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The phenomenon of Cinco de Mayo 1862 is classic in the sense that the defeat of puppet regimes of colonial powers by people’s armies is a recurrent theme in history: in the history of our own country ...

The phenomenon of Cinco de Mayo 1862 is classic in the sense that the defeat of puppet regimes of colonial powers by people’s ...

The environment one lives in directly impacts one’s health — common sense tells us this. If someone knowingly harms another’s ...

How do you say goodbye to a place with countless memories carved on its every corner. Those were the simple days. The innocent days. The almost-worry-free days. The habit burger late night runs. The ...

Originally published in Synapse on April 29, 1997. There is nothing like springtime and nowhere like San Francisco to experience it. From my vantage point I watch the fog quietly and gently slip away, ...

Originally published in Synapse on April 16, 1981. Last Saturday, International Committee Against Racism (InCAR) and Progressive Labor Party took a leading role in forcibly preventing a Ku Klux Klan ...

“The sound of electronic heartbeats echoed from room to room as high schoolers from all over the Bay, equipped with their own stethoscopes, leaned in, listening to the beats and murmurs of a manikin’s ...

Synapse was pleased to welcome Dr. Jennifer Frazier as our guest for the 7th annual Synapse Science Speaker series on April 9. Frazier, a science communicator, UCSF alumna and adjunct professor, ...