Writing #OliverSacks #biography @AAKnopf Philosophical Breakfast Club. Eye of the Beholder. NEH Public Scholar, Sloan/Leon Levy Fellow. Proud mom @UChicago ’26
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“Providers” today have the top 5 diagnoses in their office, along with the top 5 pharmacology e-scripts. If you question the system, or dare use research their arrogancy laughs you out of the office.
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It’s been an age, but here’s a little #FridayTreat from the #OliverSacks #Archive. How exciting to open a folder & find this sitting right on top! As context, Sacks DID have a tendency to lose/burn/rip up completed works. We are all fortunate that was not the fate of #Awakenings.
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Happy pub day to LETTERS, the new collection of Oliver Sacks’s correspondence! LETTERS is full of his deepest thoughts on music, art, and science, friendship and resilience, and what it takes to lead a meaningful life.
Get your copy here: oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks…
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Due to popular demand @NewPlazaCinema in NYC will screen director Ric Burns's "Oliver Sacks: His Own Life" again this Sunday 29 September at 12:15pm. Join Ric and Kate Edgar for a Q&A after the screening. Limited seating, get tickets here: ticketing.useast.veezi.com/p…
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On this day in 2015 we lost Dr. Oliver Sacks. 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.
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I review two biographies each week for the New York Sun. Why is it that most book publicists don’t know that?
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Remembering the great Robin Williams who passed away 10 years ago. Sacks described their conversations as a deep exploration of human behavior. Williams, in turn, credited his role in Awakenings as a gift, allowing him to meet Sacks and delve into the workings of the human brain.
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📖@ILIA_CSIC, una de las expertas de #InformarCienciaConCiencia y #ComunicandoCienciaConCiencia, comparte "El Club de los desayunos filosóficos", un extraordinario ensayo que planteó una renovación de la ciencia de la que aún bebemos en nuestros días.
#DíaDelLibro @LauraJSnyder
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@TheAmScho: On 12/12 a microscope made by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek—only the 13th ever found—fetched six figures @ChristiesInc. That makes it the perfect time to revisit @LauraJSnyder's profile of the 17th-century father of microbiology in our Summer issue. rb.gy/n5xogi
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Happy birthday to British inventor and chemist Humphry Davy born #OTD in 1778. He was one of #OliverSacks's scientific heroes. #biography #histsci
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Danish aristocratic astronomer Tycho Brahe born 14 December 1546 #histsci #histech
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@UChicago @UChicagoCollege
When students finally received a message after nearly a month of 8 hours a day pro-Hamas “protesters” drowning out opposing views (&disrupting classes) w/megaphones, telling anyone who looked Jewish that “your lot should be burned,” it was very clear:
Dr. Laura J. Snyder retweeted
This looks amazing:
"How Cabinets of Curiosities Laid the Foundation for Modern Museums"
"An exhibition at LACMA examines the legacy of Dutch colonization through a fictive 17th-century collector’s room of wonders"
smithsonianmag.com/history/h… @smithsonianmag
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First full box from @HachetteBooks!!! "Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep," dropping Oct. 3 and available for preorder now. hachettebookgroup.com/titles…
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I love how most don’t realize how ableist they are. In the beginning, most tried so hard to make things inclusive like online school, streaming concerts. Once you heard you didn’t need to continue, you dropped everything in a second. You left us behind without a thought.
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"I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and have given something in return;
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure" - Gratitude
A wonderful man
#OTD in 2015 #OliverSacks died. He claimed that “Over a lifetime I have written a million words a year since my teenage days, but the act of writing seems as fresh & as much fun as when I started it.” His final days were spent doing what he loved best: writing.
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With repeated infections and waning immunity, a majority (80%+) of the planet will ultimately suffer from organ damage/long COVID.
Great article based on both scientific research and mathematical modeling, a 🧵 1/ wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05…
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Popped in to see some old @sciencemuseum friends on display @TheBowesMuseum Babbage’s Difference Engine No.1 and the Rose Engine Lathe. Lovely to see them styling it out in the North East.
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Astronomical Neuro-ophth
As the Perseid meteors shower tonight, consider Hildegard of Bingen's (1098-1180) vision-"I saw a great star most splendid & beautiful, & with it an exceeding multitude of falling sparks"
In 1914 Osler's student Charles Singer realized her visions were..
