Play And The Ozma Problem

Where Do The Children Play?

Eli Stark-Elster | Unpublishable Papers | 7th November 2025

In most human societies, children have preferred to spend their time playing and exploring with peers in a world separate from adults and their scrutiny. The anthropological evidence for this pattern is rich and widespread. Deprived of this critical phase of unsupervised exploration, the internet has become the only place left where children today "can grow up without adults" (3,100 words)

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What Is The Ozma Problem?

Maloy Das | Fascinating World | 1st November 2025

How do you explain right and left to someone using language alone, without a show of hands or pictures? Kant used handedness to weigh in on the great scientific debates about the nature of space. A hand floating in space, though identical in every possible way to its counterpart, can only be either a right hand or a left hand. “The intrinsic quality of handedness is impossible to explain without showing” (1,500 words)