Climate change is not a reason to give China a pass on human rights.

Why did so many Americans receive strange packages they didn’t think they’d ordered? (SPOILER: they actually did order them, but had just forgotten about it…)

‘Gone With the Wind’ and the Difference Between Censorship and Context

Study advances our understanding of how epigenetic changes are passed on to the next generation (and beyond)

Huge study supporting ivermectin as Covid treatment withdrawn over ethical concerns

“How Many More Have to Die?” Protesters March Against Vaccine Apartheid

Ketamine as a symptom of the chaotic environment unleashed by the retreat of the Chinese party-state in the 1990s. The story of how Xi cleaned it up reveals larger shifts at work. by @dylanleviking

New Coronavirus Variants Seen as Too Contagious for Hotel Quarantines

Better to Capture a State in Hell Than Serve Time in a Democracy - Timothy Burke on South Africa

Health officials rail against Pfizer’s push for COVID boosters—for many reasons

The story of a Korean monument to former dictator Chun Doo-hwan

it’s a very dangerous precedent: right-wing agenda, privately funded use of our National Guard essentially as cheap mercenary troops

K-pop’s surprisingly political history (If you’ve somehow slept through the global rise of K-pop, this is for you!)

Manufacturers can’t produce leading-edge chips without the system, and “it is only made by the Dutch firm ASML”

Profile of two Amis language kindergartens in Hualien (These are great, but what happens when the kids start elementary school?)

Schools in Spain: The Spanish schools dropping out of bilingual education programs: ‘It’s a sham’

Anthropologist Nandini Sundar on a youth-led Indigenous movement in India in the face of state oppression

The COVID lab-leak hypothesis: what scientists do and don’t know

Ivermectin is the new hydroxychloroquine, take 3: Conspiracy theories and grift

Why India failed - the definitive article on India’s COVID disaster, by Sonia Faleiro

Inside the Taiwanese embassy siege in Haiti: how a lone security guard helped wrangle 11 suspects

Canada’s Indigenous reconciliation movement enters new phase following discovery of children’s graves

“we consider any strategy that tolerates high levels of infection to be both unethical and illogical. The UK Government must reconsider its current strategy“

Another diplomat in the region said: “China at the request of Pakistan will support the Taliban.”

LGBTQ rights groups blocked on China’s biggest social media app WeChat