Elizabeth Svoboda
Journalist at Freelance
Author of WHAT MAKES A HERO? (@PenguinRandom) and THE LIFE HEROIC (@ZestBooks). Words @washingtonpost, @nytimes, @atlasobscura, @sciam, @sapiens_org, etc.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Elizabeth Svoboda
Elizabeth Svoboda is a science writer and author of “What Makes a Hero? The Surprising Science of Selflessness.”Since Donald Trump took office in January, we’ve all processed a constant stream of norm-shattering developments. Major government agencies have been put through the wood chipper for no legal reason. Tariffs have gone through the roof, dropped, and spiked again. Medical research funding has been decimated.
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2 months ago |
bostonglobe.com | Elizabeth Svoboda
Elizabeth Svoboda is the author of “What Makes a Hero?: The Surprising Science of Selflessness.”On April 11, officials at Harvard University received an extortion demand disguised as a boilerplate letter. Trump administration officials insisted the university adopt a laundry list of their own favored policies — such as restructuring academic departments they consider too radical, banning masks on campus, and ending DEI programs — or risk losing more than $2 billion in federal funding.
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Mar 19, 2025 |
greatergood.berkeley.edu | Elizabeth Svoboda
After making a gesture that many interpreted as a Nazi salute, Elon Musk rejected the idea that he himself was a Nazi, or that any invocation of the movement’s symbols could be harmful. “What’s relevant about Nazis is like, are you invading Poland?” Musk told podcaster Joe Rogan. “What is actually bad about Nazis—it wasn’t their fashion or their mannerisms, it was the war and genocide.” But what Musk failed to acknowledge was that genocide never arrives as a bolt from the blue.
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Mar 15, 2025 |
nuclear-news.net | Elizabeth Svoboda |Christina MacPherson
Book Review: How Our Digital Infatuation Undermines Discourse In “Superbloom,” Nicholas Carr laments that we live in a state of uncontrollable sensory and communication overload. By Elizabeth Svoboda, 03.14.2025, https://undark.org/2025/03/14/book-review-superbloom/?utm_source=Undark%3A+News+%26+Updates&utm_campaign=ecc4df9cbe-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5cee408d66-185e4e09de-176033209It was all Mother Nature’s fault, you could say.
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Mar 14, 2025 |
undark.org | Elizabeth Svoboda
It was all Mother Nature’s fault, you could say. After winter rains in Lake Elsinore, California, reawakened countless dormant poppy seeds in early 2019, spring blossoms crowded in thickly enough to turn the hillsides bright orange — a fleeting “superbloom.” Recognizing an Instagrammable backdrop when she saw one, influencer Jaci Marie Smith reclined across the floral carpet in orange overalls and hit post. “You’ll never influence the world by trying to be like it,” her photo caption read.
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Honored to be on this year's @litquake roster for the first time. Come out and see me and other @sfgrotto writers from 5-6 on Oct. 26 at Teeth Bar SF, 2320 Mission St. All of us will be sharing "Words to Save the World." https://t.co/GjhgkwZ0rB
Witnesses say coaches at San Diego's Champion Gymnastics abused young students while many adult observers—immersed in the twisted gym culture—ignored or excused what was happening. Democracy and justice die in darkness, and stories like this are beacons. https://t.co/wCAOgPXTOJ
Commentators now warn of approaching fascism in the U.S., but I argue in the @BostonGlobe that today's right-wing leaders, including Donald Trump, aren't really fascists. They're Caesarists, a species of autocrat historians have described for decades. https://t.co/T0wzsbyGGw
