Culture
Why, in today's world of endless possibilities, would anyone still insist on being a sculptor? By Piotr Kosiewski The exhibition "Sculpture in Search of Place" at Warsaw's Zachęta has taken over the gallery's main exhibition halls, but also the staircase, and even
Science
Astronomical observations suggest that the matter we know makes up only a few percent of everything that exists. By Sebastian J. Szybka Science reveals that reality has many layers, some of which are not directly accessible to our senses. Physicists, reaching into one of these layers – the quantum world of
Spirituality
The Pope says "I call," asking where the technological race is heading as it pushes ethics aside. By Sylwia Czubkowska Project Stargate – the massive, $500 billion investment in data centers, computing power, and supercomputers – was announced by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank. Its name naturally echoes the science fiction
Science
The extinction of the dinosaurs, the emergence of pollinating insects and fruit trees, intercontinental journeys – a great many things had to happen in the world before the apes could be born from which humans would evolve. By Łukasz Kwiatek Under almost every article and video about human evolution, you can
Spirituality
Church courts in Poland are unpredictable, and their rulings inconsistent. As a result, some people receive a positive verdict almost immediately, while others wait years or walk away with nothing, feeling wronged. By Ignacy Dudkiewicz "It seemed like my case was straightforward. There were documents, witnesses, a church lawyer
Society
GLP-1 analogues have transformed the treatment of obesity and the lives of many patients. But the popularity of Ozempic and Mounjaro also reveals something uncomfortable about a new ideal of thinness, class inequality, and a market that sells hope at a high price. By Michał Kuźmiński "Everyone looks
Spirituality
Patti Smith singing in a church at the Venice Biennale? For Fr. Antonio Spadaro, this is not a provocation but a "sound prayer." And a sign that the Church needs art that disturbs. By Edward Augustyn, from Venice and Fr. Antonio Spadaro Edward Augustyn: Patti Smith singing in
Science
Members of the scientific consortium known as FlyWire first scanned fruit fly brains in detail using an electron microscope, then identified 140,000 neurons and 54.5 million connections between them, and provided their full description. By Łukasz Kwiatek More than 120 years have passed since the pioneering work of
Culture
Surrealism is a revolt against the coldness of geometry, dead abstraction, the prose of protocol sentences. How does one create one's own world against them? By Eliza Kącka In the catering section of the SuperSam in Warsaw — barbarically demolished twenty years ago — a colossal panel spread above the
Society
It costs billions, makes millions unhappy, and kills thousands. The United States and some European countries have recognized it as an epidemic. Poland has yet to join them. By Przemysław Wilczyński Student A: "It comes up when I'm at university and don't know people (...); when
Science
Sir Roger Penrose on his path to understanding reality. An interview with the physicist who described the universe like no one before him. By Marta Emilia Bielińska Marta Bielińska: Some people have favorite numbers, but a Nobel Prize-winning physicist probably needs to be asked something more abstract. Do you
History
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Benjamin Netanyahu are also competing over the material traces of the past. Excavations are a battlefield for competing visions of the past and claims to the land. By Aleksander R. Michalak The president did not mince his words. Speaking in August 2025 at an archaeological symposium