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Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

Damir Karakaš’s Celebration , translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać, begins at the end of World War II. Its four sections—“House,” “Dogs,” “Celebration,” and “Father”—move from 1945 to 1935, then 1941 to 1928, and follow Mijo, a man whose yellow-brown uniform marks him as a member of the recently fallen Croatian fascist organization of the Ustaše.... See more

Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened

Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone?

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/why-do-small-children-in-japan-ride-the-subway-alone

from The Economist