Dan Swearingen | June 11, 2009
In the Huffington Post today David Kirby writes US Government officials are finally getting serious about studying all potential environmental factors in autism, and I for one applaud them heartily for leaving no etiological stone unturned. Kirby is writing about the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation or EARLI study. See their website. See NIH Autism [...]
Dan Swearingen | June 10, 2009
An interesting project would be a series of modified USB flash drives like this one made into a Steampunk artifact but there are lots of other things you could make. I found this at ETSY: 16GB Mechanical Memory Key
Dan Swearingen | June 9, 2009
A nice, quick project would be a dedicated streaming video PC designed to be a living room internet-connected DVR hooked up to your TV capable of playing DVD and Blu-Ray disks, other digital formats off of removable disks or hard drives, and streaming internet sources like Hulu, Netflix, and YouTube. Maximum PC has a great [...]
Dan Swearingen | June 9, 2009
This is from MAKE magazine and we need one of these for our film class. Found at the MAKE blog: Weekend Project: $14 Video Camera Stabilizer Parts list is here.
Dan Swearingen | June 9, 2009
United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) writes in the Huffington Post about her plans to create programs supporting affordable treatment for children diagnosed with ASD. Autism affects more American children than pediatric cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined. It’s a heartbreaking disease that approximately 29,400 children in every corner of New York suffer from. Huffington Post: [...]
Dan Swearingen | June 9, 2009
In the June 22 issue of Forbes is an article by Elisabeth Eaves about Simon Baron-Cohen (academic brother of comedian Sasha Baron-Cohen) which discusses his research and his idea that the Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) brain is an extreme version of the male brain. Baron-Cohen and his researchers feel the currrent incidence of ASD is [...]
Janet Lawson, MFT | June 6, 2009
This is one of those articles that makes me wonder what the heck researchers think they’re going to find when they start their projects? Kind of like doing a study to discover the sky is blue, or that water is wet! Breaking News: Mothers of ASD Teens are Stressed Out
Dan Swearingen | June 5, 2009
I don’t know whether vaccines are related to any increase in cases of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) seen in recent years. I agree there are very probably genetic factors but I feel there must also be some sort of environmental trigger at play as well. Is there really an increase in ASD? There is definitely [...]
admin | June 4, 2009
We added lots more content to the website and there are now links to past projects at the bottom of each Workshop page. We will add more as we go along and soon the site will be seriously ‘content rich’! We took some great photos of Dan’s Friday and Sunday Build Stuff Workshops but we [...]
