“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...
Zsuzsanna Bogos
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...
Kati Szám
Katinka Hosszú: "It's important that people can count on me in my private life, too"
I often encourage beginner colleagues preparing for a sports interview not to take it as a personal failure if they only receive short sentences...
Krisztián Szabó
Angela Gandra: "If we were to expect the same role from everyone, we would destroy society"
Angela Vidal Gandra da Silva Martins, Brazil’s Secretary of State for Family Affairs, was a guest at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium – Danube Institute’s...
Kati Szám
"Hello, Jesus, the Molnárs are here" – Kata Molnár-Bánffy and Gábor Molnár, a couple going on a pilgrimage
When I asked, “Whose idea was it for you to start it?” they looked at each other and smiled – they both remember it...