Elizabeth Hlavinka
Science Reporter at Salon
science reporter focused on climate/health DJ & music maker words in @Salon @AtmosMag @NewScientist @atlasobscura & more. 📩DM for signal📩 she/her
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6 days ago |
salon.com | Elizabeth Hlavinka
When Emy Rodriguez Flores was growing up, he didn’t feel like he had space to come out as a queer person. It wasn’t until he moved to New York City in 2009 to go to college that he felt free to be authentically himself. His first Pride celebrations there were a sort of escape, when he could be gay without feeling shame — which unfortunately wasn’t the case during the other months of the year.
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1 week ago |
salon.com | Elizabeth Hlavinka
When Arthur Tres put on the virtual reality headset, he became another person. The device was connected to a woman across the room, who inhabited his body in the swap. Their movements were synchronized with motion sensor technology, so that each time he moved an arm, it lifted her arm. Each time he turned his head, it turned her head. Not only did he experience the sensation of inhabiting the other person’s body, but he also saw himself from her eyes.
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2 weeks ago |
salon.com | Elizabeth Hlavinka
When the submarine plunged to about 10,000 meters below sea level, somewhere off the coast of Hawaii, ecologist Jeff Drazen asked the pilots to cut the strobe lights that had been guiding them through the pitch-black waters. For a moment, they continued falling to the sea floor in complete darkness.
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3 weeks ago |
salon.com | Elizabeth Hlavinka
In 2008, Kurt started to experience things that hadn't bothered him before: dry skin, fatigue, irregular bowel movements and a white coating that formed over his tongue. For years, he saw both traditional doctors and holistic medicine providers, who recommended or prescribed certain treatments to help him feel better. But he didn’t see much progress.
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3 weeks ago |
salon.com | Elizabeth Hlavinka
In the new Prime documentary series “Octopus!” actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge spends an hour and a half narrating a story about an octopus named Doris that sets out on her own, falls in love and heroically sacrifices her own life to give her 30,968 children a chance at survival. But ultimately, the series takes a surprising turn to suggest that it might be time to stop anthropomorphizing animals — and instead get real about the risks they face.
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