Mickey Hargitay: muscle man who married a sex bomb – Hungarians in Hollywood 8.
From acrobat apprentice to immigrant, he became a widely recognized legend of bodybuilding. Mickey Hargitay, from a poor family in Kőbánya, was an exemplary...
Tamás Velkei
Bone and heart from the 3D printer: we visited the Laboratory of the University of Pécs
Did you know that 3D printing technology can now be used to produce artificial limbs or arms? And that advances in technology have made...
Zsuzsanna Bogos
How was complementary feeding done a hundred years ago?
"Oh, Tommy ate stuffed cabbage at Tibi's wedding when he was four months old, and it didn’t hurt him" - we've all heard similar...
Ágnes Jónás
“Life is much harder than prison”
The film Rescuer, directed by Gergely Hajnal, immediately captures the viewer's attention. Not because it is half a prison story, but because it shows...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
“Bitten by a shark? You must be kidding!” – interview with Emil Karáth marine biologist, underwater cameraman
Emil Karáth, marine biologist, professional diver and award-winning filmmaker, has an extremely adventurous life. He has often been the only Hungarian to take part...
Anikó Wéber
A glimpse into the wardrobes of the Hungarian nobility! – We present the most beautiful Hungarian ceremonial dresses
For centuries, politics and prevailing ideals have influenced what a nobleman wore to family and official functions. We pin tricolored cockades on our clothes...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
Healing from the national trauma – an interview with János Árpád Potápi, Secretary of State
The Public Treasures series presents month by month the areas that we see as valuable, our common treasure, worthy of preservation and transmission. Hungarian...
Sára Pataki
”Hi, doctor Rishar, remember me? You operated on me!” – Dr. Richárd Hardi, ophthalmologist, restored the sight of tens of thousands of people in Congo
Dr. Richard Hardi, an ophthalmologist who arrived in sub-Saharan Africa in the mid-1990s with a suitcase full of instruments, works in the poorest parts...
Emese Kosztin
I will tell you my story - How would I live if I had only this one life?
Do you feel like you cannot find your way, this is not how you want to live? That you could do more and better...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
Transylvania comes to life in Szentendre – we visited the new exhibition of the Hungarian Open Air Museum
You need to have a playful heart to dream up, build and manage a human-scale landscape tableau, a toy city built from real elements...
Kati Szám
”We never take wrestling home” – an interview with Tamás Lőrincz and Viktor Lőrincz
When Tamás Lőrincz became an Olympic champion and was interviewed, his words stood out among the many "I did it", "I achieved", "I won"...
Domokos Zováthi
Plácido Domingo: "The Hungarian Opera House is a jewel!"
Plácido Domingo was a frequent guest in Hungary this spring. In March he was conducting at the Reopening Gala of the Hungarian State Opera...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
What shall we do with the heritage of communism? – an interview with Mária Schmidt
Every year, as we prepare for the commemoration of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight, I wonder whether we will live to see the...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
From minus one to two – We visited Tarnabod with Prime Minister's Commissioner Miklós Vecsei
"The twinkle in their eyes," says Maca, "tells me which kids want to go from one to two. Or rather from minus one to...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
"Some even sell their kids so that the rest of the family could eat." – HIA-Hungary helps in Afghanistan, too
Since the Taliban takeover, the vibrant and intense life in Afghanistan has been completely transformed. Many shops have closed, people have no money, and...
Ágnes Jónás
Biologists and all nature-loving people may weep: iron-containing wastewater has been flowing into the River Sajó for several months
The River Sajó, which is even praised by Gyula Juhász in one of his poems, springs from the Gömör-Szepesi mountain range in Slovakia and...
Ágnes Jónás
"With the orangutan I felt that he understood: I was there to help him" – Dr Endre Sós has been responsible for the health of the animals at Budapest Zoo for 25 years
Maybe we can say that the Budapest Zoo is the second home of Dr. Endre Sós . He volunteered here as an undergraduate, has...
Kati Szám
"I was standing on a farm at 23 and felt like my life had ended" – Whose dreams really?
Our parents sometimes make huge sacrifices to make their wildest dreams come true for us. And then, in the idyll they created, we may...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
Veszprém is to be European Capital of Culture in 2023 – An Interview with Tibor Navracsics Government Commissioner
Veszprém is a beautiful city. It's nice to walk around it, especially if you have a guide who knows every corner of the city...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
The Opera House opens – We talked to Szilveszter Ókovács, General Director
The stage of the Hungarian State Opera House, including the rigging loft, is said to be as many cubic meters as the entire Víg...
Sára Pataki
World record-breaking Hungarian talents – two high school students from Budapest win the Oxford Schools Debating Competition twice in a row
Two Hungarian high school girls have broken records, winning the Oxford Schools’ International Debating Competition in two different categories last year and again this...
Henrietta Vadas
"Painting eggs was love at first sight" –Ildikó Fekete decorates eggs under the spell of angles and symmetries
Ildikó Fekete was captivated by the art of wax-dyed eggs from a very young age: she has been making them since she was 16...
Zsuzsanna Bagdán
Budapest's best-known fortune teller, who consulted in cafes – the story of Boriska Silbiger
In the early 2000s, the director of a cultural institution said to a prominent radio journalist, " Only Silbiger Boriska can give you some...
Mariann Háver-Varga
"Our legs are the most honest part of our body" – Body language is worth reading and mastering
In Hungary, relatively few people deal with body language, and psychologists and trainers use it as a supplementary topic at most. However, Nóra Bíró...