“To Those Who Ask What The Infinitely Small Quantity In Mathematics Is, We Answer That It Is Actually

Star_Wars Writing_Systems.

With Net Neutrality On The Chopping Block, Communities Are Taking Matters Into their Own Hands—And Scaring The Hell Out Of Comcast

What The Future of Autonomous Driving will bring to the world.  

(via For plants on alien worlds, it isn't easy being green - space - 11 April 2007 - New Scientist)

Could the demand for a cure to autism be coming exclusively from neurotypical parents given the existence of advocates against a cure who...

It could be that most of The Demand for a Cure for Autism comes from Neurotypicals. Answer by Zem Jones:

To "cure" me would be to change the person I am into someone I don't recognise. To "cure" some of the issues caused by my autism, such as my heightened anxiety, or hyperacusis, or my bowel problems, would be a blessed relief. People who want a cure for autism do not understand what needs curing and generally they must be people who don't know autism from the inside, or people who have been taught that it is autism that is the whole problem when it is probably a sensory difference or comorbid condition or combination of them that causes the discomfort and distress they see on the outside. I have a friend who has a child with Kanner's autism. He also has epilepsy. She tells me that when his epilepsy is under control he thrives as if his presentation was more like Asperger's rather than Kanner's but she always knows when a big fit is coming because he regresses into classic autistic behaviours for days beforehand. To me this says the autism is not the problem for him and I suspect the same is true for most children diagnosed with classic autism - if they could tell us what the problem really is and we could cure that then how much better would their lives be? I think people who want to cure the autism itself don't even know what autism really is.

Could the demand for a cure to autism be coming exclusively from neurotypical parents given the existence of advocates against a cure who...

Ranger Robin wrote Books on Birds.

Miniature Monday!

Small books about birds by “Ranger Robin” published by Phillips and Hunt. No date, but definitely 19th century. These are four inches tall, so they are a bit beyond a miniature book, but definitely still small.

The books are: Hawks and Owls, Swimming Birds, Tooth-Billed Birds, Vultures and Eagles, and Wading Birds.

Seemed a shame that color wasn’t available to them when they printed that frontispiece, so I added the red they must have wished for.

 Gift of Carol Kapell in Memory of Pauline B. Deems.

-Colleen

Happy 4th of July!

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Here are two interesting Books to read. A Star_Wars Atlas and Vistas of Many Worlds.

http://embed.ted.com/talks/brian_greene_why_is_our_universe_fine_tuned_for_life.html

We could be Living in a Multi_Verse. 

Publishers are giving away Bestselling Books for Free!  

Last year, Random House decided to give away Dan Brown’s bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code, for free for one week. The eBook freebie ran on the 10-year anniversary of The Da Vinci Code, and a few weeks before the release of Brown’s new book, Inferno.

Why did Random House give away a...