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Netizens from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand brew ‘Milk Tea Alliance’ against Chinese speech police Hongkong

Netizens from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand brew ‘Milk Tea Alliance’ against Chinese speech police

‘Milk Tea Alliance’, image from the Stand News. Used with permission. The strident efforts of Chinese patriots to police speech on Twitter — a platform that ordinary Chinese are barred from using — has spawned an unintended consequence. Meet the “Milk Tea Alliance,” a pact formed between netizens from Hong…
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May 4, 2020
Rubbish Is Piling Up and Recycling Has Stalled – Waste Systems Must Adapt Recycling

Rubbish Is Piling Up and Recycling Has Stalled – Waste Systems Must Adapt

By Keiron Philip Roberts, Research Fellow, University of Portsmouth Anne Stringfellow, Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton, and Ian Williams, Professor of Applied Environmental Science, University of Southampton. Originally published at The Conversation Coronavirus has revealed just how fragile our waste cycle is.Globally, collection services are being reduced because of…
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May 4, 2020
Briefly Noted Book Reviews World War 2

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

American Harvest, by Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Graywolf). Harvest season in the American wheat belt begins in Texas, in the late spring, when hundreds of seasonal workers are hired into crews and begin moving from farm to farm, to cut the year’s grain. In this reflective travelogue, Mockett, who grew up…
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May 4, 2020
Selective ortho‐Functionalization of Adamantylarenes Enabled by Dispersion and an Air‐Stable Palladium(I) Dimer Alexander von Humboldt

Selective ortho‐Functionalization of Adamantylarenes Enabled by Dispersion and an Air‐Stable Palladium(I) Dimer

Owing to its exceptional liphophilicity and stability‐enhancing properties, the adamantyl group has found widespread applications in materials science,1 medicinal chemistry, and drug development.2 In fact, the only other hydrocarbon moiety that has been similarly successful in generating active therapeutics is the methyl group.2 Adamantane derivatives are used in fighting viral…
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May 4, 2020