Category: Love
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Autism, statistics, numbers, Love.
Τhe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) raised eyebrows, and concern among current and prospective parents, with a report documenting that the rate of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis in the United States jumped 30% between 2008 and 2010, from one in 88 to one in 68 children. CDC officials don’t know, however, whether…
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Live and let DIE you small hypocrite…
People in the “brainy circles” of our hypocritical society talk about diversity. But how much are differences really valued? “I wonder”, a mother of a child with Down’s Syndrome writes, “whether my friends and colleagues would recognize the value of a child who was slower, less capable and more dependent”… (1) Love is hard to…
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20/20 vision…
Previously blind patients who receive the recently FDA-approved Argus II bionic eye system will regain some degree of functional sight. The retinal implant technology, developed and distributed by Second Sight, can improve quality of life for patients who have lost functional vision due to retinitis pigmentosa, a disease that causes retinal cells to die. [1]…
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Treacherousness
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld Next time someone ill-treats you, think twice before getting angry. Bad behaviour could be a result of weakness, rather than pure evil. Double check and see things from another perspective. Evil is most of the time synonym with powerlessness or a deep…
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