Enjoy this special tribute to Oliver Sacks from 2016 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Here’s a clip from a lecture he gave at Emory University in 2000 in which he talks about the periodic table (and fails to correctly utilize the technology of “transparencies”!)

As a boy chemist, and one of the youngest of 92 cousins, he loved the unique properties of uranium, Element 92—its heaviness, its radioactive decay. Later, he collected uranium glass, which fluoresces bright green under ultraviolet light.

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Featuring newly uncovered audio and video tapes by Oliver in the early part of his career (1960s-80s), the film combines this archive with the film-marker's on-camera interviews with Oliver, animation and new filming to create an intimate journey into his fantastical mind and groundbreaking work.

"Chalice cups, Trollius, valerians, saxifrages, contorted lousewort and stinking fleabane (two of the loveliest, despite their names!)." 4/4

"Dominant flowers are mountain avens (which were in seed when I arrived, like huge dandelion heads, alight and floating as they catch the morning sun). Indian paintbrush in every shade from faint cream to intense dayglo vermillion." 3/4

He often wrote letters to her, and a couple are included in the new LETTERS volume edited by Kate Edgar. Here's an excerpt from one he wrote to her during his travels in Canada in the summer of 1960: "The lodge is set in a huge alpine meadow, which was at its peak in early July... 2/4