April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day . I do not personally know of any individual who is Autistic , but I am well aware of the lifelong challenges it poses to those who have it and their families and the hardships caused by it. I wish those reading this post, spread the word and let parents know the fact that "if they feel something is wrong with their child, they should consult 2/3 doctors. And if they tell them that their kid is normal, but can't convince you that there is nothing wrong...
The TED conference organizers have graciously uploaded the video of the presentation made by Dr. Roy Gould, an astrophysicist from the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, introducing WorldWideTelescope in partnership with Curtis Wong, principal researcher of Microsoft’s Next Media Research group and head of the project (you might remember him from the Media Browser video on Channel9 with the sexy transition effects and cool sorting and organization features). Besides the streaming Flash video there's...