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  • UK exhibition presents Czech innovations past and present
    An exhibition currently underway at the Czech Centre London and in the
    Library of Birmingham celebrates a centenary of Czech discoveries and
    inventions and the emerging generation of scientists and innovators. The
    interactive show, called Czech Innovation Expo, was prepared by the Czech
    Centres network together with the Czech Academy of Sciences.
    4 min
  • “It might be the secret to our recent success as a species” – Michael Londesborough on the science of love
    It may not sound as romantic as being struck by Cupid’s arrow, but
    feelings of love and lust are very much the result of chemical reactions
    within our body, says Dr. Michael Londesborough, a chemist at the Czech
    Academy of Sciences. He recently visited our studio to discuss some of
    humanity’s most powerful emotions from a scientific perspective. I began
    by asking him if there is any difference in how men and women perceive
    love.
    18 min
  • Velvet Revolution and East European docs focus of 23rd Jihlava festival
    The 23rd edition of the annual Jihlava International Documentary Film
    Festival gets underway on Thursday evening. Over the course of the next
    five days, the festival will showcase a total of 277 films, including a
    section dedicated to the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. I spoke to
    Marek Hovorka, the festival’s director, and asked to tell me more about
    the opening film, a tribute to the great Czech cinematographer Jaroslav
    Kučera:
    4 min
  • Czech firm helping to address drinking water problems in Peru
    In 2018 the company Photon Water Technology secured a grant from the Czech
    Development Agency for a project to install water-cleaning facilities in
    small and medium-sized towns and villages in Peru. I spoke to the
    company’s managing director, Petr Kvapil, about what the project entails
    and why they chose to take their know-how to Peru.
    13 min
  • Cool new spaces aim to keep Prague embankments lively all year round
    Prague has a new attraction in the form of 17 circular units – with
    enormous glass doors – in the walls of riverside embankments on both
    sides of the Palacký Bridge. The cool spaces will open fully next month
    and are set to house cafés, galleries and other facilities. At a public
    presentation of the project on Wednesday I discussed it with architecture
    critic Adam Gebrian.
    5 min
  • Forty percent of Czechs own dogs – and many allow them in bed
    For many years now, Czechs have had a reputation of being a dog-loving
    nation, and a recent survey carried out the STEM / MARK agency confirms
    that. According to the results of the study, two out of five Czech
    households include dogs and what is more, forty percent of Czech dog owners
    allow their four-legged friends into their own bed.
    4 min
  • Czech doctors perform first heart in a box transplant
    A 65-year-old man from Prague became the first patient in the Czech
    Republic to successfully undergo a so-called heart in a box transplant. The
    surgery was performed by experts from the Institute of Clinical and
    Experimental Medicine early this month, using a pioneering method of organ
    retrieval that keeps the heart pumping outside the patient’s body for
    several hours.
    4 min
  • Ondřej Sekora: Ferdy the Ant creator and rugby promoter
    Ondřej Sekora is perhaps best-known as the author of the beloved cartoon
    character Ferda Mravenec or Ferdy the Ant. But Sekora was more than just an
    illustrator and comics author. He was also a journalist, an amateur
    entomologist, and one of the first propagators of rugby in Czechoslovakia.
    The Moravian Museum in Brno will mark 120 years since Ondřej Sekora’s
    birth with an exhibition and a new monography.
    9 min

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