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“About 43,000 years ago, another human [...] invented something else quite extraordinary: a tool for counting. Over time he or she made twenty-nine marks (or notches) along the bone, and archaeologists speculate that these might have been produced for some kind of ritual or, more likely, were a form of a tally: a way of counting.” (pp. 115-116)
— May 13, 2021 03:54PM
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Rachel
is on page 116 of 272
A way of counting what, hmmm? What might last 29 days?? I appreciate the author’s homage to women in the inclusion of “he or she,” but his otherwise near erasure of women from his history is somewhat tiresome.
— May 13, 2021 03:55PM
Rachel
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“We surveyed four hundred autistic adults like Jonah who had attended our clinic in Cambridge, and tragically we found that two-thirds of them had felt suicidal and one-third of them had actually attempted suicide. What more of a wake-up call does society need that autistic people are struggling and desperately vulnerable?” (p. 78)
— May 12, 2021 08:52PM
