March 7, 1997, Hour Two:Oliver Sacks/Search for Giant Squid

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Oliver Sacks/Search for Giant Squid

Neurologist Oliver Sacks wanted to find out what it was like never to have seen color, to have been totally colorblind since birth. By chance, he heard about a place full of such people, a remote island in the Pacific. In this hour of Science Friday, we'll talk to Dr. Sacks about his journeys. We'll also get progress report from an expedition searching for the elusive giant squid.

Guests:
Oliver Sacks
Author, "The Island of the Colorblind"
Professor of Neurology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY

Clyde Roper
Zoologist
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
Washington, DC

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