Date: February 9, 2019
"It should be noted that this problem of split-screen consciousness is likely to get worse in the era of divided government, not better."
preview | full record— Senior, Jennifer
Date: February 9, 2019
"Even if our government were a paradigm of functionality, we’d surely be fighting for custody of our brains."
preview | full record— Senior, Jennifer
Date: February 9, 2019
"Many evolutionary biologists are fond of pointing out that the human body is not adapted to modern life, which often involves sitting for hours at a time and toiling in artificial light and consuming mounds of processed sugar ('There's no food in your food,' as the Joan Cusack character says in ...
preview | full record— Senior, Jennifer
Date: February 9, 2019
"When the world's coming at you in great clouds of 280-character Frisbees, naturally it's tempting to vanish into the forest dark of your own mind."
preview | full record— Senior, Jennifer
Date: February 9, 2019
"When I imagine his brain, I imagine a bug zapper in a drizzle. Bzzzzzzzzzzt. Fzzzz. Bzzz fzzz bzzzzzzzzzzt."
preview | full record— Senior, Jennifer
Date: February 16, 2019
"He says he became practiced at leading victims gently back to their traumas, so they could use their minds as cameras to bring key moments to life, letting their faces and voices tell the stories."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: February 21, 2019
"A few years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to be there in the days of its snowy white disintegration, which felt also like the disintegration of my own mind."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia
Date: February 21, 2019
"I cared about the feeling that my thoughts were being dictated. I cared about the collective head, which seemed to be running a fever. But if we managed to escape, to break out of the great skull and into the fresh air, if Twitter was shut down for crimes against humanity, what would we be losing?"
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia
Date: February 21, 2019
"She opened the portal, and the mind met her more than halfway."
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia
Date: July 26, 2024
"From the Very Stable Genius’s jumbled mind tumbled conspiratorial thoughts."
preview | full record— Dana Milbank (b. April 27, 1968)
