The wonderful unique Randy Picker died suddenly last Saturday. The Law School at The University of Chicago put out an outstanding obituary which I urge you to read. Here, I will simply make three points. Randy and I talked about all sorts of things. Many of them were controversial and either bordering on or frankly political. What stood out was […]
This is a lovely picture of Howard from his UCSF profile page. Howard Fields died at the beginning of this month. I spent more than five years in his lab (1987-92). He excelled at science and friendship. I already miss him. Howard was clearly the leading thinker in the study of pain modulation. It was a heady time for the […]
I was being interviewed this morning when the interviewer asked how the work we were talking about related to “Frans de Waal who just passed away.” I had not heard. I immediately choked up and remain teary, twenty minutes since receiving the news. Frans’s death is an enormous loss to me and for the world. Emory University, Frans’s academic home […]
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