Date: December 20, 2014
"Further, just as the human stomach -- unlike the termite's -- can't digest wood, so there are some things our brains just aren't capable of knowing."
preview | full record— Kaplan, Eric
Date: April 30, 2014
"It is because you have maggots for a soul, you fucking barbarian."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: September 1, 2014
"Lakoff argues that the brain understands sentences not just by analyzing syntax and looking up neural dictionaries, but also by igniting its memories of kicking and picking up."
preview | full record— Chorost, Michael (b. 1964)
Date: July 31, 2014
"He prints a few descriptive sentences of a couple walking together from Wharton's 'House of Mirth,' and mentally X-rays them."
preview | full record— Garner, Dwight (b. 1965)
Date: August, 2014
"A universe of information swirled around in his brain."
preview | full record— Thomas, Matthew
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: June , 2015
"For another, his insistence that we've come around again to man -- this time in the talk among environmentalists of the Anthropocene, a new geologic age defined by human activity and therefore calling for a grand new round of intellection on the history and meaning of the human, one that's sure ...
preview | full record— Deresiewicz, William (b. 1964)
Date: June 18, 2015
"This was not an unthinkable act. A man may have had a rat's nest for a mind, but it was well thought out. It was a cool, considered crime, as well planned as any bank robbery or any computer fraud."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)