On my radar: Steven Pinker’s cultural highlights

The psychologist and popular science author on data graphics, spectacular planet photography and the ambitious comedy of Amy SchumerSteven Pinker is a Canadian experimental psychologist renowned for his work in the fields of cognitive science and linguistics. He is a professor at Harvard and a prolific author, with bestsellers on how the mind works (the title of one of his two Pulitzer-nominated books) and the science of language. In his controversial 2011 work, The Better Angels of Our Nature,