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We need to talk more about Bill Gates and the ‘autistic genius’ narrative

Work Life

Policies and programs focused solely on tapping into autistic potential” may miss the mark when it comes to meeting foundational needs like housing, transportation, or healthcare , and protection from blatant workplace discrimination. Then, he was placed under a micromanager who wanted to control everything Justin did and how he did it.

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Niwa Offices – Toulouse

Office Snapshots

The GA floors: demonstration of off-site expertise GA Smart Building has developed a range of products for quality work spaces, ensuring rapid and controlled construction and implementation, while respecting the environment. Cloud The prefabricated toilet modules are transportable to be ready for installation.

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Maura Healey and Christina Romer reflect on how business can be more like government—yes, government

Work Life

Secretary of Transportation during the Biden administration. But moving fast and breaking things is not what Social Security recipients want when they are waiting for their checks or what the public expects when the FAA is reconfiguring flight patterns and deciding control-tower staffing. The mayor who challenged them to innovate?

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Poor job quality leaves people exhausted and at risk of ill health

Workplace Insight

The research highlights that people working in transport and storage, construction, commerce and hospitality – around a quarter of the workforce – reported poorer quality outcomes across a range of indicators. Just one third of workers say they have control over how they work – the lowest rate in Europe.

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Is the Future Traffic-Free?

Success

Founder and CEO Tim Menard likens the technology to air traffic control but for ground transportation. A traffic-free utopia The long-term vision, Menard says, is to create a society where AI essentially acts as air traffic control for ground transportation. It’s all system-dependent on rule and logic,” Menard says.

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Everything About Us Without Us

Mad in America

The 327 patients from the Hawthorne Asylum in Portland were transported by train, with blinds covering the windows, to the new hospital in Salem. Evans made a request to Oregons State Board of Control to approve the use of lobotomies at OSH. He believed his architectural design was therapeutic and helped with recovery.

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Life in the Hospital Before Deinstitutionalization

Mad in America

The nearly two miles of tunnels beneath the elegant Kirkbride architecture of the Oregon State Hospital, located as it was in a rainy climate, provided for the dry and safe transport of food, supplies, equipment and patients between the many hospital buildings. I found that I needed to walk incessantly to diminish the feeling.