{"id":2134,"date":"2018-01-09T21:50:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T05:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10124\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2018-01-12T23:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T07:30:20","slug":"the-autism-advantage-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=2134","title":{"rendered":"What Box? The Autism Advantage in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Asperger’s they say, “What Box?”<\/em> \u2014 Tony Atwood<\/span><\/h2>\n

The world we live in today would be radically different without the contributions of autistic scientists. Everything from spacecraft and\u00a0computers to MRI scanners, cellphones, and the Internet\u00a0can be traced through autistic minds.\u00a0At A<\/span>A<\/span>S<\/span>C<\/span>E<\/span>N<\/span>D<\/span>‘s January 20 <\/strong>meeting AASCEND Co-Chair Gregory Yates explores the history of\u00a0autism as\u00a0rocket fuel for scientific innovation \u2014 obvious\u00a0in\u00a0the lives of autistic scientists Henry Cavendish<\/strong> and Paul Dirac<\/strong>, and in the out-of-the-box thinking<\/strong><\/span> of autistic\u00a0“cousins” like Newton<\/strong>, Darwin<\/strong>, Kurt Godel<\/strong>, Alan Turing<\/strong>, and even Albert Einstein<\/strong>. Without autism and strongly autistic traits we would be living in a dark age.<\/p>\n

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Greg will also take a brief tour through his own scientific work on how brains are built, as detailed in his\u00a0book Dragon Puzzle Story<\/strong><\/span>,<\/em> and trace\u00a0in detail exactly where autism played a role in its development.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

As computer programmers like to say about their\u00a0oddly-behaving programs, and\u00a0that one might also say about\u00a0some\u00a0autism,\u00a0“It’s not\u00a0a bug, it’s a feature!”\u00a0<\/strong>It’s the Autism Advantage in Science.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When: Sat Jan\u00a020, 10am \u2013 noon<\/span><\/strong>
\nWhere: The Arc of SF<\/span> 1500 Howard St. @ 11th St. SF, CA 94103 map<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Parking is often available in the garage at 255 12th Street, with a reasonable flat rate for Saturdays. There is also metered street parking for $2.25\/hr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Asperger’s they say, “What Box?” \u2014 Tony Atwood The world we live in today would be radically different without the contributions of autistic scientists. Everything from spacecraft and\u00a0computers to MRI scanners, cellphones, and the Internet\u00a0can be traced through autistic … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}