Society
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Star statistician Ola Rosling schools Czechs on democratising data, systematic misconceptions
Swedish statistician Ola Rosling is co-founder of Gapminder, a foundation that aims to chart trends and use data to fight what it calls “devastating ignorance” using “fact…
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Beer, schnitzel and mushroom picking – unique set of emojis captures Czech soul
A Czech design student has come up with a custom set of 180 emojis that depict various aspects of Czech life and humour. Within a week of being shared on social media, the…
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Holocaust child survivor’s dream of building memorial to child victims of the Holocaust comes true
A child survivor of the Holocaust who was interned at Terezin at the tender age of five, Vera Egermayer could be forgiven for wanting to forget the past. Instead, like so…
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Czechs among the most honest nations in the world, study says
Czechs are one of the most honest nations in the world, at least according to a research called ‘Civic Honesty around the Globe’, published in the US magazine Science. The…
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Parliamentary commission reopens discussion on compensating women for forced sterilisation
Between 1966 and 2012, many women were involuntarily sterilised in Czech and Czechoslovak hospitals. The government has since apologised for the practice and discussed…
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Bohdan Pomahač: Transplanted kidneys’ half-life is about 15 years – we can’t expect faces to last…
Bohdan Pomahač led the team that carried out the first ever full transplant of a human face in the United States. The Boston-based plastic surgeon recently received the…
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Number of weddings in Czech Republic highest in over decade
June is the month of weddings and after years of gradual decline, it seems matrimony is again on the increase in the Czech Republic. Last year, over 54,000 couples tied…
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Czech Republic among world’s largest unwitting sources of spam
The Czech Republic ranks among the top 20 spam email senders in the world according to the most recent 2019 data analysed by leading threat researcher Cisco Talos. Some…
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Call highlights fears over Czech public media’s continued independence
The Czech branch of the International Press Institute has called on MPs to exercise maximum responsibility in the choice of two new members of the council overseeing the…
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Czech brewery rolls out first wastewater beer
A small brewery in the South Bohemian village of Čížová has produced the Czech Republic’s first beer made from recycled, purified wastewater. The water came from a Prague…
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Better training for new drivers perceived as key to making Czech roads safer
Although billions of crowns are spent on the modernization of Czech roads every year, being on the road in this country is not always a pleasant experience. Czech drivers…
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Queens Of The Night
In 2011 Prague hosted its first Gay Pride parade attended by about one million people. Prague has since become one of the most LGBT-friendly cities in Central Europe…
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