Jan 15, 2019
MALAYSIA MY SECOND HOME AND THE DOUBLE TREE HOTELS THAT MAKE IT SO
I left Siem Reap with a heavy heart after having had a wonderful end of the year sojourn there. The minute the flight landed in Kuala Lumpur my mood changed…
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
MY POLYPHENOL DINNER IN MIAMI 14 JANUARY 2019
I have to present a conference on MICROBIOME and its ROLE in KIDNEY diseases in a couple of days time. After arriving from Havana and adjusting into the complexities of…
Jan 15, 2019
IN SEARCH OF CUBAN COFFEE IN KEY LARGO FLORIDA KEYS
I was visiting some friends who live by the water in Key Largo, an hour and a bit drive from Miami. They suggested that we visit some places near by…
Jan 15, 2019
CASTRO THE LITTLE POET OF BARACOA COMES TO VISIT LA HABANA
MIguel Angel Castro, the Historian and the poet laureate of Baracoa came to visit La Habana and the day spent together was memorable. We had collected a treasure trove of…
Jan 15, 2019
ARE THE PROBIOTICS OFF THE SHELF GOOD FOR YOU… MAY BE NOT
There is an increasing interest in MICROBIOME, the large number of bacteria that inhabit our guts. Once certain relationships became clearer to scientists: good and bad bacteria, lack of diversity,…
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…
Jan 15, 2019
SAUDADE DO AMAZONIA THESE PHOTOS TAKEN ONE YEAR AGO 26.1.2018 LETICIA COLOMBIA
Long time ago I had visited Iquitos on the Peruvian Amazon while I was a student in Miami and had been wanting to go to the Amazon: Colombian and Brasilian…
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…
Jan 15, 2019
PETRIFIED ACCOUNTANTS OF EASTER ISLAND
I had been thinking of Easter Island Rapa Nui or Ile de Paques Isla de Pascua and as if in coincidence I came across a cartoon from a book. That…
Jan 15, 2019
MADE HOMELESS BY TRAVEL: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING
I am grateful whoever the person was, for introducing me to Moritz Thomsen, a beautiful soul, a peace corps volunteer in the 1960s, trying hard to make the life of…
Jan 15, 2019
Le cancer bientôt vaincu par des chercheurs israéliens?
0 0 1 26 150 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 1 1 175 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Une équipe de scientifiques israéliens affirme qu’ils…
Jan 15, 2019
I AM DOING MY LITTLE BIT FOR CUBA
0 0 1 386 2203 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 18 5 2584 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE What all has happened? Today is 9…