Category Archives: Politics

Five Billion Years of Solitude: Lee Billings on the Science of Reaching the Stars

By Steve Silberman
Posted: October 2, 2012
Category: Exoplanets, Interview, Journalism, NASA, Politics, Science, Science Fiction, Science Writing, Space flight, Travel | Tagged , , , , | 10 Comments

Autism Awareness is Not Enough: Here’s How to Change the World

By Steve Silberman
Posted: April 2, 2012
Category: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Culture, Education, Ethics, Genetics, Health, Media, Neurodiversity, Neuroscience, Politics, Science, Social networks, Technology | Tagged , | 44 Comments

An Eye-Opening Adventure in Socialized Medicine

By Steve Silberman
Posted: July 12, 2011
Category: Bacteria, Ethics, Health, Politics, Science, TV | Tagged , , , , , , , | 148 Comments

Why the GOP Hates the National Science Foundation

By Steve Silberman
Posted: May 27, 2011
Category: Journalism, Media, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Social networks, War | Tagged , , , , , , | 43 Comments

The Plot to Turn On the World: The Leary/Ginsberg Acid Conspiracy

By Steve Silberman
Posted: April 21, 2011
Category: Art, Books, Drugs, Gay, History, Interview, Multimedia, Poetry, Politics, Psychedelics, War, Writers | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 15 Comments

Autism, Vaccines, and Community: Straight Talk with Seth Mnookin

By Steve Silberman
Posted: March 8, 2011
Category: Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Bacteria, Biology, Books, Ethics, Genetics, Health, Interview, Journalism, Media, Memory, Neurodiversity, Neuroscience, Politics, Science, Writers | Tagged , , , , , , , | 61 Comments

Why Can’t the Heroic Intern Who Saved Giffords’ Life Get Married in Arizona?

By Steve Silberman
Posted: January 10, 2011
Category: Ethics, Gay, Marriage Equality, Politics, Sexuality | Tagged , , , , | 13 Comments

NOM, A Late-Stage Cancer in the American Body Politic

By Steve Silberman
Posted: November 4, 2010
Category: Gay, Journalism, Marriage Equality, Media, Neurodiversity, Politics, Sexuality | Tagged , , | 116 Comments

After 50 Years in the Lab, A Reproduction Expert Comes Out of the Closet

By Steve Silberman
Posted: October 11, 2010
Category: Biology, Books, Endocrinology, Feminism, Gay, Health, Interview, Neurodiversity, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Women, Writers | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

No More Pity: The First Openly Autistic White House Appointee Speaks Out

By Steve Silberman
Posted: October 6, 2010
Category: Autism, Health, Interview, Neurodiversity, Neuroscience, Politics, Science, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , | 12 Comments