Berenika Steinberg
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Animal Persons
Animal Persons
An Interview with Marta Bogdańska
Reading / society
Marta Bogdańska, creator of the “Shifters” art project, talks about the history of humans (mis)using animals in armed forces and intelligence agencies.
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Children Are Not Filing Cabinets
Children Are Not Filing Cabinets
An Interview with Marzena Żylińska
Magazine / society
Educational neuroscientist Marzena Żylińska talks about the lessons the school system should be learning – such as moving away from a culture of testing and correcting.
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A Table Laden with Famine
A Table Laden with Famine
An Interview with Karolina Brzuzan
Magazine / society
Karolina Brzuzan, an artist who collects recipes from areas affected by famine, talks about clover pancakes, fish-scale soup and pudding made of joiner’s glue.
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The Land of Real Dreams
The Land of Real Dreams
An Interview with Andrzej Górz
Magazine / culture
Andrzej Górz, co-founder of Open Jazdów – a civil initiative in a unique settlement of wooden Finnish houses in the centre of Warsaw – talks about what utopia means to him.
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Work With Your Green Fingers
Work With Your Green Fingers
A Return to the Life of Soil
Magazine / society
Our writer is back at Aleksandra and Mieczysław Babalski’s organic farm in the north of Poland, where Farmer Mietek explains to her the best work ethic.
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People Are to Blame
People Are to Blame
A 9-Year-Old on the Pandemic
Reading / society
9-year-old child Marianna talks about her two-week quarantine, teaching during the pandemic, and whose fault the virus is.
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Meditation During Quarantine
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Meditation During Quarantine
An Interview with Filip Kołodziejczyk
Reading / society
The director of the Polish Mindfulness Association talks about feelings of helplessness and fear during the current health epidemic, and how meditation might provide some respite.
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Under the Cover of the Moon
Under the Cover of the Moon
The Life of Soil in Spring
Magazine / society
Our writer breathes in the fresh spring air at Aleksandra and Mieczysław Babalski’s organic farm in the north of Poland, as she discovers what happens when new life begins to blossom in the soil.
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Fields of Good Energy
Fields of Good Energy
The Life of Soil in Winter
Magazine / society
Our writer makes a winter trip to Aleksandra and Mieczysław Babalski’s organic farm in the north of Poland to discover what happens when the soil is frozen over.
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The Stump Prophet
The Stump Prophet
The Sculptures of Heródek
Reading / culture
To some, Karol Wójciak was a local eccentric; to others, he was an artist with a singular aesthetic. To most, he was known as Heródek, the creator of wooden gnotek sculptures of angels and saints.
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An Indian Summer at the Babalskis’
An Indian Summer at the Babalskis’
The Life of Soil in Autumn
Magazine / society
Our writer returns to Aleksandra and Mieczysław Babalski’s organic farm in the north of Poland to find out what lays in wait for the soil during autumn.
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You Can’t Eat Money
You Can’t Eat Money
An Introduction to the Life of Soil
Magazine / society
Aleksandra and Mieczysław Babalski run an organic farm in the north of Poland. Mieczysław tells us all about grain, biodynamism, and how you are what you eat.
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Samba in a World of Silence
Samba in a World of Silence
How Deaf People Feel Music
Magazine / society
Sound can be felt in many ways. In Poland, deaf people can experience music through a number of community projects and technological innovations.