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Revaccination against measles is recommended depending on the year of birth and the number of vaccine doses administered, with older individuals and those who have had the disease facing more complications, while for younger populations it is crucial to monitor the situation when traveling, especially to areas with epidemic occurrences. #spalničky #očkování #infekčnínemoci (translated)

Luka Svetina noted that the research, in his opinion, again shows that older voters are the target of campaigns by non-governmental organizations supported by mainstream media. He assessed that they are particularly susceptible to slogans without a solid foundation, including the term "political police," and that because of their numbers, they often decide Slovenian elections to the detriment of younger people who desire change. He added that this generation fell for distraction tactics in the week leading up to the parliamentary elections regarding clips from Anticorruption: according to him, it became more important who recorded them than what was actually in them. Svetina urged conversations with parents and grandparents and to provide them with credible information, including citing laws and commentaries. #Slovenija #politika #generacije (translated)

Lotta Šega wrote that there are probably thousands of young people in Slovenia, aged 20 to 35, who are not registered with the Employment Service and do not receive social support. According to her, they are unemployed, living with parents who financially support them, and do not care about work. She asked how they could be motivated. #slovenskaMladina #brezposelnost #motivacija (translated)

The author stated that Francis Halzen had won the Nobel Prize in Physics the day before for his fundamental contribution to the establishment of the IceCube observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from space. On this occasion, he recalled his earlier thread about what he believes is located 2.5 kilometers under the ice at the South Pole. #NobelovaCena #fyzika #neutrina #SJ #PL (translated)

The author stated that Xi Jinping congratulated Vladimir Putin on his 74th birthday and that Volodymyr Zelensky warned of a further attack on Ukraine. According to the author, birthdays in Putin's Russia have ceased to be a celebration of life and have become a celebration of death and killing. He added that Putin, as he aged, confirmed his power by destroying homes in other countries. #Putin #Ukrajina #život #RU #UA (translated)

P – Paukner Media claimed that the media paid more attention to the accident of Filip Turek than to the testimony of Hana Marvanová in the Dozimetr case. According to him, Marvanová spoke in court about practices that she had warned Vítem Rakušan about back in 2022. The author also recalled her concerns about Stanislav Polčák and the connections between Polčák and Petr Gazdík with the Redl family, including consultations and the selection of people for state enterprises. The post stated that Polčák went on vacation with Redl and that Redl's father is currently facing trial for embezzlement in Prague. The author also wrote that investigative files had not been provided to the parliamentary committee, so according to him, it was unclear to what extent the STAN movement collaborated with individuals referred to by Marvanová as "the boys from Zlín." Regarding Turek, the author noted that the police dismissed his accident because, according to their conclusion, no crime occurred, and the prosecutor did not appeal against it. He criticized Seznam Zprávy for repeatedly changing the headlines about whether Turek met the criteria for a crime, asserting that all its elements had to be fulfilled according to valid law. According to the author, the case was also reported by Czech Television, Forum24, Novinky, and Deník N, while apart from iRozhlas and ČTK, other media did not focus on Marvanová's testimony. The author suggested that the attention given to Turek was intended to overshadow the Dozimetr case and linked the media events to Jan Dobrovský, whom he called the largest sponsor of STAN. He also announced that he wanted to publish materials from the so-called "Paukner archive." #mafie #Praha #politika (translated)

As he aged, Kutil wrote that he increasingly appreciated the significance of Václav Havel for the Czech Republic. He acknowledged that Havel had flaws and there were things to criticize him for, but he also described him as a charismatic personality who retained his humanity. He identified Havel's appearance in the American Congress as the strongest memory, after which there was a long applause. He perceived Havel as a person who, at the time of the country's return to freedom, had an authority independent of the position he held and was someone the country needed at that time. #VáclavHavel #českáhistorie #osobnosti (translated)

The Polish police detained a man suspected of murdering six elderly women and robbery, with his modus operandi involving gaining the victims' trust as a plumber, which led to the discovery of other potential victims among the elderly. #kriminalita #vraždy #vyšetřování (translated)

Dr. Misanthrope wrote about an experience in Germany with a patient who he claimed was 103 years old. He referred to him as a person with militant views and wrote that during the introduction of a catheter, he made nostalgic remarks about the time around 1940. When caregiver Arndt continued working and ignored the patient, the man, according to the author, began to intensify his outbursts. Ultimately, he declared that the young can no longer go to war because they would lose it. According to Dr. Misanthrope, Arndt stopped and, in an accusatory tone, asked the patient which war the older generation won. #ZivotVNemecku #Historie #CulturalInsights (translated)

Tomas Kapler stated in his contribution that the discovery of two fragments of pyrite in a former clay pit near English Barnham, according to him, pushed evidence of fire being used by humans back by 350,000 years. A team from the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, found them in reddish clay, even though pyrite was not naturally present in the area, according to Kapler. Archaeologists also discovered charred and heat-cracked hand axes and soil burned at over 700 °C there. It reportedly took scientists four years to eliminate the possibility of a fire caused by lightning. Kapler wrote that research published in December 2025 in the journal Nature described the oldest unequivocal evidence that humans could make fire themselves. According to him, the previous such evidence came from Neanderthal sites in northern France and was 50,000 years old. The find from Barnham, according to Kapler, shows that humans had this ability already 400,000 years ago. Chris Stringer from the Natural History Museum in London speculated that they were early Neanderthals, among other reasons based on finds from Swanscombe and Atapuerca. The contribution also addressed the fact that archaeological finds mainly preserve stone, while wood, leather, and plant fibers deteriorate. Kapler recalled a 35,000-year-old tool made from mammoth ivory from the German cave Hohle Fels, whose holes, according to him, allowed for the production of rope, and a six-millimeter fragment of a cord 50,000 years old found in the French Abri du Maras. Archaeologist Bruce Hardy's estimate that we know less than 10 percent of the ordinary life of prehistoric humans was linked by Kapler to the items that did not survive, such as nets, bags, bowstrings, or footwear. According to his conclusion, the image of the Stone Age captures primarily what has not perished. #Archeologie #DobaKamenná #Historie (translated)

Lukáš Pollert stated that the president did not have to vote because participation was not mandatory and his vote represented one vote; according to him, older voters did not understand this. He characterized the president's call to young voters as an attempt to overthrow the Czech Republic and support Russia. At the same time, he questioned how people could elect a person he labeled as unbalanced and wrote that in his opinion, they overlook the essence and focus on the surroundings. #Volby #Politika #ČeskáRepublika (translated)

The opinion of Václav Havel is improving over time, with 76% of the public rating him positively on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of his birth, but there are significant differences in perception across age groups and political views, with younger generations recognizing him more than older ones, who blame him for the current problems of the country. #Havel #ČeskáPolitika #GeneračníRozdíly (translated)

A very nice issue of Reflex has just come out today. I would be glad if you would give it a chance. Here is my editorial on it: HOW SHOULD WE REMEMBER VÁCLAV HAVEL? I often say that I am "as old as the revolution," by which I obviously mean the Velvet one. And this alone brings a whole set of advantages. Your age always reflects the anniversary of the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, so you remember it well. I am not burdened by the sins of the past, having to decide whether to collaborate with the regime or not. Likewise, I do not have to blame myself for missing the harsh onset of capitalism and coupon privatization. I had to learn to speak first. And to walk. Those of us born in the early '90s sometimes tend to refer to ourselves as "Havel's children." But how can I identify with a person I didn't properly experience in adulthood, yet who so fundamentally shaped the state I grew up in? And how should I, as well as our entire nation, actually remember Havel? I cannot remember Havel like many other older journalists do. I leave it to my more experienced colleagues. I have only one small personal memory of him. I was about eight years old, and we were on a school excursion in Prague. My classmate and I were lagging at the end of our class line. There was a long queue at Wenceslas Square, and we walked along it. We got a bit distracted and created a gap. And into that gap stepped a crowd of people, in the middle of which walked Václav Havel. We both started staring at him and quickly exclaimed, "Good day, Mr. President," and he replied to us with his typical stammering 'r': "Hello, boys," and then disappeared into a bookstore to sign his books. The queue was standing there for him. It was the year he was dealing with health complications, delivered the famous Rudolfín speech, and signed the absolutely fundamental Czech-German declaration. But I only remember the "hello, boys." And that’s all. When he died in 2011, I was starting in the media, so I was only responsible for some minor media outputs around the funeral. Otherwise, I perceived him as the person whose picture hung next to the blackboard throughout my school life. On television, he appears either as a "gumshoe" in a satirical sketch or giving some speech that is too complicated for my child self to listen to. My opinions of him have therefore formed mostly indirectly, like for most people in our country. Through plays and compulsory reading in school, recordings of speeches, and the exceptional film Citizen Havel, where he allowed us to peer candidly into his private life. I never succumbed to the need to idolize him; I was most fascinated by the fact that despite such a rich life, he was essentially a "normal guy" who enjoyed life and who, even in the presidential office, could fulfill his dreams. A smoke with the Rolling Stones, meditation with the Dalai Lama, a beer with Clinton. None of that made him a better politician. Personally, it made him a human to me. The point of Havel's legacy and its breadth is, in my opinion, that everyone can remember him in their own way. Some remember him as the best person in history, others as a brilliant politician who is missed by the Czech Republic. Others see him as a naive believer in truth who preferred grand gestures over political pragmatism. Some as a womanizer, others as a great world author of absurd drama. Historians and philosophers still debate his legacy to this day. So vehemently that due to one "ezonomist" and pseudophilosopher on an electric unicycle, his name was removed from the library's title. But I would like to highlight one thing about him that seems increasingly rare in today's world. He managed to grow old without becoming bitter. He did not turn into a grump shouting at the clouds. He did not allow himself to be dominated by eternal contrarianism and being against all mainstream opinions at any cost. At the same time, he wasn't afraid to confront the mainstream until the end. I would wish for all of us to grow old like Havel. It’s a pity he was given only 75 years. I would have liked to listen to him even at ninety, which he would have celebrated this year. #VáclavHavel #Reflex #historie (translated)

Today marks exactly 140 years since Mr. František Kovařík was born in Plzeň on October 1, 1886, and 42 years since he passed away in Prague on the day of his 98th birthday. 1952 Miller (66 years old) in The Princess of Pyšná 1974 Grandpa Drvota (88 years old) in Once Upon a Time There Was a House 1976 Professor Hrbolek (90 years old) in Marečku, Hand Me a Pen! 1976 Komárek Sr. (90 years old) in Alone in the Woods (translated)