Elizabeth Hlavinka
School
University Of Texas At Austin
Expertise
Classic Texts, Electronic Music, Surfing
- Elizabeth specializes in writing stories on climate — everything from sea level rise to bird feathers to sea otters.
- Previously, she spent time working in a conservation corps restoring U.S. national parks and has always considered herself an environmentalist.
- Over the course of her career, Elizabeth covered music festivals and interviewed famous artists like Common.
Experience
Elizabeth started her career writing for The Daily Texan, where she was later promoted to editing the paper's Life & Arts section and led a team of about 20 writers to produce daily newspaper content. She spent time in Barcelona, where she learned Spanish and covered food and events for a magazine called Barcelona Metropolitan. Later, she moved to New York, where she spent three years covering women's health and mental health for MedPage Today. Building upon the Spanish language skills she learned in Barcelona, she moved to Costa Rica in 2022 and has continued to work remotely from there ever since.
Education
Elizabeth majored in English with a minor in Creative Writing. The courses she completed in school not only taught her important lessons in grammar and syntax but also how to tell a story.
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Stories By Elizabeth Hlavinka
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The Bizarre 'Whirlpool' Seen Flying Over Hawaii was as mesmerizing as it was perplexing. But it didn't take long for scientists to find it's cause.
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The universe is full of darkness and mysteries that humans many never comprehend, and this exoplanet is the darkest planet that orbits a star in our universe.
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Some pets can be notoriously picky when it comes to their food, but in general the owners probably aren't paying too much attention to the labels. They should.
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Unlike U.S. currency, which only features portraiture of deceased individuals, some of the U.K.'s present money features the picture of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Climbing Mt. Everest is not an easy feat and can usually take a couple of months to complete. However, these two added in a trip to the Indian Ocean as well.
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As researchers increasingly focus attention on Krabee disease, more data has illuminated that certain groups may more commonly develop it. Let's take a look.
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Any attack on a nuclear facility threatens to leak hydrogen and other toxic radioactive pollutants into the environment, which could have deadly consequences.
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Woodstock 99: How much money the controversial festival probably made
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In Australia, one man has gotten more familiar than most with the juice boxes and crackers served up at blood donation centers.
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The death penalty has always been a controversial policy in the U.S., partly due to its racial bias. These are the death penalty's disturbing racial statistics.
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Murder hornets have a pretty terrifying name, but they aren't exactly as deadly as you might think. Here's why the insects have a friendlier image nowadays.
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Scientists have discovered what the marks on the moon are that make it look like Swiss cheese — and some say the cause may mean the moon is habitable.
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Ghislaine Maxwell wanted to serve out her 20-year prison sentence at the Connecticut prison that inspired "Orange Is the New Black," among other hit shows.
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Dr. Paolo Macchiarini is a Swiss-Italian doctor and conman who found himself in court thanks to an artificial windpipe. Here's the crazy story of what happened.
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Many marriages begin with hope, with joy, with commitment — and many come to an end in court. The Middle Ages handled such cases a little differently.
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Hammerhead sharks may look like the stuff of nightmares but they are relatively harmless. However, they can get grow to enormous lengths and become very scary.
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It seems that cities and towns, big and small, have at least one claim to unique fame, but not many can boast of boundaries spanning continents. Plural.
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Frida Kahlo is one of Mexico's most famous painters, and she once developed a romance with Communist leader Leon Trotsky. This is what led to the affair.
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Woodstock is one of the most famous concerts of all time. Here's why Carlos Santana's Woodstock performance was wilder than you think.
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It's said you never ask a rancher how many cattle they have. The general idea did not seem to apply between nations around the American Revolution.
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Fashions come and fashions go, and then they come 'round again, if you wait long enough — the clothing of the past takes on a new sheen, like corsets.
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The Earthrise photo, taken of the Earth from space by astronauts, is one of the most famous photos ever taken. Here's the story of the Earthrise photo.
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Life is certainly complicated enough, let alone what happens after death — what do you do with the body of a deceased loved one? (Even if they weren't loved.)
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One of the most popular (and rightly so) toys ever invented is the snuggly, lovable teddy bear, beloved (literally) by children and adults the world over.
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Cary Grant is known as one of old Hollywood's most famous performers, but he may not have landed a Hollywood career if he hadn't run away to join the circus.
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Spider webs might not seem very useful to us humans, but they were actually highly important for dressing wounds during the period of the ancient Romans.
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Mathematics seems like it's a skill for the most sentient of planetary beings. But, studies have shown that math is a relatively common trait among animals.