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Life-Giving, Lethal, Prophetic
Art + Stories, World + People
Dreams and Visions, Fiction

Life-Giving, Lethal, Prophetic

The mythologies and meanings of water across history and various cultures seem to share some similarities—from its life-giving properties to the flood myth.
Tomasz Wiśniewski
Testing the Waters
Humor + Variety
Variety

Testing the Waters

Our biologist-reporter tunes in to an interview with a particle of water, who explains everything we could wish to know about its structure and properties.
Tomasz Sitarz
The Unbearable Fluidity of Being
World + People
Nature

The Unbearable Fluidity of Being

A trip to the forest gives us the chance to reflect on nature – in all its wet, blooming, perfumed springtime glory.
Szymon Drobniak
A Marriage of Glaciers
World + People
Nature

A Marriage of Glaciers

In the high-altitude region of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, local villagers have devised a novel solution to water scarcity – grafting their own glaciers.
Klaudia Khan
Walking for Water
Soul + Body
The Four Elements

Walking for Water

According to some fairy tales, wild springs can give us the water of life. Yet according to other folk legends, water sources can also take life away . . .
Renata Lis
A Drinking Deer
Soul + Body
The Four Elements

A Drinking Deer

From natural springs flow a sort of mysticism; a keen mixture of their purity and rumoured life-giving properties. Where do such tales come from?
Monika Kucia
The Wild Wisła We Love!
World + People
Dreams and Visions

The Wild Wisła We Love!

The artists Ewa Ciepielewska and Agnieszka Brzeżańska talk about their annual art residency FLOW, which is held on a boat that traverses the length of the Vistula River.
Karol Radziszewski
Radiate and Drink
World + People
Nature, Science

Radiate and Drink

On hot summer days, we might hide inside the cool confines of our house. For many flora and fauna, such a luxury is impossible – they have their own biological techniques.
Szymon Drobniak
The World Can Be Changed
World + People
Nature

The World Can Be Changed

True, it wasn’t us, but corporations that destroyed the Earth’s climate. Having said that, let’s start acting now, because there is no time to waste and no-one else will do it for us.
Julia Fiedorczuk
Swimming Is Like Zen
Art + Stories
Opinions

Swimming Is Like Zen

Swimming enthusiast Piotr Kieżun talks about the origin of swimming, changes in swimwear across the ages, and various swimmer writers and intellectuals.
Agnieszka Drotkiewicz