Date: February 9, 2015
"Now I know for sure that the soul is an evanescent thing and the body is its temporary container, because I saw it. I saw the body with the soul in it, I saw the body with the soul leaving, and I saw the body with the soul gone."
preview | full record— Alexander, Elizabeth (b. 1962)
Date: March 19, 2015
"When students are tackling a task like that, you can feel the whirr and hum of thought: it feels woven of reciprocity, willing, ambition, the impulse to translate fugitive thoughts into communication with others."
preview | full record— Warner, Marina (b. 1946)
Date: April 11, 2015
"About once a month I run across a person who radiates an inner light."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: April 11, 2015
"Gradually, a humiliating gap opens between your actual self and your desired self, between you and those incandescent souls you sometimes meet."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: April 18, 2015
"My lab coat, weighing on my conscience as it hung in my closet, appeared in my mind as the clothing worn by an alien scientist from an advanced civilization who comes to apologize for abducting and using us as experimental animals."
preview | full record— Gazda, Paul
Date: April 17, 2015
"In every moment, your brain consults its vast stores of knowledge and asks, 'The last time I was in a similar situation, what sensations did I encounter and how did I act?'"
preview | full record— Barrett, Lisa Feldman (b. 1963)
Date: April 17, 2015
"You are, in large measure, the architect of your own experience."
preview | full record— Barrett, Lisa Feldman (b. 1963)
Date: April 16, 2015
"And I must do so with both ardor and cool appraisal, with the passions of eye and heart, but in that ardent heart there must also be a splinter of ice."
preview | full record— Mann, Sally (b. 1951)
Date: June 6, 2015
"An emerging body of research suggests that exercising in a way that taxes your coordination, agility and balance -- a suite of abilities known as 'gross motor skills' -- rewires your brain in ways that are fundamentally different from straightforward aerobic activity or strength training."
preview | full record— Hutchinson, Alex
Date: June 6, 2015
"The researchers captured data to assess their subjects' 'motor cortex plasticity,' a measure of the brain's ability to change its wiring in response to new stimuli."
preview | full record— Hutchinson, Alex