Scientists & Poets
Scientists and Poets is where evidence-based health meets lyrical inquiry—because the body is data, and so is wonder.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 69 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 13 days ago |
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The Scientist and Eve:
Rider-Waite Tarot Deck® © 1971 U.S. Games Systems, Inc. Photograph by Kim Barke 2026
I hadn’t done a Celtic Cross reading for myself in decades. Lately I’d fallen into the habit of pulling one or two cards the way people check the w...
The King in the Carnival: Trump and the Inversion of the Grotesque
Alfred Kubin The Moment of Birth, 1902, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
You may have seen the video of the President of the United States, rendered in AI, wearing a crown, piloting a fighter jet labeled “King Trump” and dumping...
30 Poets for National Poetry Month
Photo of Baalbek (Temple of Jupiter) in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon by Kim Barke copyright 2018.
Last week, I wrote about poetry in Iran and Lebanon as a living force, something held in the architecture of their cultures and somethin...
Why Are the Ultra-Rich Brutalizing Poetry?
This week’s article was going to be the fourth in a series on evidence-based creativity, specifically on computational aesthetics and glitch. But I cannot stop thinking about Iran and Lebanon. About what we are doing to them, and about what...
Brains on Beauty
Photo by Kim Barke (2022) of sculpture in the Museo di Palazzo Grimani
Before jumping into the 3rd article in the series on evidence-based creative, or the science of aesthetics, I want to remind everyone that April is Poetry Month....
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Where science meets subversion—medicine, poison, and the fine line between them. A pharmacologist, toxicologist, and poet unpacks the alchemy of what heals, harms, and haunts us.
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