Lab Notes
By Fred Gardner December 6, 2022 To this day I’m kind of amazed when people flat-out lie to...
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Author: Fred Gardner
Route 66 Revisited
In “The Philosophy of Modern Song,” handsomely printed in the USA and just published by Simon & Schuster, Dylan describes and comments on 66 songs and the artists who made them. You might think the title sounds pretentious,...
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A Canceled Backcourt
The first knock on Kyrie Irving’s sanity came a few years ago when he told an interviewer...
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Esther Silverstein Blanc
As recounted in the spring of 1991, this memoir ran in the Anderson Valley Advertiser in five...
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Laguna Honda’s Predictable Crisis
September 13, 2022 Today was the day on which all the patients at Laguna Honda were supposed to...
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Raphael Mechoulam Gets the Biopic he Deserves
By Fred Gardner Many of us who get interested in cannabis as medicine get very interested and...
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The Rip-off of C.R.A.F.T.
I’ve never heard anyone say they’d been burned by Alan Sorrentino –quite a tribute in...
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Bullshit Terminology
Language gets modified from the top down (academics and consultants) and the bottom up (the...
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A Friend of Bill Russell’s
UCSF Medical Center is the largest employer in San Francisco besides the city and county...
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