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Sofia Science Festival 2018: Futurist Roey Tzezana is coming…or rather, his robot is

April 16, 2018April 21, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Israel, Sofia Science Festival

Normally, in writing about the participants in Sofia Science Festival, each story is about a presenter who is coming. This

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Simon Singh: ‘Science doesn’t dictate policy but policy shouldn’t ignore science’

April 9, 2018April 16, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sofia Science Festival

It is a troubling world, one within which climate change deniers and those who are anti-science occupy high office –

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Podcast at the Sofia Science Festival: Would you ban trophy hunting in Africa?

May 14, 2017June 16, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcasts, Sofia Science Festival

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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Podcast at the Sofia Science Festival: Of Patagonia and disappearing glaciers

May 14, 2017May 17, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcast, Sofia Science Festival

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 

Shechtman at the Sofia Science Festival: ‘Only the educated will be able to survive in the future’

May 12, 2017May 15, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sofia Science Festival

Can we teach technological entrepreneurship? Professor Dan Shechtman’s answer: “Yes, we can – and we should”. Shechtman, an Israeli Nobel

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Bulgaria Videos 

Podcast: Whisky time with Ewan Henderson of the Lost Distillery Company at the Sofia Science Festival

May 12, 2017May 14, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, 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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2017 Sofia Science Festival officially opens at Sofia Tech Park

May 11, 2017May 12, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, Sofia Science Festival

The 2017 Sofia Science Festival, the seventh annual such event, opened on May 11 and continues until May 14. The

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Bulgaria Videos 

Video: Bulgarian tourism, a government-to-be, the Sofia Science Festival and Eurovision

May 2, 2017May 3, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria Now, Eurovision, Lance Nelson, podcasts, Sofia Science Festival, tourism

Bulgaria turned in a healthy growth in tourism figures in the first three months of 2017, while a new elected

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Sofia Science Festival 2017: Highlights of the programme in English

April 19, 2017May 17, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, Sofia Science Festival

The annual Sofia Science Festival is being held from May 11 to 14 2017 at Sofia Tech Park – a

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