Date: May 12, 2014
"For a study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, they imaged the brains of meditators while they went through four basic mental movements: focusing on a chosen target, noticing that their minds had wandered, bringing their minds back to the target, and sustaining their focus there."
preview | full record— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)
Date: May 19, 2014
"If misinformation can be incorporated so seamlessly into a person's recollection of an event, what becomes of the original memory? Is it completely overwritten, or merely adjusted somehow, layered with a new trace?"
preview | full record— Specter, Michael (b. 1955)
Date: December 12, 2014
"It is memories in the ether of our consciousness that last a lifetime, there for us to enjoy again and again."
preview | full record— Brooks, Arthur C. (b. 1964)
Date: July 31, 2014
"He prints a few descriptive sentences of a couple walking together from Wharton's 'House of Mirth,' and mentally X-rays them."
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)
Date: March, 2014
"my good mother, // her mind a trail of crumbs / in a woods flocked with birds."
preview | full record— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)
Date: August, 2014
"A universe of information swirled around in his brain."
preview | full record— Thomas, Matthew
Date: June 18, 2015
"This was not an unthinkable act. A man may have had a rat's nest for a mind, but it was well thought out. It was a cool, considered crime, as well planned as any bank robbery or any computer fraud."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: August, 22, 2015
"And the billions of neurons go spinning their tales."
preview | full record— Lightman, Alan (b. 1948)
Date: August, 21, 2015
"But this summer, 'The New Yorker' published a piece that wrapped old news in new terror. And what had been buried in the recesses of Northwestern minds suddenly flared."
preview | full record— Egan, Timothy (b. 1954)
Date: January 14, 2016
"Then there's the risible campaign commercial in which the Tailgunner dresses up in camo and face paint and hangs out in the blind with the Duck Dynasty crew, looking like a G.I. Joe who's lost his kung-fu grip on his senses."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)