Random Thoughts
- On vacation
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I am spending my vacations in the beautiful island of Leukada, in the Ionian sea. Consequently, my posting rate here has dropped significantly in the last few days. I will return in August; in the meantime I will still post something, but expect a much sma ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 22 2012 - 4:52am
- Building on Each Other's Strengths as a Way of Minimizing Challenges: Siblings Rule
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As the mother to three wonderful kids on the spectrum, I am given a unique opportunity to watch how each handles his and her challenges differently, and even better, how they come together as a triad to work out how the world works and ways to navigate an ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jul 26 2012 - 9:29am
- Reviewing Kimberly Gerry-Tucker's memoir on living with Asperger's
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Kimberly Gerry-Tucker' s memoir is not just another Asperger's autobiography; it is much more than that. From rich recollections of a childhood where things were often more real than people, where words often failed to come out, where one call a ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jul 27 2012 - 8:50pm
- 2012 Olympics and the Ghosts Of Empire
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The Olympics are coming to a close and now the British get to reflect on what, if anything, has changed in the world due to a gaming event designed to make the world a smaller and better place. ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 12 2012 - 10:11pm
- Plants muscling in?
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Do plants have muscles? Strictly speaking, no, but time-lapse photography shows that they can be quite thuggish in behaviour. ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Aug 25 2012 - 7:51am
- Ban GMO Music Now!
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Physician John Smallberries said to me, “Twenty years ago, I didn’t even know what the word autism meant. It was rare.” But since then something has shifted. Whether it was music, vaccines, GMOs, or some combination of those, an astounding 1 in 110 childr ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2012 - 10:37am
- They Called Us Salisbury Steak? Oh, The Humanity
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On-Cor Frozen Foods of Geneva, Illinois has the funniest product recall you will read today. Now, product recalls are not generally humorous. As Ian Froeb at Riverfront Times rightly notes, they are usually about serious stuff like listeria, E. coli, sal ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 26 2012 - 10:51am
- Another Scientific Fantasy or Why Social Scientists Are Simply Annoying.
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There are few things as irritating as scientists taking complex topics and reducing them to sound bites that are invariably wrong. They pick up the wrong data, manipulate it with a bit of correlation and suddenly they're off and running on a new stud ...
Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Aug 29 2012 - 9:25am
- Zero Calorie Noodles: I Am Willing To Believe You
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I am a lot more skeptical than most people who call themselves Skeptics; I am skeptical about more than Bigfoot and religion, I am even skeptical that (a) all Democratic politicians are pro-science while Republicans are not and (b) either of their voters a ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 29 2012 - 4:19pm
- Science Of Sheryl Crow: Cell Phones Cause Cancer But Organic Food Prevents It
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Progressives love to get celebrity endorsements for their beliefs, and for good reason; while the right is stuck with Clint Eastwood wandering around unintelligibly- and he disagrees with about half their platform- the other side's famous true believe ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 10 2012 - 4:24pm
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