Carlyn Zwarenstein
Writer at Freelance
Writer at Live More Lives
Journalist/writer on science, lit, this ruined world. ON OPIUM is my 2nd book, on pain/pleasure + capitalism/solidarity/consolations of art. See website 4 more.
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1 week ago |
salon.com | Carlyn Zwarenstein
The technicolor Florida sunset had faded into darkness, and my extended family, assembled from two continents and three countries, gathered on the beach at Longboat Key to look at the stars. We were incredibly lucky that night in 1984, when I was seven, because a satellite came into view. With no clouds and few lights, it moved steadily like a bright little star across the dark, dark sky. We oohed. We ahhed.
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3 weeks ago |
salon.com | Carlyn Zwarenstein
In some ways, the stars above us are the ultimate equalizer: we're all equally far away, we all share the right to look up at them; and, tiny glittering pinpoints that they are, when we contemplate that cosmic glow, our fractious lives seem so brief, so comfortingly insignificant, compared to the light years they've traveled to meet our eyes.
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3 weeks ago |
salon.com | Carlyn Zwarenstein
The current Israel-Gaza war began on Oct. 7, 2023, with the Hamas attack on Israel that killed approximately 1,200 people, followed by 538 days and counting of Israel’s indiscriminate military assault and siege on Gaza, which has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people — although the true number could be higher still. A study published in the Lancet last month used multiple data sources to estimate mortality due specifically to traumatic injury for the period from Oct.
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1 month ago |
salon.com | Carlyn Zwarenstein
You probably have a general understanding of the human brain: a network of nerve cells connected by synapses. Complex or abstract ideas emerge as a result of the firing of many of these nerve cells, or neurons. This means that a concept or memory or idea is the result of a distributed pattern of neural activity. In contrast to computer memory, which always follows the same pattern of 1s and 0s, it's more like networks in our brain weave a new tapestry every time we think about something.
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1 month ago |
salon.com | Carlyn Zwarenstein
When the SARS-CoV-2 virus first began spreading across the globe five years ago, some predicted that it could take five years for things to recover. Now that we've reached this seemingly impossible point, it seems some of those warnings were correct. Though infections are at a relative low these days, we're still dealing with COVID-19, which kills hundreds of Americans per week and disables countless others.
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