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Historian Franc – The Czechs changed goulash forever
If you understand Czech and are interested in Czech cuisine, you will want to look up the popular internet series Zmlsané dějiny co-hosted by historian Martin Franc. Franc, who teaches at Charles University, delights in debunking culinary myths but also gives credit where it is historically due.
Author: Jan VelingerPhoto: VladimĂr Ĺ igut, Shutterstock
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Med students gain from scientific training
Hematologist Jan Trka grew up in a family of teacher-scientists, so from an early age science was an integral part of life. Perhaps it is why he became the head of the scientific-diagnostic laboratory at Motol University Hospital and is now the vice-dean at CU’s Second Faculty of Medicine.
Author: Pavla HubálkováPhoto: VladimĂr Ĺ igut
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Neuron broadcast with CU experts focuses on vaccines
Friday 15. January 2021Even though vaccination for Covid-19 has begun in the Czech Republic, there are still many people who remain sceptical and have expressed fear or doubts. Anyone among the broader public wanting to view a serious debate on the matter should look up a discussion that was live this week organised by the Neuron Endowment Fund.
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Makeup at the starting line, mud at the finish
Sunday 3. January 2021In her third year at the Faculty of Education, Tereza Neumanová is a woman of contrasts: someone who lives for the bike but also hopes to teach one day. Who has no qualms about grinding through the mud but carefully applies makeup before every race.
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HilskĂ˝ - Shakespeare's England: Portrait of an Age
Wednesday 16. December 2020Martin HilskĂ˝ is one of the country’s most prominent translators of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets into Czech. In 2011, his translations were published in a single volume The Complete Works (DĂlo). Now, Academia has followed up with Shakespeare’s England: Portrait of an Age.
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A whale named Ilga
Friday 19. February 2021It was apparent that the complete but darkened skeleton of a small whale at the Museum of Human and Comparative Anatomy would eventually fall apart. But restorers achieved something remarkable: returning the skeleton – one of only two in the Czech Republic – to its former glory, while also preserving soft tissue. The team was headed by anthropologist and anatomist Andrej Shbat.
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Look who's listening: How babies learn languages
Sunday 14. February 2021Kateřina Chládková is one of the few researchers in the world who study the earliest stages of language acquisition, which means she is often in contact with babies – even in the maternity ward. Her aim is to find out how we learn to speak from the very first moments of life.
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Czechs help discover remarkable six-star system
Friday 12. February 2021TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has been searching the sky for exoplanets outside our solar system since 2018. Charles University’s Petr Zasche was part of the international team that made a new sensational find: an eclipsing six-star system.
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FORUM EN9 2/2020
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