{"id":182945,"date":"2025-10-14T18:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=182945"},"modified":"2025-10-14T18:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:40:24","slug":"how-common-knowledge-shapes-the-world-steven-pinker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=182945","title":{"rendered":"How common knowledge shapes the world | Steven Pinker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Common knowledge is the secret engine of social life, letting us coordinate everything from meet-ups to markets to international diplomacy. In this fascinating talk, experimental cognitive scientist Steven Pinker explores its momentous impact, threading together stories of why autocrats fear blank signs, why central bankers mumble and why saying the quiet part out loud can wreck a friendship&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/go.ted.com\/stevenpinker25\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common knowledge is the secret engine of social life, letting us coordinate everything from meet-ups<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182945-how-common-knowledge-shapes-the-world-steven-pinker.jpg",1050,591,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182945-how-common-knowledge-shapes-the-world-steven-pinker-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182945-how-common-knowledge-shapes-the-world-steven-pinker-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182945-how-common-knowledge-shapes-the-world-steven-pinker-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182945-how-common-knowledge-shapes-the-world-steven-pinker-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182945-how-common-knowledge-shapes-the-world-steven-pinker.jpg",1050,591,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182945-how-common-knowledge-shapes-the-world-steven-pinker.jpg",1050,591,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182945-how-common-knowledge-shapes-the-world-steven-pinker-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182945-how-common-knowledge-shapes-the-world-steven-pinker-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/182945-how-common-knowledge-shapes-the-world-steven-pinker-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}