Science and technology
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František Čermák: a chronicler of modern-day Czech
Have you ever wondered what word people use most frequently? In Czech it’s dítě or child – at least as far as nouns go. One of the most common words in general are “voni…
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Business News
In Business News this week: 43,000 Czechs are working legally abroad in the EU’s 15 oldest member states; the Czech National Bank wants to freeze all proceeds generated by…
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Czech bank subject of biggest ever e-mail scam
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Czech Republic have been bombarded in recent weeks by fraudulent e-mails in what is the biggest attempted internet fraud scam in the…
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Amateur astronomer takes unique photos of U.S. space shuttle Atlantis
Libor Šmíd, an amateur astronomer in Plzeň, western Bohemia, took some unique photos of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis approaching the International Space Station in…
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Getting connected
With nearly all of my friends meeting on Facebook and chatting over Skype, I was starting to feel somewhat left out and decided to “get connected” as well. I got on the…
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Getting the Message
In this week’s Letter From Prague, Dominik Jun describes an unusual encounter that ended up bridging a communicational divide.
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The “second life” of Czech Radio
Virtual worlds existing in the realm of cyberspace are very much in the focus at the moment. They are now being put to all manners of serious uses and are also…
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Czechs develop vaccine against Lyme disease
The tick season here in the Czech Republic only starts in spring but the campaign against the tick-borne encephalitis has already been launched, urging people to get…
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Jiří Josef Kamel: The botanist who gave his name to the camellia
Jiří Josef Kamel was a botanist and missionary born in Brno in 1661. When he was 26, he was sent to the Philippines by the Jesuits to spread God’s word, but it seems that…
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Archaeological collection discovered after relic hunter’s death
An unusual collection of over 3,000 archaeological items was discovered two years ago in a Prague apartment whose owner died in a fire. Archaeologists who have examined…
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Czech Egyptologists uncover intact 4,500 year-old tomb
It’s not everyday that archaeologists can boast a discovery such as this one: the finding of a fully-intact archaeological site dating back 4,500 years. That is exactly…
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Business News
In Business News this week: the budget deficit is significantly lower than predicted; the prime minister signals an end to state support for building savings; the euro…
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