We are excited to share the latest international cover of LETTERS by Oliver Sacks, now available in Italian from Adelphi Edizioni. Please share with any of your followers who may wish to read the Italian version. Copies can be purchased here: www.adelphi.it/libro/978884...
As we mark the tenth anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s passing, we’ll be sharing clips of people talking about how Oliver Sacks has impacted them and the world every week for the next few months. This clip of Robert Krulwich is from Ric Burns’ documentary, “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life.”
Oliver Sacks talks about how taking hallucinogens helped him understand his patients.
As we mark the tenth anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s passing over the next few months we will be sharing clips from the archives.
Footage shot by Dempsey Rice who’s working on The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks.
We’re excited to share that Brilliant Minds is back by popular acclaim! Season two of the @NBC drama based on Dr. Sacks’s life and work, and starring Zachary Quinto, debuts on September 22. (You still have time to catch up on season one streaming on Peacock!) #BrilliantMinds
Happy Star Trek day! Oliver Sacks was a big ST fan and named one of the nurses in LEG after Hikaru Sulu, played by the iconic George Takei.
Happy Birthday to the Science Show, and congratulations, Robyn Williams, on this impressive milestone! Over its 50-year history, The Science Show has covered stories spanning the full expanse of scientific endeavour. radiotoday.com.au/abc-radio-na...
Here’s a clip from a lecture he gave at Emory University in 2000 in which he talks about the periodic table (and fails to correctly utilize the technology of “transparencies”!)
As a boy chemist, and one of the youngest of 92 cousins, he loved the unique properties of uranium, Element 92—its heaviness, its radioactive decay. Later, he collected uranium glass, which fluoresces bright green under ultraviolet light.
Today is Oliver Sacks’s birthday. He loved to celebrate birthdays by their corresponding element on the periodic table, and today would be his 92nd, or uraniumth, birthday!
Join me on June 11 to learn about a fabulous new book and a wonderful writer. If you've loved Oliver Sacks, you'll be excited to meet Pria Anand.
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We are absolutely thrilled to bits that Dr. Oliver Wolf and the team at Bronx General Hospital will soon return to NBC — Brilliant Minds is bringing back the drama and heart for Season 2. The hit series is based on the life and work of Oliver Sacks.
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We recently came across this adorable photo of a young Oliver standing proudly in front of some tulips, somewhere in London. He went on to write: "As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible."
Do you remember where you first heard about Oliver Sacks? Perhaps Science Friday or Radiolab? Morning Edition? A Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross?
Read about Oliver's experiences with public media, and how you can help support it before it's gone: www.oliversacks.com/support-publ...
We're celebrating J.S. Bach’s 340th birthday today with this photo of Oliver Sacks at his piano. He had a lifelong love of Bach's music and in Uncle Tungsten recalls being told that when asked at five years old what his favorite things in the world were, he answered "smoked salmon and Bach."
We love this photo of Oliver Sacks with the great Robin Williams. Robin played Oliver in the 1990 film Awakenings and the two of them became close friends. Williams credited his role in “Awakenings” as a gift, as it allowed him to meet Sacks and delve into the workings of the human brain.
Featuring newly uncovered audio and video tapes by Oliver in the early part of his career (1960s-80s), the film combines this archive with the film-marker's on-camera interviews with Oliver, animation and new filming to create an intimate journey into his fantastical mind and groundbreaking work.
We're excited to share that The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks is part of The Nonfiction Hotlist, a selection of 24 films that have extraordinary creative potential and that need support to move forward. The feature documentary, directed and produced by Dempsey Rice, was chosen from 640 applications
"Chalice cups, Trollius, valerians, saxifrages, contorted lousewort and stinking fleabane (two of the loveliest, despite their names!)." 4/4
"Dominant flowers are mountain avens (which were in seed when I arrived, like huge dandelion heads, alight and floating as they catch the morning sun). Indian paintbrush in every shade from faint cream to intense dayglo vermillion." 3/4
He often wrote letters to her, and a couple are included in the new LETTERS volume edited by Kate Edgar. Here's an excerpt from one he wrote to her during his travels in Canada in the summer of 1960: "The lodge is set in a huge alpine meadow, which was at its peak in early July... 2/4
Today we're celebrating one of the many women who inspired Oliver Sacks, his favorite "Auntie Len," Helena Landau. He describes in Uncle Tungsten and On the Move his deep attachment to his aunt, and how she taught him about botany and the mysteries of the Fibonacci sequence, among other things. 1/4
Today is World Epilepsy Day, a day focused on raising awareness and reducing stigma epilepsy, which affects around 50 million people worldwide.
Oliver Sacks wrote an entire chapter dedicated to epilepsy in “Hallucinations”. Get your copy here: www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks...
