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STEM skills are vital to the world we live in today, but technology alone, as Steve Jobs famously insisted, is not enough. We desperately need the expertise of those who are educated to the human, cultural, and social as well as the computational.

The Surprising Thing Google Learned About Its Employees — And What It Means for Today’s Students - The Washington Post

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Silberman begins his talk by sketching out why autism has become such an emergent motif in the developing cultural panorama of the 21<sup>st</sup> century. Highlighting a graph showing an <span class="s1"><a href="https://autismspeaksblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/prevalence-graph1.jpg" target="_blank">inexorable and steep increase in the prevalence of autism</a> over recent decades</span>, Silberman notes that the increase is a departure from Kanner’s own assertions that autism is a rare entity. Indeed, the steepening slope has led some people–and high-profile autism-related organizations–to assert that autism is an epidemic, like, as Silberman says, something you could “catch from another kid <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2015/01/20/five-things-to-know-about-the-disneyland-measles-outbreak/" target="_blank" class="exit_trigger_set">at Disneyland</a>.”

Why Were Cases of Autism So Hard to Find Before the 1990s?

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Look at his post again — that’s exactly how he words his point of view. “Too many people have peed in the pool.” “Now the pool is stagnant, …frothy with scum.” Fry’s feelings aren’t feelings — they are a universal and objective standard of behavior, which everyone else is violating. All those angry people, yelling that Fry has violated a universal and objective standard of behavior? Ah, they’re just perpetually offended, you see. Totally different.

Everyone’s Offended These days / Fuzzy Notepad

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