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Best of the Storytelling Contest

Aging and the Carbon Imaginary

Consider aging as three overlapping progressions: the accumulation of risk, aging as deterioration, and aging as renewal. Aging disrupts life/non-life distinctions, what Povinelli calls geontology, in that aging is a property of non-living matter, but which extends to living matter through...
May 27, 2025
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Bri Matusovsky
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Abolishing the Stigma of Dementia

May 20, 2025
Celine Chou
Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. More than 55 million people worldwide are currently living with dementia...
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Food Insecurity: Gnawing at Your Mind

April 8, 2025
Sydney Howell
What comes to mind when thinking about the word ‘hunger’? Maybe you pictured an empty fridge, a malnourished child, or...
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Decoding Hunger: Understanding Your Body’s Cues

March 18, 2025
Isabella Fornell
Hunger is a natural part of life, but have you ever stopped to consider why you’re feeling hungry? Understanding the...
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If I could

February 18, 2025
Ziqian Feng
If I could I would take away your blinding pain And tell you how beautiful you are, how powerful
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Vernal Falls

January 28, 2025
Nick Fiorentino
Have you ever noticed how a waterfall falls? Spirits of glacial spittle traverse towards the earth at different rates.
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On the differential

January 14, 2025
Sohini Halder
I am a young woman On oral contraceptives And ripe for endothelial injury: I am afflicted with clumsiness
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The Fringe of Society

December 3, 2024
Jihae Ryu
Internal war, but external battles So much anger, so incontrollable Embarrassed, but should I be?
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This Date in UCSF History: Fitness Beats the Blues

November 12, 2024
Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on November 13, 2008.] Well, it looks as if our beautiful warm (often times hot) weather...
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Listen Closely: CMV Shouldn’t Be Overlooked

November 5, 2024
James Lawrence
Hearing loss. Developmental delay. Vision loss. These are all effects experienced by children who contracted congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) at birth.
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