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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 ancient wonders.

Stromatolites, once thought to have been long extinct until a large living colony was discovered in Shark Bay in Western Australia in the mid-1950s, are made up of large colonies of bacteria, often blue-green algae, and sedimentary deposits, which grow naturally in a style that Dr. Sacks likened to a layer cake.

Maybe not the most appetizing cake, but he pointed out that stromatolites are held to be responsible for converting the abundance of carbon dioxide in the earth’s Archean-era atmosphere into oxygen. “Over the years, they made enough oxygen to make life possible for the rest of us,” he said.

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.

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 you moving. Dr. Sacks talks about performance-enhancing music in this feature in today’s New York Times.

[More info appears in Musicophilia (pp 239-24)

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 issue of Wired. A longer version of the piece is available online.

Find yourself wondering what he was listening to in the cover photo? Perhaps it was something on Dr. Sacks’ iPod playlist. Wired has the annotated list and his selections are available on iTunes.

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).

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 2006 issue.

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