Tiny Apartments and Punishing Work Hours: The Economic Roots of Hong Kong’s Protests
Banqiao Senior High School to allow male students to wear skirts
Cooperation Between Police and Gangsters in Hong Kong Draws Parallels to Taiwan
2014 New Yorker article about the use of thugs by the CCP. Newly relevant because of today’s news from HK, but a common phenomenon in Taiwan as well.
To Make It to the Moon, Women Have to Escape Earth’s Gender Bias
Google Translate can now recognise written te reo Māori and translate it
Dear news media: the name of China’s President is pronounced “POOH,” not “GEE”! (Seriously, how do they even come up with that pronunciation?)
Hundreds of Astronomers Denounce Arrest of Native Hawaiians Protesting Thirty Meter Telescope
Something Just Broke In China As Repo Rate Soars To 1,000% Overnight
How I write recommendation letters: 1. How do I know the applicant? 2. Why do I think their work is important? 3. Why are they the best person for the job/grant? 4. Something from their past which shows the depth of their commitment to this field, unique talents, or both.
高教工會銘傳大學分部正式成立！Taiwan Higher Ed Union – Ming Chuan University branch was established!
Google AI Created It’s Own Child AI, That Is Superior That Man Made Models (And so it begins…)
The Guardian view on Xinjiang: speak out, or be complicit (Unfortunately, a lot have chosen option b…)
Many of the key Googler Uprising organizers have quit, citing retaliation from senior management
Wanhua cat keeps an eye on Sophie
Writing is easy, it’s thinking that’s hard.
Editors at Taiwan’s pro-Beijing media take daily instructions directly from China, FT reports.
Kellyanne Conway Snaps Back at Reporter: ‘What’s Your Ethnicity?’
Taizong’s hell: A study collection of Chinese hell scrolls
Killing of Sadie Roberts-Joseph, African American Museum Founder, Stuns Baton Rouge (Hate crime?)
The forgotten Indian inventor who dazzled London (Love this story so much…)
Poll: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defining Democrats among crucial 2020 swing voters
Insurgent Empire by Priyamvada Gopal review – a superb study of anticolonial resistance