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@OliverSacks

Celebrating the work of Dr. Oliver Sacks: neurologist and author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and more. 🧠📚

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    12 aug.

    Exciting news for folk in the UK & Ireland! will hit UK & Irish cinemas for one night only on Wed 29 September. Watch the trailer from below and please spread the word!

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    'People think he's saying: look at the others. He's not saying that. He's saying: look at 𝘶𝘴.' Thrilled to announce that OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE will be out in UK & Irish cinemas for one night only Sept 29 & on digital Oct 4.
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  2. 24 aug.

    UNICEF's latest study highlights the “unimaginably dire” situation the world's children are in. , Greta Thunberg's youth-led global climate strike movement, is planning a global climate strike on September 24. Will you be participating?

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    20 aug.

    Looking for a good movie to watch this weekend? The acclaimed documentary Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is available to rent or buy in the US on digital platforms like Apple iTunes, Amazon, Kino Marquee, Google Play and more! Opens Sept 29 in the UK.

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    17 aug.

    Congratulations to for winning a prestigious NEH grant for her forthcoming biography of Oliver Sacks! Kudos, Laura...!

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  5. 11 aug.

    A new study has found that flavonoids in plant foods may help curb the early signs of dementia.

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  6. 9 aug.

    Some gorgeous, papery mushroom undersides that shared of Sugarshack Mushrooms. Did you participate in ? Where do you shop local? Show us photos of your haul!

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  7. 3 aug.

    The film is available on Netflix, and while it’s tough to watch, we highly recommend it.

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  8. 3 aug.

    One of Australia’s leading coral reef scientists is seen breaking down in tears at the decline of the Great Barrier Reef. Another Australian scientist is shown walking through the burnt, blackened landscape where she once worked to conserve endangered cockatoos.

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  9. 3 aug.

    The new David Attenborough documentary “Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet” explores the destruction of the Earth’s natural habitats through climate change, and the toll that it’s taking on natural scientists.

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  10. 29 jul.

    Over half a century after it was planted, this sealed bottle garden is still growing as vigorously as ever, despite the fact that the last time it was watered was in 1972.

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    27 jul.

    Young Alan Turing, mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist, who was and had traits, and was persecuted to death by UK authorities. He helped build the world we know. Viva .

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  12. 15 jul.

    The life of legendary neurologist and author Oliver Sacks is laid bare in , to be released this autumn in the UK. via

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  13. 13 jul.

    Read the full piece here:

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  14. 13 jul.

    "My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers."

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  15. 13 jul.

    In 2015, after receiving a fatal diagnosis, Oliver Sacks wrote an op-ed for The New York Times entitled "My Own Life." In it, he turned his brilliantly analytical brain inward, and examined his own feelings about life and dying.

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    9 jul.

    Late neurologist/author was born OTD in 1933. He was one of my heroes, one of my mentors, and one of my friends, and I miss him very much. Here's an excerpt of the wonderful describing what his life's work was really about.

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    9 jul.

    Thinking of Oliver today, July 9th, on what would have been his 88th birthday (Radium, #88, on the Periodic Table). "Happy Radium, Everybody!" ❤️ 📸 by Bill Hayes

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  18. 9 jul.

    Celebrate what would have been Oliver's 88th birthday today by watching this short trailer for . Coming to the UK this autumn!

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    Discover the incredible life of groundbreaking neurologist and storyteller, Oliver Sacks. OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE is coming this autumn.
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  19. 9 jul.

    The "Radium Girls" hand painted radium-based paint on the dials of watches. They were told to lick their brushes to give them a point, thereby ingesting radium. They filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Radium Corporation that had a major impact on the labor rights movement.

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  20. 9 jul.

    Radium was used in luminous paints for things like watches, nuclear panels, and instrument dials, before it was realized how toxic it is. One of the saddest stories from that time period is the story of the “Radium Girls”.

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