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Okay, Jonah saw this first -- but in case you missed it there, here's a snip from Jon Stewart interviewing Oliver Sacks about music and the brain.
This is a nice meeting. I've not met Stewart, but I had the pleasure to spend some time with Sacks while working on a couple stories, and he once gave me a book about Alexander Agassiz because he liked my book about Agassiz -- and I'm happy to see him exert his usual charm and humor here in this Stewart segment.
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As I said over on Jonah's blog, my only issue with the above video is that Sacks said that humans are the only animal that can dance. Recent research suggests otherwise.
Posted by: The Science Pundit | June 30, 2009 2:22 PM