Words of Wisdom

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
On today's show: Bestselling author and Harvard Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker tells us what everyday speech reveals about the way our minds work. Then a curator from the Brooklyn Museum of Art describes what's new with their collection of millennia-old mummies. Also, we'll get the scoop on the 2007 Brooklyn Book Festival. And for our latest Please Explain, we'll take a look at HMOs.

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