The heart is a Rubik´s Cube. Science Day 2009












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            New model of a Formula 1 car, white coats of students of medicine, experiments both chemic
            flicker of the monitors showing graphs and tables, discussions, attractive lectures from s
            humanities, bodily organs made visible, the movingly powerless dentist's patient, all kind

            and machines, but also the flowers arranged intricately in tall vases and the incredibly l
            of stairs in the main hall of the University of Economics in Prague all stand for the diff
            scientific knowledge. We go stair by stair, step by step. It is a long journey without end

            infinite patience.
            This is the atmosphere that welcomed those who came to the annual Science Day event on Nov

            The third instalment was organized by five of the Prague's universities: Charles Universit
            Technical University in Prague, Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech University of Life
            University of Economics.

            This year's stand of the Charles University played the education card. Instead of flashy e
            tried to attract the audience of high school students by demonstrating use of medical equi
            stands could be described in three sentences: "Assemble a human body without any help from

            "Exercise  in some of the easier invasive treatment methods" and "Help a dentist manage to
            through such a limited space like a man's mouth".
            As prof. RNDr. Petr Volf, CSc., the vice-rector for scientific and creative activity, said

            goal was to work with the audience's experience of doctors and the perception of their job
            was the case, the presentation did a great job introducing it an attractive and playful ma
            assembling human organs, students found out it to be an intricate Rubik's Cube puzzle in w

            anybody succeeded. While approaching the dental chair with an assortment of drills, the st
            tended to shy away. Almost everyone was happy that it is not them but a dummy sitting ther
            took advantage of the doctors and students of medicine who took care of the stand to spont

            an expert piece of advice on their ailments.
            Marie Kohoutová
            Translation: Jaroslav Švelch