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Footnote of the Month: February 2010

February 3, 2010 / Kate Edgar / Footnotes

An Anthropologist on Mars takes its title from a comment Temple Grandin once made to Dr. Sacks: that, for someone with autism or Asperger’s syndrome, trying to figure out subtle…

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Footnote of the Month: January 2010

January 1, 2010 / Kate Edgar / Footnotes

Why don’t we all have savant talents? In Musicophilia, Dr. Sacks discusses the experimental use of transcranial magnetic stimulation to temporarily inhibit certain brain functions in order to heighten others….

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Dr. Sacks to appear on PBS and The Daily Show!

June 25, 2009 / Kate Edgar / News

NOVA: Musical Minds now available on DVD. This hour-long program focuses on Dr. Sacks and some of the patients he wrote about in MUSICOPHILIA. Watch Dr. Sacks discuss music with…

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Good Heavens!

September 14, 2008 / Kate Edgar / News

As noted recently in the New York Times, the Committee of Small Body Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union has approved the naming of asteroid 84928 as “Oliversacks”! Dr. Sacks…

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Honors for Oliver Sacks

June 19, 2008 / Kate Edgar / News

Queen Elizabeth II has named Dr. Sacks a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Dr. Sacks says that, having grown up in London, he is thrilled and honored…

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Stromatolites!

March 10, 2008 / Kate Edgar / News

Several of Dr. Sacks’ unusual interests are featured in David Coleman’s article in the New York Times, “In Praise of Early Adapters.” Particular attention is given to stromatolites and other…

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New York Times Migraine Blog

February 14, 2008 / Kate Edgar / News

Dr. Sacks’ piece Patterns was posted to the Times Migraine blog last night and has climbed to #3 on the Most Emailed list.

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Music: It Does A Body Good

January 10, 2008 / Kate Edgar / News

Do you swim to the lilt of a Strauss waltz? Do the Black Eyed Peas keep you on pace? No matter what your musical tastes, a good beat can keep…

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Earworms and iPods

September 26, 2007 / Kate Edgar / News

Earworms. Brainworms. They’re those catchy little bits of music that get stuck in one’s head and repeat over and over. Steve Silberman interviews Dr. Sacks about them in the October…

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Talk of the Town

August 26, 2007 / Kate Edgar / News

Dr. Sacks has written a brief piece on “urban ferning” for this week’s Talk of the Town column in The New Yorker (August 13th issue, available now).

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The Best Science Books of All Time

December 1, 2006 / Kate Edgar / News

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat has been selected as one of Discover magazine’s 25 Greatest Science Books of All Time. The list appears in the December…

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