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B. David Zarley

Senior Staff Writer

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B. David Zarley is a senior staff writer for Freethink, where he covers health and medicine, including infectious disease, psychedelic research, mental health, and the brain. A graduate of SUNY Fredonia, his work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Verge, Jezebel, Frieze, Sports Illustrated, VICE, Paste Magazine, and numerous other publications. He lives in Chicago and can be reached via Signal by request. Send him story ideas!

Building Community

The Crib: A place to call home

For young LGBTQ adults, this is the shelter that accepts many people that are too often turned away.

B. David Zarley

Prosthetics

Advanced prosthetics are not only powerful, they’re beautiful

"There's a deep, deep relationship between the functionality of the device and a person's identity of what their body is."

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Medicine

Hope grows for patients with spinal cord injuries

Severe spinal cord injuries resulting in total paralysis are usually considered permanent, with no hope of recovery. And yet, in a handful of patients spanning multiple levels of severity, movement is being regained.

B. David Zarley

Activism

This Chicago urban farm grows opportunity, jobs

Growing Home’s organic urban farms use agriculture as a vehicle for providing job training for people with...

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