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Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market. Even in the slowest month of the year, plugins scored 291,000 registrations, up 176% year over year (YoY). This pulls the year-to-date (YTD) tally to over 665,000 units, and with March set to be another strong month (400,000 units?), we should have over 1 million […]

After the December sales peak, one would expect a sales hangover in January, only … it didn’t happened, as the market had some 372,000 passenger new energy vehicle registrations, an impressive 115% jump year over year (YoY)! As a consequence of this, the plugin vehicle (PEV) share started the year at a high 17% (13% […]

I can’t stop the curiosity impulse and sometimes feel obliged to chase down source-less photos. So it started with a Cory Doctorow tweet (just follow him, you will not be sorry) Circa 1970s https://t.co/5ODfTtWXza pic.twitter.com/UpMp3QkHOq— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) February 18, 2022 Why this image? It’s just road side Americana. Was it the tweet saying “circa 1970s” which was my childhood? That guess might be based on the vintage of the photo. The models of cars might push it to late 1960s but not too far. The tweet goes to Wil Wheaton’s Tumblr (which might be the source of the 1970s)....

By Celeste Malone Darwin Baluran Many studies on health and health disparities lump people of Asian descent into one category, making it hard to identify inequities in areas such as life expectancy when studying these populations. Darwin Baluran, a doctoral student in the Vanderbilt Department of Sociology, sought to investigate the intermixture of ethnicities included under the “Asian” racial category—one of the nation’s fastest-growing groups—and the health of these groups in the United States. As the first study to examine different Asian ethnic groups’ life expectancy by geographic region, the study challenges how researchers look at the Asian American population.  “We do a disservice to marginalized communities by homogenizing them under these broad...

The weather has been turning a little bit more wet and stormy, as expected near the end of the year with the onset of the monsoon season. I’ve been enjoying a little more time indoors thanks to the weather as well as the continued burgeoning number of cases of Covid-19 in the community. It’s not like I don’t run out to do errands but I usually dash out and finish the task as quickly as I can. Just this week Mum was unwell – she’s usually chirpy and healthy and it was a bit of a shocker when she didn’t...