Podcast at the Sofia Science Festival: Would you ban trophy hunting in Africa?
Let’s have a show of hands. Who’s heard of Cecil the Lion? And if you could, would you ban trophy
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Month: May 2017
Podcast at the Sofia Science Festival: Of Patagonia and disappearing glaciers
Eñaut Izagirre is a ski-mountaineering specialist with ski and climbing experience in the Pyrenees, Norway and the Alps, and recently
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Bulgaria scores record-high second place in Eurovision 2017
Kristian Kostov and his song Beautiful Mess took Bulgaria to a record-high second place in the 2017 Eurovision song contest
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Shechtman at the Sofia Science Festival: ‘Only the educated will be able to survive in the future’
Can we teach technological entrepreneurship? Professor Dan Shechtman’s answer: “Yes, we can – and we should”. Shechtman, an Israeli Nobel
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Podcast: Whisky time with Ewan Henderson of the Lost Distillery Company at the Sofia Science Festival
At the 2017 Sofia Science Festival, Ewan Henderson – global ambassador for the Lost Distillery Company – took an enthusiastic
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Bulgarian deputy PM pledges crackdown on grey economy at Black Sea, and a ‘show at Sunny Beach’
Valeri Simeonov, one of two deputy prime ministers from the nationalist United Patriots in Boiko Borissov’s coalition government, has pledged
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2750 asylum-seekers in Bulgaria in 2016 were unaccompanied minors – Eurostat
The number of unaccompanied minors among asylum-seekers in Bulgaria in 2016 was 2750, European Union statistics agency Eurostat said. This
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Life expectancy in Bulgaria has increased, but still among lowest in the EU
Between 2006 and 2016, life expectancy in Bulgaria increased to 74.7 years, but this remains among the lowest in the
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Opinion: Modern-day slaves?
Britain is my native country. I was born and bred here, but I was living and working for some years
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