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Hello Again... And Bye Bye...

It's been a while. And now I'm back only to say goodbye. Well, not really. It's just that I've decided to go on to a more personal blog at (drumroll, please):    The Beast, the Bard, and the Bot. Why? What's wrong with Science 2.0, ...

Blog Post - Gunnar De Winter - Apr 27 2012 - 11:41am

Petition To The MA State Senate On The Judge Rotenberg Center.

Gregory Miller, a former JRC employee, has set up a petition on Change.org, and given permission to repost his petition letter: ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Apr 29 2012 - 1:34pm

April's Autism Awareness Month Ends: We Return You to Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

April 30. The last day of Autism Awareness Month. The last hurrah, although let's be honest, the wider world didn't really notice all that much and probably didn't learn all that much, either. The truth is that autism awareness happens at th ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Apr 30 2012 - 6:07pm

A Personal Victory

Chess is a game, a sport, and a very radical way to test one's concentration and discipline in pure thought. Besides liking it as a game (a precondition to enjoy the other benefits), I also enjoy immensely the demands that a chess game puts on your br ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 3 2012 - 10:04am

Find The Winning Move

To the couple of positions I posted yesterday from the Chess Tournament I played this weekend, let me add one I played on round II, when I was white against Fausto Scali, the blind player. The position arose from the Advance variation of the French defense ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 3 2012 - 7:08am

I have a New Position, but Why?

As you may already know from the Science meets Society “ interview ” with me (from SMS’s published German version), Sascha Vongehr has finally left the postdoctoral limbo and entered some different limbo at one of the best universities of the new internat ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Jan 17 2016 - 10:28pm

All Good Things: Reflections on My Father's Retirement

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - May 12 2012 - 6:17pm

Pinterest Hype Is Not Translating To Advertising

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Article - Anna Ohlden - May 15 2012 - 6:27pm

Introducing Life-Dialogues

I have recently created a blog-site called Life-Dialogues that covers the latest topics in neuroscience, stem cell biology, cancer and molecular biology.  So- if you were wondering where all my contents went- you can find my recent contents at life-dialogu ...

Blog Post - Jennifer Wong - May 23 2012 - 3:22pm

Tax Talk

After reading this article "Sociologists' research study finds everyday tax talk is 'morally charged'", I was somewhat stunned that in 2012, it would still be a topic of research to consider what the American taxpayer is upset abou ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - May 23 2012 - 7:02pm