Desktop Diaries: Oliver Sacks

SciFry http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/12... Many of us spend more waking hours at our desk than anywhere else. Writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks explains what his desk means to him in the first in a series of Desktop Diaries. From lumps of metal to lemurs, Sacks describes some of his treasures, his preferred method for writing his books and why he takes comfort in dense metals. Filmed, produced by Katherine Wells and Flora Lichtman