• What about the BBC?
    Periscope|11/03/2011

    What about the BBC?

    I have not given the Hungarian press law a thorough reading and, since my mind is not exactly wired for legal codification, many of its passages are too complicated. At the same time, I do understand the essence of it.

  • A vow of celibacy
    Periscope|01/03/2011

    A vow of celibacy

    There have never been so few new marriages and never as many children born to unmarried parents as in 2010. At least part of the reason for this can be attributed to people choosing to be single – and it is men rather than women who are opting for the single lifestyle.

  • Periscope|25/01/2011

    History on cheese paper

    In the middle of a storm of controversy surrounding a Romanian national holiday, the concerns about next year’s census - also due for the Hungarian minority -, the parliamentary meeting of the Székely National Council, an obituary was sent from Switzerland.

  • Periscope|22/12/2010

    The climate commando is coming

    The new management of MVM (the integrated national power company of Hungary) would like to establish a climate commando and get rid of the Croatian hotel that was surrounded by scandal.

  • Periscope|13/12/2010

    Are trainees being exploited?

    In by-gone days in my youth (in England) someone who freshly graduated from a British university would soon find a job. Even if not necessarily in their own field.

  • German unity at Lake Balaton
    Periscope|03/12/2010

    German unity at Lake Balaton

    Visitors will have the opportunity to see an exhibition titled “German Unity at Lake Balaton” at the Vaszary Villa in Balatonfüred up until the end of June next year. The exhibition was created by the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin and has already enjoyed resounding success in Germany.

  • The liberal gene
    Periscope|23/11/2010

    The liberal gene

    The news was announced recently that American scientists have discovered that people who have one of the variants of the gene coded DRD4, which regulates the functioning of the dopamine hormone, and who also lead a socially active life while young, are more likely to become liberal thinkers as older people.

  • Periscope|05/11/2010

    A break from Facebook-Twitter: unforeseeable damage

    Although it is only a small university of eight hundred students in Pennsylvania an experiment conducted there prohibiting the use of social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter has aroused not only national but international interest.

  • Periscope|05/11/2010

    Can human behavior be prognosticated?

    What people once expected from redemption is what they now expect from prognostics. Since people always feel that they are in trouble, they always have a desire for hope.

  • Periscope|19/10/2010

    The Stomach of Budapest

    In 1821 the Hungarianised Swabian pharmacist, Ferenc Schams, described the old market by the Danube in Pest as a “market for serfs”, likening it to the seventh plane of hell.

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