Kim Barke

Is Morality the New Black? An Evidence-Based Case for Goodness in a Post-Religious World

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Phantom Quotation: When Writers Make Us Hear What Wasn’t Said A few days ago, I reached the ending of Death with Interruptions a novel by José Saramago and felt my attention snag, hard, on a single sentence.

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When Your Nervous System Turns Against You The Thing Nobody Tells You About Chronic Pain

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Your Pain Won’t Shut Up. Here’s How to Turn Down the Volume. Sleep, movement, and a few things that actually work. Plus some that help for surprising reasons.

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Pain Is a Story the Brain Tells Itself And sometimes the story won’t end

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Cold Season Playbook: What Actually Works in the Pharmacy Cold Aisle People talk about fighting a cold as if the story begins with the first sneeze.

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Winter makes every body a little more porous, so I made a video that cuts through the pharmacy cold-aisle circus and gets to the remedies that actually help. Less noise, more clarity. A small playbook for the season.

#ColdSeason #OverTheCounter #CVSFinds

Hormone Therapy for Menopause: How the FDA Just Reversed Two Decades of Fear When I was in my early 30s, I was writing medical communications for two menopause treatments.

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Seeing Clearly: Understanding the Hidden Threats to Vision: Part 1 How macular degeneration, glaucoma, and dry eye shape the future of sight

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Beyond Binary: Gender Diversity Across Cultures and History Part 1 of a Series on Gender and Sexual Orientation

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How to Talk to a Machine Without Losing Your Mind A field guide for honest collaboration between human and artificial intelligence

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The Hidden Orchestra: How the Brain Composes Awareness What happens when billions of neurons play in tune — and call it self.

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Time, Physics, and the Pattern of Collapse Dear readers,

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The Map of Being: How Science Traces the Edges of Consciousness A journey through the instruments that measure awareness, and the mystery that remains.

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The Elastic Self: The Science and Soul of Flexibility Flexibility is the language of movement, a grammar written in joints and muscles, a syntax of tissues learning to give way.

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The Instrument That Loves Back: On My Ardent Love for the Pencil Vi Khi Nao’s Page as Generator

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Breath: The First Art, The Last Secret From pranayama to Whitney Houston, from free divers to COVID wards—breath as art, discipline, and liberation

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The Weight We Carry Burden transformed into art, strength written in bone and tendon

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Every Step a Spell: The Republic of Walking Louis Fleckenstein (American, 1866 - 1943), photographer [Figure Walking Outdoors], 1907–1943 Gelatin silver print Sheet: 9 × 6.5 cm (3 9/16 × 2 9/16 in.) The J.

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Focus and Clarity: The Brain on Fast Hello everyone!

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Intermittent fasting A lyrical journey through hunger, clarity, and the occasional rumbly tummy

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What Improvisation Reveals About the Brain—and the Self What jazz, freestyle rap, and neuroscience reveal about creativity, flow states, and the improvising brain

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What if creativity wasn’t something we controlled—but something that moved through us when we stopped trying so hard?


#Improvisation #Creativity #NeuroscienceOfArt #JazzBrain #DanceScience #FlowState #PoeticScience #MindBodyConnection #FreestyleRap #SubstackWriters #Neuroaesthetics #SundayRead

The Sun Is Not Your Friend: What They’re Selling You While Your Skin Burns

The sun isn’t trying to save you. And neither is Mercola.

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#uvdamage #melanomaawareness #mercola #sunmyths #skepticalwellness #dermatologyfacts #scientistsandpoets #substack #toxicwellness #publichealth #skinhealth #truthmatters #sunsciencenotsnakeoil

Walking Between Worlds: Poetry, Metaxis, and the Poison in Our Food This is a different sort of newsletter.

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Three voices, one stage. Come hear Conor Monahan, Amanda Boekelheide, and Kim Barke read live this Saturday at 2PM with Scientists & Poets. Language meets fire, memory, and precision—come be moved. #ScientistsAndPoets #PoetryReading #nycpoetryfestival2025

Scientists & Poets on Substack What if stillness was a source code? This week’s piece traces the quiet, radiant line between meditation and creativity—from Agnes Martin’s grids to Jane Hirshfield’s mindful poetics, from the Beatles...

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Above the Hum — Guided Meditation for Inspiration and Creativity Scientists and Poets is where evidence-based health meets lyrical inquiry—because the body is data, and so is wonder.

Guided meditation to inspire creativity

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Loving-Kindness Meditation for Emotional Resilience and Wellbeing How metta rewires the nervous system, shifts mood, and strengthens the fabric of emotional life—from neurons to connection to creativity.

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