Oliver Sacks plays piano and talks about how it feels to return to Beth Abraham, the chronic-care hospital where Sacks worked in the mid-1960s as a young neurologist and where the events of his book Awakenings took place. This clip is from Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, an intimate and deeply moving film that explores the life and legacy of the legendary neurologist who transformed how we understand the mind, identity, and what it means to be human. The New York Academy of Sciences, HHMI Tangled Ba
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Oliver Sacks plays piano and talks about how it feels to return to Beth Abraham, the chronic-care hospital where Sacks worked in the mid-1960s as a young neurologist and where the events of his book Awakenings took place. This clip is from Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, an intimate and deeply moving film that explores the life and legacy of the legendary neurologist who transformed how we understand the mind, identity, and what it means to be human. The New York Academy of Sciences, HHMI Tangled Ba
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Dive into the life of the neurologist and author who helped redefine our understanding of the brain. "Oliver Sacks: His Own Life" premieres April 9 at 9/8c. #OliverSacksPBS #Documentary #Film | American Masters
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Dive into the life of the neurologist and author who helped redefine our understanding of the brain. "Oliver Sacks: His Own Life" premieres April 9 at 9/8c. #OliverSacksPBS #Documentary #Film | American Masters
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Oliver Sacks takes a playful drink of water during a talk at Vanderbilt University in 1999. #oliversacks
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Oliver Sacks takes a playful drink of water during a talk at Vanderbilt University in 1999. #oliversacks
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If you miss Oliver Sacks’ wonderful voice, its curiosity and compassion, you will want to tune in to the new Oliver Sacks podcast that launches today from Audible. "Radiant Minds: The World of Oliver Sacks" includes rare and never-before-published archival tape—including clips from Oliver’s audio diaries, such as this one. You will hear from some of the people he wrote about, friends and colleagues who knew him intimately, and scientists doing cutting-edge research in neurology today. The podcas
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If you miss Oliver Sacks’ wonderful voice, its curiosity and compassion, you will want to tune in to the new Oliver Sacks podcast that launches today from Audible. "Radiant Minds: The World of Oliver Sacks" includes rare and never-before-published archival tape—including clips from Oliver’s audio diaries, such as this one. You will hear from some of the people he wrote about, friends and colleagues who knew him intimately, and scientists doing cutting-edge research in neurology today. The podcas
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Oliver Sacks on his experiences with amphetamines. | Oliver Sacks Foundation
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Oliver Sacks on his experiences with amphetamines. | Oliver Sacks Foundation
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In honor of the Oliver Sacks: His Own Life premiere on American Masters, Call Me Ishmael is collecting stories about an Oliver Sacks book that changed your life. Call 774-325-0503 and leave a voicemail with your story! #OliverSacksPBS | Oliver Sacks Foundation
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🇬🇧 🇮🇪 Oliver Sacks: His Own Life will premiere in cinemas across the UK & Ireland for ONE NIGHT ONLY on Sept 29, followed by a virtual discussion with Kate Edgar, Bill Hayes, Suzanne O'Sullivan, and director Ric Burns. On digital on Oct 4. Tickets now on sale! www.altitude.film Altitude Films | Oliver Sacks Foundation
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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. Follow along for more. This footage was shot by @DempseyRice who’s currently working on @animatedfilmoliversacks. | Oliver Sacks Foundation
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On this day in 2015, we lost Dr. Oliver Sacks, a brilliant mind and deeply empathetic man. This clip from an old doc on Awakenings shows how fascinated he was by the human condition, and how much he advocated for the treatment of each patient as an individual person rather than a pathology. | Oliver Sacks Foundation
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Today we remember Oliver Sacks. A naturalist, a writer, a psychonaut, but first and foremost a physician and explorer of the human condition. July 9, 1933 - August 30, 2015 In this clip from a lecture he gave at Vanderbilt University in 1999, he talks about how many different "ways of being" there are. Transcribed here: "There is no standard way of being, or knowing, or perceiving. Although one has to talk about normality or mean or average or deviation or standard deviations in a sort of statis
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Five years ago today, Oliver Sacks died at the age of 82, but his legacy and inspiration live on. Here are some of the wonderful responses we received when we asked what you wish you could have said to Oliver. (Photo courtesy Bill Hayes) | Oliver Sacks Foundation
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Why did Oliver Sacks love the periodic table so much? | American Masters
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Perhaps one of the funniest stories from "On the Move." Oliver Sacks on his anatomy exam escapade at Oxford. | Oliver Sacks Foundation
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Raise your hand if you knew the covers of the Vintage edition Oliver Sacks books lined up this beautifully. | Oliver Sacks Foundation
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Renowned Neurologist Oliver Sacks Quotes From an H.G. Wells Story in an Animated 1996 Lost Interview
Jan 24, 2017
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Today is Oliver Sacks’s birthday! He loved to celebrate birthdays by their corresponding element on the periodic table. He was born on July 9 in 1933, so today would be his 92nd, or uraniumth, birthday. 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, and its ability to combine with other elements to create fluorescent compounds. Later, he collected uranium glass, which fluoresces bright green und
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Oliver Sacks, Author and Neurologist, Dies at 82
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As we mark the tenth anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s passing, we are proud and thrilled to report that his legacy remains as relevant and inspiring as ever. Immersing oneself in an Oliver Sacks book, especially in these times of uncertainty and strife around the globe, reminds us of the profound wonders and powers of nature and the human mind. His values of respect and understanding for every individual are timeless. This clip of Robert Krulwich is from Ric Burns’ documentary, “Oliver Sacks: His O
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Renowned neurologist and literary giant Oliver Sacks is posthumously celebrated in this profound, highly engaging, deeply personal memoir: Oliver Sacks: His Own Life. Australian premiere & release details coming soon. | Madman Films
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"The love of chemistry and of the periodic table was... constant with me from an early age." #OliverSacksPBS #Documentary #Film #Science #Medicine #OliverSacks Oliver Sacks: His Own Life Oliver Sacks Foundation | American Masters
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A gift from us to you this holiday season! We’re so grateful to all of you for following along as we share Oliver’s legacy, and for sharing your own stories in turn. To say thank you, we’re giving away four Oliver Sacks books to help you celebrate the holidays: Letters (a collection of Oliver Sacks’s correspondence edited by Kate Edgar), Gratitude (a very giftable essay of Oliver’s on being thankful), Hallucinations (a book on the phenomenon of seeing, hearing, or sensing things that aren’t ther
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Oliver Sacks, Neurologist Who Wrote About the Brain’s Quirks, Dies at 82
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Oliver Sacks and Robin Williams: identical twins?
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