Originally Posted by 32flavours
Also, Oliver Sacks is the ****. He spoke at Con Hall sometime this year but I couldn't make it. Too bad, he's supposed to be a great lecturer. Wes, I assume you read "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"?
Yeah, I wanted to go to that too.
And yeah, that's the one I read. I have a few of his other books in my wishlist.
I'd also recommend Mind Hacks (both the book and
site) to anyone interested too as it uses examples you can try yourself to illustrate pretty much every weird little quirk of the brain.