CONTENTS
Features
19
31
03
The Great Varna Culture
and the Dawn of
Civilization in Europe
07 The Rise of the Varna Culture
12 Grave 43
16 The End of the Varna Culture
19
Teenager Invents Ocean
Cleaning Device
INTERVIEW WITH bOYAN sLAT
23 The Ocean Cleanup project
26 How to cleanup the Great
Pacific Garbage Patch
31
Why we believe what we
want to believe
32 Wason’s experiment
34 Information bias
39 Confirmation bias
42
STRANGE FACTS ABOUT
PLACEBOS THAT WILL
SURPRISE YOU
INTERVIEW WITH DR. IRVING
KIRSCH
44 Response Expectancy Theory
48 Nocebo effect
3
42
49
1
49
Pollinators and
pesticides:How can we
improve the bleak
situation of our bees?
53 The risk of neonics on
pollinators
55 Spider-venom biopesticide