Category: Fairy Tales — 56
A gnat in amber
In this story, all names, events, places, and linguistic analogies have been altered beyond recognition for political reasons. Nevertheless, the people whose story I am telling are just as influential…
The Sorcerer’s Trail
Once, I had an acquaintance. I would never have met him under normal circumstances, as we were involved in very different things, but somehow I was lucky to know him.…
Fairy Tales · Leadership · Motivation
Black Sea sabre-toothed fish
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…
Fairy Tales · Information · Motivation · Politics
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…
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) Translation by O. Obraztsova, 1966. Little Raccoon was small but brave. One day, Mama…
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…
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…
What’s the difference?
When I was little, I had Jewish relatives. They were the daughters of my great-grandmother’s sister, who helped my grandmother get a job at the Transsignal factory in Kyiv. My…
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…
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…
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…
Dogs and the Subjectivity of Justice
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…
General Line
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…
Like flies
There is a newspaper called “Evening Kyiv.” Once, during the USSR era, it was a sort of social and Soviet evening paper featuring editorials, articles of interest to the locals,…
Kissing Hank’s ass
James Huber, trans. Kissing Hank’s Ass (jhuger.com) This morning, someone knocked on my door. When I opened it, I found a well-groomed, nicely dressed couple standing in front of me.…
Vanity and Vainglory
„Shallow men believe in luck, strong men believe in cause and effect.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson A winner is a person who knows what he will do next if he…