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An Eye-Opening Adventure in Socialized Medicine
Dr. Marx will see you now (image by Keith Karraker) I woke up in a rented room in London in the middle of the night, feeling like my eyes had been packed with hot sand and the lids were somehow glued...
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What’s the Most Important Lesson You Learned from a Teacher?
Keith with a model of a DNA molecule. Photo by Steve Silberman. Five mornings a week, Keith gets up before dawn, puts on one of his geekiest bow ties (think Space Invaders, DNA helices, and daVinci’s...
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Book of the Year: Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism
Leo Rosa visits the Magic Kingdom, 2011. Photo by Mike Des Roches. A sea-change is happening in the world of autism. Just a few years ago, the loudest voices in media coverage of the issue were those...
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Inside the Mind of a Synaesthete
The Figure 5 in Gold, Charles Demuth, 1928 “I have this rather freakish gift of seeing letters in color,” novelist Vladimir Nabokov told a BBC interviewer in 1962. “It’s called color hearing. Perhaps...
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Breaking the Habits that Enslave Us: Q&A with Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg, New York Times reporter and author of "The Power of Habit" For a species obsessed with free will, choices, and options, we spend a surprising amount of time acting like zombies. We’re...
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Autism Awareness is Not Enough: Here’s How to Change the World
"The Structure of Flame" by autistic artist Jessica Park. Courtesy of Pure Vision Arts: http://purevisionarts.org In 2007, the United Nations passed a resolution declaring April 2 World Autism...
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Are Warnings About the Side Effects of Drugs Making Us Sick?
Photo by Flickr user Noodles and Beef. Your doctor doesn’t like what’s going on with your blood pressure. You’ve been taking medication for it, but he wants to put you on a new drug, and you’re fine...
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Five Billion Years of Solitude: Lee Billings on the Science of Reaching the...
Lee Billings, author of the upcoming book “Five Billion Years of Solitude” Like many geeks of the post-Sputnik generation, I grew up hoping that space travel would be common by the time I reached...
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Music to Write By: 10 Top Authors Share Their Secrets for Summoning the Muse
Bach: “I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.” (Image used with permission of Dave Grossman: http://www.jsbach.net/bass ) Writing is a hell of a...
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What I Learned from My Autistic Son: A Guest Post by Brenda Rothman
Jack Rothman and his parents, Brenda and Steve Introduction by Steve Silberman: Six years ago, the United Nations declared April 2 to be World Autism Awareness Day. For most of the 20th Century, autism...
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Updated: The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human...
Photo caption: Susan Kare sketchbooks on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (Feb 2015) Wonderful update: When Susan first told me that she still had this sketchbook in her attic while I was...
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Repost: Autism, Vaccines, and Community: Steve Silberman Talks with Seth...
Editor’s note: For historical perspective on the latest showdown between science and celebrity culture as concerns vaccine safety, we re-post here an in-depth interview by Steve Silberman, PLOS...
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