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An Anthropologist On Mars Seven Paradoxical Tales

Oliver Sacks

The author of Awakenings profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome and an artist whose color sense is destroyed in an accident but finds new creative power in black and white. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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Another book written by Oliver Sacks was briefly mentioned as an example of his work; he had prosopagnosia, a condition the podcast discusses.

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And he wrote awesome books like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. There you go. And An Anthropologist on Mars, I think was one of his too.

— Episode: How Face Blindness Works

Episode: How Face Blindness Works

Another book written by Oliver Sacks was briefly mentioned as an example of his work; he had prosopagnosia, a condition the podcast discusses.

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And he wrote awesome books like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. There you go. And An Anthropologist on Mars, I think was one of his too.

Episode: How Face Blindness Works

Another book by Oliver Sacks was also mentioned, although it wasn't discussed in as much detail as 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat'.

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And An Anthropologist on Mars, I think was one of his too.

StarTalk Radio

It was mentioned as a book by Oliver Sacks that included an essay titled 'The Last Hippie', which was later made into a film.

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The music never stopped... It's based on one of his essays called The Last Hippie which was published in his book and anthropologist on Mars.

— Episode: Extended Classic: “Are You Out of Your M...

Episode: Extended Classic: “Are You Out of Your Mind?” with...

It was mentioned as a book by Oliver Sacks that included an essay titled 'The Last Hippie', which was later made into a film.

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The music never stopped... It's based on one of his essays called The Last Hippie which was published in his book and anthropologist on Mars.

Episode: Autism and Animal Science with Dr. Temple Grandin

It was mentioned as a book whose title refers to Temple Grandin and her perspective on the world, which was described as if she were an alien observing human behavior.

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Oliver Sacks wrote this book an anthropologist on Mars okay and that title refers to Temple Grandin which I think is cool because it first it references Mars for any other reason and it also references that Mars had a civilization that way it says though you are you are from another planet then everything else is a fresh observation for you right watching people be behaving conduct themselves.

well you see when I was very young I didn't know that my thinking was different I didn't even know that people had all these eye signals until I read about them when I was 50 years old and but sometimes I mean when they give hints to one another from a distance. Sometimes I felt like I wasn't anthropologist on Mars like beyond a plane for example I'm in a window seat and the people in the aisle in the middle seat are like having a romance going on and they're kind of looking at each other's eyes and they're just like they're often heaven and I'm like I feel like I am an anthropologist on Mars you know studying the Martians here on this planet beside me.

Episode: Extended Classic: “Are You Out of Your Mind?” with...

It was referenced as a book by Oliver Sacks, and the essay "The Last Hippie" within it was mentioned as being adapted into a film. The essay and book were mentioned shortly after discussing Oliver Sacks' book The Mind's Eye.

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It's based on one of his essays called The Last Hippie which was published in his book and anthropologist on Mars.

Episode: Autism and Animal Science with Dr. Temple Grandin

The book's title is a reference to Temple Grandin, and she described the feeling of being an outsider, like an anthropologist studying a different culture on a different planet.

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Oliver Sacks wrote this book an anthropologist on Mars okay and that title refers to Temple Grandin which I think is cool because it first it references Mars for any other reason and it also references that Mars had a civilization that way it says though you are you are from another planet then everything else is a fresh observation for you right watching people be behaving conduct themselves.

Well you see when I was very young I didn't know that my thinking was different I didn't even know that people had all these eye signals until I read about them when I was 50 years old and but sometimes I mean when they give hints to one another from a distance. Sometimes I felt like I wasn't anthropologist on Mars like beyond a plane for example I'm in a window seat and the people in the aisle in the middle seat are like having a romance going on and they're kind of looking at each other's eyes and they're just like they're often heaven and I'm like I feel like I am an anthropologist on Mars you know studying the Martians here on this planet beside me.

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