Dr. Oliver Sacks appears in the following:
Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters
Monday, January 12, 2009
Stories of love and loss in the name of science.
Choice
Monday, November 17, 2008
We turn up the volume on the voices in our heads, and try to get to the bottom of what really steers our decisions.
Pop Music
Monday, April 21, 2008
Nightmarish stories of musical hallucinations, songs with the power to transcend language, & the triumphant return of the Elvis of Afghanistan.
Earworms
It has happened to you. Some song wriggles its way into your brain and won't leave. Now imagine that the distant tune in the back of your head suddenly becomes very real. A real song. Real drums. Real guitar. Volume. These are called musical hallucinations and there are some people ...
Emergence
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
What happens when there is no leader? We look at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, and even our brains.
Clive
The story of a man who’s lost everything. Clive Wearing has what Oliver Sacks calls “the most severe case of amnesia ever documented.” Clive’s wife, Deborah Wearing, tells us the story along with Oliver Sacks. And they try to understand why, amidst so much forgetting, Clive remembers two things: Music ...
Memory and Forgetting
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. This hour: a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten.
Time
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
The strange, subjective nature of time -- from a sped-up spin through childhood, to a really, really slowed-down Beethoven symphony.
The Most
