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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Are we at the edge of another pandemic? H5N1 |
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| Merriam-Webster Definition an outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affects a significant proportion of the population. I think we can safely say Bird Flu is a pandemic and has been for a while now. There is nothing in... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Musician Robyn Hitchcock is self diagnosed |
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| And this is why so many NTs think autistic adults are faking it. :roll: And this is why so many NTs think autistic adults are faking it. :roll: The problem is not an epidemic of autism wannabes, it is the perception that there is one. I am very skeptical there is such an epidemic. Most who try and ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Musician Robyn Hitchcock is self diagnosed |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:09 pm
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| Singer-Songwriter Robyn Hitchcock’s Living Tribute to the ’60s Amidst his tales of roughing his first experiences in the infamously ruthless environs of English boarding school, he shares an abundance of insight about his parents and upbringing, as well as a self-diagnosis of having Asperger’s synd... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mideast War blowback |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:56 pm
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Views: 70,294
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| Columbia University signals it will comply with Trump administration's demands Columbia University signaled Wednesday that it would comply with the Trump administration's demands in return for restoring $400 million in federal funding, saying it would "engage in constructive dialogue with our ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Trump pauses UPenn funding over trans athlete policy |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:50 pm
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| Trump administration pauses $175M in funding to UPenn over trans athlete policy The Trump administration is pausing $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania over its transgender athlete policies, the White House announced Wednesday in a post on X. The post said the Ivy Leag... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Trump fires both Democrats on the Federal Trade Commission |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:45 pm
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| NBC News President Donald Trump fired two Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies. A White House official confirmed the firings of Democratic Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter after t... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Trump set to sign executive order closing Ed Department |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:40 pm
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| The president campaigned extensively on a promise to dismantle the department and appointed an education secretary keen to carry out the task. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday to close the Education Department, fulfilling a years-long pledge to dismantle the fe... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Ukraine and the USA/Russia peace talks |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:31 pm
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| Ukraine is 'ready to implement' a partial ceasefire plan with Russia, Zelenskyy says The Trump administration and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Ukraine has agreed to move forward with a partial ceasefire with Russia, which President Donald Trump and Russian President V... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:20 pm
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Replies: 2,754
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| Israeli military launches new ground operation in Gaza Israel’s military sent ground troops back into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces announced, just over a day after it broke a two-month ceasefire with a sprawling bombing campaign that killed hundreds ac... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: English star footballer Lucy Bronze is AuDHD |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:55 pm
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| England football star Lucy Bronze on her autism and ADHD diagnosis: “It’s my superpower” England football star Lucy Bronze has opened up about her autism and ADHD diagnosis for the first time and believes it could have contributed to her successful football career. The Euro 2022 winner and 2023 FIF... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: 2000s Music Appreciation |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:15 pm
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: 90's music appreciation |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:38 pm
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:11 pm
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| For the purposes of this post I am specifically limiting it to the October 7 attack. Rehashing the 110 year history of the Palistinian-Israeli conflict is done in many places elsewhere. The fault is primarily with Hamas. But fault lies with Netanyahu for his strategy of easing up on Hamas because he... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: The Autism studies/research thread |
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Posted: Yesterday, 12:22 pm
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| Abnormalities in brain complexity in children with autism spectrum disorder: a sleeping state functional MRI study Background and Objective The theory of complexity loss in neurodivergent brain is widely acknowledged. However, the findings of autism research do not seem to align well with this theo... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: What an Ableist article looks like |
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Posted: Yesterday, 11:56 am
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| Wall Street is Profiting From America’s Autism Crisis Mary H. is a mother of three boys living with her family in Georgia. Her middle son, Jack, was diagnosed with autism at age three. Despite getting Jack into an early intervention program, the wait list for behavior therapy — as for most families... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: ‘The Last of Us’ actor Bella Ramsey discloses |
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Posted: Yesterday, 11:43 am
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| Bella Ramsey Opens Up About Their “Freeing” Autism Diagnosis: “The Label of Being Autistic Has Been So Helpful to Me” In a new interview with British Vogue for their April 2025 cover, Bella Ramsey opens up about their autism diagnosis, calling it a label that has “been so helpful” in better underst... |
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