On the local train
To people who are saying about Jared Diamond’s new book, Upheaval: “Well, GG&S was good, but he got worse after that.” Please go back and read what anthropologists had to say about GG&S at the time…
Uber reports $1 billion loss in first post-IPO quarterly results
Q&A: Taiwan’s digital minister on combatting disinformation without censorship
The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a 1995 documentary film about the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
Taiwan Syllabus Project (Important and useful project!)
Vietnamese Migrant Workers Strike After Retaliatory Actions Taken by Management Against Organizers
Passive vs. Active safety systems in nuclear power explained
How Project ‘Shakti’ Misled Rahul And Deepened Congress’s Lok Sabha Rout (It speaks really badly of Rahul Gandhi’s leadership that he stuck by his friend’s bogus system even after it was exposed as a fraud…)
Chinese Indonesians in Taiwan struggle with language and identity to find acceptance
Statement of Support for Ayşe Gül Altınay — Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology
A collective madness : What Modi’s victory says about today’s India
Eminent Pune doctor accosted by gang in New Delhi, asked his religion, forced to say ‘Jai Shri Ram’
Move 9 women freed after 40 years in jail over Philadelphia police siege
Corbyn backs referendum on Brexit deal after voter exodus (Better late than never?)
Why Texas Is Nearing Battleground Status (Not there yet … but I bet someone with the talents of AOC could do wonders)
You Can Now Avoid a Traffic Ticket in China if You Post a Social Media Confession
‘Not Just a Maid’: The Ultra-Running Domestic Workers of Hong Kong
Black and blue
Even when news organizations don’t dare to call Taiwan a “country” the graphics of such maps make it abundantly clear that Taiwan is an independent sovereign entity with its own laws and helps highlight the absurdity of denying its (actual) status as a country.
