GLÚ in the media

“Mysterious force controlling sandstone erosion”, “The spirit of rocks”, “The intelligent organism”, “Mystery of rock arches solved after 150 years”: those were some of the titles presented by media from all over the world at the break of July and August 2014. Of course, it was an exaggeration and a commitment of the journalists to attract the audience... and to sell. This mass-media avalanche was triggered by a paper published in the NATURE Geoscience journal. This paper was the first to demonstrably prove the principle essential for the evolution of rock arches and some other well-known sandstone monuments. The idea was so simple that many were of the opinion it must have been published many years before. If you attempted to learn something more about this idea, however, you failed in your search in scientific papers and monographs.
Now, in the year 2018, this discovery was released onto television screens and into the internet realm in the form of a documentary.
For the above mentioned original publication, see and for a popular article in Czech, see.
Some of the responses to the scientific research can be found on this webpage.

Tomáš Hrstka, the current leader of the Atmospheric Dust Project of the Strategy AV21 programme, was invited to Czech Radio to talk (in Czech) about the present trends of this hazardous component in our everyday environment. At this occasion, he also mentioned a new technique which has been applied: fully automated, high-throughput analyses of element and mineral compositions applied to samples of dust deposits. Tomáš Hrstka has significantly contributed to the development of these techniques internationally.
 

A wide review of the book of essays "To Breathe with Birds" was published in The Times Literary Supplement (London) on January 29, 2016. You can read the review by Kapka Kassabova here.

Mercury-containing thermometers were withdrawn from the market over six years ago. Amalgam dental fillings are on a retreat, nutrition experts warn against mercury-contaminated fish, and mercury was one of the main suspects in the case of Tycho de Brahe death. Is mercury really so dangerous? And what risk does it really pose for our health and for the environment? A view of geochemists is presented by Tereza Burianová.
The recorded broadcast is here (in Czech)

A list up to 2014 (in Czech).

Marek Janáč published an article "Leona Chadimová: Beauties in the Dust" of the series "I work for the Czech Academy of Sciences" in No. 11 of the Vesmír journal. It deals not only with research activities of our colleague but also with her own pathway to science.

The Academia publishing house recently released a rather unusual guidebook of Prague, titled “Divoká příroda Prahy” (Nature wilderness of Prague). “It offers a completely different perspective of the city, searching for nature that develops spontaneously, with limited human interference”, says geologist Radek Mikuláš, one of the authors.
Click here for an interview including an audio recording fot the English broadcast of the "Radio Praha".

The recently published book “Wild Nature of Prague and its Close Surroundings” is authored by geologist Radek Mikuláš and botanist J.A. Šturma. In this book, the authors explain that the “wild nature” develops rather spontaneously, regardless of human intentions. This may happen in the mountains as well as in an abandoned quarry, or on a slope afforested a hundred years ago. Such a slope in the Barrandov city district, vegetated by a wild forest, was visited by the authors, accompanied by – somewhat surprised – newsmen from the Czech Radio.
The recorded broadcast is here (in Czech)

    Michal Filippi from the Institute of Geology CAS, v.v.i, together with Jaroslav Řihořek (Faculty of
    Science, Charles University in Prague) participated in a TV documentary about the Bohemian
    Paradise Geopark broadcasted within the TV series “Nedej seˮ. They presented results of the
    research of sandstone landforms.
    Telerecording of the documentary see here (in Czech).

Respekt.cz; 6. 8. 2011; 12:00
(in Czech; Mikuláš, R.)

A prominent Czech geologist, Radek Mikuláš, set out to the popular Dinopark at Praha-Harfa altogether with reporters of the journal Respekt. We concluded that the exhibit corresponds to recent scientific knowledge, including proportions and coloration of the extinct reptiles. Read more on the fascination by dinosaurs in the article by Radek Mikuláš in Respekt No 32, 2011.