Sacks had a particular fascination with the ways our brains can play tricks on our vision. He also reveals his own lifelong struggle to recognize the faces of other people.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Jim Fleming talks with Jim Wight, a vet himself, and the son of the man known to the world as James Herriot. Like his father, Jim Wight’s turned to writing.
Marcus Du Sautoy talks with Jim Fleming about prime numbers and the Riemann Hypothesis and why it’s such an important puzzle for mathematicians.
With mounting concerns over student debt, we're thinking about higher education this week. Christopher Newfield teaches literature and American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He believes rising tuition and reduced state funding are threatening the nation's public universities.
John Leland has written about "Indigo children", who may have an Indigo aura and a mission to change the world. Or they may be ordinary children with a tendency to ADHD.
Mark Leyner talks to Jim Fleming about his mind-bending, synapse-shattering new novel, "The Sugar Frosted Nutsack."
Michael Timmins writes the music and lyrics that his sister Margo Timmins sings as part of The Cowboy Junkies.
Anthropologist Richard Wrangham tells Jim Fleming that he thinks cooking contributed to human evolution and is far older than most people think.
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