My friend and community colleague Margie Morris wrote a wonderful article for a clinical neuroscience journal that, with her permission, I am excerpting for a series of posts (if you missed it, here’s the first one). She writes: To meaningfully connect, we will need to do more than show up online. Now, more than ever, […]
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Connecting during COVID-19
My friend and community colleague Margie Morris wrote a wonderful article for a clinical neuroscience journal that, with her permission, I am excerpting for a series of posts. My goal is to spark discussion about each of her insights. She writes: To meaningfully connect, we will need to do more than show up online. Now, […]
Signs of the times: Black Lives Matter
Sonja Sharp, an LA Times reporter, interviewed Deaf people about how they are creating and sharing new signs for this moment of reckoning and recognition. I cued up the story’s video (below) to the point at which Rorri Burton, a Black American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter, shares her perspective: The sign for “your knee on […]
“For Black people, Minneapolis is a metaphor for our world.”
The following is an excerpt from the Data for Black Lives Statement of Solidarity with Black Minnesotans, by Yeshimabeit Milner (@YESHICAN). I’m posting it as a way to amplify her voice. Please click through to read the entire essay. If you share it on social platforms, please share her Medium post directly. We at Data […]
Building an intake valve for new ideas
Imagine this: You and your colleagues know there are problems to be solved. You have resources to offer, such as funding, access to experts, and publicity. You are pretty sure there are people with great ideas out there, asking questions, defining the scope of the problems you care about, seeing things that you can’t see. […]
How to make 10 million discoveries
When people’s questions go unanswered, they don’t stop asking them. They turn to Dr. Google and other sources. They try to solve their own mysteries, using whatever they can find. This is an opportunity that some people misread as dangerous or wrong. How might we help more people contribute to discovery of new treatments or […]
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