Into It: Oliver Sacks
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The author of 'Musicophilia' and 'Awakenings' chats about what he's reading, watching, and listening to.
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Reader Suchet Bal sends us his experiences.
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David Weinberger's introduces an excerpt from his recently published book, Everything Is Miscellaneous.
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In a conversation with TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan, this icon answers readers' questions
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âWalter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T. And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the institute created to spread knowledge through cyberspace,â writes Sara Rimer (New York Times). Due to MIT OpenCourseWare, the âglobal classroomâ that delivers more than 1800 courses via the MIT website, Lewin receives fan mail from students all over the world. âProfessor Lewin revels in his fan mail and in the idea that he is spreading the love of physics. âTeaching is my life,â he said.â Like to sit in on a physics course taught by Professor Lewin? You can download free video podcasts of his lectures on iTunes.
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Letters written during a tumultuous year and  unsealed this week offer a rare glimpse inside the heart and mind of  the 20th century's greatest genius
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The time is right for a brain-pincher of a theme show, which is what âArchive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Artâ at the International Center of Photography is.
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Matt Cashner provides a high-level introduction to POE, the Perl Object Environment, examining the concepts that POE brings to bear when designing long-running Perl applications.
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A new book offers a psychological perspective on what it means to share a bed.
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Graham Hodges, author of "Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver," is taking questions from City Room readers this week.
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Take a look at what autism can truly be like, through the eyes of Amanda Baggs. In a video she produced and posted on YouTube, this brilliant young woman shares a glimpse into her world. Dr. Sanjay Gupta brings her story to Anderson Cooper 360 tonight.
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Immy Humes' documentary  about her late father, Harold L. Humes, has a poignancy that  comes not only from its subject -- a largely forgotten but  highly important literary figure of the late 1950s and early  '60s -- but also from the inclusion of interviews with such  departed contemporaries as Norman Mailer, George Plimpton,  William Styron and Timothy Leary.
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Interpretations of the insanity plea have changed through the ages, but advances in neuroscience promise to redefine free will and personal responsibility, and change the way we think about punishment. By Rowan Hooper.
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UK and Swiss scientists find a way to trigger an out-of-body experience in healthy volunteers.
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Recently two books,          by Peter Woit         and         by Lee Smolin,          have been published questioning whether the enormous theoretical        effort applied to the problems of string theory has been        fruitful.  Both books have been reviewed in           several        popular        publications,          and generated substantial discussion both inside and outside of        the physics community.                        One response was published several days ago           by Briane Greene          on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times (also        here).  A          famously grouchy observer          called the editorial a long, wistful plea for patience.  But        what struck me most as I read it was its similarity to the           crackpot index          maintained by John Baez.  So, for fun, I scored it.
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The New York Times asked scientists and others who lived through it (and a few who were yet to be born) to reflect on what Sputnik meant to them.
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Tycho:  It's hard to imagine not having access to a deep reservoir of supernatural knowledge to enrich and inform my daily life.  As early as age thirteen I was already curating a collection of incredible facts, highly granular assessments of wicked and ancient lizards, up to and including notes on their diet, sleep habits, and taste in home decor.  From the demure to the diabolical, I have sought to build a robust profile of the hidden world.  My very mind is an arsenal.