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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 ...1 day ago -
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 ...2 days ago -
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 ...2 days ago -
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 ...1 week ago -
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 ...1 week ago -
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 [...]2 weeks ago -
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 ...2 weeks ago -
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 ...2 weeks ago -
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 ...2 weeks ago -
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

