Random Thoughts

Off to Oslo

Today I am leaving to Norway, for a visit of few days. If you happen to have suggestions for things to see and do there, please drop me a line in the comments thread below; I will be traveling with my son Filippo (13 yo) and daughter Ilaria (9), so avoid a ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 3 2012 - 5:21am

Eileen Riley-Hall’s Parenting Girls On The Autism Spectrum

As almost every parent of an autistic child knows, there is no shortage of books out there on autism, but true gems are rare. Eileen Riley-Hall’s new book Parenting Girls on the Autism Spectrum   is just that, though, a true gem and a must-have book for a ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Apr 10 2012 - 7:09am

A Stroll in the park with Bente

As I had announced in my blog, I spent four days in Oslo before Easter, visiting museums with my kids and my fiancee, and enjoying the place-new to all of us. ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 8 2012 - 3:20pm

Wild Goose Chases at Six in the Morning

To take a statement with 'a grain of salt' or 'a pinch of salt' means to accept it but to maintain a degree of skepticism about its truth.-- The Phrase Finder We use idioms with little thought. We know what they mean, even if the sayin ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Apr 13 2012 - 7:04am

Between Physicists

Between physicists- there's an Easter bunny! Last Friday I went to Oslo, you know, the capital of Norway and home of the Vikings, to meet experimental physicist Tommaso Dorigo. Tommaso, who writes A Quantum Diaries Survivor   here on Science 2.0 had a ...

Blog Post - Bente Lilja Bye - Apr 13 2012 - 1:40pm

Stimming isn't About the Parent

"These behaviors can be irritating for family members."-- on stimming  in autistic children My children stim. I stim--come on, for Pete's sake--every one of us--autistic or not-- STIMS. We all engage in self-regulatory behaviors to calm our ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Apr 17 2012 - 2:45pm

What Took So Long? 200 Activists Launch Themselves Off Mt. Kilimanjaro

Don't get too excited but 200 activists are going to jump off  Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. These aren't the usual pesky environmentalists, these are hang-gliding global activists, which really sounds like just an excuse to go hang-gliding but g ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2012 - 9:43am

Hello Again... And Bye Bye...

It's been a while. And now I'm back only to say goodbye. Well, not really. It's just that I've decided to go on to a more personal blog at (drumroll, please):    The Beast, the Bard, and the Bot. Why? What's wrong with Science 2.0, ...

Blog Post - Gunnar De Winter - Apr 27 2012 - 11:41am

Petition To The MA State Senate On The Judge Rotenberg Center.

Gregory Miller, a former JRC employee, has set up a petition on Change.org, and given permission to repost his petition letter: ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Apr 29 2012 - 1:34pm

April's Autism Awareness Month Ends: We Return You to Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

April 30. The last day of Autism Awareness Month. The last hurrah, although let's be honest, the wider world didn't really notice all that much and probably didn't learn all that much, either. The truth is that autism awareness happens at th ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Apr 30 2012 - 6:07pm