News & Events
News & Events
Reading, writing and evolution
Reading and writing: do they go together like love and marriage? Well, it turns out the story is complicated. Take Howard Engel, a novelist who wrote to Dr. Sacks a [...]
Footnote of the Month: July 2010
People with alexia can see perfectly well, but their brains lose the ability to decipher words and letters. Howard Engel, the Canadian novelist known for his Benny Cooperman series of [...]
SquidMania
Dr. Sacks's favorite creatures are cephalopods: squids, octopus, cuttlefish, nautilus--all those mollusks that have neurons not only in their heads (cephalo-) but in their feet (-pods) as well. They’re very smart. [...]
Footnote of the Month: June 2010
"Stereo Sue," a chapter in The Mind's Eye, is about Sue Barry, a neurobiologist who suddenly acquires stereopsis, and true three-dimensional vision, in her fifties. After a lifetime of inferring [...]
iPad apps, literary journals, science festivals
In a somewhat circuitous way, Dr. Sacks's Uncle Tungsten has inspired a hot new iPad app by Theodore Gray, of Periodic Table fame. It's a gorgeous new way to enjoy [...]
The Mind’s Eye coming in October 2010!
Dr. Sacks just delivered the manuscript for his new book, The Mind's Eye, to his publishers. Alfred A. Knopf will publish the book in the US on October 26, 2010. [...]
Footnote of the Month: May 2010
Writing, a cultural tool, has evolved to make use of the inferotemporal neurons' preference for certain shapes. "Letter shape," as Stanislas Dehaene writes, "is not an arbitrary cultural choice"—it is [...]
Footnote of the Month: April 2010
We often talk about which sense we would choose to lose, if we had to give one up. But sometimes, the borderline between senses is not so clear. Dr. Sacks [...]
Footnote of the Month: March 2010
Last week, production started on a new feature film directed by Jim Kohlberg and based on Dr. Sacks's essay "The Last Hippie," in An Anthropologist on Mars. So we were [...]
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