Conversations: with Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University
John Anderson: Conversations
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The Nature of News
"News is about stuff that happens, not stuff that doesn't happen," he says. "We're feeding another 5 billion mounds every day with dramatically reduced malnutrition and stunting of children but you never hear about it." The human mind works in such a way that when we judge risk in danger, we don't do the math,. We just remember examples, anecdotes, narratives, images.
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