Disability Futures
We can’t think about the future-of health, of technology, of community-without centering disability; it cuts across every other kind of experience. Disability is central to all of our lives.
The ID Question
Who decides who you are? You, or the world around you?
Fowl Plague
Pandemics have threatened humanity in the past–and avian influenza may well be the next one due.
Beats: Disability
“Disable” is an active verb, and disability describes the social and environmental barriers that prevent access just as much as an individual body’s physical reality.
Beats: Health
Access to health care is as much a matter of public policy as it is the size of a person’s pocketbook; within a doctor’s office, many factors affect the quality of treatment.
Disappearing Languages and Tooltips
Obfuscating a feature is obviously not a great solution, and it’s arguably a total betrayal of the principles I laid out above. But it was the best compromise we found between giving people information we knew they’d want, while not promising something we couldn’t deliver in a fair and equal manner.
Busting the Neuromyths About How We Learn
This idea of different “learning styles” is widely believed–but there’s no evidence that it’s true.