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This week, a broad coalition of musicians got behind a Freedom of Information Act request to reveal which songs the government used while...

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A Terrible Thing To Waste

Photographs by Chris Payne. . For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape...

http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/story-of-the-week/2009/a-terrible-thing-to-waste.html

Ants on the Brain

Researchers are learning about the human brain from a system that is more similar to our gray matter than you may think: ant colonies. Just as ...

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Oliver Sacks

Question: If you could have one question answered about the human brain, what would it be?. Oliver: How it works. I would like to know how the 100...

http://bigthink.com/oliversacks/oliver-sacks-and-questions-about-the-brain

Oliver Sacks on Charles Darwin

Question: What is your current fascination with Charles Darwin?. . Sacks: A transformed Darwin appeared in 1860, a Darwin who is a beautiful...

http://bigthink.com/ideas/oliver-sacks-on-darwin

Question: What is the relationship between medicine and humanism?. Oliver: When I was a medical student, 50 years ago, one of my professors once...

http://bigthink.com/ideas/oliver-sacks-on-medicine-and-humanism

Question: How are left and right brains different?. . Sacks: Hemisphere differences are very striking, not only in human beings but many primates...

http://bigthink.com/ideas/oliver-sacks-on-the-left-and-right-brain

Is Oliver Sacks Hallucinating?

Question: How do you distinguish natural hallucinations from drug-induced hallucinations?. Oliver: The hallucinogenic drugs mostly produced, I...

http://bigthink.com/ideas/oliver-sacks-on-hallucination

Oliver Sacks