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Down the QR Rabbit Hole — A Weekend with Python & Pixels
What started as four lines of Python turned into a deep dive into QR code internals — history, encoding, error correction, and practical generation.
· 9 min read
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Freakonomics — When Economists Start Asking the Wrong Questions
A look at the book that made economics interesting by asking questions nobody else would: do sumo wrestlers cheat? why do drug dealers live with their moms? and what really caused the 1990s crime drop?
· 17 min read
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Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind — What We Eat Shapes How We Think
A look at Dr. Georgia Ede's argument that the modern diet is damaging our brains, and what the science of nutritional psychiatry says we can do about it.
· 12 min read
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Scaling the Peak: Why the Morning Trail is Our Favorite Family Ritual
A fun, family-friendly guide to hiking the historic Morning Trail in Hong Kong. Follow our journey from the HKU campus to the summit of The Peak, featuring WWII ruins at Pinewood Battery, 100-year-old boundary stones, and the iconic views of Victoria Harbour.
· 4 min read
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Hang on the Bar for 100 Seconds
A dead-simple exercise with surprising benefits — just grab a bar and hold on.
· 6 min read
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"I've Never Been to Me" — The Song That Failed, Disappeared, and Became a Hit Anyway
The strange story of Charlene's 1982 ballad — a song about regret, identity, and the life you didn't live — and why it still resonates decades later.
· 10 min read
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The Matrix and the Choice That Never Goes Away
Revisiting the 1999 film that turned a simple choice — blue pill or red pill — into the defining metaphor for uncomfortable truths, wilful ignorance, and the cost of seeing clearly.
· 11 min read