Date: August 21, 2012
"Though her book is entitled 'In Praise of Messy Lives' (The Dial Press, 288 pp., $25), Ms. Roiphe’s mind is neat as a pin, untroubled by the unexpected inference, the awareness of mitigating factors in television or film or literature that might unmake her arguments."
preview | full record— D'Addario, Daniel
Date: April 15, 2013
"Big data is like the offensive coordinator up in the booth at a football game who, with altitude, can see patterns others miss. But the head coach and players still need to be on the field of subjectivity."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: April 23, 2013
"Maybe I’ve been in school too long; doctoral study has a way of turning your head into a never-ending seminar, and I’m now capable of having complicated, inconclusive thoughts about nearly any subject."
preview | full record— Rothman, Joshua
Date: July 11, 2014
"Did he feel his mind and morals were mildewed by the miasma of Nero's, and Rome's, mania?"
preview | full record— Hughes, Bettany (b. 1967)
Date: July 5, 2014
"And so, while in the past, we turned to Freud's mystic writing pad to think of memory as a palimpsest, burying material under layers of inscription, now we see a memory as a live wire sitting in the psyche waiting for a spark."
preview | full record— Halberstam, Jack [Judith] (b. 1961)
Date: July 17, 2014
"But her mind, as she puts it, had become like 'an untethered jackhammer.'"
preview | full record— Corbett, Sarah
Date: July 17, 2014
"After one of her two dogs, a pug named Blossom, took a tumble off her back porch and died -- something for which Bamford blames herself, having removed a ramp connecting the porch to the yard -- her mood went permanently black. "I could not find any comfort at all -- just nothing, and for months...
preview | full record— Corbett, Sarah
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
"Minds made of meat (ours) are just one of Kaku’s concerns."
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)