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No More Pity: The First Openly Autistic White House Appointee Speaks Out
Ari Ne'eman - photo by Paul Morse/Wired.com Please read my exclusive Wired interview with the first openly autistic White House appointee in history, Ari Ne’eman. In December, Ne’eman — the 22-year-old...
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After 50 Years in the Lab, A Reproduction Expert Comes Out of the Closet
Claire Wadeson (left) and Neena Schwartz (right) Neena Schwartz is a legend in reproductive biology. A trailblazing endocrinologist, she helped map the pathways of communication between the brain and...
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NOM, A Late-Stage Cancer in the American Body Politic
Anti-gay demonstrator in Iowa The National Organization for Marriage conducted a dark and troubling experiment in Iowa on Tuesday. Funded by secret donors from out of state, NOM and other anti-gay...
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Why Can’t the Heroic Intern Who Saved Giffords’ Life Get Married in Arizona?
Congressional intern Daniel Hernandez on CNN Daniel Hernandez, the 20-year-old college junior who saved Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ life by tending to her wounds until the ambulance arrived after...
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Autism, Vaccines, and Community: Straight Talk with Seth Mnookin
Seth Mnookin, author of "The Panic Virus" Two things that the anti-vaccine movement offers to parents of kids with Autism Spectrum Disorder that the pro-vaccine forces generally don’t, Seth Mnookin...
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The Plot to Turn On the World: The Leary/Ginsberg Acid Conspiracy
Timothy Leary, Los Angeles, March 1992. Photo by Allen Ginsberg, used with permission of the Allen Ginsberg Estate. (Allen is visible in the mirror.) In November of 1966, the poet Allen Ginsberg made a...
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Why the GOP Hates the National Science Foundation
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) registers disapproval of NSF-sponsored Jell-O wrestling on the taxpayers' dime Yesterday in Washington, amid great fanfare, the Republican senator from Oklahoma, Tom Coburn,...
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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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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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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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