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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: August 28, 2015
"He [Donald Trump] exults in materialistic excess with an empty sack of a soul."
preview | full record— Egan, Timothy (b. 1954)
Date: September 23, 2015
"Carson's ideas about the Big Bang are quite similar to his beliefs about Islam, in that he picked up a snippet of information somewhere -- there's a passage in the Koran that says this or that, there's a thing called entropy -- and that snippet seemed to take hold of his rational faculties and b...
preview | full record— Waldman, Paul
Date: September 22, 2015
"This is not to say that "Tender Torrent" wasn't "fun" (it seems to be out of print today, the most enduring form of censorship); but for me, its greatest entertainment value lay in returning it to its owner, aware of the lewd visions that seethed beneath her sunny exterior. And really, that perc...
preview | full record— Schillinger, Liesl
Date: September 22, 2015
"You can shun obscene books if you like, but you can't scrub erotic fantasies from the mind's hard drive."
preview | full record— Schillinger, Liesl
Date: November 7, 2015
"As Daniel Kahnemann so beautifully demonstrates in his book 'Thinking Fast and Slow,' the human mind has all sorts of wired-in cognitive shortcuts that can feel an awful lot like thinking."
preview | full record— McIntyre, Lee
Date: November 14, 2015
"The venerated political strategist David Axelrod once described a presidential campaign as 'an M.R.I. for the soul.'"
preview | full record— Bruni, Frank (b. 1964)
Date: November 28, 2015
"It's as if our brain has become a full cup of water and anything more poured into it starts to spill out."
preview | full record— Schwartz, Tony
Date: Feb. 1, 2023
"Everyone has the capacity to overthink — but a sign of trouble is if your thoughts become so persistent that they're like 'a car without brakes,' he said."
preview | full record— Hannah Seo
