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Yesterday I was watching a TED talk video from the director of the Harvard Project , which had followed a cohort of people in Boston, including Harvard College students 1938,…
FROM THE ECONOMIST AND TO QUOTE Some criminals are switching from cocaine trafficking to prescription-drug fraud because the risk-adjusted rewards are higher: the money is still good, the work safer…
For a person who was not fortunate enough to spend a lot of time with those related by blood to me, I have been extraordinarily grateful for the many members…
Westport, Washington: A report from what used to be the Salmon Capital of the World Going towards the Pacific coast, skirting the Puget Sound, once you pass an indistinct town…
I am writing this in a hotel room in Westport in the State of Washington in the USA. I can hear the ocean in the distance and i can see…
The diplomatic relationship between Cuba and USA are getting better by the day and the majority of the Cubans are happy with this outcome. This thaw also has created a…
Little Mr D whom I met for the first time, is the son of Mitexi, my niece in the UmonHon Tradition. Olympia, the capital of the State of Washington is…
I am touched by the solidarity Solidarite shown by people all around the world for France and its people and also for Jewish People at this very difficult time. I…
ANCIENT WISDOM AND THE NEW SCIENCE When you are with Indigenous people, you begin to understand intuitively, myth, history, symbolism. Claude Levi-Strauss recognized this 80 years ago when he worked…
PLANET OF PRE-DIABETES OR HOW I GOT A DISCOUNT AT A PHOTOSHOP IN COLOMBIAN AMAZON One visionary leader in the year 2000 went against the then enthusiastic endorsement of globalization…
I AM NOTHING. A BEGINNING OF CULTURAL CONFUSION AND LACK OF IDENTITY AND HOW IT IMPACTS HEALTH I have just been to Leticia, in Colombian Amazon, my fourth visit in…
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