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Bastianich sees the positive in humankind.
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The world is looking to the U.S. for ideas.
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The legacy of the Venetian spice trade.
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For Bastianich, humanistic philosophy and food are intertwined.
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Classical music and travel stimulate Bastianich’s creativity.
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Bastianich, on the intricacies of cooking.
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Growing up with rabbits, ducks and goats.
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Peter Thiel predicts 30 years of chaos and turmoil followed by a period of unimaginable flourishing and prosperity.
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Judaism today is a microcosm of the world: there are fundamentalists as well as those who see the state of Israel as an example grand peace and interdependence, as well […]
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Steven Pinker see our greatest challenges as overcoming the obstacles to secular enlightenment in many parts of the world.
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Synthesizing ideas really depends on having a universe of ideas to recombine in the first place, says Steven Pinker.
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Language sheds light on the idea that the mind is a computational system.
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People will always have a measure of self-deception.
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Not all problems have to have a moralistic solution.
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There’s no such thing as free will in the sense of a ghost in the machine; our behavior is the product of physical processes in the brain rather than some […]
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Steven Pinker starts by asserting that using the word God or faith for that which you don’t know is a cop out. He goes on to describe what he sees […]
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Steven Pinker talks about his personal philosophy and what reason means to him.
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There’s so much of science and scholarship that consists of hyper specialized efforts, Steven Pinker says.