Point of Inquiry Live With Steven Pinker and “America’s Science Idol” Winner Tom Di Liberto

On Sunday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston, Indre & I recorded the latest Point of Inquiry live with a stellar guest–Steven Pinker–whose work couldn’t be more timely, because it focuses on the root causes of violence and shows that actually, violence across our global society has been in decline. There is both audio and also video:

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At the end of the show there’s an interview with Tom Di Liberto, a NOAA meteorologist who two days earlier had won the America’s Science Idol competition at the meeting–a competition for which I served as emcee. Videos of this will be coming soon–for now, here’s an interview with the winner.