Date: December 19, 2010
"But it’s one thing to make deals to advance your goals; it’s another to open the door to zombie ideas."
preview | full record— Krugman, Paul (b. 1953)
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: 2011
"In contrast, '50 First Dates' utilizes Hawaii as a kind of blank slate, a place emptied of political turmoil and a perfect metaphor for the state of mind produced by the erasure of memory."
preview | full record— Halberstam, Jack [Judith] (b. 1961)
Date: February 15, 2011
"If you want to use a memory palace for permanent storage, you have to take periodic time-consuming mental strolls through it to keep your images from fading."
preview | full record— Foer, Joshua
Date: February 15, 2011
"In other words, natural memory is the hardware you’re born with. Artificial memory is the software you run on it."
preview | full record— Foer, Joshua
Date: 2011
"I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line."
preview | full record— Reagan, Ron (b. 1958)
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 18, 2011
"And so it goes, researchers say, with most study sessions: difficulty builds mental muscle, while ease often builds only confidence."
preview | full record— Carey, Benedict (b. 1960)
Date: May 23, 2011
"Learning isn’t about downloading a certain quantity of information into your brain, as the proponents of online instruction seem to think."
preview | full record— Deresiewicz, William (b. 1964)