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sethmnookin: You're older than you look. MT @Buster_ESPN: Watching Cabrera '13 is like watching Ruth '27, Ted Williams '49....HOF-caliber hitter at peak.
EmilyAnthes: HA! (Also: Sad.) RT @Sci_Phile "Homeopaths Without Borders" should be called "Visitors Without Medicine" http://t.co/kXPg8M76hW
TravisSaunders: Full text of very cool new paper posted to the #SBRN website http://t.co/vsrF3kuDB2
hillaryrosner: @MattLuizza My pleasure. Like the use of the Twitter training. :)
stevesilberman: Bravo to @mutualofomaha for this surprisingly progressive autism PSA, and to @lynnesoraya for this great post. http://t.co/rrHqjOv5EK
daniel_lende: RT @SverreMolland: Human Organ Traffic (via @Pocket) - http://t.co/iJRvktYDDi interviews with Nancy Scheper-Hughes
mfenner: RT @brigittejoerg: Knowledge Exchange report available "Making data count - Research Data and Research Assessment" http://t.co/218sorCXXy
MrEpid: @TubaCh so many aspects to it - high density + ppl from areas where diseases are endemic (malaria, measles) + sanitation etc.
BethSkw: According to my brother, there are places you can pay(?) to bow hunt rats in someone's barn.
Jason_Reads: Politicians furious over Bronx bus company's "ride through a real ghetto" tour: http://t.co/2Hbf8CImvs
jeancflanagan: Just watched “The Revisionaries” on Netflix - a look at the people behind the culture wars in the Texas Board of Education.
Category Archives: Science
What I Learned from My Autistic Son: A Guest Post by Brenda Rothman
Category: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Health, Media, Neurodiversity, Science, Writers
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Music to Write By: 10 Top Authors Share Their Secrets for Summoning the Muse
Category: Art, Books, Culture, Journalism, Media, Music, Poetry, Science, Science Writing, Writers
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The state of science writing, circa 2012: The summer of our discontent, made glorious by the possibilities of our time
Category: Journalism, Media, Science, Science Writing
Tagged ADHD, ars technica, autism, Bob Dylan, Brendan Maher, cancer, Cryptogenomicon, DNA, Ed Yong, Emily Willingham, ENCODE, Evolver Zone: Genomicron, Ewan Birney, Gizmodo, hookworms, JAMA, Jesus Diaz, John P.A. Ioannidis, John Timmer, Jonah Lehrer, Leonid Kruglyak, Mike White, Naomi Wolf, nature, newspapers, PLoS ONE, Sean Eddy, T. Ryan Gregory, The Finch and the Pea, The Guardian, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vagina, Wired
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Are Warnings About the Side Effects of Drugs Making Us Sick?
Category: Culture, Drugs, Ethics, Health, Nocebo effect, Placebo effect, Science
Tagged gluten, Hauser, health care, nocebo, pain, placebo
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Autism Awareness is Not Enough: Here’s How to Change the World
Category: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Culture, Education, Ethics, Health, Media, Neurodiversity, Neuroscience, Politics, Science, Technology
Tagged Autism Acceptance Day, World Autism Awareness Day
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Breaking the Habits that Enslave Us: Q&A with Charles Duhigg
Category: Books, Culture, History, Interview, Journalism, Marriage Equality, Media, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Placebo effect, Race, Science, Writers
Tagged AA, Charles Duhigg, incentive salience, Kent Berridge, Reza Habib, Rosa Parks, The Power of Habit
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Inside the Mind of a Synaesthete
Category: Art, Books, Culture, Drugs, Interview, Multimedia, Music, Neuroscience, Personal computing, Photography, Science, Technology
Tagged Ellington, Hockney, Messaien, Nabokov, Perry Hall, Ramachandran, Ravel, Scriabin, Synesthesia
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Autism roundtable, Part I: Angry parents, disability rights, and living in a neurotypical world
Category: Autism, Media, Science
Tagged Amy Harmon, Apple, applied behavioral analysis, Ari Ne'eman, Asperger syndrome, autism cults, Autism Diva, Autistic Self Advocacy Network, Defeat Autism Now!, DSM, Grateful Dead, ipad, Jenny McCarthy, John Elder Robison, Kristina Chew, Left Brain/Right Brain, Loving Lampposts, Lydia Brown, Neurotribes, Paul Collins, Ralph James Savarese, Shannon Des Roches Rosa, Steve Silberman, Temple Grandin, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Panic Virus, The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, Todd Drezner, Tom Lehrer, vaccines
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