We are excited to share the latest international cover of LETTERS by Oliver Sacks, now available in Italian from Adelphi Edizioni. Please share with any of your followers who may wish to read the Italian version. Copies can be purchased here: www.adelphi.it/libro/978884...

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.”

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.

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.

Happy Birthday to the Science Show, and congratulations, Robyn Williams, on this impressive milestone! Over its 50-year history, The Science Show has covered stories spanning the full expanse of scientific endeavour. radiotoday.com.au/abc-radio-na...

ABC Radio National's The Science Show celebrates 50 years on air

On Saturday 30 August 1975, ABC Radio National broadcast its very first episode of The Science Show, live from the 13th Pacific Science Congress in

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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!

Join me on June 11 to learn about a fabulous new book and a wonderful writer. If you've loved Oliver Sacks, you'll be excited to meet Pria Anand. @oliversacks.bsky.social

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You're Invited: BLR BookTalk on "The Mind Electric"! 🧠 Our next BookTalk features Pria Anand, BLR author and neurologist, who just published her first book, The Mind Electric. 🗓️Details: Online, June 11 at 7pm EDT RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/belle... @danielleofri.bsky.social

We are absolutely thrilled to bits that Dr. Oliver Wolf and the team at Bronx General Hospital will soon return to NBC — Brilliant Minds is bringing back the drama and heart for Season 2. The hit series is based on the life and work of Oliver Sacks. www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/...

Zachary Quinto Returning for Brilliant Minds Season 2 on NBC: Details

Zachary Quinto is returning to NBC for Brilliant Minds Season 2. Read on to learn more about the hospital drama's renewal.

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We recently came across this adorable photo of a young Oliver standing proudly in front of some tulips, somewhere in London. He went on to write: "As a writer, I find gardens essential to the creative process; as a physician, I take my patients to gardens whenever possible."

Do you remember where you first heard about Oliver Sacks? Perhaps Science Friday or Radiolab? Morning Edition? A Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross? Read about Oliver's experiences with public media, and how you can help support it before it's gone: www.oliversacks.com/support-publ...

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Do you remember where you first heard about Oliver Sacks? Chances are pretty good it was on public television or radio. Perhaps on Science Friday or Radiolab? Morning Edition? A Fresh Air interview wi...

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We're celebrating J.S. Bach’s 340th birthday today with this photo of Oliver Sacks at his piano. He had a lifelong love of Bach's music and in Uncle Tungsten recalls being told that when asked at five years old what his favorite things in the world were, he answered "smoked salmon and Bach."

We love this photo of Oliver Sacks with the great Robin Williams. Robin played Oliver in the 1990 film Awakenings and the two of them became close friends. Williams credited his role in “Awakenings” as a gift, as it allowed him to meet Sacks and delve into the workings of the human brain.

We're excited to share that The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks is part of The Nonfiction Hotlist, a selection of 24 films that have extraordinary creative potential and that need support to move forward. The feature documentary, directed and produced by Dempsey Rice, was chosen from 640 applications

Today we're celebrating one of the many women who inspired Oliver Sacks, his favorite "Auntie Len," Helena Landau. He describes in Uncle Tungsten and On the Move his deep attachment to his aunt, and how she taught him about botany and the mysteries of the Fibonacci sequence, among other things. 1/4

Today is World Epilepsy Day, a day focused on raising awareness and reducing stigma epilepsy, which affects around 50 million people worldwide. Oliver Sacks wrote an entire chapter dedicated to epilepsy in “Hallucinations”. Get your copy here: www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks...