Date: October 31, 2011
"It does so amid a cacophony of competing voices, the neural equivalent of open outcry at the Chicago Board of Trade."
preview | full record— Carey, Benedict (b. 1960)
Date: October 31, 2011
"The brain’s cacophony of competing voices feels coherent because some module or network somewhere in the left hemisphere is providing a running narration."
preview | full record— Carey, Benedict (b. 1960)
Date: March 9, 2012
"If we acquire a bad habit this way it is very hard to change, because its grooves are so well worn in our minds."
preview | full record— Wilson, Timothy D.
Date: May 3, 2012
"A brain is not a computer. We are not blank hard drives waiting to be filled with data."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: March 19, 2012
"I mean seriously, HOLY FUCK. My mind exploded when I looked at this."
preview | full record— Margary, Drew
Date: March 19, 2012
"Even when I got the question right, the mental strain it took to try and dig through the piles of shit-encrusted mildew in my brain to retrieve the information needed to solve any given equation was brutal."
preview | full record— Margary, Drew
Date: October 28, 2012
"Each grasped, in the unflinching gaze of the other, a silent acknowledgment of the nobility of man, especially as manifested in work, the work that purified the soul the way steel is purified in the smelter. That sort of thing."
preview | full record— Saunders, George (b. 1958)
Date: April 15, 2013
"Big data is like the offensive coordinator up in the booth at a football game who, with altitude, can see patterns others miss. But the head coach and players still need to be on the field of subjectivity."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: July 5, 2014
"And so, while in the past, we turned to Freud's mystic writing pad to think of memory as a palimpsest, burying material under layers of inscription, now we see a memory as a live wire sitting in the psyche waiting for a spark."
preview | full record— Halberstam, Jack [Judith] (b. 1961)
Date: March 7, 2014
"For Kaku, the brain is a computer made of meat, and understanding the mind is just a really, really hard engineering problem."
preview | full record— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)