Sugar bell, sugar stamp, sugar room – Marzipan Land, the empire of the Oscar-winning Lajos Kopcsik
It’s not only the taste of sweets that you can enjoy, but also the sight of them. This is especially true when someone uses...
Ágnes Bodonovich
“I was an altar boy in the morning and a thief in the afternoon” – The testimony of a Franciscan monk
The life of Franciscan monk Mihály Zillich - or as everyone calls him, Brother Misi - is a good example of how God is...
Ágnes Bodonovich
"No arms, but I’ve received many other things from God"
Born without arms, Borbála Ivicsics has been using her legs for everything since she was a baby. She knows no impossible, and once she...
Adrián Szász dr.
Robert Capa, the world's best-known war photographer had a passionate desire for peace
"It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian", said Robert Capa, the greatest war reporter in the history of photography...
Andrea Csongor
"No one will commit suicide with beautiful, freshly washed hair...”
"If anyone thinks it would help them, or just make them feel better, please get in touch! I offer free haircuts to people in...
Jámbor-Miniska Zsejke
Hungarian inventor wins! – We asked Dániel Váczi about the international competition for musical instrument inventors
With his first place and People’s Choice, the Hungarian contestant was the absolute winner of the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition for instrument inventors in...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
“The muscovite comes, he trashes the German, and then we get it”
So our family has its own historical knowledge of the Russians.
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
What are we doing in space? – an interview with Orsolya Ferencz
It seems as if the Hungarian public received the seemingly exotic news that our country's national space strategy had been completed and that we...
Ágnes Bodonovich
”She thanked me for helping her to became a mother” – an interview with Edit Frivaldszky
Edit Frivaldszky is one of the best-known figures in the field of life and family protection, who has been helping mothers in distress for...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
We went to the Ukrainian-Hungarian border – ”The desire to give has not diminished”
Barabás is on the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, Papos about forty kilometers away. Although we don't hear much in the news about these smaller villages closer...
Fanni Fekete
”I am afraid if I left home, I would have nowhere to return to”
The Ukrainian-Russian war has caused great fear among the Hungarians in Ukraine. Whoever had the chance to leave the country has already left but...
Kinga Halász
KockaCsoki – where making chocolate helps people with autism
KockaCsoki ('Square' or, literally, a 'cube' of Chocolate) is more than just an artisanal chocolate workshop: it is a social enterprise that helps young...
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...