Jan 15, 2019
SCREAM MUNCH AGONY OF THE TIMES
Oslo and Norway hold special places in my heart. For a naive australian young man visiting northern europe for the first time and incredibly susceptible to the romance of the…
Stories
Field notes from the road
Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Jan 15, 2019
MICROBIOME AND KIDNEY AND OTHER INFLAMMATORY DISEASES
I was requested to present an Introduction to Microbiome and its effect upon (or vice versa) on the Kidney diseases at a health fair being held at a tribal auditorium…
Dec 15, 2018
SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA AND THE END OF THE YEAR 2018
After a disastrous New Years Eve party in the home of a neighbour in Havana in 2016, I ha decided I would choose carefully where I wish to be at…
Dec 15, 2018
FOOD INSECURITY AND PRE DIABETES .. YET ANOTHER SOCIAL CONNECTION FOR INCREASING INCIDENCE OF DIABETEES
I have always maintained that DIABETES type 2 i a social disease and its ravenous increase world wide is the confirmation of the social influences on its prevalence. I am…
Nov 15, 2018
PREPARING FOR HANUKKAH HAVANA STYLE
HANUKKAH HAVANA STYLE WINE BOTTLES MOSTLY FROM SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE ARGENTINA CHILE AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND HAPPY HANUKKAH
Nov 15, 2018
PAYING RESPECTS TO THE LAST JEW OF COCHIN ELIAS JOSEPHAI BABU
ELIAS JOSEPHAI, currently the best known COCHINI JEW in the world (check for him in Google, Youtube, BBC etc) is based in Ernakulam near his beloved synagogue which had been…
Nov 15, 2018
BREAKFAST AT HOME IN HAVANA
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Oct 15, 2018
THE ROLE OF VITAMINS AND SUPPLEMENTS : THE PAST AND THE FUTURE
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Oct 15, 2018
EAT LIKE AN ISRAELI IT IS POSSIBLE EVEN IN MIAMI
When it comes to Food Technology and Food Chemistry and innovations in Nutrition at the Molecular level, the tiny country of ISRAEL (the size of the state of New Jersey)…
Sep 15, 2018
TRAVELLING QATAR AIRWAYS IS AN UNENDING PLEASURE
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Sep 15, 2018
SHANAH TOVAH TO THE JEWS OF INDIA AND IRAN … MAY ALL OF US BE UNITED SOON
I have nurtured a love for smaller jewish communities around the world ever since I became aware of them and was able to visit them. Currently I live in an…
Aug 15, 2018
QUOTIDIAN PREOCCUPATION OF A RESIDENT OF LA HAVANA
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Jul 15, 2018
HOW TO BE A MEANINGFUL FREQUENT FLIER, LEAVING NOTHING BUT FOOTPRINTS BEHIND
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Jul 15, 2018
THE PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST TRAVEL AGENT
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Jun 15, 2018
WHERE DOES DIVERSITY BEGIN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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May 15, 2018
A SADDEST PLEASURE: JOURNEY TO THE EAST
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Apr 15, 2018
THE TOUCH: THE SCIENCE, THE PHILOSOPHY AND THE MYSTIC
HUMAN TOUCH as a mystic, therapeutic and culturally relevant symbol, is receiving some scientific attention as well. I have just left Cuba and one of the first things I note…
Apr 15, 2018
FORT COCHIN A PLACE TO STAY PUT WHEN YOU VISIT KERALA INDIA
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