Lung strudel and stuffed bovine spleen – Bizarre dishes from old cookbooks
At first glance, some of the dishes in our old cookbooks may seem bizarre. Stuffed bovine spleen rotisserie. A lamb-brain sandwich with green herbs...
Éva Szilléry
”Even if our mission isn’t profitable we’ll do it” – The Hajnalfény Medical Group helps people in need in Transylvania
László Szalai is an ophthalmologist who had helped people in need in the Far East earthquake zones and Middle Eastern war zones before realizing...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
Hungarian marine biologist rebuilds coral reefs with his teenage son
Marine biologist Emil Karáth almost drowned twice as a child, but despite - or perhaps because of - this, the water became his life...
Tamás Velkei
Discovering the largest crusader mural cycle in the Holy Land – Hungarian archeologists are at least as good as their Western colleagues
By fulfilling his childhood dream, he not only gave his life a purpose, but his work resulted in a university course and institute, too...
Melinda Hekler
The story of the healing golden rice and the human-hearted bunny - or the benefits of genetic modification today
Dr. Péter Major is best known for the cultural content of shoeshine.hu, one of the founding members of the organisation. But few people know...
Pál Horváth
The serf who almost became Pope - the life of Tamás Bakócz
The greatest figure of the medieval Hungarian church, he went from a serf boy to a true Renaissance prince of the priesthood. Tamás Bakócz...
Ágnes Jónás
How does a whale-obsessed little girl become a cetacean biologist working to protect and learn about the biggest mammals on Earth?
" As a child, I was very attracted to whale stories such as 'Free Willy' or National Geographic episodes," says cetacean biologist Dóra Székely...
Kati Szám
Albert-László Barabási: "The responsibility of the scientist is to communicate clearly"
I had a conversation with the world-renowned Hungarian network researcher. For once, I do not want to extend the following text with a lengthy...
Tímea Hajdú
The story of a Scottish missionary who was taken to Auschwitz from Budapest
As one of the leaders of the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, Jane Haining did her best to keep the school an island of...
Lívia Kölnei
Women and men in a new world “Tolerate each other with love!”
Perhaps we, women and men, truly are starting to build a new world. We don’t know what will happen after the pandemic, but in...
Kati Szám
Dániel Gryllus “In my life, the final forms have always been defined by human relationships”
Dani is one of those people with whom it is impossible not to sit down with and chat. He turns towards you with such...
kepmas.hu
A deathcamp operated after 1945 in the area of today’s Bratislava – Film about the Ligetfalu massacre
Directors Dávid Géczy and Zoltán Udvardy have made a documentary film titled Genocide in Pozsonyligetfalu about the terrifying events that took place there. In...
Nóra Ivády
“As far as I am concerned, there are no ‘lesser’ dead and ‘greater’ dead, there are only people” – Interview with forensic anthropologist Dr. Éva Susa
The work of forensic pathologist Dr. Éva Susa has given more than 100 families the opportunity of closure in a worthy manner for their...
Lívia Kölnei
Kati Szám: “It is impossible to untangle whether Képmás changed us or we changed Képmás”
For 15 years, Kati Szám has been editor in chief of the magazine Képmás, which through its unique content, refined style and traditional European...