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Gut Microbes Linked to Autism-Like Symptoms in Mice - Slashdot
Gut Microbes Linked to Autism-Like Symptoms in Mice - Slashdot
sciencehabit writes “Many physicians and parents report that their autistic children have unusually severe gastrointestinal problems, such as chronic constipation or diarrhea. These observations have led some researchers to speculate that an ailing gut contributes to the disorder in some cases, but …
Further evidence for the gut microbe theory of Autism…
Read more »bbz: Because of Haiyan's very recent devastation, please consider contributing to first-respondents efforts: If you're looking for someone...
bbz:
Read more »Because of Haiyan’s very recent devastation, please consider contributing to first-respondents efforts:
If you’re looking for someone missing in the Philippines, or if you have information about someone there, Google.org has launched the Typhoon Yolanda Person Finder. A Google crisis map has also been added to detail evacuation centers and areas designated for relief.
Charities and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from around the world are responding to this disaster. Many are detailed below with how they’re providing aid
Black.rain.cloud: I need more training! (discussion of traumatized autistic child and strategies for helping)
Read more »I've become pretty confident in my ability to assist adolescent Autistic/Aspergers students with superb verbal skills and mild-to-negligible behavior issues.
Student is now pretty good at sniffing out when others are teasing him under the guise of "just being friendly" and is able to tell them...
I'm not a teacher, but I am a mum of two kids on the ASD rainbow.
Help my best friend get out of medical debt
Help my best friend get out of medical debt
Read more »Some of you have seen me talk about my best friend Jess. She isn't on Tumblr much anymore, but she's a hilarious, incredibly bright, ambitious woman who also happens to be the strongest person I know.
Let me give you some background. Jess and I have been friends for more than 14 years. We assembled our own feminist army that we called the Viqueens.
We grew up together, we did everything together,
Good news, everyone!
I have a job.
A paying job.
I am now, officially, a journalist [talk about doing things backwards. Most writers start out as journos] for a soon-to-be-released online ladies’ magazine.
I have, over the past week, been working on some articles for it, usually two or three a day.
Today (Thursday) I was told I should be writing “pink and fluffy” pieces.
I must have earned a year off purgatory for not exploding at my best-beloved on a “
Read more »Titanpad help?
I’ve been trying to put my interfics on Titanpad, and I keep running into a problem.
My fics are too damn long.
I get up to one thousand (+/- 100) lines and the next paste in causes a weird glitch. I can’t see any subsequent lines even though the line count says they’re there. It’s just… white.
Anyone with expertise in Titanpad… please let me know if this is a common thing
Read more »Would all my beta-readers please...
Send me their email address?
I have three stories that I reckon are finished, but every time I ask for volunteers, I get lots of ‘yes please’ and nowhere to send it to.
I ALREADY HAVE THREE STORIES FOR YOU.
Just send me your freaking email address?
Read more »I've been working on a cypher
It’s for a book. Honest.
Nothing nefarious going on here, no sir.
Now, given my limited brains on the subject, I thought the wise thing to do was encode something with my cypher and let the internet geniuses out there try and crack it.
So here’s the encoded text:
Raewadmzpeqhqzkudlmsaairmjqdlndafradjazjuexbagvarag'narjanlba'xbafrirqvaYvoregv'naqqrqvxngrqgbkrcebcbfvlbakngnyzranexerngrqrxjny*Abjjrnerratnwrqvantengfvivyjb'grfgvatjrkreknganlba'benavanlbafbxbafrirqnaqfbqrqvxngrq'xnaybatraqhe*Jrnezrgbantergongy|svyqbskngjb*Jrunixbzgbqrqvxngncbelbabigungsvyq'nmnsvanyerfgvatcynfsbkbmuhuvetnikreyvimkngknganlbazvgyvi*Vgvmnygbtrkresvgvatnaqcebcrkngjrlhqqbkvf*Ohg'vanynewrfraf'jrpnaabgqrqvxng||jrpnaabgxbafrxeng||jrxnaabgunyb||kvftebjaq*Kroenizra'yvivatnaqqrq'jubfgehtyquve'unixbafrxengrqvg'snnobibjcbecbjrgbnqbeqrgenxg*Krjreyqjvyyvgyabg'abeybaterzrzorjngjrfnvuve'ohgvgxnaarirsbetrgjngkrlqvquve*Vgvmsbehfguryvivat'enkre'gborqrqvxngrquvegbkrhasvavlrqjrexjvpkrvuhsbguveunikhfsnfbaboyvnqinafq*Vgvmenkresbhfgboruveqrqvxngrqgbkrterggnfxerzravatorsbehf||kngsebzkrfrbabeqqrqjrgnxvaxerfqqriblbagbkngpbmsbjvpkrltnikrynfgshyzrmhebsqriblba||kngjruveuvyvermbyikngkrfrqrqlnyabguniqvqvaira||kngkvfanlba'haqrTbq'lnyuninahorekbiserqbz||naqkngtbirezragbikrcrcy'ovkrcrcy'sbkrcrcy'lnyabgcrevlsebzkrrek*
What say you all? Crackable? Uncrackable?
Read more »queennubian: Peace family! A mother is in search of her daughter right now. Please help her locate her child and signal boost. Wishes for...
Peace family! A mother is in search of her daughter right now. Please help her locate her child and signal boost.
Wishes for wellness and safe return in this signal boost.
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A call for volunteers
You’ve had some free samples of my writing [check the #story tag in my posts] and now I’m looking for Beta Readers because it’s just occurred to me that handing out stories for free before I try to sell them might just be a bad business plan.
So. Does anyone out there with sharp reading eyes wish to subject themselves to the alpha drafts of whatever the heck my warped mind concocts next?
Read more »A small dilemma (and an ask)
Firstly, apologies to everyone who’s been expecting a thing a day. I’ve been busy with pestillence, family and (again) waiting for someone who could help me to get their finger out of the metaphorical divot.
All my loyal readers will know I’m on Smashwords now and have my first work allegedly up and multi-compatible.
C'mon. Buy the dang thing. It’s only two freaking dollars. I need the money.
Ahem.
Anyway. I have three other
Read more »A polite request
I’m trying to raise some moneys for my next trip to Thailand [ticket price $2500] by selling my written works on/via Smashwords.
They need covers.
I have the artistic skill of a distantly-deceased moose.
So. Therefore, I must ask kindly for someone to design front covers for RTFM, Nor Gloom of Night and perhaps Good Boy if I can get it somewhere where I like it a bit better.
I might even publish a fantasy story I’ve
Read more »Technically technical difficulties
Okay, so here’s the scoop.
While I was over in Thailand, I used a (gasp) foreign chip so I wouldn’t be landed upon by positively ginormous roaming charges. And so I could, you know, call home without also gathering a huge debt.
Now that I’m home and back on my regular chip, my computer refuses to recognise that there’s photos in there at all. And I know for a fact that I have almost
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