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.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
THE WARAO OR THE PEOPLE OF THE CANOE have lived along the River Orinoco for centuries and survived with their natural skills and abilities. The outsiders came and took some…
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…
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Recently I had a chance to stay, for the umpteenth time at the Bristow Lighthouse Hotel facing the Arabian Sea in Fort Cochin. Rajesh Rajan the GM had organized a…
0 0 1 957 5455 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 45 12 6400 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE MEETING A REMARKABLE INDIAN AT MY FAVOURITE…
0 0 1 326 1862 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 15 4 2184 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE PEDIGREE OF ISRAEL’S FOUNDING FATHERS When…
0 0 1 257 1469 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 12 3 1723 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The first meal in La Habana The…
There must be something in the air in Cochin for me, like I experienced in Suva, Fiji; Malacca, Malaysia, Zanzibar..but with more substance because Keralites especially the Syrian Christians I…
I am recuperating nicely from the last trip in the tranquility of my sisters home in Miami, while she is away with her family on Caribbean cruise. This last trip…
Some one from Cuba: I am supposed to pretend to be happy at this time of the year! Advertisements from Malaysia to Qatar to Miami all inviting you to have…
I forget how often I visit Fort Cochin, but I do know that I am often here, on my way to or from South East Asia or Europe. The Auto…
The Abu Dhabi airport was covered in a dense fog that delayed the flight to Cochin by 4 hours but I took advantage of this delay with a prolonged sleep…
I left USA on the 8th and today is 15th and I have covered nearly 2/3 or more of the circumference of the earth. One alarming fact is : in…
If you look carefully at the map how tiny the island city state of Singapore is! One of the miracles of modern development! Lee Kuan Yew was visiting Australia when…
My work is limited to the American Indians, original inhabitants of this land they call Turtle Island and later named America, after a rich Florentine explorer who was the first…
Leticia in the Colombian bit of the Amazon River was left out of the riches of the Rubber Boom that made Iquitos in Peru and Manaus and Belem in Brasil…
LESSONS FROM QATAR Like many people living in the Western world, my own conceptions of the Oil Rich Gulf states were not very favourable, because of what the Media portrayed…
I have flown this route many a times, and each time I pass over Constantine, I cannot help think of the Algerian Jews made homeless and made into refugees by…
