Vivisection is the practice of animal experiments and testing for scientific gain. It’s a double-edged sword: On one hand it offers the possibility for research, but on the other it comes at an often-cruel ...
Fukushima, diving medicine, and hard-line Communists. These were the subjects of books from 2013 which won this year’s coveted Literary Fund awards, announced just days ago. As well as award winners, the ...
Most people in the middle ages could not read or write, yet human curiosity was just as strong as it is today. This meant that hundreds of years ago people relied on words and imagery to tell stories, ...
According to various estimates Roma ethnics represent about 10% of Slovakia’s population. They are affected by high unemployment and often segregation. Some have migrated to foreign countries - be it the ...
At the age of 15 most Slovak kids have to make new friends, get to know new teachers and figure out their new daily routine as they end primary and start attending secondary school. What are their fears, ...
Writer and journalist Irena Brežná was a teenager in 1968 when her family decided to leave Czechoslovakia after this country was invaded by the Soviet Army and its allies in order to crush the locals‘ ...
Though the programme of the Slovak cultural summer is packed with various folk festivals, a number of similar events also take place outside the borders of Slovakia.As their organisers, and more importantly ...
Want to see the Slovak countryside? What about seeing it concentrated into one gallery? The Slovak national gallery in Bratislava has just recently opened an exhibition dedicated to Slovak landscape art, ...
Let’s open a can of worms, of good worms! After you finish listening to this story you will most definitely want to have something sweet, preferably a Slovak cake.“The Bratislava rozky” should be available ...
People trying to smuggle explosives onto a plane or bring back to from their holiday a huge elephant leg - as a souvenir - these are some of the things Katarina Richterova learned at the Štefánik airport ...
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