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This weekend: The workings of the brain, nanotechnology, and the future of science writing

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: March 22, 2012

Category: Appearances, Housekeeping | Tagged Alan Lightman, Amy Harmon, Graduate Program in Science Writing, Kurt Andersen, Marcia Bartusiak, MIT | 2 Comments

SciWriteLabs 7.3: Long-form narratives, crappy first drafts, and the importance of wasting time

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: February 20, 2012

Category: Autism, Journalism, SciWriteLabs, The New York Times | Tagged Amy Harmon, David Dobbs, Dean Baquet, Deborah Blum, Gay Talese, Jack Hart, Jack Robison, John Elder Robison, John McPhee, Jonah Lehrer, Kirsten Lindsmith, The New Yorker | Leave a comment

Autism roundtable, Part I: Angry parents, disability rights, and living in a neurotypical world

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 25, 2012

Category: Autism, Media, Public health, 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 | 25 Comments

SciWriteLabs 7.2: The New York Times’s Amy Harmon on what it means to be a science writer

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 11, 2012

Category: Autism, Journalism, SciWriteLabs, The New York Times, The Panic Virus | Tagged academic journals, Amy Harmon, Amy Wallace, Asperger syndrome, Boston, Catherine Lord, CDC, DNA, Eric Courchesne, Eric Fombonne, footnotes, Fred Volkmar, Gardner Museum, Gerald Fishbach, Jack Robison, Kevin Pelphrey, Kirsten Lindsmith, Los Angeles Times, Marianne English, McGill University, Michael Specter, MIT, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, NIMH, Simons Foundation, technology, The New Yorker, UC-San Diego Autism Center of Excellence, vaccines, Vanity Fair, Wired, Yale School of Medicine, Yale's Neuroscience Laboratory | 4 Comments

SciWriteLabs 7.1: The New York Times’s Amy Harmon on neurodiversity and writing about autism

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: January 6, 2012

Category: Autism, Journalism, SciWriteLabs, The New York Times, The Panic Virus | Tagged Amy Harmon, Asperger syndrome, David Wolman, Jack Robison, John Elder Robison, Kirsten Lindsmith, Look Me In the Eye, neurodiversity, neurology, Steve Silberman, Twitter, Wired | 5 Comments

John Elder Robison: “Why The Times remains the paper of record”

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: December 29, 2011

Category: Autism, Journalism, Media, The New York Times | Tagged Amy Harmon, Jack Robison, John Elder Robison, Kirsten Lindsmith, Look Me In the Eye | 1 Comment

The New York Times’s incredible piece on the lives and loves of two adults with Aspergers

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: December 28, 2011

Category: Autism, Media, The New York Times | Tagged Amy Harmon, Andre Dubus, Breaking Bad, cats, cauliflower, David Dobbs, Jack Robison, Kirsten Lindsmith, My Little Pony, Raymond Carver, Reddit, The Open Notebook | 11 Comments