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• Musings On Religion and Demography

  
  Wash Park Prophet — Authority: 133
  One of the big blind spots in American demography is religion. We have excruciatingly detailed demographic statistics the slice and dice the American population based on race, Hispanic origins, sex and age, mostly from a variety of government sources. We have far less information on religion, pieced together from a ...
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• Faking it

  
  What Sorts of People — Authority: 125
  Duke psychologist and behavioral economist Dan Ariely, has a fascinating short video up at Predictably Irrational on his work on the association between fakery and honesty. He reports his work, using (and demonstrated with) Chloe sunglasses and fake Chloes, and reports the experimental effects of even superficial ...
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• On reasonable accommodation

  
  What Sorts of People — Authority: 125
  Here’s the beginning of a recent autobiographical post from AbnormalDiversity, where you can go if you want to read the whole thing. It tells us a lot about how universities are organized, and what our social priorities are.OK, so I’ve found out that the midterm in my women and gender studies class requires that ...
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• An Article on Fundraising for Autism Awareness

  
  Spectrum Siblings — Authority: 110
  Here is an opinion piece I am planning on submitting to my campus’s newspaper about an autism fundraiser we had this weekend: Last week (my school) College’s service fraternity (name) raised over $7,000 for the Autism Outreach Center of (region). This was quite a feat, and I applaud them for it. However, I ...
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• Upcoming Event: Metanomics about creating our own economies

  
  MixedRealities — Authority: 130
  Tyler Cowen will be the guest of this week’s Metanomics show. He interests me a lot, as he is a financial blogger on Marginal Revolution and I just bought one of his books,  Create Your Own Economy, The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World. Metanomics explains: Tyler Cowen says there’s no call to ...
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• Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy

  
  What Sorts of People — Authority: 125
  Readers of the blog who followed our Thinking in Action series of blog posts on the above-named conference, held in New York in September 2008, as well as others, might be interested in having a look at the finished papers from that conference. They have now been published in a special issue of the [...]
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• Theory of Mind and Self

  
  Neoteny, sexual selection, cause of autism, human evolution, social transformation, left organizing and internet activism - how they all connect — Authority: 125
  I’d been studying Asperger’s and autism in connection to human evolution for maybe ten years before it dawned on me, after reading Michael Fitzgerald’s Autism and Creativity , that Asperger’s was a feature of my childhood.  As I was growing up, people seemed opaque to me.  I was in speech therapy almost all ...
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• Neurodiversitys Extremist Autism Cure Opponents - By What Right Do They Object?

  
  Facing Autism in New Brunswick — Authority: 470
  The declaration has been made by celebrity "autists"or "autistics" like Michelle Dawson, Amanda Baggs, Ari Neeman and various Neurodiversity bloggers that ""We", persons with autism spectrum disorders, do not want to be cured". These persons with mild autism spectrum disorders, including Aspergers, routinely ...
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• What really happens when the blind lead the blind?

  
  Spectrum Siblings — Authority: 110
  Think back for a moment and consider if you’ve heard either of these phrases for a moment: “When the Blind lead the Blind, both fall into a ditch.” “In the land of the Blind, the one-eyed man is king”. Likely that exercise wasn’t too difficult, if you’re anything like me, you’ve heard these phrases ...
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• Rough Week comes to Promising Conclusion

  
  Spectrum Siblings — Authority: 110
  This week with the boys started out very rough. It was a full moon, the weather was changing, and day lights savings was coming into play. To add onto this both boys are having their medication dosages changed. I was crushed by last Sunday’s experience, when Lawrence recoiled from my touch and hid from my presence, ...
  3 weeks ago

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