A fifth-grader can describe artificial intelligence better than many parents. The problem is that school hasn't caught up with the world children actually live in.
A fifth-grader articulates AI coherently — having learned it outside the classroom.
Romanian science education prioritises fixed content over curiosity and critical thinking.
The generation raised with AI is being schooled for a different era.
A Geran-2 hit a residential building in Galați. Two wounded, one apartment destroyed, technical analysis unambiguous — and yet some voices still minimise.
A Russian-made Geran-2 drone struck a residential block in Galați on 29 May 2026.
Two people were injured; Romania convened the UN Security Council.
Technical analysis is unambiguous: the drone was part of a broader Russian attack.
A psychologist and lecturer sees it daily — students who know the answer but stay silent, and clients who break down before a presentation even begins.
Students who know the correct answer refuse to speak in public due to social anxiety.
Some withdraw from entire exams when the assessment involves oral or public performance.
Căpitănescu argues that naming the problem is the essential first step toward addressing it.
On the 70th birthday of Romania's most translated living writer, a personal essay on what makes Cărtărescu unique — and why the Camus comparison sells him short.
Cărtărescu turns 70; his collaboration with Humanitas began with the 1989 volume Visul.
Comparisons to Albert Camus, common in Western criticism, are seen as reductive.
His baroque, oneiric prose has no real equivalent and demands its own critical framework.
President Dan told the BBC that a Russian drone was deflected toward Galați by Ukrainian air defences — with no evidence provided. Yet Romania simultaneously expelled the Russian consul.
Dan told the BBC Ukrainian air defences deflected the drone, without presenting evidence.
Romania simultaneously expelled the Russian consul — a move that contradicts the president's narrative.
The gap in official communication gives Russian disinformation fertile ground.