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Science

March in History

Our eternally pessimistic correspondent gives his historical highlights for the month of March.

Adam Węgłowski

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Dreams and Visions

How to pronounce Przekrój?

Have you ever wondered what the title of our magazine sounds like in its original form? Here’s a short demonstration.

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Science

February in History

Our eternally pessimistic correspondent gives his historical highlights for the month of February.

Adam Węgłowski

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Dreams and Visions

Sit! Pose!

Dogs are known for their fidelity. But what about the fidelity of drawings and paintings that depict them?

Michał Książek

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Nature

Intellectuals in Black

They learn quickly, use tools, and beat apes in intelligence tests. Yet they’re still considered a harbinger of misfortune and death. It’s time to give ravens justice.

Adam Zbyryt

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Outer Space

The Silence of Light

Nothing is more beautiful at night than the sight of a coal-black sky uncontaminated by the lights of major metropolises. But when we look up, do we really see what we think we see?

Szymon Drobniak

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Science

Great Chemistry

It is true that alchemists did not manage to invent the elixir of life, but we owe them for the discovery of oxygen, as well as the famous phrase “only the dose makes the poison.” Their search helped lay the foundations of modern science.

Aleksandra Woźniak-Marchewka

It was a Friday in fall. On this drizzly day, the congresspeople in the Capitol building were clashing over the American public debt. The threat of bankruptcy was hovering over the country. Meanwhile, on the enormous lawn in the center of Washington, almost a million smiling people were plunged in serene meditation.

Paulina Wilk

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Dreams and Visions

Baby You

Baby You is a thirty-four-meter long hot air balloon in the shape of a newborn infant. It symbolizes the power of dreams and the limitlessness of everyone’s possibilities.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.

– Rabindranath Tagore

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Dreams and Visions

The City of Alchemists

The maps from the time of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor situate Prague in the symbolic heart of Europe. Surrounded by artists and scholars, the ruler tried to unite the disintegrating world with the help of alchemy.

Maciej Świetlik

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The Other School

The Prickly Sinner

In many parts of Europe, the image of a hedgehog with an apple on his back is a common one—but in fact, the pleasant picture belies a long history of negative associations with the little animal.

Łukasz Modelski

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