Poland’s Game Developers, Long Proud of Working Through the Night, Are Forming Unions
After 2,000 layoffs in two years, employees at three Warsaw studios have organized, a shift in an industry that built its reputation on heroic overtime.
A 29-Year-Old in Bonn Says She Has Settled a 50-Year-Old Question About Finding the Middle
Her 140-page proof establishes a hard floor on how many comparisons any method needs to find the median of a list, resolving a conjecture posed in 1976.
Europe’s Biggest Coal Plant Is Winding Down. The Town Built Around It Is Looking for a New Reason to Exist.
Four of Bełchatów’s 12 lignite units have gone cold, the mine is running out of coal, and 7,000 jobs are in the balance. The retraining money has arrived; the new employers have not.
In Narva, Where Nearly Everyone Speaks Russian, the Second Year of Estonian-Only Classrooms Begins
A law moving all schools to teaching in Estonian is reshaping a border city of 54,000 whose residents overwhelmingly speak Russian at home. Teachers are the scarcest resource.
