Scientists restore brain cells impaired by a rare genetic disorder
A therapy that restores brain cells impaired by a rare genetic disorder may offer a strategy for treating conditions like autism, epilepsy, and schizophrenia. #press
The background to this is that #AuDHD people have a choice: be yourself, and get rejected, or pretend to be NT, and get rejected, but not as quickly or as often. The NT population WILL NOT accept us for what we are!
@PatternChaser
Again, I was not talking about 'curing' anything with the objective of being accepted by NTs. I was talking about controlling some signs autistic people can find a burden for themselves.
It's not about searching a 'cure' to have a NT seal of approval, it's just pursuing researches such as some autistic ppl can feel better at their own level / with their own objectives. Someone was talking about pain perception level. It's a good example. @GreenRoc@pa@NPR@actuallyautistic
Off the top of my head I don’t remember how much the book of #Dune talks about the Harkonnen use of gladiatorial combat, but the movie draws a relatively subtle link between their idea of it and bullfighting - the guys in the wide black hats are like picadors, who stab the bull with lances to weaken it. I’ll avoid spoilers on a 60-year-old book or the new movie, but it’s a fun subtle thing.
@GrittyLipids@bookstodon
Damn, I think that's right. The Shadout Mapes wants to clean the blood off the horns of the bull's head. I'd entirely forgotten. Cheers!
(FWIW, I re-read Children and Chapterhouse recently. Not worth while, IMO; very much less interesting than I remembered. No bullfighting in either.)
@GrittyLipids@bookstodon
I suppose there is a little nod at bullfighting in the way Herbert describes using hooks on a worm to force it to stay on the surface, as well. I'd missed that.
@elonjet To the UFO mothership that showed up over Alaska way back in 1986, this is your call to return to the same place on Earth and mess with this plane. This time, more directly.
"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality."
@Nornennetz
und zu Unrecht von mir bei der Aufzählung zum Fragefreitag vergessen:
Diandra Linnemann (von der es nur einen Link zum Käfig gibt), deren Bücher man als hard boiled Urban-Fantasy bezeichnen könnte und die immer knapp am Horror vorbeischrammen. Bloß nicht von den Covern täuschen lassen!
#STS and adjacent people, I'm looking for reading recs on scifi + "capital S monolithic Science" as religion/pseudoreligion
not looking for the actual historical ties between religious institutions and research disciplines (tho I won't be mad if you share those too)
looking more for stuff like... how we went from early scifi tales and allegories at a time when many disciplines and methods where only starting out, to the rampant Scientism and TESCREALism of today... how that's played into technocracy and modulated colonial narratives and education and actual R&D initiatives and etc...
there's tons of individual connections to make between religious narratives and contemporary scifi-treated-as-reality, like general AI as both gods and eschatological prophecy. interested in that sort of thing too