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: August 21, 2012
"Though her book is entitled 'In Praise of Messy Lives' (The Dial Press, 288 pp., $25), Ms. Roiphe’s mind is neat as a pin, untroubled by the unexpected inference, the awareness of mitigating factors in television or film or literature that might unmake her arguments."
preview | full record— D'Addario, Daniel
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: April 23, 2013
"Maybe I’ve been in school too long; doctoral study has a way of turning your head into a never-ending seminar, and I’m now capable of having complicated, inconclusive thoughts about nearly any subject."
preview | full record— Rothman, Joshua
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)
Date: March 7, 2014
"Minds made of meat (ours) are just one of Kaku’s concerns."
preview | full record— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)
Date: March 7, 2014
"If we treat minds like meat-computers, we may end up in a world where that’s the only aspect of their nature we perceive or value."
preview | full record— Frank, Adam (b. 1962)