Date: October 14, 2011
"Lately, a growing army of Chicken Littles retorts that this very plasticity has been hijacked by the Internet and other forms of technological crack that are rewiring our brains into a state of continual distraction and intellectual torpor."
preview | full record— Charbris, Christopher F. (b. 1966)
Date: October 14, 2011
"So if you find yourself stopping every 30 seconds to check your Twitter feed, your brain has no more been rewired than if you find yourself taking a break for ice cream rather than celery. Picking the more rewarding stimulus is something our brains can do perfectly well with the wiring they star...
preview | full record— Charbris, Christopher F. (b. 1966)
Date: October 14, 2011
"So what’s the right way to think about the brain? Like a piece of software stuck in permanent beta, it has its share of bugs, but its plasticity allows for frequent updates."
preview | full record— Charbris, Christopher F. (b. 1966)
Date: May 3, 2012
"A brain is not a computer. We are not blank hard drives waiting to be filled with data."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: February 16, 2012
"Kids who have ample mental horsepower, an incredible work ethic and no idea what to do next."
preview | full record— Klein, Ezra (b. May 9, 1984)
Date: September 27, 2012
"The conservative mind, a repository of fresh ideas just two decades ago, is now little more than a click-click slide projector holding a tray of apocalyptic images of modern life that keeps spinning around, raising the viewer’s fever with every rotation."
preview | full record— Lilla, Mark (b. 1956)
Date: May 30, 2013
"And the key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S. that can tell you which way to go."
preview | full record— Winfrey, Oprah (b. January 29, 1954)
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
"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)
Date: February 28, 2014
"Imagine you could pry off the back of Wes Anderson’s head as if it were a vintage TV set and rummage around inside."
preview | full record— Itzkoff, Dave (b. 1976)