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A couple of links!
Sean’s Unsolicited (but wonderful) advice on how to be a good grad student (Perhaps, it is a little late for some of us; but then, it is too good a piece to be passed over); and, Oliver Sacks’ iPod...
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A critique of Sacks’ Musicophilia
A piece by Kevin Burger in Salon asks if Sacks has struck the wrong note: Unfortunately, Wearing’s story is the only great song on “Musicophilia,” which exposes the sentimentality and cursory science...
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Another critique of Sacks’ Musicophilia
Gerard McBurney in the NewStatesman (via A&L Daily) (The first few paragraphs of the online version seems to be a bit mangled): … did prompt me to wonder why I find Sacks’s stories, however...
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How Sacks found empathy
Jonah Lehrer, in this piece in Seed, talks to Oliver Sacks, and tells about the not-so-well-known aspects of Sacks’ life, which made him the empathetic writer and neurologist that he is. Of course, it...
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Price we pay for our powers of ratiocination
Sacks also describes a rare congenital disorder called Williams syndrome, in which people never develop mentally beyond the abilities of a toddler, but have an extraordinary musical facility, playing...
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Oliver Sacks’ Musicophilia
Sacks got plenty of mixed reviews (and I linked to a couple of them in this blog too — here and here, for example). Thus, I approached the book with a bit of trepidation. However, I need not have...
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Sacks on mania
Mania is a biological condition that feels like a psychological one—a state of mind. In this way it resembles the effects of various intoxications. I saw this very dramatically with some of my...
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