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5 days ago | 
startribune.com | David M. Perry
Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of guest commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. Right now, the blueberries in our refrigerator come from Mexico and Florida. They are a little too sweet for my tastes - I'm a New Englander by birth and a Minnesotan by choice and I like my blueberries small, sour and harvested by hand - but my tastes aren't relevant.
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1 week ago | 
msnbc.com | David M. Perry
April 2025 was the weirdest Autism Awareness Month in my life, thanks largely to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.The secretary of health and human services finished the month as he began it: spreading conspiracy theories, misinformation and lies about autism, vaccines, basic medical theories and more. He promised a study that would find the causes of autism by September (a timeline his NIH director immediately abandoned).
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3 weeks ago | 
startribune.com | David M. Perry
Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of guest commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. But as Harvard enters the fray, I keep wondering when my graduate alma mater and current employer, the University of Minnesota, will do likewise. What do we, the communities that make up this public institution, really stand for? Who do we serve? It's been a strange time to be working at the U.
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1 month ago | 
onet.pl | Matthew Gabriele |David M. Perry
Lekarz walczący z zarazą dżumyPrzedstawiamy fragment książki "Wieki Światłe. Nowa historia średniowiecznej Europy" wydanej przez wydawnictwo Prześwity, Warszawa 2025. Według obywatela i szewca Agnolo di Tury "umieranie" (czarna śmierć) rozpoczęło się w Sienie w maju 1348 roku. Przybycie choroby było nagłe i straszne. Rodziny się rozpadały, kiedy obywatele próbowali poddać kwarantannie zarażonych, ale zaraza wciąż się rozprzestrzeniała, przenosząc się przez "zły oddech", a czasem nawet sam wzrok.
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1 month ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | David M. Perry
Argument An expert’s point of view on a current event.
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2 months ago | 
startribune.com | David M. Perry
Other examples of things that I thought were settled but are now apparently up for debate again include same-sex marriage, protections for disabled people and the use of the “r-word.”March 15, 2025 at 10:30PMThe MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella: Parents of newly diagnosed children are highly vulnerable to misinformation and lies, writes David M. Perry. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of guest commentaries online and in print each day.
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2 months ago | 
autism.einnews.com | David M. Perry
Other examples of things that I thought were settled but are now apparently up for debate again include same-sex marriage, protections for disabled people and the use of the “r-word.”March 15, 2025 at 10:30PMThe MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella: Parents of newly diagnosed children are highly vulnerable to misinformation and lies, writes David M. Perry. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of guest commentaries online and in print each day.
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2 months ago | 
msnbc.com | David M. Perry
I was preparing dinner, as my wife, my 18-year-old son, Nico, and his developmental therapist sat in the family room. Nico is autistic and has Down syndrome; he communicates beautifully with sounds, signs, tech and actions, but each mode requires a lot of work, and it’s only in recent years that he’s begun to make real gains in verbal speech. So, as I chopped vegetables and listened to a podcast, they were working on using an app that would say words out loud to prompt Nico’s verbal utterances.
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2 months ago | 
washingtonpost.com | David M. Perry
When John Warner was in third grade, his teacher told the class to “write a list of instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.” Once they were done, she handed out everything they might need to make one and instructed the students to follow the directions to the absolute letter. “This is how,” Warner writes, “I found myself knuckles-deep in a jar of Centrella-brand creamy peanut butter.” He had, it turns out, not written anything about using a knife.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | David M. Perry
3 hours agoHow AI Has Started Sorting Through Your Home Security VideosHere's how these new features tap into home security camera footage -- and if you can turn them off. A new tech feature is on the rise in home security video and it's all about the latest AI capabilities.
