Renowned linguist Steven Pinker speaks at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters about his book "The Stuff of Thought."

Nancy Kranich says the debate boils down to this: “Is information a public good or a commodity?” The more profit to be made, the higher the tension.

Arguments and legal confrontations over the control of music, writing and visual materials have become a permanent feature of contemporary life and will almost certainly enlarge and intensify in future years.

Stephen Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, explains in this bestseller what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, and ponder the mysteries of life.

Steven Pinker is Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.

New York Times bestselling author Pinker marries two of the subjects he knows best: language and human nature. The result is a fascinating look at how words explain human nature.

Why does a three year-old say “I went,” then six months later start saying “I goed”? When you first heard the word “fax,” how did you know the past tense is “faxed”?