Date: February 15, 2011
"If you want to use a memory palace for permanent storage, you have to take periodic time-consuming mental strolls through it to keep your images from fading."
preview | full record— Foer, Joshua
Date: February 15, 2011
"In other words, natural memory is the hardware you’re born with. Artificial memory is the software you run on it."
preview | full record— Foer, Joshua
Date: 2011
"I could share an hour of warm camaraderie with Dad, then once I'd walked out the door, get the uncanny feeling I'd disappeared into the wings of his mind's stage, like a character no longer necessary to the ongoing story line."
preview | full record— Reagan, Ron (b. 1958)
Date: March 10, 2011
"Richards’s sharpness is surprising coming from a guy whose mind, everyone had to assume, was by now a salvage heap."
preview | full record— Chiasson, Dan
Date: April 4, 2011
"Theodicy-god has evolved now to both substance and not. / With handy metaphysical blades to slice brain meat from mind."
preview | full record— Williams, C. K. (b. 1936)
Date: April 4, 2011
"For in mind should be voidy wings choiring, not selves."
preview | full record— Williams, C. K. (b. 1936)
Date: April 18, 2011
"And so it goes, researchers say, with most study sessions: difficulty builds mental muscle, while ease often builds only confidence."
preview | full record— Carey, Benedict (b. 1960)
Date: April 24, 2011
"Imagination is branched, flowering, / and each fans the buds himself."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
Date: April 24, 2011
"It's all song, all singing, the body's seat / and number, the mind's pleats, time's hem."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
Date: April 24, 2011
"God seeks a destiny in all things fired / in the kiln of the sun or the mind."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)