Date: August 3, 2009
"And I say, then your mind starts running, if you have a kaleidoscope mind like I do."
preview | full record— Weiner, Michael [Michael Savage] (b. 1942)
Date: May 17, 2010
"But Ashbery often writes from the position of the slackened mind, billowing with whatever passes through it; Armantrout generally writes in tautened distress, even when she's being funny."
preview | full record— Chiasson, Dan
Date: November 14, 2010
"When we evolved the capacity to be disgusted by moral failures, we didn’t evolve a new brain region to handle it. Instead, the insula expanded its portfolio."
preview | full record— Sapolsky, Robert (b. 1957)
Date: November 14, 2010
"What are the consequences of the fact that evolution is a tinkerer and not an inventor, and has duct-taped metaphors and symbols to whichever pre-existing brain areas provided the closest fit?"
preview | full record— Sapolsky, Robert (b. 1957)
Date: June 1, 2010
"Anyone who's closely read Mr. Hitchens's work -- including his best-selling manifesto 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything' (2007) -- or seen him do battle on cable news programs, knows that he has a mind like a Swiss Army knife, ready to carve up or unbolt an opponent's arguments ...
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)
Date: June 1, 2010
"His mental Swiss Army knife also contains, happily, a corkscrew."
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)
Date: March 10, 2011
"Richards’s sharpness is surprising coming from a guy whose mind, everyone had to assume, was by now a salvage heap."
preview | full record— Chiasson, Dan
Date: April 25, 2011
"If Eagleman's body bears no marks of his childhood accident, his mind has been deeply imprinted by it."
preview | full record— Bilger, Burkhard
Date: November 2011
"I had been a hero-worshiper of his since being zapped by his writing, the closest my brain has come to hosting a meteor shower."
preview | full record— Wolcott, James (b. 1952)
Date: March 11, 2011
"The huge submerged bulk of the mental iceberg, with its stores of memory and acquired skills that have become automatic, like language, driving and etiquette, supplies people with the raw materials on which they can exercise their reason and decide what to think and what to do."
preview | full record— Nagel, Thomas (b. 1937)