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11 Nov

Oliver Sacks on the varieties of hallucinatory experience

Oliver Sacks on the varieties of hallucinatory experience

Oliver Sacks has done a wonderful TED talk on hallucinations that has just been released online. He particularly focuses on the hallucinations of Charles Bonnet syndrome where damage or decay of the retina can cause strikingly complex hallucinations of people and animals that seems to be a natura...

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TED: What hallucination reveals about our minds [video]

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon. ...

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Q&A with Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations, neurological curiousities and a passion for understanding

Q&A with Oliver Sacks: Hallucinations, neurological curiousities and a passion for understanding

Famed neurologist Oliver Sacks was nice enough to let the TEDBlog into his office for an interview before his talk went up today. He hosted us for over an hour, discussing his new book about vision and the mind and giving details on the visual hallucinations that he's been experiencing since ...

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Attorney general sacks 'illegal' maid

The attorney general sacked her housekeeper last night amid claims the woman had overstayed on a visa and was no longer legally entitled to work in the UK.Baroness Scotland, who attends cabinet as the government's legal adviser, hired Loloahi Tapui, 27, over the last six months to look after her ...

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Kenyan blacksmiths make bellows from cement sacks

Afrigadget has a wonderful post on two ingenious blacksmiths in Lamu, Kenya, whose bellows have been improvised from cement sacks. Lamu Cement-bag Bellows (AfriGadget) from WhiteAfrican on Vimeo. Adam and Abdul make all types of items, but they told me that their main products are anchors, wh...

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