Moving to the countryside, a family’s mission in the Vértes mountains – “On a hill, in the dark, the little house is like a lantern”
A couple with young children gave up their life in the capital and found a new home and a new job a few years...
Barbara Schuster
Shaping body and soul – Ferenc Marlok makes scoliosis braces for teenagers
Ferenc Marlok is a master medical equipment technician who designs and produces custom-made plastic back braces for children with scoliosis. At first, the teenagers...
Sára Pataki
From feed factory to poultry shop chain – how the delicious Székely Csürke (Szekler Chicken) gets to the table
Born in Gyergyószentmiklós (Gheorgheni), Romania, educated in Kolozsvár (Cluj Napoca), he now runs the largest and most modern feed factory in Romania, and a...
Zsuzsanna Bogos
Why is the Swiss William Tell on the playing-card? – Discovering the secret of the Hungarian deck
In Hungary everyone is familiar with the so-called Hungarian playing cards, this popular, unique, and historical Hungarian game where the cards, oddly, are decorated...
Orsolya Jean
Regina Káró: ”If you fail at something, there is only one thing you should never do: quit. Because you can always try again.”
At the age of 23, Regina Káró felt she had made it: she successfully graduated from college and spent her internship at a luxury...
Orsolya Jean
Looking for extreme adventures? – Venues in Hungary for extreme sports fans
Wakeboarding, diving, paragliding, rock climbing, mountain biking... This list will make the extreme sports enthusiast's eyes light up. But the following list is not...
Ágnes Jónás
Hungarian astronaut candidates are getting ready! – We are exploring space with the world's best in the HUNOR space program
There has always been an insatiable desire in man to discover the secrets of the sky. This desire drove Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton...
Anita Bojtos
Modest virtuoso and influential educator in the shadow of Franz Liszt – Composer Imre Székely was born 200 years ago
What do Alexandre Dumas 's salon in Paris, Queen Victoria of Britain, the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, Budapest's oldest music school, the popular children's...
Orsolya Jean
Alternatives to Lake Balaton – 7 beautiful riverside beaches and bathing lakes in Hungary
When it comes to water and beaches, there is life beyond Lake Balaton. It's not just Hungary’s largest lake that offers great opportunities for...
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...