“Now, Andrea, you won’t have any more children, will you?" - Risk, Adventure and Challenge with 11 kids
With ten siblings, you have to fight for attention as well as a good seat in the minibus. But you're never bored, and there's...
Lilla Zeke
"The Hungarian scientist who received the Nobel Prize" – Ferenc Krausz in service of humanity
"From the podium, it's hard to tell who will win a Nobel Prize, but you can see who is ambitious. Ferenc Krausz was one...
Andrea Csongor
“How come we haven't noticed this before?” – was asked from Katalin Karikó, who in turn discovered it and received the Nobel Prize
The question was asked at a party by a scientist who had earlier repeatedly criticized Katalin Karikó , the Hungarian biochemist who has just...
Henrietta Vadas
“As a maid, I knew every nook and cranny of the Habsburg castle in Alcsút” – the story of 98-year-old Sári néni
Sára Komárominé Vojna, or Sári néni , was born on 1 November 1925 in Alcsút, where she grew up as the fourth child in...
Szilvia Németh
Miklós Papp: the mid-life ‘crisis’ is the natural path to maturity and development
Previously referred to as midlife panic, it was basically identified with the behavior of men in their fifties flanging with a young girlfriend. Fortunately...
Vince Tompos
On the threshold of another world – The Last Homely House Foundation
This year, the Foundation Völgyzugolyház Alapítvány a Kacifántosokért (the name ‘Völgyzugoly’ comes from J.R.R. Tolkien and means the ‘last homely house’, or ‘elven fortress’)...
Ildikó Antal-Ferencz
The family-friendly head of a family-friendly hospital – In conversation with Dr. György Velkey
This was not my first interview with Dr. György Velkey, and yet I was still consumed with curiosity: would we be able to have...
Dóra László
Diána Ürge-Vorsatz, climate researcher: “People don’t even grasp that ‘many a little makes a mickle’”
There are few more divisive subjects than climate change: some even deny its existence, while others envisage the coming of the end of the...
Enikő Sárdi
A sick child is a catalyser – interview with paediatric neurologist András Fogarasi
The renown of Dr. András Fogarasi, paediatric neurologist, deputy director of Bethesda Hospital, and his department has travelled further than one would think. After...