World Science Festival
Awakening the Mind is a tribute to the remarkable life and work of Dr. Oliver Sacks. A physician, best-selling author, professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine, and regular contributor to the World Science Festival, The New York Times called him “a poet laureate of contemporary medicine” and “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century.”
With stories from friends, colleagues, patients, admirers, and Dr. Sacks himself, this multi-media memory piece of music, image, and language brings to life this extraordinary man who had an incalculable impact on the worlds of medicine and storytelling.
Produced in partnership with the Oliver Sacks Foundation.
Original Program Date: June 1, 2016
PARTICIPANTS: Timo Andres, Michael Brown, Aletta Collins, Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf, Conor Doyle, Christine Ebersole, John Hockenberry, Eric Jordan, Tobias Picker, Concetta Tomaino
CREATIVE TEAM: 59 Productions, John Plummer
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Introduction 00:05
Robert Krulwich reflects 3:49
Robert Klitzman reflects 6:32
Brian Greene discusses first meeting Oliver Sacks 8:26
Oliver Sacks on time 13:22
Jay Neugeboren reflects 16:07
Dr. Mark Homonoff 19:06
John Hockenberry reflects 21:10
Isabelle Rapin talks about “Awakenings” 28:50
Tobias Picker reflects 31:22
Performance by Conor Doyle 35:12
Oliver Sacks talks about Leonard Lowe 39:47
Daniel Frank reflects 40:52
The Fastest Horse 42:12
Maria Popova reflects 45:21
Steve Soberman reflects 47:08
Temple Grandin reflects 48:39
Concetta Tomaino reflects 51:08
Performance by Eric Jordan 57:56
Fay Wright reflects 1:02:30
Performance by Christine Ebersole 1:04:53
Slava Santoriello reflects 1:11:17
Ian sample reflects 1:13:30
Oliver Sacks on why science is important 1:14:21
Performance by Timo Andres 1:19:08
Admiring Oliver’s accomplishments 1:22:43
Performance by Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf 1:30:14
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Having just found Oliver Sacks, my impression is this… "He's the incarnate of human spirit, such compassion, intellect and charm makes him a rare breed and as long as we honour his memory, his work will live on."
Namaskar ✌🏼
Cut off the annoying piano noise !
Thank you for this upload
Thank you for this, it is just amazing
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everybody is relevant everybody has a gift to give. Always have trust in your strengths. give it hell.
N m m h n n
Oh, my word! this piece of art – video leaves us with a knot in our throat. 😉
Oliver was a world treasure. I am still deeply saddened by his death. His life will be celebrated for decades to come.
thank you ……a beautiful and inspiring life, still touching the lives of others…..
This is just beautiful.!
What a truly wonderful celebration and tribute to an amazing and gentle man. Congratulations to all those involved in producing such a fitting event in memory of Oliver. Thank you!
An amazing, amazing man. Very moved
Reading (or listening) to him talking about his patients is unlike others. He radiates the impression that the people he's talking about are more than mere patients to him. It's obvious that he spends time with them. He talks about visiting them at their homes, having meals with them, and even going with some grocery shopping. He spends as much time talking about their everyday routine life as he does about their illness.
His topics are not the illnesses themselves that they have, rather those who have the illnesses. You know how you see a movie and the plot follows this character who survives all the crap and makes it to the end? The movie revolves around the protagonist, and everything around the protagonist is a catalyst for the protagonist to rise up and position themselves in a favorable place. He's done that for his patients. The patients are the protagonists, and their illnesses and their endurance through them are catalysts.
I also love his way of phrasing thoughts and experiences and his infinite bag of (often creatively compound) adjectives. In an interview (which is in the video), he talks consuming a "pharmacological launchpad" (a mix of controlled substances) to induce hallucination to see indigo. He goes on to describe the experience as follows:
"As if thrown by a paintbrush, a trembling pear-shaped blob of the most wonderful color appeared on the wall. It not only seem wonderfully luminous, but it filled me with a sort of mystical or almost religious joy. I felt it was numinous as well as luminous. And although I'm an old Jewish atheist, I thought this is the color of Heaven."
Thank you for this.
Olivers what?
motivating and inspiring