Hyde Park Civilizace

"Neúspěch je součástí úspěchu." Říká vývojář Diego Saikin, který se podílel na vývoji Beresheetu – izraelské sondy, která se pokusila přistát na Měsíci. Byla to první taková mise soukromé firmy. Nakonec neúspěšná, tedy pokud jde o samotné přistání. Spustila ale něco jiného – co přesně? V čem všem byla mise unikátní? A co všechno se Diego Saikin naučil při studiu v České republice? Odpoví v Hyde Parku Civilizace v sobotu od 20:05 na ČT24. https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/221411058090116/

Od prvního pohledu do nového světa - rentgenu ruky paní Röntgenové - uplynulo 125 let. Dodnes jsou takzvané paprsky X a radioaktivita jedním z nejvýznamnějších objevů vůbec. Kde všude je využíváme? Řekne fyzik a radiační onkolog Vítězslav Kříha, v sobotu od 20:05 v Hyde Parku Civilizace na ČT24. https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/220411058091128/

Mise Solar Orbiter studuje Slunce - a na její palubě jsou i české přístroje. Češi se podílí na výrobě nosných raket i družic pro pozorování Země. Jaké projekty nesou nebo ponesou "českou stopu"? Jiří Svoboda (Astronomický ústav AV ČR, koordinátor programu Vesmír pro lidstvo) Petr Kapoun (S.A.B. Aerospace) Daniel Štefl (HULD), Jan Kolmaš (před založením vlastního kosmického startupu pracoval v operačním centru ESA https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/220411058091114/

Pavel Calda, vedoucí Centra fetální medicíny a ultrazvukové diagnostiky, Gynekologicko-porodnická klinika 1. LF UK a VFN, moderuje: Daniel Stach 280 dnů, za které vznikne nový život. Jak se ze splynutí dvou buněk vyvine člověk? Jaké technologie využívají lékaři k tomu, aby viděli, jak se daří ještě nenarozenému dítěti? O prenatální diagnostice budeme mluvit večer s profesorem Pavlem Caldou, vedoucím Centra fetální medicíny a ultrazvukové diagnostiky Gynekologicko-porodnické kliniky 1. LF UK a VFN. Hyde Park Civilizace v sobotu od 20:05 na ČT24. https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/220411058091024/

The heart. How can surgeons fix it? What allows them to repair just the small damaged part of the tissue? And how can they remotely look inside the heart in three dimensions? That’s our topic. We’ll also look at an operation carried out by the Czech-American pair of heart surgeons who’ve been working together for more than 20 years – Petr Neužil and Vivek Reddy. https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/220411058090926/

SRDCE: Sval, díky kterému může v našem těle fungovat všechno ostatní. Je jednoduchý a složitý zároveň. Jak ho lékaři dokážou opravit? A podívat se na dálku trojrozměrně dovnitř? Kam se kardiologie posouvá a co je budoucností oboru? Kardiolog Vivek Reddy z Mount Sinai Hospital v New Yorku a Petr Neužil z Nemocnice Na Homolce v Hyde Parku Civilizace v sobotu večer na ČT24. https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/220411058090926/

Mimořádné vysílání ke krizi kvůli nemoci covid-19. Debata odborníků zaměřená na souhrn aktuálního dění Česká televize v reakci na aktuální situaci související s druhou vlnou pandemie koronaviru vrací na obrazovku speciální debatu s odborníky, kterou připravuje její vědecká redakce. Nový díl pořadu Země v nouzi přinese pohled vědců, shrne dosavadní informace a vysvětlí dostupná data. Pozvaní odborníci poodhalí, jak reaguje imunitní systém i jaké budou dlouhodobé dopady pandemie na jednotlivce a společnost. „Vzhledem k tomu, jak složitá je situace, je klíčové vědět, jak na tom jsme. Každý den přibývá ohromné množství informací. Jak se v nich zorientovat a jak vybrat ty správné, relevantní? Země v nouzi nabídne přehledně zpracované informace z vědecky podložených zdrojů. Nebudeme mluvit o politických názorech, ale o výsledcích vědecké práce,“ říká moderátor pořadu Daniel Stach a dramaturgyně Pavlína Sedlářová jej doplňuje: „Ve vysílání přehledně shrneme, jaké máme možnosti léčby a kam se budou podle odhadů posouvat. Vysvětlíme, jak vzniká vakcína i jak účinná musí být, aby pomohla pandemii zvládnout. A přidáme i doporučení na to, jak krizi zvládnout psychicky a na co se ještě připravit.“ Pozvání do diskuze přijali: RNDr. Karel Drbal, Ph.D., imunolog, katedra buněčné biologie, Přírodovědecká fakulta UK prof. MUDr. Vojtěch Thon, Ph.D., imunolog, RECETOX – výzkumné centrum Přírodovědecké fakulty Masarykovy univerzity prof. MUDr. Ladislav Machala, Ph.D. infekcionista, Infekční klinika Nemocnice Na Bulovce RNDr. Ruth Tachezy, Ph.D., viroložka, katedra genetiky a mikrobiologie, Přírodovědecká fakulta UK, BIOCEV prof. PhDr. Radek Ptáček, Ph.D., profesor lékařské psychologie PhDr. Štěpán Vymětal, Ph.D., stálý výbor pro psychologii krizí, katastrof a traumatu EFPA prof. RNDr. Dagmar Dzúrová, CSc., demografka, katedra sociální geografie a regionálního rozvoje, Přírodovědecká fakulta UK https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10997918455-mimoradne-porady-ct24/220411033401018-zeme-v-nouzi-pandemie-pokracuje-jak-ted-a-kudy-dal/

Řídil největší dopravní letadlo světa - Airbus A380. Teď létá na malých strojích. Jak vidí budoucnost letecké dopravy? A jak snadno se pilotuje "velryba"? Pilot David Hecl v Hyde Parku Civilizace v sobotu od 20:05 na ČT24. https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/220411058090912/

Vědec Tomáš Cihlář, který ve společnosti Gilead vede výzkum a vývoj léku remdesivir, poskytl České televizi rozsáhlý rozhovor. Věnoval se především tomu, jak tato látka může pomoci v léčbě nemoci covid-19, ale také širšímu kontextu současné pandemie.

Paul Nurse, nositel Nobelovy ceny za fyziologii nebo lékařství, bývalý předseda britské Královské společnosti --- Danuše Nerudová, ekonomka, rektorka Mendelovy univerzity v Brně --- Pavel Gruber, ředitel, Lékaři bez hranic; moderuje: Daniel Stach O velkých globálních tématech. O změně klimatu. O mikrobiální rezistenci. O "zapomenutých" epidemiích. O stárnutí populace. O tom, co zlepšit ve vzdělávání. O inspiraci. O tom, jak mluvit o vědě. I o seznamu přání. Hyde Park Civilizace v sobotu od 20:05 na ČT24. Tento díl jsme pro vás natočili 30. 1. 2020 v Brně na hradě Špilberk. https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/9271-english/37660-sir-paul-nurse-danuse-nerudova-pavel-gruber/

Paul Nurse, nositel Nobelovy ceny za fyziologii nebo lékařství, bývalý předseda britské Královské společnosti --- Danuše Nerudová, ekonomka, rektorka Mendelovy univerzity v Brně --- Pavel Gruber, ředitel, Lékaři bez hranic; moderuje: Daniel Stach O velkých globálních tématech. O změně klimatu. O mikrobiální rezistenci. O "zapomenutých" epidemiích. O stárnutí populace. O tom, co zlepšit ve vzdělávání. O inspiraci. O tom, jak mluvit o vědě. I o seznamu přání. Hyde Park Civilizace v sobotu od 20:05 na ČT24. Tento díl jsme pro vás natočili 30. 1. 2020 v Brně na hradě Špilberk. https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/220411058090314/

He lived in Czechoslovakia. He built hi-fi systems. He dropped out of school. He came up with the idea for a gravitational wave detector. He helped build the LIGO detector. For this, he received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Professor Rainer Weiss. How do you build a system that can capture such tiny changes in spacetime? What is the most important next direction in space research? And what does he remember of his life in Czechoslovakia? https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/220411058090222/

Přišel s nápadem na detektor gravitačních vln a byl u budování detektoru LIGO. Právě za to získal v roce 2017 Nobelovu cenu za fyziku. Profesor Rainer Weiss. Jak vznikal systém, který zachytí tak malé změny v prostoročasu? Proč se cítí nesvůj ze své Nobelovy ceny za fyziku? A co si pamatuje ze života v Československu? https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/220411058090222/

What causes Alzheimer's disease or type 2 diabetes? Misfolded proteins - this was discovered by professor Christopher Dobson. He and his colleagues opened a new path for treating diseases that affect hundreds of million of people. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…9411058090316/

I hated science, I thought it was rather boring - no room for creativity or imagination, says baroness Susan Greenfield, professor of physiology at the University of Oxford. But her approach has changed a lot since than. Through philosophy and psychology she eventually got into neuroscience, she wrote ten books for general public as a part of popularization of science. Her research focuses for example on Alzheimer's disease and examines the changes caused in our brain and in our behavior by technology. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…9411058090427/

He captured a photon and let it fly around in a box into which he sent some atoms, then he asked the atoms what could they tell him about the photon – Serge Haroche, laureate of the 2012 Nobel prize in physics. He invented new methods that enable the measurement and manipulation of individual quantum systems, what is their potential use? Perhaps faster computers and better lasers but for now this is fundamental research. He is the third in a succession of Nobel laureates, his two teachers had received the prize before him. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…9411058090105/

He described a process that helps molecules to identify one another - for example this means that drugs can recognize which cell to kill and which to let live, Jean-Marie Lehn, laureate of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The founder of supramolecular chemistry who says that chemistry is trying to build bridge between physics and biology. Why does he consider the periodic table of elements to be the most fantastic product? Why should we or shouldnt we examine complex systems piece by piece rather than as a whole? And how does he combine chemistry and philosophy? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…an-marie-lehn/

She worked for Boeing, then for NASA, now for Virgin Hyperloop One. Or in other words - she worked on ion engines, developed the parachute that slowed down Curiosity before it landed on Mars and now is trying to figure out how to transport people at 700 km/h - Anita Sengupta. She says that everything thats happened in her life was serendipity. Was it really? How many calculations and tests did it take her and her colleagues to enable Curiosity to safely slow down by more than 1 000 kilometers per hour within a few minutes? And when will we be able to ride a Hyperloop? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…pace-engineer/

He took the first step towards creating a molecular machine - Jean-Pierre Sauvage, laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His study of photosynthesis opened up a new direction that eventually led to the development of nanocars. These would one day deliver drugs within our body, though he focuses on fundamental research. How did he start bonding molecules? Why is it so difficult to make artificial photosynthesis work and how was his life influenced by his teachers? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…ierre-sauvage/

Extreme weather fluctuations, icebergs melting, ocean levels rising - these are just some of the impacts of climate change. And the consequences for mankind are huge and will get even bigger unless we manage to respond. But how? What are the possible scenarios, what influences them, what can governments do and what can we do as individuals? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…hillipe-ciais/

Most people's acts in economics are not driven by logic or rational thought but by their experience, says professor Vernon Smith who in 2002 received Swedens Central bank Prize in Economic Sciences, known as the Nobel Prize in Economics. He focuses on experiments describing how people behave when they trade. How does our decision-making change as we gradually gain more information? How have his experiments contributed to practice for example in the regulating transport? And why does he think that the main job of schools is to teach us how to learn? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…ernon-l-smith/

"Operování je jako vrcholový sport." Říká jeden z největších českých specialistů v oboru páteřní chirurgie, profesor Jan Štulík. Ročně zvládne až 550 operací, některé trvají i 20 hodin. O novinkách v chirurgii páteře i o tom, jak se chovat k našim zádům. https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10441294653-hyde-park-civilizace/220411058090201/

From Switzerland to China and then to North Korea, thats the journey taken by the humanitarian Katharina Zellweger. She first came to North Korea in 1995, since then shes been there 70 times. She helped during the floods as well as famine. How did she deal with the North Korean regime? Is there a place in the country where she would like to go but was never allowed? And how is the North Korean society changing? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…ina-zellweger/

He created the first synthetic gene and contributed to the development of new kinds of DNA that can help diagnose diseases. Synthetic biologist Stephen Banner - he also studies the origin of life itself, partially in collaboration with NASA. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…steven-benner/

I'm a maker of magma chambers, says volcanologist Kayla Iacovino who in her lab simulates what's going on under the surface in a volcano's magma chamber. But she also does a lot of field work - she worked in Antarctic, Chille or in North Korea. What is she able to discover about the past and the future of volcano? What helps her simulate such gigantic forces of nature like pressure and temperature? And why will she prefer hearing instead of goodbye "live long and prosper"? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…ayla-iacovino/

I listen to neurons but brain speaks in symphony, that's why you need to listen to multiple neurons at once - says neuroscientist and anesthesiologist Divya Chander who works at Faculty in medicine of Singularity University. Using EEG she listens to the brain to find out what is really happening inside, this allows her to study our consciousness and new ways of helping people for example with Parkinson's disease or partial paralysis. How can we see thanks to our tongue? How can we implant ideas into a brain? And how is it that we still don't know we don't fully understand how anesthesia works? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…divya-chander/

The Feustels. Together, they represent a very broad palette of skills and interests, from geology and geophysics through speech-language pathology and neuroscience to aviation. Astronaut Andrew Feustel is on his third mission – he was on the ISS once before, for less than two weeks, and is the second to last person to touch the Hubble Space Telescope. On each flight, he took with him items connected to the Czech Republic – The Cosmic Songs and the Little Mole. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…-the-feustels/

The head of exploration missions on Mars. He managed exploration rover projects Spirit and Opportunity. He researches the surface of the red planet and participates in preparations for a human mission to Mars. The guest of Hyde Park Civilization was NASA astrogeologist James W. Rice, who came to the Czech Republic at the invitation of the Academy of Sciences of the CR. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…mars-missions/

From European Southern Observatory's headquarters, to La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor. From planet hunter, spectrograph HAARPS, to the most advanced optical device on Earth, the VLT, to ALMA, array of 66 radiotelescopes in the altitude of more than 5 000 meters. We visited places that help us to learn more and more about the universe. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…atory-special/

A cleanup in the cell without which we wouldn't survive. That's autophagy - a process in which a cell gets ris of it's damaged or unnecessary parts and which seems to be also crucial in the fight against certain diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease, diabetes or cancer. Autophagy was described by professor Yoshinori Ohsumi and for this he received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or medicine - the world's most prestigious science award, yet he himself says his first big scientific success came when he was already 43 years old. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…cine-laureate/

It looks like nothing is the mother of us all says professor Edward Kolb - cosmologists and astrophysicist also known by his nickname Rocky. In his research he focuses among other things on the very beginnings of our universe, on dark matter and dark energy. How can we find out what makes up 95% of our universe and what properties does it have? What was there before the Big Bang and how should we imagine this nothing that has created us all? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…b-cosmologist/

He's the man who was there - during the last days of the MIR space station as well as the early days of the International Space Station. He was a member of the first crew that started the project of uninterrupted human presence around Earth that continues to this day. He is the first Russian to fly a spaceshuttle, he spent a total of 803 days, nine hours and 38 minutes in space. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…ian-cosmonaut/

He described a system that allows our DNA to repair itself, without these constant repairs, we wouldn't survive. Professor Paul Modrich, laureate of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He entered the big world of science from a relatively close community of a small town. He started saving for college already in junior high school, he ordered his first radioactive material at age 15. For dozens of years he worked with e.coli bacteria and now his research helps physicians diagnose cancer. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…stry-laureate/

He builds machines that are thousand times smaller than a width of a hair. And with them he might cause revolution in medicine and in other fields. Professor Ben Feringa, laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He managed to construct nanocars that can drive and could in the future for example deliver drugs inside the body. The system could also help in the fight against antibiotics resistance. How exactly? And how do you build a car out of individual molecules? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…stry-laureate/

As the head of the Atlas detector, she was there when the Higgs boson was detected. As the head of CERN, she decides about the organization's future development. Fabiola Gianotti, director-general of the largest scientific center on Earth. She can combine music, mathematics and particle physics as well as coordinate physicist from all over the world including the Czech Republic. What have they already achieved at CERN? How does particle physics research help our everyday life? And what will be CERN's response to the Chinese plan to build a giant collider called Higgs Factory? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…neral-of-cern/

Seven rocky planet, three of them in the habitable zone and all of them close to Earth. At least from the cosmic point of view. That is the Trappist-one system. It was discovered partially thanks to the scientists from the European Southern Observatory and it's far from their only success. They have also found our nearest exoplanet, observed stars orbiting the massive black hole in the center of our galaxy and watched the development of sunspots. What does ESO expect from European Extremely Large Telescope? What is the practical use of our observations of the oldest visible universe? Those are questions for the director general of ESO, professor Pieter Timotheus de Zeeuw. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…n-observatory/

Go after your curiosity. You need to have more curiosity. Even more curiosity. But it’s not enough to be curious. You have to have passion. Says Professor Ada E. Yonath. She comes from a poor family, but eventually made her way to the highest levels of science. She studies ribosomes – factories inside cells that translate our genetic information and produce proteins. Without them, life as we know it wouldn’t exist. Few people believed her when she was starting her research – most colleagues tended to ridicule her. But she succeeded – and her research is important among other things for the development of antibiotics. Which is also why she received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…stry-laureate/

The first person who climbed all 14 eight-thousanders. The first person who climbed Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, the first person who climbed Mount Everest alone. A man who often went where no one went before. A man who says "summit is secondary, trying is the most important thing". Reinhold Messner. Mountaineer, traveller, adventurer. He crossed Gobi desert, North and South Pole and Greenland. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…er-adventurer/

It is important to have crazy ideas because crazy ideas are sometimes good ideas. And a good researcher is student forever. Says Claude-Cohen Tannoudji who recieved the 1997 Nobel prize in physics for the development of method to cool and trap atoms with laser. These methods allow us for example to measure time much more accurately. He was born in Algeria where he witnessed the landing of American troops during WWII. Later he also served in the army himself. The key person in his career however were his parents and teachers and mainly a physicist whom he calls a poet. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…sics-laureate/

He says he had two mid-life crisis. The first one when he got an idea and the second one when he implemented it. Today he is Nobel Prize laureate - professor Eric Betzig came up with a method that makes is possible to watch throught optical microscopes things that are only few nanometers big. One nanometer equals one bilionth of a meter. Scientist can now for example see proteins responsible for development of Alzheimer’s or Parkinson‘s disease. He was also able to surpass his own recognised research. He recieved the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and yet he says "I certainly don‘t know any chemistry". www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…stry-laureate/

You should look around and pay attention to something odd, says Daniel Schetman, professor at Technion, Israeli institute of technology. And he did find something odd. He found quasicrystals and that's why he received the Nobel prize in chemistry in 2011. However, he had to fight for recognition for years, many scientists rejected his discovery. What made him absolutely sure that he was right and they were wrong? How can quasicrystals be used in everyday life and what was the role of magnifying glass at the beginning of his scientific career? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…quasicrystals/

Around a quarter of million women around the world die every year of cervical cancer. Protection is vaccination. Prior to the development of vaccine it was necessary to find out what the cause of the disease is. And that is what professor Harald zur Hausen did. He discovered papilomaviruses that cause cervical cancer. Thats why he recieved 2008 Nobel prize in medicine. it was he who pushed for a development of the vaccine, although at first pharmaceutical companies were not sure whether its development would pay off. Who in his opinion should be vaccinated, how to make the vaccine cheaper for developing countries and whats the connection between red meat and cancer? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…cine-laureate/

In a special broadcast of Hyde Park Civilisation we visit Institute of plasma physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The reason is simple - our guest is head of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. ITER should bring a revolution into harnessing of power - clean, safe and virtually inexhaustible source of energy. Instead of splitting nuclei as in nuclear power plant tokamak fuses them together. How does it work exactly? Why does it need a temperature of 150 million degrees? And when will tokamak - exactly ITER - be fully operational?

This cultural cleansing is a warcrime that is now used as a tactics of war. Says Irina Bokova, director general of UNESCO, when she described the destruction of monuments - among others - in Syria and Iraq. How to prevent terrorists from destroying thousands of years old statues or buildings? What opportunities did UNESCO use? How does the organisation help the world to develop education and how does Irina Bokova as a candidate for the post of UN general secretary hope to change the UN? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…ral-of-unesco/

After the beginnings of astronomy, after the times of Apollo programme and ISS a new era is about to start. It will include for example village on the Moon as well as journey to Mars. This is how the current of state of space exploration is decribed by the director general of ESA, professor Johan-Dietrich Wörner. He is the man who promotes the contruction of the space base on the dark side of the Moon. When and how should it be build? What states and companies he would like to engage and what about other projects like Ariane 6 rocket or Kopernikus satellite network? And what is his asessment of the participation of the Czech republic and the work of the Czech scientists? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…-space-agency/

Dr. Douglas Vakoch, President of METI International – an organization that keeps pushing the SETI project. Literally further into space. He and his team are searching for extraterrestrial civilizations and are working on a message that they want to send to space. How should it be written? What should it contain? Should we worry about a potential encounter? And what if extraterrestrial intelligence already knows about us. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…international/

„Ladies and gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves. We did it.“ Said David Reitze, LIGO Laboratory Executive Director. And Einstein´s theory of relativity was proven. Moreover, scientists have opened a new window into space. They are comparing it to the moment when Galileo Galilei turned his telescope towards the stars and saw them in a different way than before. What could we learn? And what is it to be good for? The answers will be provided by Professor Benno Willke who led the development and installation of lasers thanks to which LIGO detectors captured gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…ser-subsystem/

Professor Jerome Friedman was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of quarks – the smallest known particles in nature. He has been working at MIT for 65 years now, and one of his teachers was Enrico Fermi – one of the fathers of the first nuclear reactor and the atomic bomb. What was he like in person? What was the most important thing he learned from Enrico Fermi? And when will we learn more about quarks? He answered all this in Hyde Park Civilization.

A laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology. A president of the British Royal Society. A pilot, biker, innovator and experimenter who failed a university entrance exam six times. Sir Paul Nurse. He researches the division of cells – the fundamental question for cancer research. Why did he research only yeast his entire life? And what genetic secret did his family hide from him? www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…royal-society/

He went to space five times. He was a part of the first US-Russian space walk. He kept improving the safety of space shuttles after the Columbia disaster. He violated NASA regulations to save equipment worth billions of dollars. How did it feel to walk in space? How did John Glenn, the first US astronaut, treat him during the spaceflight? And what did he take with him to the top of Mount Everest? Scott Parazynski. A guest of Hyde Park Civilization. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…stronaut-nasa/