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Teodora Zareva
Contributing Writer, Big Think
Teodora Zareva is an entrepreneur, writer, board games geek and a curious person at large. Her professional path has taken her from filmmaking and photography to writing, TEDx organizing, teaching, and social entrepreneurship. She has lived and worked in the U.S. and Bulgaria and is currently doing her MBA at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. Her biggest passion lies at the intersection of media and youth development. She is the co-founder of WishBOX Foundation, a Bulgarian NGO that helps high school students with their professional orientation by organizing events, courses, summer camps and developing digital media resources.
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Not all books are created equal. Especially when it comes to the ones parents read to children to aid their development. A new study from the University of Florida points to an important characteristic to look for in children’s books.
Your brain's heightened sensitivity can make you perceptive and creative. But it's a double-edged sword, researchers find.
Research points to many social-cognitive, emotional, behavioral and biological benefits that marriage seems to bestow on its participants.
If you've ever wondered which part of physics covers which part of space, fret no more. Here is an awesome map that lays it all out.
Kansas has launched such an ambitious educational project that public officials are likening it to the NASA moon missions of the 1960s.
Insert dial-up noise here. If you're not concerned about what's about to happen with net neutrality, you're not paying attention.
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Here's the first evidence to challenge the "fastest sperm" narrative.
The FDA has approved the first pill with an embedded ingestible sensor that can track when, or if, a patient takes their medication.
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