Whose Reality is This?

Two common words used amongst autistics (and in the autism literature) are 'masking' and 'camouflaging'.  As a late-diagnose...

The dangers of air pollution seem obvious and of concern to some, but apparently only a minority. How much of the apathy is attributed to ...

What convinces me that our species is 'doomed' (I wish I could avoid using that term, but can no longer deny the applicability) is t...

I read an announcement this morning and associated media release about a NYS senator supporting introduced legislation to help recruit more ...

We get some rules to follow That and this, these and those No one knows …..” (‘No One Knows’. Song by Queen of the Stone Ages; album Songs...

I read the term "helicopter parenting" this morning and all I could picture was a helicopter and kids without connecting the maze ...

Pangea and the diversity of life.   Most everyone knows what Pangea was: the largest supercontinent in Earth's history. All land masses ...

"Pathosystem"  I like that term. It encompasses a systems perspective -both pathogen and host- rather than focusing on just a sing...

I love this quote. Wish I had it on a rubber stamp.  "Being unable to accurately measure the thing on which a theory is based is a fair...

One commonly known trait of autism is fear of change. Reaction to change can be extreme, e.g. a 'meltdown', or mild, such as slight ...

Discovering as an older adult that you are Asperger's: You feel fine most of the time. But you don't know if that's because you...

“The origins of the obesity epidemic may be further back than we thought” A recently published paper concluded that the rise of obesity bega...

A fantastic genome study of 2000 canids tells a 'story' of selective dog breeding over time and space.  "Incorporating 20 × da...

I know I'm not alone in this. So many ghosts linger in the void who didn't know, didn't have a word for it. They, we, were stran...

 "The secret always finds its way out, if not in words, then somatically, and most often in a way that it can be dealt with and helped ...

  What do you complain about the most? Noise, the unpleasant energy sound waves that reach my ears, disrupt the waves in my brain leading to...

To fully understand evolution, and life itself, one must be able to grasp quantum theory (quantum mechanics is mostly mathematical equations...

It's unnerving, and rather irritating, when someone you reconnect with after 4+ decades tries to pin you to a point on a linear time sca...

While reading this post about Virginia Woolf ,  I was reminded of an internal and eternal dialogue pondering the question of how we perceive...