Elizabeth Svoboda is a contributing editor for Popular Science magazine. She lives in San Jose, Calif.

Elizabeth Svoboda's Salon stories

Monday, Apr 27, 2009 03:18 PDT

"I am not a puzzle, I am a person"

People with autism don't need to be "cured," argues the burgeoning "autism culture" movement. Not all parents or medical experts agree.
Monday, Oct 6, 2008 03:40 PDT

There's gold in them melting glaciers

Is it wrong to make a buck on the end of the world?
Wednesday, Jun 11, 2008 04:45 PDT

Old McDonald had a pharm

And genetically modified his goats and chickens to produce drugs for humans. But hold on. Should we be doing this to animals?
Wednesday, Apr 2, 2008 03:50 PDT

The sun blotted out from the sky

Global warming demands more than do-gooder actions. It demands "geoengineering" -- like blocking the sun's rays with stratospheric dirt.
Saturday, Jan 19, 2008 05:23 PST

Who owns the moon?

Shady moon peddlers look like lunar Donald Trumps, now that civilian space travel appears feasible. But are moon plots legal?
Thursday, Sep 6, 2007 03:59 PDT

Jesus is my dorm advisor

Patrick Henry College grooms fundamentalist kids to be America's future leaders. A new book looks at how these elite students cope with the pressure to bridge secular and religious worlds.

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