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Atlanta, Washington, D.C.
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Covers:  psychology, science, evolution, cancer, astrophysics, astronomy, neuroscience, allergies, health, the universe, infectious disease
By day @NASA & freelance for @NYTimes @QuantaMagazine @HakaiMagazine @Nature. Views mine. Formerly check marked. lizlandau.com. M: @liz@astrodon.social

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Elizabeth Landau is a freelance writer and communications specialist in transition between Los Angeles and Washington, DC. She is a public affairs officer at NASA Headquarters and the senior storyteller at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In her spare time, she contributes to Smithsonian, Scientific American, and other publications. She began her career as a Master's Fellow at CNN in 2007, and became a staff writer/producer at CNN.com in 2008. In 2011, she co-founded CNN Light Years, an onli…

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The Rituals That Ward Off Bad Luck Aren't Arbitrary - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

The Rituals That Ward Off Bad Luck Aren't Arbitrary - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

For the last two years of his baseball career, George Gmelch didn't eat pancakes. Playing in the Detroit Tige…

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Don't Read That Rave Review!

Don't Read That Rave Review!

I took my Playbill. I found my seat. For nine months, I'd waited for it-the day printed on my ticket to see t…

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Commitment for Millennials: Is It Okay, Cupid?

Commitment for Millennials: Is It Okay, Cupid?

We stood in the warm Southern California night under suburban streetlights: Myself and a bespectacled enterta…

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Terms of Endearment: Why Do We Use Pet Names in Relationships?

Terms of Endearment: Why Do We Use Pet Names in Relationships?

I have been called a little owl, a swan and even a "panda-fish." No, I'm not a supernatural, shape-shifting c…

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The big bang blip: Solving the mystery of why matter exists

The big bang blip: Solving the mystery of why matter exists

IT'S an odd thought that the banana on your kitchen counter, squished in your lunch bag or tucked away in you…

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How poverty might change the brain

How poverty might change the brain

Philadelphia (CNN) -- Martha Farah is leaning forward, furiously typing on her thin laptop in her spacious of…

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What proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act mean for wildlife Original

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By Elizabeth Landau Verified
| National Geographic Verified
From bald eagles to grizzly bears, many iconic American species at risk of extinction have bounced back thanks to the Endangered Species Act, commonly known as the ESA. But the act’s language and its execution have been revised several times since it went into effect in 1973, and now more changes are on the way. The Trump administration has proposed four regulatory modifications that would make it easier to consider economic issues when deciding whether and how to protect a species.
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Závod s časem na Ibize: Unikátní barevné ještěrky mizí kvůli invazním hadům z olivovníků

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By Elizabeth Landau Verified
| nationalgeographic.cz
Guillem Casbas má na španělském ostrově Ibiza oblíbené místo na oběd: kamenná lavička ve stínu olivovníku na útesu s výhledem na moře, odkud je v dálce vidět sousední ostrov Formentera. Navštěvují ho tam ještěrky pityuské (Podarcis pitysensis)– zelení nahoře, modří po bocích, bílí na břiše. Sotva osm centimetrů od čumáku po ocas. Rád jim dává kousky rajčat ze svých sendvičů.
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Can Ibiza's colorful lizards survive a snake explosion? Original

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By Elizabeth Landau Verified, Roberto García-Roa
| National Geographic Verified
Guillem Casbas has a favorite spot to eat lunch on the Spanish island of Ibiza: a stone bench shadowed by an olive tree on a cliff overlooking the sea, with the neighboring island Formentera visible in the distance. Ibiza wall lizards—green on top, blue on the sides, white on the belly, and a little under three inches long—often visit him there. He enjoys giving them pieces of tomato from his sandwiches.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

My first newspaper internship was at the Pasadena Star-News in Pasadena, California. I covered arts & entertainment.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email is best.

Who do you wish followed you?

Hugh Jackman.

Awards

NLGJA

2012 - 1st place award for HIV/AIDS reporting

Shared 1st place award for series of profiles on people living with HIV/AIDS today who received diagnoses in different decades. 1980s: http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/25/edmund.white.hiv.aids/index.html 1990s: http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/06/01/scruggs.hiv.aids/index.html

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American Society of Anesthesiologists

2009 - Media Award

Won for coverage of anesthesia in relation to Michael Jackson's death.