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  • 1 week ago | ampleroad.substack.com | Michelle Kuo |Albert Wu

    Michelle and Albert here. We just finished a semester of teaching, phew! I taught two courses this semester, one on creative expression, at a women’s juvenile detention center in Taipei and the other, on storytelling and the law, at National Chengchi University, where I teach at the International College of Innovation.

  • 1 month ago | ampleroad.substack.com | Albert Wu |Michelle Kuo

    Hello dear readers,Many apologies for being out of touch; we’ve had some serious family health issues. We appreciate all the feedback we received on our last post, which addressed a divisive topic in Taiwan—perhaps one of the few issues in recent memory to split progressives so sharply. (The fact that it was written in English offered some degree of insulation from controversy.) We’re grateful to everyone who takes the time to read our work.

  • 1 month ago | jnis.bmj.com | Albert Wu |Kyle Scott |Redi Rahmani |Sandeep Kandregula

    AbstractBackground We describe and analyze a novel technique by which inflation of a proximal balloon guide catheter (BGC) permits tracking of distal catheter systems past vessel tortuosity and ledges like the ophthalmic segment of the internal carotid artery (ICA). Inflation of the BGC counteracts slippage when deployed, and careful advancement of the system builds up energy that is translated forward, allowing users to cross segments otherwise inaccessible by endovascular techniques.

  • 2 months ago | ampleroad.substack.com | Albert Wu |Michelle Kuo

    Dear all,The news has been worrying and dizzying. The big news this week has been President Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement of tariffs on all of the United States’s trading partners. Taiwan was not spared—Trump levied a 32% tariff on Taiwanese goods.

  • Mar 16, 2025 | ampleroad.substack.com | Michelle Kuo |Albert Wu

    Dear readers, dear friends,Like many of you, we’ve felt unmoored by the political chaos of the past couple of weeks. Deportations, detentions, firings of veterans and park rangers (and more), cuts to free lunches for low-income kids, defunding of scientific research, anti-trans laws, the gutting of the Department of Education, countless needless deaths from the cuts to USAID—we lie awake at night, sinking into depression.

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