Date: 2016
"The plant's radical desire for what has decayed in the soil stands as a figure for memory, the reaching into dark recesses for what used to be alive."
preview | full record— Wampole, Christy
Date: December 31, 2016
"An ancient inner layer [of the brain], inherited from reptiles, was presumed to contain circuits for basic survival. The middle layer, the 'limbic system,' supposedly contained emotion circuitry inherited from mammals."
preview | full record— Barrett, Lisa Feldman (b. 1963)
Date: December 31, 2016
"The human brain didn't evolve like a piece of sedimentary rock, with layers of increasing cognitive sophistication slowly accruing over time."
preview | full record— Barrett, Lisa Feldman (b. 1963)
Date: December 31, 2016
"Rather (in the words of the neuroscientist Georg Striedter), brains evolve like companies do: they reorganize as they expand."
preview | full record— Barrett, Lisa Feldman (b. 1963)
Date: 2016
"The root's hidden and abject form resembles the unsayable aspects of the psyche."
preview | full record— Wampole, Christy
Date: April 27, 2016
"But you don't have to have your leg in a bear trap every minute to seriously consider, during the latest entrapment, that maybe just cutting your legs off would be the way to go. In the case of BPD, the offending leg is called 'consciousness'."
preview | full record— Mishell Baker (b. 2009)
Date: January/February, 2017
"Scarier still for those who have never supported Trump is that he just might colonize their brains, too."
preview | full record— Konnikova, Maria (b. 1984)
Date: January, 2017
"They bleed -- if not from vaginas then from their sensitive souls."
preview | full record— Kipnis, Laura (b. July 19, 1956)
Date: February 7, 2017
"This question just made my brain pixelate, and now the inside of my head's a roaring celebration."
preview | full record— Smith, Ali (b. August 24, 1962)
Date: February 18, 2017
"'He lives inside his head, where he runs the same continuous loop of conflict with people he turns into enemies for the purposes of his psychodrama,' says Trump biographer Michael D'Antonio."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)