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Elections and Hallucinations

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 5, 2012

Todd Purdum, Vanity Fair national editor, gives us an election forecast, and the story behind it. Sam Wang of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, on how predictions can be right—or wrong. The one and only Christopher Walken discusses his latest film, “A Late Quartet.” Then, Oliver Sacks explores hallucinations and why we experience them.

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