Pinker
Pinker may refer to: People *George Pinker (1924–2007), British obstetrician and gynecologist *Rachel Pinker, American meteorologist * Robert Pinker (born 1931), British sociologist *Steven Pinker (born 1954), Canadian-American psychologist, linguist and popular science author * Susan Pinker (born 1957), Canadian developmental psychologist Bands * Horace Pinker, American punk rock band *The Pinker Tones The Pinker Tones is an alternative pop band from Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. They have released six albums to this date, and have been included on many more. "Sampleame" is featured in most versions of EA Sports game '' FIFA 11''. Artists and ...

Steven Pinker
Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and his academic specializations are visual cognition and developmental linguistics. His experimental subjects include mental imagery, shape recognition, visual attention, children's language development, regular and irregular phenomena in language, the neural bases of words and grammar, as well as the psychology of cooperation and communication, including euphemism, innuendo, emotional expression, and common knowledge. He has written two technical books that proposed a general theory of language acquisition and applied it to children's learning of verbs. In particular, his work with Alan Prince published in 1989 critiqued the connectionist model of how children ac ...
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Robert Pinker
Robert Arthur Pinker (27 May 1931 – 2 February 2021) was a British sociologist and press regulator. Early life and family Robert Arthur Pinker was born on 27 May 1931, the son of Dora Elizabeth Pinker and Joseph Pinker. In 1955, he married Jennifer Farrington Boulton, who died in 1994; they had two daughters."Pinker, Prof. Robert Arthur "
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Susan Pinker
Susan Pinker is a psychologist, author and social science columnist for ''The Wall Street Journal''. She is a former weekly columnist for ''The Globe and Mail'', and has also written for ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', and ''The Times of London''. Her first book, '' The Sexual Paradox'', was awarded the William James Book Award in 2010 and was published in 17 countries. Her recent book, ''The Village Effect'' was a Canadian bestseller and an Apple 2014 nonfiction best pick. Her work has been featured in ''The Economist'', ''The Financial Times'', and ''Der Spiegel''. Career She spent 25 years in clinical practice and teaching psychology, first at Dawson College, then at McGill University. Pinker writes about new findings in behavioral science in the Mind and Matter column, which appears Saturdays in the ''Wall Street Journal''. Her ''Globe and Mail'' columns, Problem Solving and the Business Brain, applied the latest evidence from the fields of neuroscience, behavioral ...
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George Pinker
Sir George Douglas Pinker, KCVO (6 December 1924 – 29 April 2007) was an internationally respected obstetrician and gynecologist, best known for modernizing the delivery of royal babies. Early life George Douglas Pinker was born on 6 December 1924 in Calcutta, India, the second son of Queenie Elizabeth née Dix and Ronald Douglas Pinker, a horticulturist who worked for Suttons Seeds for 40 years, and headed the bulb and flower department for 25 years. At the time of George's birth he ran Sutton Seeds Indian Branch in Calcutta. His older brother Kenneth Hubert was born in Reading on 15 September 1919. Education From 1928 aged four, Pinker was educated at Reading School. In 1942, he began medical training at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Paddington, London, qualifying as a doctor in 1947. As a student in 1946, when the Music Society put on its first post-war production ''The Mikado'', he sang one of the leading roles. He turned down a contract with the D'Oyly Carte Opera C ...
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Horace Pinker
Horace Pinker is an American punk rock band formed in 1991 in Tempe, Arizona and based in Chicago, Illinois. They combine a pop-punk musical sound with catchy hooks and political lyrics. Horace Pinker has played in more than 21 countries including Europe, Brazil, China and Australia. They have played festivals including the Dynamo Open Air in the Netherlands, Popkomm in Germany, Belgium’s Groezrock, 2007 Vans ZonaPunk Tour in Brazil, PouzzaFest in Montreal and The Fest 11 in Gainesville, FL. In pre-electronic navigation times, they were guided to these places by a road atlas named "Gregory". They have appeared on over 30 compilations albums, 12 EP’s (including a split with Face To Face and an EP on Fat Wreck Chords), the DVD video compilations Cinema Beer Nuts (Hopeless) and Punk Broadcast System (Coldfront) plus numerous TV shows and features in various magazines. They have toured for the releases of Power Tools (Justice), Burn Tempe To The Ground (Onefoot), Pop Culture ...
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Rachel Pinker
Rachel T. Pinker is a professor of meteorology at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she has worked since 1976. Education Pinker received her M.S. degree from Hebrew University in 1965 and her PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1976. Research Pinker is known for her research into global dimming Global dimming is the reduction in the amount of global direct irradiance at the Earth's surface that has been observed since systematic measurements began in the 1950s. The effect varies by location, but worldwide it has been estimated to be of ... and global brightening. She has said that the Earth seems to be getting brighter, and that this may be because of a combination of a clearer sky and fewer clouds. References External links * American meteorologists University of Maryland, College Park faculty Living people Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni Women meteorologists University of Maryland, College Park alumni Year of birth missing ...
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