Julia Scott

Recent Work

Our Pandemic Brains Were Trained to Forget

Notre Dame Magazine
January 15th, 2024

My Friend Meet Friend party had a secret agenda: to link my discontinuities. The past and the present, linked. Friends from different worlds I inhabit, linked.

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Can altering cancer ‘mindsets’ change physical outcomes?

Scope from Stanford Medicine
August 30th, 2023

A provocative study suggests that a placebo effect treatment for cancer patients can improve real-world pain levels and resilience.

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The Enchanting Mr. Rice Guy

Notre Dame Magazine
January 20th, 2022

Maybe you had an imaginary friend in childhood. I did. And 32 years later, in the midst of a global pandemic, he came back again.

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What happens when a building of strangers comes to depend on each other to stay healthy? One person’s COVID-19 exposure could endanger others in proximity. We all need to protect each other at the same time.

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On Being Alone

Notre Dame Magazine
January 1st, 2019

We find so much comfort in the presence of others, sometimes without realizing it. Even having someone in the next room is a comfort. But when the house is still and there’s nothing else to do, the self confronts. And we would do almost anything to avoid hearing what it has to say.

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Letter of Recommendation: Candle Hour

New York Times Magazine
March 18th, 2018

At night, by candlelight, the world feels enduring, ancient and slow. To sit and stare at a candle is to drop through a portal to a time when firelight was the alpha and omega of our days.

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