Date: 2010
"In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last."
preview | full record— Cronin, Justin
Date: 2010
"But Carter had been plucked straight off death row and landed here in less than a day: his mind would be tumbling like a dryer."
preview | full record— Cronin, Justin
Date: 2010
"The sentences were as clear in his mind as if written there."
preview | full record— Cronin, Justin
Date: 2010
"Yet somehow, while he'd slept, the name had taken up residence in his head, as if he'd gone to sleep listening to a song played over and over, the lyrics digging a rut into his brain like a plow, and now part of his mind was still in that rut and couldn't get out."
preview | full record— Cronin, Justin
Date: November 14, 2010
"It would seem that doing this would be hard enough to cause a brainstorm."
preview | full record— Sapolsky, Robert (b. 1957)
Date: November 14, 2010
"When we evolved the capacity to be disgusted by moral failures, we didn’t evolve a new brain region to handle it. Instead, the insula expanded its portfolio."
preview | full record— Sapolsky, Robert (b. 1957)
Date: November 14, 2010
"What are the consequences of the fact that evolution is a tinkerer and not an inventor, and has duct-taped metaphors and symbols to whichever pre-existing brain areas provided the closest fit?"
preview | full record— Sapolsky, Robert (b. 1957)
Date: December 19, 2010
"But it’s one thing to make deals to advance your goals; it’s another to open the door to zombie ideas."
preview | full record— Krugman, Paul (b. 1953)
Date: December 13, 2010
"Hospital vigils take place in slow-time, during which the mind floats free, like a frail balloon drifting into the sky."
preview | full record— Oates, Joyce Carol (b. 1938)
Date: December 13, 2010
"Like butterflies with frayed wings, thoughts fly at me in random and rapid succession."
preview | full record— Oates, Joyce Carol (b. 1938)