Mark rated Blackfish City: 5 stars
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social …
Avid reader, mostly sf, but also science, politics, memoir, history, queer studies, cultural studies, literary fiction
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After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social …
I love this statement in the chapter on education:
“The neurodiverse classroom contains students with many types of diversities. The neurodiverse classroom includes students with diversities related to culture, race, gender, and sexual orientation. In addition to the forms of neurodiversity covered in this book [Autism spectrum, dyslexia, ADHD, PTSD, OCD, Schizophrenia, mood & anxiety disorders], the neurodiverse classroom includes disabilities such as language and communication delays, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, spina bifida, cystic fibrosis, blindness, deafness, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, stroke, and multiple disabilities. It also includes students labeled as gifted or gifted and talented… The neurodiverse classroom uses multiple intelligences instructional strategies and other universal design for learning methods.”
A lot to unpack — you really have to read this wonderful book!
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From the chair of the DSM-IV task force comes a searing indictment of its successor, the DSM-5. Frances explains what went wrong during the evolution of the DSM, and how big Pharma has abused its relationship to the APA, made no progress at all in developing more effective psychiatric medications, manufactured and then aggressively promoted fad illnesses with useless and sometimes harmful treatment advice, and funded both the AMA and many academic and clinical psychiatrists. Also how most psychiatric diagnoses and meds are now dispensed by primary care doctors with no psychiatric qualifications. He predicted the astonishing explosion in (mis)diagnosis of ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, major depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder — to the point where the majority of American children and adults qualify for one or more psychiatric disorders. The world hasn’t suddenly gone mad — the APA, drug companies, insurance companies, and complicit practitioners have moved the goalposts …
From the chair of the DSM-IV task force comes a searing indictment of its successor, the DSM-5. Frances explains what went wrong during the evolution of the DSM, and how big Pharma has abused its relationship to the APA, made no progress at all in developing more effective psychiatric medications, manufactured and then aggressively promoted fad illnesses with useless and sometimes harmful treatment advice, and funded both the AMA and many academic and clinical psychiatrists. Also how most psychiatric diagnoses and meds are now dispensed by primary care doctors with no psychiatric qualifications. He predicted the astonishing explosion in (mis)diagnosis of ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, major depressive disorder, and bipolar disorder — to the point where the majority of American children and adults qualify for one or more psychiatric disorders. The world hasn’t suddenly gone mad — the APA, drug companies, insurance companies, and complicit practitioners have moved the goalposts so much that the worried well are now treated ill, while those who most desperately need psychiatric treatment are increasingly unable to access it (because they’re not considered worth treating). A shocking but true chronicle.
This book explores the concept of “The One” (monism) — from both a rigorous scientific perspective grounded in a mastery of quantum physics and cosmology, and a tour de force through the history of oneness as a philosophical, religious and psychological perspective. To quote the author himself, it’s “a wild ride through times and places, topics and theories, including many fascinating sideshows.”