Posts by Matt Somerville

  • Hard News: McVicar and the media,

    A 20 minute lecture by Steven Pinker (prof of psychology at Harvard) on how violence has been declining throughout history and that right now is the most peaceful time in our species' existence - he argues that it's visible at the scale of millennia, centuries, decades, and years and gives recent stats/examples...

    Auckland • Since Jan 2010 • 1 posts Report Reply