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.”
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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.
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.
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!
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.
