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Kim Barke
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Creative director, poet, playwright, scientist,
Publisher at Scientists & Poets
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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
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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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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November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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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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November 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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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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November 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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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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October 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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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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October 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Time, Physics, and the Pattern of Collapse
Dear readers,
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October 12, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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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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October 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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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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September 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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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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September 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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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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September 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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The Weight We Carry
Burden transformed into art, strength written in bone and tendon
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September 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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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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August 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Focus and Clarity: The Brain on Fast
Hello everyone!
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August 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Intermittent fasting
A lyrical journey through hunger, clarity, and the occasional rumbly tummy
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August 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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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
July 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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The sun isn’t trying to save you. And neither is Mercola.

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The Sun Is Not Your Friend:
What They’re Selling You While Your Skin Burns
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July 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Walking Between Worlds: Poetry, Metaxis, and the Poison in Our Food
This is a different sort of newsletter.
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July 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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
July 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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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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July 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Guided meditation to inspire creativity

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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.
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July 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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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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June 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Insight: The Skin Peels Back
How Vipassana Calms the Mind, Softens Reactivity, and Reveals the Nature of Reality
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June 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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The Mind in Bloom
A Four-Week Series on Meditation, Healing, and Creative Emergence
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June 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Supplements for the Brain: Feed Your Mind Before It Feeds on You
What science actually supports—plus the habits that matter even more
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May 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM