Articles tagged "oliver sacks"

20 Questions Feature

Thomas Dolby

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jun.08] :. Thomas Dolby's electronic impulses are fed by neurological brainstorms generated by the likes of Oliver Sacks and the artists and scientists of TED. PopMatters' 20 Questions gets a zap from Dolby's electrifying fingertips.

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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

by Lisa Arthur [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[6.Nov.07] :. Music is grace and joy and not easily subjected to cold clinical analysis, not even when the writer is someone as gifted as Oliver Sacks.

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Admiring Oliver Sacks

by Jillian Burt

[19.Oct.07] :. The neurologist Oliver Sacks has an extraordinary ability to write the life of the mind. Where others see illness, dementia, a fearsome strangeness and shy away, he’s respectfully fascinated...

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