Driving through Altadena, I found a community gutted but determined to rebuild

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 20, 2025January 20, 2025 General, Politics

Click Here to Read: Driving through Altadena, I found a community gutted but determined to rebuild By Francine Kiefer on the Christian Science Monito website on January 17th, 2025.

2025 Eaton Fire map Image: Penitentes. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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Why One of the World’s Most Elusive Writers Still Haunts Readers

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 19, 2025January 19, 2025 Literature

Click Here to Read: Why One of the World’s Most Elusive Writers Still Haunts Readers: Newly translated letters reveal the inner life of Paul Celan, offering clues to his enigmatic poems By Adrian Nathan West in the New York Times on December. 22, 2024.

Paul Celan 1938. Image: Unknown, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Other Naples, Not Seen on Instagram

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 19, 2025January 19, 2025 General

Click here to Read: The Other Naples, Not Seen on Instagram: The southern Italian city has become fashionable for tourists, models and actors in a social media age. Yet it remains merciless for many of its youth By Emma Bubola in The New York Times on January 2, 2025.

Naples, Italy Image: Montse Monmo. Public Domain Via Wikimedia Commons.

Real-World ‘Schrödinger’s Cat’ Brings Quantum Computing Breakthrough

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 17, 2025January 17, 2025 Science

Click Here to Read: Real-World ‘Schrödinger’s Cat’ Brings Quantum Computing Breakthrough on the Newsweek website on January 14, 2025 .

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Who built Europe’s first cities?

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 16, 2025January 16, 2025 History, Science

Click Here to Read: Who built Europe’s first cities? Clues about the urban revolution emerge: Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black Sea and created the region’s earliest urban centres. Then, after two millennia, they vanished. By Emma Marris on the Nature website on January 7, 2025.

A map of the approximate extent of the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian culture.Image: Saukkomies at English Wikipedia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

“I Am Appetite, Nothing More” Gender and desire in “Nosferatu”

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 16, 2025January 16, 2025 Film, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: “I Am Appetite, Nothing More” Gender and desire in “Nosferatu” (2024) By Craig Harshaw on on The American Psychoanalyst’s Substack on January 16, 2025.

The Terrible Trauma of Wildfires

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 16, 2025January 16, 2025 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: The Terrible Trauma of Wildfires: And the Challenge in Understanding Those Affected by the Fires (Vol. 5; Issue 3) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on the Journeys into the Unconscious Mind webite on
January 15, 2025/.

Bobcat Fire view from our kitchen window in Monrovia, CA, September 10, 2020Image: Eddiem360, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.