Date: 1654
"The certainty that that time will come, together with the uncertainty, how, where, and when, should make us so to number our days to apply our hearts to wisdom, that when we are put out of these houses of clay we may be sure of an everlasting habitation that fades not away."
preview | full record— Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)
Date: May 20, 2013
"As this book began to veer astray, I felt that Lindemann's mind was like a sleek yacht built for exhilarating grace and speed but commandeered by moldy tyrants for mundane use as a sluggish freighter."
preview | full record— Paglia, Camille (b. 1947)
Date: June 5, 2016
"They [brain and heart] talk like best friends via the common carotid artery, which sends blood from the heart to the brain at a running speed of three feet per second."
preview | full record— Hill, Melissa
Date: September 18, 2016
"Mr. Ackerman told me that he has designed his 'Sleep With Me' podcast to tame the vigilant, overactive 'guardian' in the brain that feels it must stay awake to worry. 'I'm trying to trick the guardian,' he said."
preview | full record— Kennedy, Pagan (b. 1963)
Date: August 24, 2017
"Whatever we choose as option A, there is always a chorus, inside our own minds and outside of it, contending it would have been better if we had just gone with option B."
preview | full record— Filipovic, Jill (b. 1983)
Date: February 21, 2019
"What, in place of these sentences, marched in the brains of previous generations?"
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia