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Email: nkarlis@salon.com
Instagram: @nicolekarlis

Nicole Karlis is a former senior writer for Salon, covering women’s health, public health and wellness culture since 2017. Now a freelance reporter, her writing has also appeared in The New York Times and Marie Claire. She is the author of the book, “Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community During Times of Crisis.” Nicole was the recipient of the USC Center for Health Journalism California Fellowship Project in 2020. In 2023, her story “The Online Baby Sleep Boom,” published in Salon, placed third in the consumer/feature category of the Association of Health Care Journalists Awards. Nicole also writes on Substack, examining what it takes to create a culture that cares.

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App-based psychics may be the only people who are doing well in the gig economy

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Some birds will learn to dance without being taught: study

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A homeless man sleeps on the grass at Civic Center Plaza on May 17, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

One percent of San Franciscans are now homeless

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Braden Scott uses a device to support his left arm as he practices on the piano in Tomball, Texas on Friday, March 29, 2019. Braden was diagnosed with the syndrome called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, in 2016 and was paralyzed almost completely. (AP/David J. Phillip)

A polio-like virus spreading in the U.S. is paralyzing children

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Federal appeals court says Trump can’t block critics on Twitter

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President Donald Trump speaks about his administration's environmental policies at the White House in Washington, DC on July 8, 2019. (Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

Trump’s “environment” speech was a case study in gaslighting

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This illustration made available by NASA shows the Kepler Space Telescope. (NASA via AP)

Astronomers perplexed by inexplicable dimming star

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GrubHub is trying to get its grubby paws into mom-and-pop restaurants’ pockets

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How Poppy Northcutt became the first woman in the Apollo mission control room

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Trump’s proposed tariffs on China could hurt future fireworks shows

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Multiple, seemingly unrelated technical problems down major websites over three-week span

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Wikipedia co-founder plans social media strike. Will it work?

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For the first time, researchers use gene editing to cure mice of HIV

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This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar asteroid: 'Oumuamua. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Sorry, believers: ‘Oumuamua was not an alien spacecraft

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How did self-care become a status symbol?

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New study says not all black holes began life as stars

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Ancient crocodiles were vegan, new research suggests

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Reddit quarantines its Trump forum after users call for violence

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President Donald Trump's Twitter feed is shown on a computer screen on Thursday, June 27, 2019, in New York. (AP/Jenny Kane)

Twitter implies that it may “quarantine” some Trump tweets

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San Francisco, home of e-cig giant Juul, just banned e-cigs

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Boaty McBoatface, a autonomous underwater vehicle (AUVs) used for scientific research (Getty/Matt Cardy)

Beloved submarine Boaty McBoatface makes a big scientific find

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Airline caterers are prepping to strike. Here’s what that means for travelers

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Tens of millions of people in Argentina and Uruguay were without power

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The Llipi pilot plant in Uyuni, south from La Paz, on August 17, 2015 (Getty/Aizar Raldes)

Electric cars are still better for the environment. But lithium mining has some problems

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