30 minutes into programme approx : steven reveals - his wife likes him to sing his version of leonard's great song!
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker.
An author and Harvard professor he's been named by Time Magazine as one of the world's 100 most influential scientists and thinkers...
Leonard Cohen
I’m Your Man
The Essential Leonard Cohen, Columbia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0366xsb
steven pinker picks leonard on desert island discs
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Re: steven pinker picks leonard on desert island discs
Love how so many of the 'thinkers' love Leonard's music.
Of course, this particular song appears to be a rather 'personal' choice.
However, he still must listen to Leonard. [I know that he could have heard just this song, but I prefer to think he listens to him.]
Of course, this particular song appears to be a rather 'personal' choice.
However, he still must listen to Leonard. [I know that he could have heard just this song, but I prefer to think he listens to him.]
"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."
~ Oscar Wilde
~ Oscar Wilde
Re: steven pinker picks leonard on desert island discs
Looking Pinker up on wiki, he is from Montreal and attended McGill so it is hardly surprising he chose a Leonard Cohen tune. His position on music's role in cognitive development is interesting, but strikes a diminished chord....
Re: steven pinker picks leonard on desert island discs
Maybe his next book will be called The Music Instinct, a companion volume to The Language Instinct!
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