I used to think I didn’t read phone books, but........
Rescuing Nature | Are Mules really sterile? | Our prejudice against hybrids, even among ourselves
......who would have predicted that north Europeans and North American indigenous people share 20% of their DNA?
Rescuing Fiction | Dombey & Son | Charles Dickens the magician
.......this is a King Lear story, but with a different ending.
Rescuing Reality | The Birdcatcher, the Vietnam war, and autism | Michael Bowden and Huế 1968
......four dreams in The Birdcatcher lead Stone to a revelation about how autistic people have come to exist - to who they really are.
Autism | Is there a real definition of autism?
Recently I've developed an appetite again for reading about autism, but the trouble is that the more I read the more confused I get. Over 70 years since it was 'discovered' there still seems to be no agreement as to what autism is. If you go to the 2013 DSM-5 of the American Psychiatric Association, … Continue reading Autism | Is there a real definition of autism?
Rescuing Fiction | Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes | the antidote for introverts and those on the spectrum who long to enter the social world
The problem for those of us who love sincerely, is that we so often fail, while those more callous and calculating so often succeed.
Rescuing History | Pandora’s box on the western plains | the Battle of the Little Big Horn
"You and I are going home today on a road we do not know."
Rescuing the Future | the coming AI storm | Isaac Asimov where are you?
Despite all the warnings, we aren't ready for machine intelligence at all.
Rescuing the Future | AI | “Answer” – Fredric Brown’s warning to us about intelligent machines
......Now they're here, knocking on the front door and the back door simultaneously.
Alan Conrad 