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Hopkins, sometimes called Avalon Stanley, has spent years on the theatre circuit. He's also a musician, film actor and in his spare time, likes revamping thrifted paintings. Hopkins, sometimes called Avalon Stanley, chats theatre, film, music and an…

The many names — and hats — of Darryl Hopkins, N.L.'s own Renaissance man

When Ukrainian pianist Alla Melnychuk performs with violinist Maria Cherwick on Sunday, it will be her first full concert performance in Canada — and the culmination of a blossoming friendship between the two musicians. Pianist Alla Melnychuk will…

Transatlantic connections: How a Ukrainian pianist and a St. John's violinist bonded over music

Reardon was one of two recipients to receive the Gerry Porter Award for Creative Improvised Music at the 2022 Sound Symposium in St. John's. St. Anthony musician 1 of 2 recipients to win award for improvised music at 2022 Sound Symposium Tiber…

Tiber Reardon's keys to musical improv are eloquence and empathy

In the St. John's musician-filmmaker's new film, Close to the Bone, the divine nature of change takes centre stage, as he explores how illness profoundly alters the life of an individual and that of her entire family. In an early lyric of Ian…

Close to the Bone, Ian Foster's new film, hits close to home

The Atlantic chapter of Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan is hosting a virtual cooking event Wednesday night, featuring chefs representing the four Atlantic provinces, to raise funds to support the group's efforts in the country. Virtual…

St. John's chef and Atlantic colleagues whipping up a feast to raise money for Afghanistan

In 2021, MusicNL partnered with It's Mental, a St. John's organization established by mental health advocates and local performers to empower individuals to give mental health support to their communities. Musicians can often carry emotional…

MusicNL is putting mental health centre stage

Travis House's vendor table at the St. John's Farmers' Market gives something of a steampunk vibe: the black manual typewriter, his smart vest and dark-rimmed glasses. Pick a topic, get a poem. In 10 minutes. Pick a topic — whatever you want, no…

Poetry in motion: Travis House will write you a poem while you wait

Nearly two years into the pandemic, we've seen businesses in all industries emerging or adapting to meet changing consumer demands while managing public health protocols. Three Newfoundland and Labrador businesses, all of which either opened or…

How it started, how it's going: Here's how 3 N.L. businesses have adapted under the pandemic

A music manager, record label founder and newly elected town councillor, Nigel Jenkins is a 21st-century Renaissance guy. Nigel Jenkins of Laughing Heart Music gives some of the credit for his early success to the mother of a hip-hop star. In 2015,…

He left a law career and built a record label, thanks to a panic attack — and rapper Classified's mom

What do Marconi and H.G. Wells have to do with fairies? A new young adult novel by Kate Story has created their common ground, and it's on the south side of St. John's. New YA novel mixes H.G. Wells and Guglielmo Marconi on the south side of St.…

In Kate Story's new novel Urchin, science can be magic, and a girl can be a boy

Digital Waves is a new contest that turns an idea into an app — and aims to narrow the gender gap in Newfoundland and Labrador's technology sector.
Lesley Chard has been coding since she was nine years old.
She credits her father, a high school tech…

Closing the tech gender gap: New contest seeks to make waves in male-dominated industry

Secrets are a driving force in Samuel Martin's fast-paced thriller, When the Dead are Razed.
Secrets are a driving force in Samuel Martin's fast-paced thriller When the Dead are Razed.
His central character, Teffy Byrne, is a St. John's journalist…

This author's new thriller, set in Newfoundland, is 'a love letter to a place I miss terribly'

When I first learned the term digital nomad, I'd been working while travelling for about a year. As a freelance writer and transcriber, my portable job enabled me to escape Newfoundland winter and to see other countries up close and personal.
I…

What this digital nomad learned during the COVID-19 lockdown

It's a perfect fall day, and I'm drinking coffee with Andrew Laite and Josh Sandu, aka Rube & Rake, listening to their second album, Leaving With Nothing, released in October.
These songs were written and produced by January, but the pandemic…

Rube & Rake finished a record just before the pandemic. Its release comes at a good time

It's Friday night at the Ship Pub, a balmy evening that feels more like July than September. There's a group of six at the corner table by the entrance. Two other tables are occupied with two or three people each.
It's easy to forget there's a global…

For N.L. musicians, the pandemic means now is the time to improvise

At a time when we are more motivated than ever to support the economy of Newfoundland and Labrador, how do we know just what's out there — or right here?
Ashley Fayth Vardy is doing the legwork to find these local businesses — and then help make them…

Local supporting local: New website aims to become hub for N.L. businesses

The spread of the novel coronavirus has created huge challenges for people in the medical field and those working in high-risk jobs, as well as for those whose needs may be sidelined by our efforts to contain the pandemic.
For many, though, the…

Self-care in the time of coronavirus: Here's what this instructor knows

The stuff of escapist films has become the reality of our lives. We have to behave in a worst-case scenario manner to optimize everybody’s safety. One medical professional on YouTube suggested we think of the virus spreading like glitter, how easily…

A Word for the Opposite of Catastrophe

Pallister-Killian mosaic syndrome is a chromosome abnormality that happens for no known reason
Megan Drover carries business cards in the pocket of her daughter Willow's adaptive stroller. Drover gives them to strangers who ask about Willow's…

What this mom of a child with a rare disease would like you to know

A life on the road is possible — here's how
In 2014, when my apartment house in St. John's got sold at the same time my job was coming to an end, I had never heard of the term digital nomad.
Since I was between jobs and homes at the same time, I had…

Living in perpetual motion: I'm a digital nomad, and it's given me the world

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Brace yourself. These are some of the most haunted places in NYC. The season of scares is upon us, the time of year when the filmy veil of time and space slips, revealing the farther shores of existence. What we see might make us question the things…

Ghostly Gotham: 25 Haunted Places in NYC

Hunter’s Moon
I lost it all because of you- yet it
 has always been
 an ugly cipher…
 I rarely know what it is or follow
 the vagaries to which it refers to
 half of the time
 all I see is that it
 is something lost
 Time was when all I wanted…

Hunter’s Moon

By Christopher Frederic Lapinel
People these days don’t often visit cemeteries. Few go without a particular, somber purpose in mind. So, what might otherwise inspire the typical person to see tombstones? Admiring natural scenery, architecture, or art…

Guide to Green-Wood Cemetery: Inside Brooklyn’s Macabre Park

By Christopher Frederic Lapinel
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was Brooklyn’s original bearded bohemian. No other writer has ever so affectionately and effectively captured Brooklyn’s essence– warts and all.
Although he moved to the borough at the age of…

Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn: Walking with a Phantom

History of Coney Island – Nickel Empire by Christopher Frederic Lapinel
The history of Coney Island, America’s beloved amusement park and one of the city’s most famous tourist attractions has a storied history well before the rides, carnival games,…

History of Coney Island – Nickel Empire

History of Prospect Park: Life as a Sculpture is a guest contribution by Christopher Frederic Lapinel
The history of Prospect Park is an interesting one, in addition to some facts and other tidbits of information behind the inception to the…

History of Prospect Park: Life as a Sculpture

by Christopher Frederic Lapinel
The history of the Brooklyn Bridge, engineering a love story. Imagine New York City’s Gilded Age on May 24th, 1883. Celebrations are taking place simultaneously in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Amidst lavish pageantry and…

History of the Brooklyn Bridge: Engineering a Love Story

We all have an internal monologue that accompanies our conversations. It’s probably a necessary neuroticism, especially in times of civil unrest. One word incorrectly emphasized can get you in a heap of trouble. Rightfully, too. The times are…

Why Did You Say That?

Though born and raised in the United States, I grew up under the ominous shadow cast by Fidel Castro’s long beard. In my family, Castro was brought up rarely, but in thunder-bursts of rage and melancholy. The only correct position in my family was to…

I’m a Cuban Cracker

I used to think it was a terrible thing to hate. It isn’t. It’s an emotion that should be indulged, sparingly, but by all means indulged. Hate is not evil. To love is to have the potential for hate. It’s the thorn that defends the rose. It’s at one…

Hatred as Inexpressible Anger

History has a funny way of reminding us of who we really are and what we are about.
While the allied armies of Europe battled those allied under Napoleon, for example, the bankers funded both sides. The political and ideological principles at war…

A Necessary Revolution that Never Happened

by Christopher Frederic Lapinel
“No poet, no artist of any art, has [their] complete meaning alone…The poet must be very conscious of the main current, which does not at all flow invariably through the most distinguished reputations. [They] must be…

The Orchid and the Wasp: Toward Becoming Vegan and Establishing Earth Law

You decided on a quiet afternoon of leafing through old photographs, only to discover that your five-year-old beat you to it--with permanent marker. Now your parents' vacation in Ireland features a googly-eyed stick figure standing on your father's…

How to Get Permanent Marker Off Photographs

Thursday, Jul 16, 2015 By C.F. Lapinel Next week, on July 21, the Special Olympics Switzerland is due to arrive. Their coming to Lake Arrowhead will be the result of months of planning and donations by a small army of individuals throughout the…

Working with the athletes, a personal view

Don't Look Now
The rattling from behind the cactus could be either a venomous or non-venomous snake. Best not to find out. Going with the dogs to the mountains for a hike, or even just to the local canyon (Switzer for me), used to be a lot of fun.…

Snakes Alive!

The Dude
Meet Callu. He's a dog of approximately ten years; a mutt of indeterminate breed. He weighs about 90 pounds, has black and tan markings and a perpetually wagging tail. He lives on my futon.
Callu has come a long way. August 2010 he was being…

My Dog: Champion Couch Surfer

by C.F. Lapinel
Remember those fuzzy days long past, when you wanted to do something good? The idea of dressing up in a costume and putting on a mask seemed like the best career anyone could ask for. Personally, when I was about eight or nine, I…

Superheroes Anonymous

Cooking for your dog can be a wholesome way to show you care. And with the rising costs of providing for her it is also a potentially cheap way to cater to her special dietary needs. For instance, when she's suffering from stomach upset or…

Vegetable Oil in Rice & Cottage Cheese for Dogs

You didn't notice at first. It happened gradually. The trash bin contained higher and ever higher proportions of dog fur. Your poor Lucy, whose lustrous coat your neighbors once marveled over, now has so many hot-spots she wears a turtle-neck and…

Can the Wrong Dog Food Cause Excessive Shedding?

“Dogs don't bark at nothing" is an adage that may or not be true. But they don't howl at nothing in their sleep. Recent studies by Dr. Matthew Wilson and Dr. Stanley Coren confirm that animals dream and quite often experience complex events while…

Can You Stop a Dog From Howling in His Sleep?

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Unreported World has a front row seat in Gaza’s underground art scene, where young Gazans try to express themselves in the face of an Israeli blockade, and the censors of an Islamist government. But reporter Jonathan Miller discovers that simple…

Gaza: The dangers of underground art | Unreported World

Something momentous is building in the Philippines. Thirty-six years after the kleptocratic despot, Ferdinand Marcos, fled into exile with his family and 300 crates of loot aboard a US airforce transport plane, his only son, Ferdinand Marcos Junior…

How Duterte Harry’s legacy of terror lives on in the Philippines

Thailand has gone Crypto crazy. Just last year investing in Crypto currencies increased four-fold in the country. Ordinary people are jumping on the Crypto bandwagon to try and make money fast. But the world of traditional finance is wary of this new…

Thailand’s cryptocurrency gold rush

Unreported World is on the forefront of Thailand’s cryptocurrency boom where farmers and traders alike are going crazy for digital currencies that can lead to both riches and ruin. In Bangkok, on the Wild-East’s crypto frontier, a young…

Thailand’s cryptocurrency gold rush | Unreported World

Winter visitors must spend two weeks in an expensive but inhospitable “hospitel” if they are found to be infected with Covid-19, as Jonathan Miller found I wasn’t actually infected when I checked in to the Covid “leper colony” somewhere east of…

They coughed, they danced, they drank beer: life as a paying prisoner at a Thai quarantine hotel

Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, has marked a sombre milestone in its battle with Covid, with total deaths now officially exceeding 100,000, although epidemiologists believe the true figure could be two and a half times that.
The…

Indonesia’s Covid disaster: Delta variant killing 150 children a week

A young man has been found guilty of secessionism and terrorism by a Hong Kong court – the first person to be tried under the territory’s sweeping national security law.
24 year old Tong Ying-kit was arrested after driving his motorbike towards…

First person charged under new HK national security law found guilty

The military coup in Myanmar took away elected civilian government in February.
Now the ruling junta is being blamed for denying the population oxygen and medical care amid a surge of the Delta Covid variant.
With only a fraction of people in Myanmar…

Myanmar ruling junta blamed for denying health care amid Delta variant surge

As the number of infections continues to climb here, the Delta variant is seeing cases accelerate across other European countries, too.
Infections have more than doubled in Spain in the last week, to more than 14,000 new cases a day.
The Dutch prime…

Indonesia’s Covid crisis: Record case numbers leave healthcare system near collapse

China’s President Xi Jinping has marked the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party with a stark warning that anyone who tries to bully the country, he said, would have “their heads bashed and bloodied”.
Meanwhile police were out in force in Hong…

Xi Jinping warns China won’t be bullied as Chinese Communist Party turns 100

The military takeover in Myanmar has given the Generals behind the coup full control over the country’s highly lucrative jade industry, blunting the threat of international sanctions. The Junta and other armed groups are thought to be making billions…

Myanmar’s military junta take control of ‘blood jade’ mines worth billions and ‘fuelling conflict’

Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, will be putting out its final edition tomorrow, in what’s being seen as a significant blow to press freedom.
Last week, five of the paper’s editors and executives were arrested under Hong…

Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily to close

Five senior staff at a pro-democracy tabloid newspaper in Hong Kong have been arrested, in another sign of the Chinese government’s crackdown on dissent.
Hundreds of police were sent in to detain the editor-in-chief and four other executives at the…

Hong Kong police arrest five executives at pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has called for an investigation into President Rodrigo Duterte’s drugs war in the Philippines.
Fatou Bensouda says crimes against humanity could have been committed, and that as many as 30,000…

Philippines: Duterte’s deadly war on drugs could be investigated by ICC

Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in Hong Kong to mark the anniversary of China’s crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989, despite a ban on gatherings.
Thousands of police were deployed across Hong Kong after the authorities outlawed the…

Hong Kong: Hundreds defy vigil ban to commemorate Tiananmen Square anniversary

Since the military junta seized power in Myanmar in February’s coup, violent resistance against the regime has been intensifying. Young people across the country have begun taking up arms to join the fight against their own army.
Some of them have…

Myanmar: The Karen separatists helping young city kids take up arms against military

We’re Undercover to confront a suspected tiger dealer, and track down the tiger kingpins who have made millions from a sinister and sometimes deadly trade. Subscribe to our channel for more Unreported World episodes…

Thailand’s Tiger Kingpins | Unreported World

On the front line of the battle to save Thailand's wild tigers from poachers and smugglers

Thailand's Tiger Kingpins

Now a hundred days since the coup, Myanmar’s military is fighting on other fronts too.
This includes the town of Mindat in the western Chin state near the Indian border, which government forces have now entered while local militia have…

Myanmar: UK and US express concern over reports of military shooting civilians

Leaders from across South East Asia have urged the head of Myanmar’s military junta to bring an end to the bloody crackdown on protestors and will appoint an envoy to mediate.
The coup’s leader – General Min Aung Hlaing – was in Jakarta for a summit…

South East Asian leaders call for end to Myanmar violence

Most of us believe we are ‘ethical’ and, without a lot of fanfare, we seldom expect it to surface as a priority we need to address. At its simplest, ethics is a system of behaviors that define character. At an organizational level however, the focus…

Recruiting Ethics is Not a Priority…Until It Is.

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Like many of you, we're soaking in as many voices as we can on the topics of diversity, equity and inclusion. So we were excited to see one of our favorite Talent Acquisition Leaders, Carmen Hudson, publish two posts that both inform the…

CXR Recommends: Diversity - how did we get here & where do we go next?

We recently took some time to review a new research report from Madeline Laurano of Aptitude Research: Conversational AI and the Future of Hiring and recommend you do the same.
Whether AI is the future or not, is moot. It is what companies are…

CXR Recommends: Research on AI & Hiring

Like many of you, we're paying close attention to the responses of companies to the current elevation of the Black Lives Matter movement. From the Zoom backgrounds of our members when they join our meetings - a small statement yet one that…

CXR Recommends: P&G's Take on Race

Like many of you, we've been voraciously reading materials from trusted sources about the COVID-19 pandemic. At first, we were seeking guidance and ideas on how to prepare our workspace and our homes, how to manage in an environment of near constant…

CXR Recommends: Mary Meeker's COVID-19 Analysis

Kudos to Jason Wingard and Forbes Magazine for this article: Do the Right Thing? Three Companies Showing Exemplary Leadership During the Pandemic.
We love the focus on companies rising to the unprecedented challenges in front of us during this…

CXR Recommends [Article]: Companies Rising to the Challenge of COVID-19

As a card-carrying radical student of the recruiting landscape for more than 50 years, I could simply write a few sentences, implore you to read Give and Get Employer Branding and move on. However, this book offers a truly different approach to…

CXR Recommends [Book]: Give & Get Employer Branding

We've been actively reading information as it comes out from the CDC and WHO about Coronavirus / COVID-19. Last week we had an excellent discussion with CXR Members about the plans and actions they've already taken with their employees and…

COVID-19 Checklists for Talent Acquisition

No matter how you cut it, no one likes to be rejected. Talent Acquisition professionals would probably admit that handling rejection isn’t their sweet spot and wasn’t a big part of their recruiting education. Unfortunately, few professionals who are…

Rejection Sucks: Exec-level candidates agree

The 2019 Corporate Inhouse Recruitment cNPS published in February by Starred, a Dutch TA Supplier that measures Candidate Experience, deserves credit for offering enough info about their methodology to give one some sense of the flaws in their…

Candidate Experience scores from rejected offers

Earlier this year we reached out to talent acquisition leaders and asked them one simple question: which of the following challenges do you see dominating TA this year? We gave them ten choices and then sat back to see what rose to the top of the…

Leading talent acquisition challenges in 2020

Lars Schmidt posted this intriguing question on LinkedIn this month, “Why don't more companies have internal career coaches to support internal mobility?" A lively discussion followed.
This CXR take on the subject comes from a panel Gerry Crispin…

Mentor or coach? Here's why you need both

Years ago, Talent Acquisition was a ‘pass though’ for those wanting a job in HR. As in, “Go and learn Recruiting and then we’ll find a real HR management opportunity for you.” No more. The idea that someone could take over Talent Acquisition in an…

How would you structure TA Immersion training?

How employers treat age, ethnicity, geography, race, gender equality and other candidate characteristics has always been a hot topic and it may be due for a big change in 2020. Are you prepared?
One change driver? Access to data. Solid data.…

A 2020 Perspective on Equality - Gender, Pay or otherwise

Are we really ready to measure the influences that trigger candidate decisions on their long and winding journey to your [incredible] opportunity?
(Full disclosure: The purpose of this article is to get you to complete a short survey on how you see…

Source of Hire (SoH): Maybe It is Time for Another Lab Report

This article about the mashup of Jobvite, Telemetry, RolePoint and Canvas by Madeline Laurano, Aptitude Research Partners is an excellent overview of their move and, may foreshadow what we can expect to see throughout 2019.…

Converging TA Tech Stacks

I'm a fan of feedback. Seek it out for myself. Give it freely. When I really like something I track down and call the person and make a note publicly if appropriate. When I don't like something I call the person but, seldom offer a public note.
This…

Feedback is Important

TA Leaders have been moving slowly out of their silo and claiming more and more territory, collaborating with their cousins on the dark side (HR Generalists) and generally stepping up to embrace their function as a stand alone profession.
Arguably…

If TA Owned 'Retention'

Taking Candidate Experience to the next level requires evidence that stands up to new standards for data collection. We need to move away from the opinion, hype and holding employers hostage and deliver better insights for action.
The latest Report…

High Performing TA Functions Improve How they Treat Their Candidates Year Over Year.

Taking Candidate Experience to the next level requires evidence that stands up to new standards for data collection. We need to move away from the opinion, hype and holding employers hostage and deliver better insights for action.

The U.S. has shot down four aerial objects this month, one of which was a Chinese surveillance balloon that had traversed the U.S. from Idaho to the Atlantic Ocean. Part 1 of Mind Matters Spy Balloon Saga provides an overview of the four aerial…

The Chinese Spy Balloon Saga, Part 2

On February 4, the U.S. shot down a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina. The balloon was first spotted on January 28 over the Aleutian Islands, and then traveled over Alaska, through…

The Chinese Spy Balloon Saga (Part 1)

At Bioethics.com we have kept up with the spread of COVID-19 and the related bioethical questions that this pandemic brings. The posts that follow highlight news from December 2022 and were originally posted at Bioethics.com. These posts focus on the…

COVID-19 Timeline: December 2022

In response to widespread protests and a slumping economy, the Chinese Communist Party abruptly reversed its zero-Covid policies. Rather than taking responsibility for bad policy, however, Beijing instead left a scared and immunologically vulnerable…

Life After Zero-Covid: Protesters Are Rounded Up

At Bioethics.com we have kept up with the spread of COVID-19 and the related bioethical questions that this pandemic brings. The posts that follow highlight news from November 2022 and were originally posted at Bioethics.com. These posts focus on the…

COVID-19 Timeline: November 2022

At Bioethics.com we have kept up with the spread of COVID-19 and the related bioethical questions that this pandemic brings. The posts that follow highlight news from October 2022 and were originally posted at Bioethics.com. These posts focus on the…

COVID-19 Timeline: October 2022

At Bioethics.com we have kept up with the spread of COVID-19 and the related bioethical questions that this pandemic brings. The posts that follow highlight news from September 2022 and were originally posted at Bioethics.com. These posts focus on…

COVID-19 Timeline: September 2022

At Bioethics.com we have kept up with the spread of COVID-19 and the related bioethical questions that this pandemic brings. The posts that follow highlight news from August 2022 and were originally posted at Bioethics.com. These posts focus on the…

COVID-19 Timeline: August 2022

At Bioethics.com we have kept up with the spread of COVID-19 and the related bioethical questions that this pandemic brings. The posts that follow highlight news from July 2022 and were originally posted at Bioethics.com. These posts focus on the…

COVID-19 Timeline: July 2022

The graffiti on the bathroom wall at the university said there would be a gathering in honor of the people who had died in an apartment fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang. Bathrooms usually do not have surveillance cameras, so this announcement would probably…

China: Protesters Evade Censors and Confront State Surveillance

“The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose.” (von Clausewitz, On War) Beijing’s zero-Covid policy was not sustainable. The highly publicized events in October…

When the Chinese Had Had Enough, Their Government Had To Listen

At the Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou where thousands of employees walked out on October 29, protests broke out on November 23. They were led by new hires staying on a campus dormitory after they learned that they would have to work an additional two…

China: Massive Protests at Cell Phone Plant Continue

Around this time of year, the factories that produce Apple’s iPhones hire thousands of additional workers to meet the demand for the holiday season. While Apple is an American company and the electronics are designed in-house, the manufacturing is…

China’s Foxconn Walkout: How Fear Messaging Can Backfire

A US Senate interim report has recently concluded that that “the Covid-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident.” The 35-page report, prepared by the minority oversight staff of the of the Senate Committee on…

Lab Leak Theory: A Biohazard Was First Noted in 2019

In Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy (2013) , the characters in the first book navigate a dystopian near-future with few ethical boundaries. Chicken has been genetically modified to be nothing more than meat and a mouth. For entertainment, they…

Rats with Human Brains? The Real Story About Brain Organoids

The Chinese Communist Party’s zero-Covid policy, heralded by Xi Jinping, is killing China’s economy and sinking citizens’ morale. Zero-Covid is viewed as a litmus test for support for the Communist Party, and Xi Jinping in particular. The goal is not…

China’s Covid Theater: It’s Not Really About the Disease

At Bioethics.com we have kept up with the spread of COVID-19 and the related bioethical questions that this pandemic brings. The posts that follow highlight news from May 2022 and were originally posted at Bioethics.com. These posts focus on the…

COVID-19 Timeline: May 2022

In a previous article, I discussed the semiconductor industry and Taiwan’s supremacy in manufacturing microchips, the foundry portion of the semiconductor supply chain. Now let’s look at the U.S. perspective on the semiconductor industry and its…