Romantic Science and the Experience of Self: Transatlantic Crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks
SimoleonSense (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Wonderful in depth interview with one of my favorite neurologists, Oliver Sacks. This is only for those viewers with long attention spans and plenty of time…. Long Background (Via YouTube) Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London, England (both of his parents were physicians) and earned his medical degree at Queen’s College, Oxford. In the early [...]
Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
I've just found this remarkable TV interview with Oliver Sacks from 1986, only a year after the publication of his famous book A Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat . It's a fascinating discussion, not least because it's something you don't see much these days - an extended interview that focuses solely on a neuroscientist and his work. There are no gimmicks or attempts to jazz it up...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... plays a similar game, suggesting García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Ian McEwan's Saturday as likely nominees from the past. But the possibility exists, of course, to reach back much further in the literary record than this. Illness, certainly, was present at the birth of western literature: just think...
Best of 3 (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... making it ideal for use in things like filaments in electric lightbulbs. I've recently re-read Oliver Sack's memoir of his chemical-mad childhood, Uncle Tungsten , so I was feeling ready to like the H & F-J font as soon as I saw the name. Then this morning I happened across New Zealand typographer Kris Sowersby's Karbon - which made me wonder if anyone has laid out typefaces into...
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... happen, or what we’re going to see, or what Michael is going to say to Fredo, Neurologist-author Oliver Sacks could write a great article about what’s going on at a molecular level as we anticipate a stunning scene or even a beloved dumb one.This is not a Deep Critic Thought, just a statement and an invitation: I can’t get enough of some movies. (And once in a lifetime is enough for...
The Classical Beat (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... Stoppard one-acter "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" and Michael Nyman's opera based on Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." At the same time, the InSeries is opening "Zarzuela on the Avenue," two short zarzuelas united in an updated production. Those who wish to avoid costumes altogether can attend the recital of the Juilliard-trained...
Felt~at~home (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... pieces of beautiful lace, which will become frocks for my 'colourful people' I have been reading Oliver Sacks books of late, and watching a couple of his lectures online - fascinating. I have a certain fascination with the nervous system - the neurosciences......why we do things etc.....& so to mark my love of this area of science I have made a mini-brain...... Now, who has seen...
BBC SPORT - Olympics 2008 blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... and has never once cycled round a velodrome. Steve Peters is the British team's psychiatrist, the Oliver Sacks of cycling. He has variously been described as a "genius" (Dave Brailsford) and "the reason I am riding today" ( Vicky Pendleton ). "Without Steve I don't think I could have brought home the triple golds from Beijing," Hoy has said. "I do...
** Science On Tap... ** (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
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Scientific American (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
FeaturesIllusionsBOOKSPhotography by Christopher Payne. Essay by Oliver Sacks. MIT PressInsane asylum. For many people the phrase conjures up images of desperate patients trapped in concrete fortresses. Although abuse no doubt has occurred in some mental hospitals, there is another, much less frequently explored side to the story.In his surprisingly arresting photoessay book, Asylum,...
birdbrain (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... a virus in 1985 that attacked his brain, causing sever retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia. Oliver Sacks wrote a beautiful essay in The New Yorker in 2007 about Clive Wearing: In March of 1985, Clive Wearing, an eminent English musician and musicologist in his mid-forties, was struck by a brain infection—a herpes encephalitis—affecting especially the parts of his...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
by David Roberts Freeman Dyson is a Nobel-winning physicist who’s argued— utterly implausibly —that carbon eating trees will save us and we shouldn’t worry about the whole climate change thing. For this, he’s been profiled in The New York Times and now dubbed a Brave Thinker by the Atlantic. But is he really that brave? Said friend Oliver Sacks of Dyson,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" went on to became the title piece of Oliver Sacks's bestselling book and not only showed Wilmers's editorial flair and facility for the eye-catching headline, but also prefigured some of her, and the LRB's, preoccupations over the coming decades. Wilmers helped launch the paper, as she insists on calling it, in 1979, and as it celebrates...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... as actual people, rather than as tragic spectacles, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks is a great read....
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... as actual people, rather than as tragic spectacles, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks is a great read....
