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Date: 2010
"Yet as I lift up this / dull desert stone, the weight of it is full / of slower, longer thoughts than mind can have."
preview | full record— Le Guin, Ursula (b. 1929)
Date: 2010
"You've put it in the book and in reading it my brain is having a response like 'things as they are are really part of the world and I forgot.' How nice to just feel them roll over the brain! It's like a brain massage!"
preview | full record— Gallagher, Kirsten
Date: June 4, 2011
"My desk faces a wall covered with images, notes, timelines, vaudeville photographs and playbills; my keyboard sits in a small black space surrounded by piles of books and paper -- the brain disgorged and arrayed."
preview | full record— Endicott, Marina (b. 1958)
Date: June 14, 2011
"Rationality, by this yardstick (and irrationality too, but we’ll get to that) is nothing more or less than a servant of the hard-wired compulsion to triumph in the debating arena."
preview | full record— Cohen, Patricia
Date: June 14, 2011
"According to this view, bias, lack of logic and other supposed flaws that pollute the stream of reason are instead social adaptations that enable one group to persuade (and defeat) another."
preview | full record— Cohen, Patricia
Date: June 14, 2011
"But they usually assume that the purpose of reasoning is to help an individual arrive at the truth, and that irrationality is a kink in that process, a sort of mental myopia."
preview | full record— Cohen, Patricia
Date: June 14, 2011
"They are a result of the way that the brain, a Rube Goldberg mental contraption, processes memory."
preview | full record— Cohen, Patricia
Date: July 30, 2011
"I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I was 10, but I think that having all those books and sentences composting in my brain may have pushed me toward becoming a writer in the long run."
preview | full record— Meloy, Maile (born January 1, 1972)
Date: September 5, 2011
"He [Derek Parfit] pictures his thinking self as a government minister sitting behind a large desk, who writes a question on a piece of paper and puts it in his out-tray. The minister then sits idly at the desk, twiddling his thumbs, while in some back room civil servants labor furiously, come up...
preview | full record— MacFarquhar, Larissa
