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Arrow, 9x9, green Café Scientifique - session 1
Addiction: ‘Throwing light on the brain mechanisms of addiction’
The topic on the late Thursday afternoon on 17 February was intriguing because it dealt with addiction and brain mechanisms of addiction.
The idea originated from the science team in Bulgaria and indeed it was more than interesting.
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Arrow, 9x9, green Café Scientifique - session 2
Human Cloning
Professor Sheila Mc Lean managed to keep the audiences in Bucharest and Belgrade speechless all the way from Oxford studio where she discussed the bio-ethics topic: Can it ever be right to create one baby to cure another?
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Arrow, 9x9, green Café Scientifique - session 3
Dolly's Story
Dr Keith Campbell, the maker of the most famous sheep in the world – Dolly, took part in the exciting videoconference together with students from Belgrade and Budapest.
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Arrow, 9x9, green Café Scientifique - session 4
‘The Fifth Kingdom’
The underestimated and prejudiced kingdom of living creatures - FUNGI
Article written by Damjan Krstajic
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Arrow, 9x9, green Café Scientifique - session 5
'Pillow Talk in Plants...' review by Natalia Ostojic
In my day-to-day life I do not have many opportunities to play scientist so participating in this lecture gave me a completely new insight into the magic world of plants...
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Arrow, 9x9, green Café Scientifique - session 6
Searching for life in the Solar system
Space. The final frontier. It seems to go on and on forever. And then you get to the end of the slide show and warp back to British Council, remembering you're actually attending a seminar on search for aliens. Read the winning article by Petar and Natasha (MS Word 486KB)

Second best reviews by Boban Sremcevic, Dejana Kosanovic and Marjana Brkic

Arrow, 9x9, green Café Scientifique - session 7
Happines, the science behind your smile
People all over the world and all through history have talked about happiness, but can we understand happiness scientifically? Why are some people happier than others? What happens in the brains of happy people? Can we manufacture drugs to make us happy? Will people become happier as societies develop? Dr Daniel Nettle discusses these and many other questions from the psychology of happiness
Arrow, 9x9, green Café Scientifique - session 8
The Economy of Immortality
Through the ages death has been one of the principle constants of life, to such an extent that it is often difficult even to talk about life without in some way referring to death. Today's bio-medical research is uncovering the reasons why organisms live as long as they do…
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Arrow, 9x9, green Café Scientifique - session 8
Archaeology of Sex
After the discovery of famous “Iceman” in late 1990, several tricky doubts about its sexual personality started huge debate related to the nature of ancient contemplation about sexuality, in general. Today, Archaeology of Sex covers topics as the role of a child in ancient/ traditional/ modern societies, the function of sex in cultural behaviour learning, forming of social status and status symbols, going to the very concept of archaeological culture itself.

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