http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Steve Pinker on cycling en Tue, 19 May 2026 00:26:44 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10658#post-117108 Fri, 05 Jul 2013 19:47:17 +0000 Rosie 117108@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Steven Pinker on Desert Island Discs choosing his luxury:-</p> <p>"A carbon-fibre bicycle. Not only would it get me round the island, but bicycles are a triumph of engineering. You've got combined the bio-mechanical efficiency of muscle which has been honed by a billion years of evolution with the one thing evolution could not produce, namely a wheel."</p> <p>He and his wife ride a tandem for togetherness.</p> <p>Pinker is named as "as one of the world's 100 most influential scientists and thinkers."</p> <p>He should be number 1, if he thinks like that. </p>