Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town(tokyoweekender.com)
1710 points by PaulHoule | 385 comments
Tokyo Weekender article about trading cards featuring local middle-aged men that went viral in a rural Japanese town.
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Deterioration of local community a major driver of loss of play-based childhood(afterbabel.com)
358 points by throwup238 | 335 comments
After Babel essay by Zach Rausch, introduced by Jon Haidt, arguing that the decline of close-knit local communities drove the loss of play-based childhood.