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Date: May 21, 2011
"My thoughts turn into the cowbirds wandering among the horses’ hooves."
preview | full record— Klinkenbourg, Verlyn (b. 1952)
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: April 25, 2011
"The brain is a remarkably capable chronometer for most purposes."
preview | full record— Bilger, Burkhard
Date: April 25, 2011
"Like a racing engine, her mental clock went faster the hotter it got."
preview | full record— Bilger, Burkhard
Date: April 25, 2011
"The most recent neuroscience papers make the brain sound like a Victorian attic, full of odd, vaguely labelled objects ticking away in every corner."
preview | full record— Bilger, Burkhard
Date: April 25, 2011
"At U.C.L.A., Dean Buonomano believes that areas throughout the brain function as clocks, their tissue ticking with neural networks that change in predictable patterns. 'Imagine a skyscraper at night,' he told me. 'Some people on the top floor work till midnight, while some on the lower floors ma...
preview | full record— Bilger, Burkhard
Date: April 25, 2011
"The brain, he writes, is like Kublai Khan, the great Mongol emperor of the thirteenth century. It sits enthroned in its skull, 'encased in darkness and silence,' at a lofty remove from brute reality. Messengers stream in from every corner of the sensory kingdom, bringing word of distant sights, ...
preview | full record— Bilger, Burkhard
Date: April 25, 2011
"'I knew I had some intellectual horsepower,' he says. 'But I didn't know where my tires would catch purchase.'"
preview | full record— Bilger, Burkhard
Date: October 14, 2011
"To its detractors, the brain is a kludge, a hacked-up device beset with bugs, biases and self-Âdeceptions that undermine our decision making and well-being at every turn."
preview | full record— Charbris, Christopher F. (b. 1966)
Date: October 14, 2011
"Lately, a growing army of Chicken Littles retorts that this very plasticity has been hijacked by the Internet and other forms of technological crack that are rewiring our brains into a state of continual distraction and intellectual torpor."
preview | full record— Charbris, Christopher F. (b. 1966)
