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.
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.
The idea is to flood the markets and drive prices down. Contrary to what you may think, a rhino horn is not made of bone but of keratin – the material found in nails and hair.
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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Kids say the darndest things. They’re also far more adept at workflow management than adults are. What can we learn from them?
Researchers tracked academic achievement, social cognition, executive function, and creativity in a longitudinal study of kids across the socioeconomic spectrum.
The positive effect of bilingualism may be particularly beneficial for kids who grow up in low-income households, an environment that usually has negative effects on cognitive performance.
This independent zone, with its own regulations and social norms, will be built from scratch on 10,231 square miles of untouched land at a cost of $500 billion.
This sucks. And is also great for the environment.
Adults tend to become lazy with their thinking, backing into moral and ethical wrongdoing without noticing fully what they’re doing.
Voters in California may get to decide whether teachers’ salaries should match those of state legislators at the expense of a hike in the sales tax.
Another bit of science fiction is coming to life as scientists develop a highly elastic and adhesive surgical glue, similar to the one Ryan Gosling used to seal his wound in Blade Runner 2049.
What method helps you retain more information — reading, highlighting, or even interrogation?
Tesla founder Elon Musk is in talks with the governor of Puerto Rico to help rebuild the island’s power grid using Tesla technologies.
After decades of research and analysis of geoscience data, the seventh largest geological continent officially exists.
Early childhood science education can have significant positive effects on the achievement gap and on students’ educational outcomes later on.
By modifying an old virus and vaccine, researchers have found a new way to attack some cancers.
About 51 million people around the world suffer from schizophrenia, yet half of the general public doesn’t understand what schizophrenia really is
Go back to school, Agora style. Philosophy can train us to respond to life’s problems rather than merely react. One such training camp is coming to Baltimore.
Different gut bacteria may affect differently the way energy is metabolized from foods.
Concrete buildings, asphalt paved roads radiating accumulated heat throughout the night, and lack of trees contribute to the making of scorching cities.
Caffeine makes us feel more awake but also decreases our ability to taste sweetness
On September 1, launched a $2.5 million project called “Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D” or as many scientists know it – the “scan-all-vertebrates” project. Sponsored by the National Science […]
It could add $83 billion to the U.S. economy in 10 years—and that’s a very conservative estimate.
We’re talking Ghost in the Shell type of stuff.