A pioneer camp in Crimea on the southern coast. It’s the largest after Artek and some camp called Orlyonok, but those are more like “multi-camps,” while this one is a “mega-camp.” There are a lot of people—up to 16 groups of 40 to 50 kids, totaling around 700 to 800. Continue Reading
Fairy Tales
The world of Harry Potter
The world of Harry Potter, as described by J.K. Rowling, illustrates a modern layperson’s understanding of science and the scientific process quite well. Magical knowledge is found in certain special books. There are magical artifacts in the world. However, the process of acquiring this knowledge and creating artifacts is never Continue Reading
Little Raccoon and the One Who Sits in the Pond
Fairy Tale by Lilian Moore (pen name, Sara Asheron; March 17, 1909 – July 20, 2004)Текст для перевода: ..Translation by O. Obraztsova, 1966. Little Raccoon was small but brave. One day, Mama Raccoon said: — Tonight the moon will be full and bright. Little Raccoon, can you go to the Continue Reading
All around, there are nothing but scammers!
In our residence, the postal workers often leave packages under the gate if they can’t reach the owner by phone. That’s how one of the packages ended up in the yard. It sat outside for a week, then spent another two weeks in the hallway I use to get to Continue Reading
A Jew from Fez
Fes is a city in Morocco that the French quickly added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. Yes, the medina of the old cities in Morocco is unique. It features houses turned inside out, with windows facing inward and blank walls on the outside, narrow and extremely narrow streets, some Continue Reading
Social awkwardness
One of the main complaints I hear from Nastya is that sometimes I can say something that makes everyone feel awkward and embarrassed. And yes, it turns out that I end up hurting people for no reason, even though I never intended to attack them or show any aggression at Continue Reading
Delicacies
“What do we have today?” Zeph asked, pulling on his T-suit. Of course, he knew what “we have today,” and Gap knew that Zeph knew. But Zeph enjoyed asking the question, partly because, as an intern, he was interested in his senior partner’s perspective rather than just the dry lines Continue Reading
Law of Conservation of Information
(Written based on my theses by the GPT-4 system, because I’m lazy) At the quantum level, it is believed that information cannot be lost. One example that has made scientists ponder the preservation of information is black holes. For a long time, there was a contradiction in science, as it Continue Reading
Dogs and the Subjectivity of Justice
Table of Contents Toggle Case No. 1 Case No. 2 Case No. 1 We needed a shelf of a specific size. But they don’t sell those. There are some that are wider, shorter, or taller. Then I find the exact shelf on a second-hand site. Even two of them. And Continue Reading
General Line
Table of Contents Toggle Part One. The Running Champion. Part Two. Capturing Attention. Part One. The Running Champion. Kostya was the champion of Kyiv in running. Just once. A tall, lanky, smart Jewish boy. He always boasted that he could run fast and even walked through the streets in a Continue Reading