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by Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks's 1985 case histories — a musician who can no longer recognise faces, a man stranded in 1945 by amnesia, twins who trade prime numbers — told as stories about people rather than deficits. Read it as humane literature about neurology rather than as clinical evidence: Sacks's own journals, reported by The New Yorker in 2025, show he embellished and in places invented details of these cases.
July 13, 2026
Scott Alexander's team publishes its plan for AI going well, Joel Mokyr defends his Nobel thesis, and Ted Gioia argues the Odyssey belongs in the music department.
March 23, 2026
Dwarkesh interviews Terence Tao on mathematical discovery, the ACX Grants results fund 42 projects, and EconTalk's Tim Ferriss conversation goes unexpectedly deep.
January 12, 2026
Dan Carlin's Alexander the Great series reaches its third installment, Quanta reports on weakening dark energy, and a Philosophize This! episode on Dostoevsky's demons.
