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Ep122 "Why do we so rarely say what we mean?" (with Steven Pinker)

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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Innuendo, Relationships, and Societal Coordination

Explains why indirect speech preserves relationships, and how common knowledge underpins money, law, protests, bank runs, and pluralistic ignorance.

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