Date: June 30, 2017
"In this sense, a forgotten memory is a lot like an old file on your computer. While the document still exists, you don't have a good way of getting to it, and today many memory researchers don't even use the word 'forgetting.'"
preview | full record— Boser, Ulrich
Date: June 30, 2017
"Research explains why forgetting delivers this memory boost. Memories don't fly out of our brains like sparrows from a barn."
preview | full record— Boser, Ulrich
Date: June 30, 2017
"Besides the occasional memory gaffe, the brain's approach to forgetting serves us well, and our retrieval failures help prune away memories that we don't really need."
preview | full record— Boser, Ulrich
Date: June 30, 2017
"Or consider living with an unending library of easily recalled memories. It would be overwhelming: Dates, names, phone numbers -- they would all be constantly top of mind."
preview | full record— Boser, Ulrich
Date: July 26, 2017
"But he is nonetheless clearly impaired, gravely deficient somewhere at the intersection of reason and judgment and conscience and self-control."
preview | full record— Douthat, Ross (b. November 28, 1979)
Date: July 27, 2017
"'My emotions are like a Ping-Pong ball being bounced back and forth between the players,' said Mrs. Borland, who, with her husband, owns a karate school in Pleasant Valley, N.Y., and whose younger daughter, Amelia, 2, is receiving chemotherapy for leukemia."
preview | full record— Hoffman, Jan
Date: July 28, 2017
"Scaramucci is the personification of Trump's deep brain."
preview | full record— Parker, Kathleen
Date: July 31, 2017
"Character is like concrete: You can make an impression when it's freshly poured, in its youth, one could say, but when it sets, it's impervious to alteration."
preview | full record— Blow, Charles (b. 1970)
Date: May-June, 2017
"Memories continually change through repeated recollection, yet their tendency over time is to a reduction which mirrors that of photography--like a stack of snapshots repeatedly returned to. Such memories become archetypal crystallizations of identity--slides in the carousel of the mind."
preview | full record— Stallabrass, Julian (b. March 16, 1960)
Date: May-June, 2017
"A full recollection--say of a person--almost always involves some visual re-experiencing of expressions, gestures and bearing, some of which are held frozen in the mind."
preview | full record— Stallabrass, Julian (b. March 16, 1960)