Recently, I had to register for a conference. The conference is actually being run by my department and I am speaking at it, but the registration process is being done by a central conference office ( Read more... )

There are a lot of memes that go around on Facebook. Today I saw two of them that were just so incredibly ignorant I could hardly believe it. I choose to call them "oversimplified" because they try to take something complex -- the definition of "disability" and the use of drugs and medication to treat diseases -- and over-simplify it into a meme.

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