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By Johnny Neihu 強尼內湖
A few readers have written to me expressing doubts about what I said I might have been up to during my recent sabbatical, especially as there were a number of untrue media reports regarding my whereabouts.

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A scuttling nation

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By Chen Mao-Hsiung 陳茂雄
A proposal by Soochow University’s board of trustees to limit the frequency of appearances by faculty on political talkshows has provoked widespread criticism.

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The papers are full of health scares. But why do we believe contradictory and tenuous stories while ignoring simple medical advice?
By Robert Hudson
Broccoli fights cancer, says the British Journal of Cancer. This worries me because I remember vividly that once upon a time, circa 2001, broccoli was carcinogenic. Back then, it contained acetaldehyde, which was A Bad Thing Of Some Kind, and quite prominent in health stories until we forgot about it. Luckily, I don’t use deodorant or incense, but phone masts, bacon and the rest of the fashionable carcinogens will probably get me if I live long enough.

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Vladimir Putin may have helped reinvigorate Russian nationalism, but on the ground there are chronic social and economic problems that will not go away
By David Clark
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