Thoughtful writing ! Completely agree with you on the toxic part of twitter, which, if I may paraphrase from your April 7th writing, promotes quotability, even if it distorts the context it was said. Not to mention that it's the hotbed of attention-seeking trolls. However, I think one aspect of…

China, the Country That Is Trying to Connect the World, Is Prohibiting Me from Contacting My Family How the Chinese government is cracking down on Uyghurs and the world is keeping its silence, and how I have been personally affected. In this era of Zoom meetings, Face-timing and Whatsapp’ing, it may sound unimaginable for some to learn that I couldn’t able to connect to my family, especially…

Improving Academic Writing Skills: My Personal Perspective as an ESL Researcher There are tons of advice on the internet on academic writing, and even some pop up, unsolicited, in your mailbox. But most of them assume you have some writing skill, like you know how to write a short essay…

Great writing Martina ! As a kid, I never understood how something that terrible allowed to happen. As I grow up, read more, and take notice of what is happening at home and around the globe, I started to realize it is not a single "freak accident" in human history…

Super hydrophobic coatings, What are they and how they work Have you heard of Neverwet or UltraEverDry? These are commercial consumer super hydrophobic coatings, and they are cheap. You can by a bottle of Neverwet spray at Amazon for just over 1 $ per ounce. Ok, what the super hydrophobic…