The Ballroom Scene

Ballroom.pptx Disclaimer: All personal observation. This article contains NSFW words. This is me at a ballroom last July. It was the after party of the queer graduation ceremony held by a bunch of NGOs, and the way queer people organise a party is to do a "ball" in a…

Running down the Fire Exit

We, the outrages and dressed-to-kill queers, were flighting back the deeply-rooted heterosexual hegemony and spreading the idea of gender inclusion by being seen - yet the best we do now is fleeing on the stairs.…

Man Path, Weed Sea

In 1989, a new plant was discovered on the M50 highway in Worcester, England. It's Cochlearia Danica, also known as Danish scurvygrass, a tiny weed in the family Brassicaceae, described by Linnaeus more than 200 years ago…

A Shallow Dive into Private-Key Encryptions

We have the illusion that, as long as the key exchange was done securely, Private-Key, also known as Symmetric Cryptography, is solidly safe; if we ever introduce Public-Key or Asymmetric Cryptography to exchange private keys, then we are unbreakable.…

With or Without Borders in Science

> This is a reflective article targeting the following comment made by Sivin, serving as the term paper for In Dialogue with Nature. > “So long as there is variation of such magnitude in the balance between the cognitive, practical, normative, and social dimensions of science, such words as “international” and “universal”…