Date: July-August, 2008
"The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive."
preview | full record— Carr, Nicholas (b. 1959)
Date: May 17, 2010
"It's the mind as problem-solving device, almost as calculator, though it is, of course, most drawn to problems that cannot be solved."
preview | full record— Chiasson, Dan
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: 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)
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
"'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-deceptions that undermine our decision making and well-being at every turn."
preview | full record— Charbris, Christopher F. (b. 1966)