Date: August, 22, 2015
"Partial images slide through my mind, a scattering of words spoken. Neurobiologists say that memory isn’t the replay of a video camera, but instead a pastiche of neuronal fragments gathered from here and there, wandering smells, oddly cut visual scraps, translucent experiences laid on top of one...
preview | full record— Lightman, Alan (b. 1948)
Date: August, 22, 2015
"Some philosophers claim that we know nothing of the external world outside our minds--nothing compared to what sways in our minds, in the long, twisting corridors of memory, the vast mental rooms with half-open doors, the ghosts chattering beneath the chandeliers of imagination."
preview | full record— Lightman, Alan (b. 1948)
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: 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: December 15, 2015
"I needed to put that on the record because its basic truth was completely lost in a dark land of fear and amid the waving poison ferns in Wolf Blitzer's amygdala."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: January 3, 2016
"It is popular among these people who apparently have brains wired like short-wave radios broadcasting from upper Michigan to say that the real constitutional authority in this country resides in its local sheriffs."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)