Date: 2016
"The plant's radical desire for what has decayed in the soil stands as a figure for memory, the reaching into dark recesses for what used to be alive."
preview | full record— Wampole, Christy
Date: December 29, 2016
"Hardly a week goes by, it seems, without an enthusiastic report in the popular media about intriguing neuroscience research linking some human behavior to the function of a particular brain circuit."
preview | full record— Friedman, Richard A.
Date: December 29, 2016
"By itself, not a lot, except to encourage the erroneous and simplistic idea that the brain is an independent sovereign, calling all the shots."
preview | full record— Friedman, Richard A.
Date: December 31, 2016
"An ancient inner layer [of the brain], inherited from reptiles, was presumed to contain circuits for basic survival. The middle layer, the 'limbic system,' supposedly contained emotion circuitry inherited from mammals."
preview | full record— Barrett, Lisa Feldman (b. 1963)
Date: December 31, 2016
"The human brain didn't evolve like a piece of sedimentary rock, with layers of increasing cognitive sophistication slowly accruing over time."
preview | full record— Barrett, Lisa Feldman (b. 1963)
Date: December 31, 2016
"Rather (in the words of the neuroscientist Georg Striedter), brains evolve like companies do: they reorganize as they expand."
preview | full record— Barrett, Lisa Feldman (b. 1963)
Date: 2016
"I wake between tectonic plates that hurt. / I have five faults, called senses."
preview | full record— Galvin, James (b. May 8, 1951)
Date: 2016
"The root's hidden and abject form resembles the unsayable aspects of the psyche."
preview | full record— Wampole, Christy
Date: September 13, 2016
"As long as Trump continues his fear mongering by constantly portraying Muslims and Mexican immigrants as imminent dangers, many conservative brains will involuntarily light up like light bulbs being controlled by a switch."
preview | full record— Azarian, Bobby
Date: April 27, 2016
"But you don't have to have your leg in a bear trap every minute to seriously consider, during the latest entrapment, that maybe just cutting your legs off would be the way to go. In the case of BPD, the offending leg is called 'consciousness'."
preview | full record— Mishell Baker (b. 2009)
