Date: June 7, 2010
"They have yearnings and fears that reside in an inner beast you could call The Big Shaggy."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: October 2, 2010
"[Thoughts] just come and go and change shape like the clouds."
preview | full record— Levy, Andrea (b. 1956)
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: 2010
"These ideas are neither alive nor dead; rather as Paul Krugman has said, they are undead, or zombie ideas."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Date: 2010
"The zombie ideas that brought the global financial system to the brink of meltdown, and have already caused thousands of firms to fail and cost millions of workers their jobs, still walk among us."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Date: 2010
"If we do not kill these zombie ideas once and for all, they will do even more damage next time."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Date: 2010
"A zombie idea is one that keeps coming back, despite being killed."
preview | full record— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)