memory

I've blogged a lot about this new project I'm doing on how we know the world, on cognition and change . . . well, some days, learning isn't all it's cracked up to be.

A beautiful podcast courtesy of RadioLab on Clive Wearing, the musicologist and composer who suffered massive brain damage twenty years ago resulting in the worst case of amnesia known. All that survives, love and music. Oliver Sacks has a new book, Musicophilia about this coming out soon.