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Weber’s First, on two clarinets I have a history with
The Long Listen #02: Weber died 200 years ago this year. His First Clarinet Concerto is the one piece I once tried to play myself, badly...
Jul 4
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John-Paul Bogers
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June 2026
Gunnen and its enemy
I have a Dutch word for the attitude behind wanting someone else to grow. Two books name what destroys it.
Jun 26
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John-Paul Bogers
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Why heat keeps proving itself in cancer, and keeps getting ignored
Forty years of data, a clear mechanism, but a commercial model that never paid for the trial the field needed
Jun 18
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John-Paul Bogers
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What an AI “agent” actually does for a working researcher — and where it still fails
The shift is two words: access and autonomy. Everything useful and everything dangerous comes from there...
Jun 10
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John-Paul Bogers
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Gunnen – the verb I use for mentoring, and what it means in practice
There is no good English translation. That is the point.
Jun 5
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John-Paul Bogers
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May 2026
Le Sacre at 113
Le Sacre du printemps, Boulez 1969 and Bernstein 1958
May 29
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John-Paul Bogers
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Reading Ishiguro at the right age
The Remains of the Day, and what it tells you about looking back
May 27
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John-Paul Bogers
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The dysplastic nevus: a diagnosis that tells you less than it seems
A common dermatopathology report, the noise in the grade, and what the evidence supports doing
May 20
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John-Paul Bogers
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A clinical trial run by twenty people, and then by two
Hiring for a structure that does not exist, the CRO that makes the difference, and what a consultant is actually working on
May 17
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John-Paul Bogers
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The deepest valley blooms
Fanny Mendelssohn, Uhland, Schubert, and one line of spring
May 14
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John-Paul Bogers
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Five AI tools I pay for every month — and two free ones I can’t get used to
What $2,300 a year buys a working researcher — and what it doesn't.
May 14
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John-Paul Bogers
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The Long Look
Notes from a CEO, senior pathologist and physician-scientist — by John-Paul Bogers
May 11
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John-Paul Bogers
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