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How one Beach Boy housed the Manson family and how the Beatles got lumped in with the whole mess I’m a sucker for an interesting story. Even more, I’m a sucker for a true story. In...

Bob Dylan tells the story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter The song “Hurricane,” written by Bob Dylan and Jacques Levy, is a narrative of a triple homicide that occurred in 1966, and the resulting false trial...

Joni Mitchell’s song about David Geffen and the music industry The year was 1974. Joni Mitchell had just written her smash hit “Free Man in Paris,” about a trip she took with the president of...

I think we all get the concept that vegetables are good for you, right? It is pretty much common knowledge these days; vegetables good, fast food bad. The problem isn’t that people don’t know...

When I hear the phrase “false advertising,” I think of those diet ads where the before and after pictures are clearly not the same person. Greenwashing is one of the more popular forms of...

A pesticide is a substance used to kill or control plants or animals that we consider to be pests. In agriculture, when we talk about pesticides we are usually talking about herbicides, insecticides, and...

Are organic produce and animal products more “nutritious” than conventional counterparts? In September of this year, a study entitled “Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier Than Conventional Alternatives?” was released by a group of Stanford...