Denia Djokić

Czech Dam Project Was Stalled by Bureaucracy. Beavers Built Their Own. The dam project, drafted in 2018 and based on a former military training site south of Prague, had been delayed by land negotiations. Local beavers built several dams, saving the government more than ...

For years, officials in the Czech Republic had pushed a dam project to protect a river south of Prague, and the critically endangered species living in it. But the project stalled.

In the meantime, the beavers of Prague simply built dams themselves, saving the government some 1.2 million euros.

I Vow to Fight Autocracy with Unprecedented Levels of Finger Wagging “Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate, has reportedly been criticized by some of the party’s state governors for not resisting Donald...

"To the conservatives who might underestimate me—you have no idea what I’m capable of fitting into a slideshow about the value of norms."

“Our university is pleased to present this updated org chart that most accurately captures our system of governance (which management scientists term “Kafkaesque bureaucracy meets Lord of the Files,” though no one understands these references since we cut our literature requirements).”

‘Chemists fought no battles for Jews,’ historian Helmut Maier has said. ‘They fought no battles for immigrants. They only fought … a battle for their professional interests.’