a series of experiments on how children acquire the passive, dative, and locative constructions.
In 1989 Pinker and Alan Prince published an influential critique of a connectionist model of the acquisition of the past tense (a textbook problem in language acquisition), followed by a series of studies of how people use and acquire the past tense. This included a monograph on children's regularization of irregular forms, and a popular 1999 book, Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language, in which he argued that regular and irregular phenomena were products of computation and memory lookup, respectively, and that language could be understood as an interaction between the two.
The Language Instinct (1994) was the first of several books that combined cognitive science with behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology. In it he introduced the science of language and popularized Noam Chomsky's theory that language is an innate faculty of mind, with the twist that this faculty evolved by natural selection as a Darwinian adaptation for communication (both ideas remain controversial; see below). Two other books, How the Mind Works (1997) and The Blank Slate (2002), broadly surveyed the mind and defended the idea of a complex human nature which comprises many mental faculties that are adaptive (and is an ally of Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins in many disputes surrounding adaptationism). Another major theme in Pinker's theories is that human cognition works, in part, by combinatorial symbol-manipulation, not just associations among sensory features, as in many connectionist models.
In 2011 Pinker published The Better Angels of Our Nature, which argued that violence has decreased over multiple scales of time and magnitude, including tribal warfare, homicide, cruel punishments, child abuse, animal cruelty, domestic violence, lynching, pogroms, and international and civil wars. In his book Pinker outlines six 'major historical declines of violence' which all have their own socio/cultural/economic causes:28
- "Pacification Process" - the rise of organized systems of government has a correlative relationship with the decline in violent deaths. As states expand they prevent tribal feuding, reducing losses.
- "Civilising Process" – consolidation of centralized states and kingdoms throughout Europe results in the rise of criminal justice and commercial infrastructure, organizing previously chaotic systems which could lead to raiding and mass violence.
- "Humanitarian Revolution" – The 18th - 20th century abandonment of institutionalized violence by the state (breaking on the wheel, burning at the stake). Suggests this is likely due to the spike in literacy after the invention of the printing press therby allowing the proletariat to question conventional wisdom.
- "Long Peace" – The powers of 20th Century believed that period of time to be the bloodiest in history. This to a largely peaceful 65 year period post WWI and WW2. Developed countries have stopped warring (against each other and colonially), adopted democracy, and this has led a massive decline (on average) of deaths.
- "Rights Revolutions" – The reduction of systemic violence at smaller scales against vulnerable populations (racial minorities, women, children, homosexuals, animals).
Pinker considers it unlikely that human nature has changed (many other factors of human existence remain unchanged). More likely that human nature comprises inclinations toward violence and those that counteract them, the "better angels of our nature".
Pinker's books, The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, and The Stuff of Thought combine cognitive science with behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology.
Music and cognition
A number of theories about the evolutionary origins of language have argued that linguistic cognition might have evolved from earlier musical cognition. Pinker is a critic of this view, as he sees language as being tied primarily to the capacity for logical reasoning. In How the Mind Works (1997) Pinker reiterates an argument from Immanuel Kant positing that music is not in itself an important cognitive phenomenon, but that music simply happens to stimulate important auditory and spatio-motoric cognitive functions. Pinker compares music to "auditory cheesecake", and states that "As far as biological cause and effect is concerned, music is useless". This argument has been rejected by a number of experts in music cognition who argue that music has had an important role in the evolution of human cognition, for example Daniel Levitin and Joseph Carroll.293031323334 Levitin argues against Pinker's view of music and cognition in his book This Is Your Brain On Music.35
The Language Instinct has been criticized by Geoffrey Sampson in his book, The 'Language Instinct' Debate.36 The assumptions underlying the nativist view have also been subject to sustained criticism in Jeffrey Elman's Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development (Neural Networks and Connectionist Modeling), which defends the connectionist approach that Pinker has criticized.
David Shenk has criticized Pinker for an article he wrote in The New York Times which addressed the nature versus nurture debate. He criticized him for siding with the "nature" argument and for "never once acknowledg[ing] gene-environment interaction or epigenetics." Shenk contends that because of these factors the debate over nature versus nurture has been "rendered obsolete."37 Pinker responded to a question about epigenetics as a possibility for the decline in violence in a lecture for the BBC World Service. Pinker said it was unlikely since the decline in violence happened too rapidly to be explained by genetic changes.38
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson have criticized The Better Angels of Our Nature. In an extensive essay, they accuse Pinker of having ventured outside of his field of expertise, and of cherry-picking historical data to fit his thesis. The main charges are that Pinker apologizes for imperialist expansionism, the geopolitics of capitalism and anti-communism, while manufacturing sources to fit the conclusion he draws.39
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- Language Learnability and Language Development (1984) ISBN 978-0-674-51055-5
- Visual Cognition (1985) ISBN 978-0-262-66178-2
- Connections and Symbols (1988) ISBN 978-0-262-66064-8
- Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure (1989) ISBN 978-0-262-66073-0
- Lexical and Conceptual Semantics (1992) ISBN 978-1-55786-354-6
- The Language Instinct (1994) ISBN 978-0-06-097651-4
- How the Mind Works (1997) ISBN 978-0-393-31848-7
- Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (1999) ISBN 978-0-465-07269-9
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002) ISBN 978-0-670-03151-1
- The Best American Science and Nature Writing (editor and introduction author, 2004) ISBN 978-0-618-24698-4
- Hotheads (an extract from How the Mind Works, 2005) ISBN 978-0-14-102238-3
- The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (2007) ISBN 978-0-670-06327-7
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011) ISBN 978-0-670-02295-3
- Language, Cognition, and Human Nature: Selected Articles (2013) ISBN 978-0-199-32874-1
- The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (September 30, 2014) ISBN 978-0-670-02585-5
Articles and essays
- Pinker, S. (1991). "Rules of Language". Science 253 (5019): 530–535. doi:10.1126/science.1857983.
- Ullman, M.; Corkin, S.; Coppola, M.; Hickok, G.; Growdon, J. H.; Koroshetz, W. J.; Pinker, S. (1997). "A neural dissociation within language: Evidence that the mental dictionary is part of declarative memory, and that grammatical rules are processed by the procedural system". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 9: 289–299.
- Pinker, S. (2003) "Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche" In M. Christiansen & S. Kirby (Eds.), Language evolution: States of the Art New York: Oxford University Press.
- Pinker, S. (2005). "So How Does the Mind Work?". Mind and Language 20 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1111/j.0268-1064.2005.00274.x.
- Jackendoff, R.; Pinker, S. (2005). "The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language" (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, & Chomsky)". Cognition 97 (2): 211–225. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2005.04.006.
- S. Pinker (2007), "In Defense of Dangerous Ideas" Chicago Sun-Times, July 15, 2007
- Pinker, S. (2012). The False Allure of Group Selection. Edge, Jun 19, 2012.
- A number of Pinker's articles at Harvard
- Pinker, S. (2013). Science Is Not Your Enemy. The New Republic, Aug 6, 2013.
- ^ C-SPAN | BookTV "In Depth with Steven Pinker" November 2nd 2008
- ^ "Steven Pinker". [[Desert Island Discs|Desert Island Discs]. 30 June 2013. BBC Radio 4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0366xsb. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
- ^ Steven Pinker – About. Department of Psychology Harvard University Accessed 2010-02-28
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- ^ Steven Pinker. "Official Biography. Harvard University". Pinker.wjh.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
- ^ "The professoriate", New College of the Humanities, accessed June 8, 2011.
- ^ "Steven Pinker: How Our Minds Evolved" by Robert Wright Time Magazine Accessed 2006-02-08
- ^ "The Prospect/FP Top 100 Public Intellectuals" Foreign Policy (free registration required) Accessed 2006-082-08
- ^ "Intellectuals", Prospect, 2009, retrieved 2011-10-21
- ^ "Foreign Policy Magazine". Foreignpolicy.com. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
- ^ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
- ^ "PSYCHOANALYSIS Q-and-A: Steven Pinker" The Harvard Crimson Accessed 2006-02-08
- ^ "Steven Pinker Receives Humanist of the Year Award". American Humanist Association. May 12, 2006.
- ^ Pinker, Steven (2009-11-15). "Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective". The New York Times.
- ^ "Let's Go to the Tape". The New York Times. 2009-11-29.
- ^ Burke, Brian (2010-04-22). "Steven Pinker vs. Malcolm Gladwell and Drafting QBs". Advanced NFL Stats. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
- ^ Shermer, Michael (2001-03-01). The Pinker Instinct. Altadena, CA: Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
- ^ "Steven Pinker: the mind reader" The Guardian Accessed 2006-11-25
- ^ Biography for Steven Pinker at imdb Accessed 2007-09-12
- ^ "How Steven Pinker Works" by Kristin E. Blagg The Harvard Crimson Accessed 2006-02-03
- ^ "Steven Pinker: the mind reader" by Ed Douglas The Guardian Accessed 2006-02-03
- ^ "As a young teenager in proudly peaceable Canada during the romantic 1960s, I was a true believer in Bakunin's anarchism. I laughed off my parents' argument that if the government ever laid down its arms all hell would break loose. Our competing predictions were put to the test at 8:00 A.M. on October 17, 1969, when the Montreal police went on strike. ... This decisive empirical test left my politics in tatters (and offered a foretaste of life as a scientist)." – Pinker, Steven (2002), The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Penguin Putnam, ISBN 0-670-03151-8.
- ^ Pinker, Steven, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Viking, 2002), p. 341
- ^ "My Genome, My Self" by Steven Pinker The New York Times Sunday Magazine Accessed 2010-04-10
- ^ "DNA and You – Personalized Genomics Goes Jewish". The Forward. Issue of 12 August 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
- ^ "Steven Pinker". bbc.co.uk. 30 June 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
- ^ The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language
- ^ Pinker, Steven. "The Decline of Violence". IAI. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ^ Levitin, D. J. and Tirovolas, A. K. (2009), Current Advances in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1156: 211–231.
- ^ Perlovsky L. Music. Cognitive Function, Origin, And Evolution Of Musical Emotions . WebmedCentral PSYCHOLOGY 2011;2(2):WMC001494
- ^ Alison Abbott. 2002. Neurobiology: Music, maestro, please! Nature 416, 12–14 (7 March 2002) | doi:10.1038/416012a
- ^ Cross, I. (1999). Is music the most important thing we ever did? Music, development and evolution. [preprint (html)] [preprint (pdf)] In Suk Won Yi (Ed.), Music, mind and science (pp10-39), Seoul: Seoul National University Press.
- ^ "Interview with Daniel Levitin". Pbs.org. May 20, 2009. Retrieved December 29, 2012.
- ^ Carroll, Joseph (1998). "Steven Pinker's Cheesecake For The Mind". Cogweb.ucla.edu. Retrieved December 29, 2012.
- ^ Levitin, Daniel. 2006. This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, New York: Dutton/Penguin.
- ^ "G. R. Sampson's official Website". Grsampson.net. Retrieved 2012-01-20.
- ^ "Steven Pinker's "probabilistic" genes," David Shenk
- ^ "Exchanges At The Frontier 2011", BBC.
- ^ "Reality Denial : Steven Pinker's Apologetics for Western-Imperial Violence". ZNET. 2012-07-25. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
External links
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|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Steven Pinker.
- Interviews
- In Depth interview with Pinker, November 2, 2008
- Steven Pinker on The Hour
- Steven Pinker Multimedia. Extensive lists of audio and video files
- Biology vs. the Blank Slate Reason magazine interview with Pinker
- Live interview with Steven Pinker on The Blank Slate LINK BROKEN
- Online video interview with Pinker
- Chalking it up to the blank slate, 2003
- The stuff of thought, 2005
- A brief history of violence, 2007
- Filmed Talks
- The Better Angels of our Nature, Royal Institution, November 2011
- Debates
- The Two Steves Debate with Neurobiologist Steven Rose
- The Science of Gender and Science Debate with Cognitive Psychologist Elizabeth Spelke
- The Decline of Violence Debate with Economist Judith Marquand, BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson and BBC broadcaster Roger Bolton
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Shoji Hamada, whose pottery came to characterize the ceramics of the Mingei movement (Japanese Folkcrafts movement) of the 20th century, was born in Tokyo in 1894. In 1918, he met the Englishman Bernard Leach, who was in Japan studying with Soetsu Yanagi, the man credited with beginning the Mingei movement. Together with other members of the group, including Kenkichi Tomimoto and Kanjiro Kawai, they sought to establish a "criterion of beauty" grounded in the everyday art of the people.
In 1920, Hamada returned to England with Leach to help him set up his pottery at St. Ives. Their work together highlights the beliefs and goals the Arts and Crafts movement of England and America shared with those of the Mingei movement of Japan. Hamada stayed in England for three years, then returned to Japan, where he had his first one-man exhibition in 1925. In 1930, he set up his pottery in Mashiko, 100 miles north of Tokyo, where he worked until his death.
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In 2009, Dawsey tutored Rod Owens and Reed who became the first pair of Seminole receivers to collect at least 60 receptions each in the same season since 1995. Owens (61) and Reed (60) joined the prolific `95 tandem of Andre Cooper (71) and E.G. Green (60) as the only duos to match that standard in program history. Five Seminoles in 2009 - Owens, Reed, Jarmon Fortson (45), Taiwan Easterling (35) and Richard Goodman (27) - caught at least 20 passes. FSU had not had five receivers with 20 or more catches since the 1992 season.
The production of Dawsey's receivers has helped the Seminoles improve in total offense over each of the past six seasons, including their average of 470.8 yards per game in 2012 which was the best season at FSU since 2000 and the school-record total mark of 6,591 yards. FSU's wideouts had a hand in quarterbacks Christian Ponder and EJ Manuel becoming first round NFL draft picks. Manuel finished his career as the FSU career-leader in completion percentage at 66.9 percent - a mark that also ranks second in ACC history. Manuel finished the 2012 season with 3,392 yards passing - the second-most in Seminole history. He finished his career third in the FSU annuals in career passing yards, third in completions and sixth in passing touchdowns.
In Dawsey's first two seasons at Florida State he helped Greg Carr climb the charts as one of the most productive receivers in school history. Greg Carr finished his career with 148 catches for 2,574 yards and 29 career touchdowns.
In 2007, Dawsey's first season, Florida State boasted three receivers - Preston Parker, De'Cody Fagg and Carr - with 700 or more receiving yards for the first time in school history.
Beyond the playing field, Dawsey too has established himself as one of the nation's top recruiters. He's picked up the Seminoles' efforts in the Tampa area and helped the Seminoles attract the nation's No. 1 recruiting class in 2011. He was named one of ESPN.com's Top 25 Recruiters of the Year in 2011. Dawsey was also named the 2011 ACC Recruiter of the Year by SI.com and one of the Top 25 recruiters in the nation in 2011 and 2012 by Rivals.com. He was selected as one of the top 50 recruiters in the country by 247Sports in 2012 and 2013.
Dawsey's first coaching job came as a high school assistant at Tampa Catholic in 1998. He did not return to the sideline until serving as a training camp assistant coach with the NFL's St. Louis Rams in 2001 and returned to the high school ranks in 2002 at Blake in Tampa.
He spent the 2003 season as a graduate assistant on Nick Saban's LSU staff, where he worked with Jimbo Fisher and also crossed paths with fellow graduate assistant and current FSU assistant James Coley. The Tigers posted a 13-1 record and won the BCS National Championship.
Dawsey had the opportunity to work with LSU receiver Michael Clayton, who later became the No. 1 selection of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and broke several of Dawsey's rookie receiving records with the club.
The season at LSU opened the door for Dawsey's first, full-time college position as he returned to Tampa as the wide receivers coach at USF from 2004-2006. As a recruiter, he was instrumental in landing the talent which helped the Bulls break on to the national scene. USF's passing offense also took flight during Dawsey's three seasons and ranked among the best in the Big East.
Dawsey was an integral part of the Seminole football dynasty as a player. His four seasons at wide receiver corresponded with the first four 10-win, top-five poll finishes by FSU. As a player, he was known for his work ethic, accountability, precision route-running, down-field blocking and the ability to rise to the occasion in big games. Those are the same qualities he has instilled in his current group of receivers.
A third-round selection by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1991, Dawsey enjoyed a seven-season NFL career. He also played for the New York Giants (1996), Miami Dolphins (1997) and New Orleans Saints (1999).
Dawsey was named the NFL Rookie of the Year by Sports Illustrated and named to the All-Rookie Team by Pro Football Weekly in 1991 after he led Tampa Bay with 55 receptions and set the club's rookie record with 818 receiving yards. Dawsey also led the team in receptions (60) and receiving yards (776) in 1992.
Dawsey's family also has enjoyed success as well. His daughter Dominique and son-in-law Michael Moffitt, both Florida State graduates, have each earned their M.D. at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. Dominique is a clinical resident in Anesthesiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital - a Harvard University Hospital.
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Big guns, a little cleavage, and lots of things exploding seemed to be the main points of interest in the series, and it was scrapped after just five issues, leaving a case that began in issue three, involving super-models and nerve gas hidden in an antique pen unresolved.
However, Dakota has rather remarkable staying power for the star of a failed (and it must be admitted, rather lame and embarrassing) series. Just a little over a year later, she popped up in Web of Spider-Man, helping Spidey capture The Slasher, a serial killer who'd been murdering fashion models with a straight razor. Subsequently, she's popped up in assorted Marvel books, most notably an arc in the Cage series (featuring superpowered "hero-for-hire" Luke Cage) in the early nineties and finally as a supporting character in Daredevil in 2006. Gone were most of the more ridiculous trappings of her earlier incantations, replaced by a calm, competent professional put on retainer by the law firm Nelson & Murdock as an investigator and bodyguard (Jessica Jones formerly held the position) while Matt Murdock (AKA Daredevil) languishes in prison.
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Although Dakota has flitted in and out of the Daredevil stories, making a cameo here, or playing a pivotal but brief role there and even occasionally disappearing for a few issues, it's still got to be one of the most satisfying character turnarounds in comics history, particularly in the "Cruel and Unusual" (issues #107-110), co-written with Brubaker's old pal Greg Rucka, a man who knows a thing or two about crime and comics himself. Dakota works to free a man on death row, and realizes she's beginning to have feelings for her boss. This is the real deal -- Brubaler and Lark have teamed up here to deliver a taut, terse and decidedly adult burst of honest-to-goodness detective fiction driven more by character and plot than endless, ridiculous fight scenes.
A new Dakota North mini-series, currently unscheduled, was also rumoured to be in the works back in 2003, to be written by CB Cebulski. Whether he was planning to pick up where Brubaker and Lark left off, or turn Dakota back into the cartoon she began as remains to be seen, as the book was never published, but having seen what Brubaker's done with the character Cebulski would have had some pretty large shoes to fill.
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