Date: April 12, 2013
"All of which goes to show that the real 'eye' of the beholder is the brain itself."
preview | full record— Kandel, Eric R. (b. 1929)
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: April 23, 2013
"Perhaps that's the rational conclusion, but, if so, it's beset on all sides by confounding little puzzles; they act like streams that divert and weaken the river of rational thought."
preview | full record— Rothman, Joshua
Date: May 20, 2013
"As this book began to veer astray, I felt that Lindemann's mind was like a sleek yacht built for exhilarating grace and speed but commandeered by moldy tyrants for mundane use as a sluggish freighter."
preview | full record— Paglia, Camille (b. 1947)
Date: May 29, 2013
"But by weaving a tale as sprawling and complex as it does, 'Arrested' also can't help but rewire viewers' minds so that reality, barbecues and all, seems slightly grander."
preview | full record— Kornhaber, Spencer
Date: June 19, 2013
"Where they (it was held) re-made the world visually and emotionally in the smithies of their tortured souls (to paraphrase James Joyce), Warhol blithely swiped subject matter from mass media."
preview | full record— Sartwell, Crispin (b. 1958)
Date: July 1, 2013
"Many lines of poetry are so long-embedded in my memory that I find them appearing when I speak or write. Sometimes I am quoting. Sometimes I am unconsciously drawing from the reservoir."
preview | full record— Ebert, Roger (1942-2013)
Date: July 12, 2013
"The disheartening fact is that for every college professor who made Shakespeare or Lawrence come alive for the lucky few—the British scholar Frank Kermode kindled Shakespeare into an eternal flame in my head—there were countless others who made the reading of literary masterpieces seem like two ...
preview | full record— Siegel, Lee (b. 1957)
Date: August 3, 2013
"The imagination is a double-edged sword."
preview | full record— Luhrman, T. M. (b. 1959)
