{"nodes":[{"node":{"nid":"104356","title":"Popular science author Steven Pinker explores rationale behind irrational thinking at ASU event","body":"Popular science author Steven Pinker returned to Arizona State University\u2019s Tempe campus on Feb. 7 for a rational talk about irrational thinking.More than 200 people filled\u0026nbsp;Marston Exploration Theater to hear the Harvard professor\u2019s lecture,\u0026nbsp;titled \u201cRationality: What It Is, Why It Seems\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222025-02-11T14:13:53-07:00\u0022\u003E02\/11\/2025-2:13pm\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"More than 200 people filled\u00a0Marston Theater to hear the Harvard professor\u2019s lecture\u00a0titled \u201cRationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters,\u201d which is also the title of his latest book.","teaser":"Popular science author Steven Pinker returned to Arizona State University\u2019s Tempe campus on Feb. 7 for a rational talk about irrational thinking.","story_images":"","hero_image":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2025-02\/20250207%20Steven%20Pinker%20562.jpg?itok=l-W9lw3A","path":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/20250211-science-and-technology-popular-science-author-steven-pinker-explores-rationale-behind","hide_byline":"0","contributor-contact-information-affiliation":"ASU News","contributor-contact-information-name":"Dolores Tropiano","contributor-contact-information-e-mail":"{{ mail }}","contributor-contact-information-phone_number":"","contributor-contact-information-campus":"Tempe campus","feed_image_link":"","image_url":"https:\/\/news.asu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/block_image_16_9_lge\/public\/2025-02\/20250207%20Steven%20Pinker%20562.jpg?itok=l-W9lw3A","image_alt":"White man with gray curly hair wearing a suit and tie raises his hands to make a point while giving a lecture","image_caption":"Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, delivers the 2025 Beyond Annual Lecture on Friday, Feb. 7, at Marston Exploration Theater on the Tempe campus. 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When astrobiologists study life, however, they have to consider not only individual organisms, but also ecosystems, and the biosphere as a whole.In astrobiology, there is an increasing interest\u2026","post_date":"\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222019-01-31T09:36:00-07:00\u0022\u003E01\/31\/2019-9:36am\u003C\/time\u003E\n","clas_teaser":"In astrobiology, there is an increasing interest in whether life as we know it is a quirk of the particular evolutionary history of the Earth or, instead, if life might be governed by more general organizing principles. An interdisciplinary team of researchers at ASU has gone beyond the hierarchy of organisms, focusing on the biosphere as a whole. 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This graph represents the biosphere, ecosystems and individual organisms\u2019 biochemistry as connecting molecules participating in shared reactions. It reveals that various scaling laws are common across different levels of biological organization. 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An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Arizona State University has discovered that the answers to these questions may lie in the ability of life to find a middle ground, balancing between robustness and adaptability. 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