Desktop Diaries: Oliver Sacks
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Click to view, or right-click and save: Scifri video: Desktop Diaries: Oliver Sacks.Many of us spend more waking hours at our desk than anywhere else. Writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks explains what his desk means to him in the first in a series of Desktop DiariesTM. From lumps of metal to lemurs, Sacks describes some of his treasures, his preferred method for writing his books and why he takes comfort in dense metals. filmed, produced by katherine wells, flora lichtman Viewed 19719 times.
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