WATCH: How We Speak Reveals What We Think, with Steven Pinker

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Here’s number two on our list, featuring Harvard linguist Steven Pinker.

We rely on 180 characters to maintain a global communication network! Is that limiting how we interpret the world around us or does it force us to find creative solutions? Both?

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