Musings on Life in Hong Kong

Why is academia called the Ivory Tower? I stumbled on a more plausible explanation in “God Created the Integers”, a book about mathematics e...

For a change, a lighter topic: What do you see in this picture? 1. Succulent roasted pork ( 燒肉、燒腩、叉燒 ) before roasting? 2. 2. Sla...

These very young students playing field hockey on a Sunday morning got me thinking. This is a playground in a public housing estate in Shati...

There are many buildings with interesting curved or rounded corners in Hong Kong . Here is a sample of them. Some of them are culturally or ...

In an open-book mid-term test before the Easter holidays, in a certain subject in a certain department (not mine!) in our university, one of...

Milton Friedman also proposed in his book, Capitalism and Freedom published in 1962, a negative income tax system. To summarize: If a perso...

Milton Friedman proposed in his book, Capitalism and Freedom published in 1962, a s chool voucher system. To summarize: it is desirable for ...