Happy Birthday, Good Dr. Sacks

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Radiolab wishes Oliver Sacks a happy birthday. First aired back in 2013, we originally released this episode to celebrate the 80th birthday of one of our favorite human beings, Oliver Sacks. To celebrate, his good friend, and our former co-host Rober Krulwich, asks the good doctor to look back, and explain how thousands of worms and a motorbike accident led to a brilliant writing career. We have some exciting news! In the “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named its first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! Radiolab has teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Submit your name ideas now through September, or vote on your favorites starting in November: https://radiolab.org/moon

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0:00.0	Yeah, wait, you're listening.
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0:07.0	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:10.0	Radio. From WNYS.
0:12.0	Y. See W N. W N. W. N. W. W. N. S. E.
0:15.0	Rewind.
0:19.0	Hey, I'm Latif Nasser. This week would have been the 91st birthday of a person who I think it's fair to say
0:26.9	is one of the shows all-time favorite human beings the late neurologist and science writer, Dr. Oliver Sachs.
0:35.7	We had spoken to Oliver Sachs many, many times on this show and his essays about his patients most famously
0:44.6	awakenings and the man who mistook his wife for a hat they are a model for what
0:50.7	we like to do around here the mix of science and heart and
0:54.8	curiosity. So today what we're going to do for you is to play you a conversation
0:59.6	that one of our other all-time beloved humans,
1:03.9	Robert Kralwich, had with Dr. Sacks
1:06.6	about a decade ago.
1:08.0	Dr. Sacks was just turning 80 years old at the time.
1:11.2	So to celebrate, Kralwich sat down with him and had him explain
1:14.4	how how thousands of worms and a motor bike accident led to his brilliant
1:20.1	career as a writer. I asked him, would you mind sitting down and talking to me about how you got started?
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