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  1. Digital Object Identifiers--for researchers http://is.gd/5qqLN I want one. Via @jonahlehrer
  2. I'm a bad egg (does being autistic, not Asperger, mean I'm ranked as a "severely" bad egg?). You may be too http://bit.ly/4JRZ1V
  3. Humans anthropomorphize their trees http://bit.ly/7VuBeu “He smells great, and he’s got a good home! And you can see he’s happy”
  4. Earthquakes, measured in tweets per minute http://bit.ly/4NpY0v
  5. Temple Grandin on fame: "You know what happens. Just look at statues of famous people; they all have pigeon poop on them” http://is.gd/5mh5p
  6. One of the world's great wonders: British people and hedgehogs http://tr.im/HrY7
  7. ASAN ranks & classifies autistics: 33% of us are inherently "significantly impaired" http://tr.im/HrRN Awaiting the official ASAN criteria.
  8. Beautiful: "Unfolding the Earth" http://tr.im/HmBy "There remains one question to be answered: What is this all good for?" Via New Scientist
  9. Outstanding work by 2 autistics, Janet Norman-Bain & her son Alex Bain, to make the world a better place for all autistics http://tr.im/HbpX
  10. Independence of UK general adult population plummets. Early intervention *not* proposed as obvious solution http://tr.im/H54n
  11. Goggling: non-verbal Googling http://tr.im/H2vw
  12. ASAN thoroughly denigrated, ostracized, etc, this autistic. Which ASAN category of autistic am I? http://tr.im/H27D Genuinely curious
  13. The 2 provinces which have almost all of Canada's Board Certified Behavior Analysts also have Canada's most disgruntled autism advocates
  14. "A university is, or should be, a place where you can't yet tell what will be useful to the outside world" http://tr.im/GPar
  15. Was asked for comments on 2009 paper re "recovery" from autism via ABA-based interventions. Here they are http://tr.im/GKHa
  16. "Is 'magisterial' simply a fancy word for 'boring'?"--Tyler Cowen http://bit.ly/6S6Dsx My thesaurus offers "snotty."
  17. Adding to menagerie (look, cephalopods!) of nonhumans accorded more respect than autistics http://bit.ly/5FJZtr via @stevesilberman
  18. Stradivari’s secret? "Maybe a player, when seeing a beautiful instrument, he plays better" http://tr.im/GCJS
  19. No surprise: smart phone apps designed for disabled people turn out to be popular with nondisabled people, and vice-versa http://tr.im/GyB5
  20. Global measles deaths fell by 78% from 2000-2008 due to childhood vaccination campaigns http://tr.im/Gxrw