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.
American Epidemiologists, in anthropological parlance, are referred to as, those troubadours of tragedy. Always ready to incite fear, they might begin an article with” in 2040 there would be 500…
ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS BEING SAVED BY THEIR INDIAN BLOOD ADMIXTURE ? IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 I have had the pleasure of visiting Indigenous groups in most of the…
Limbo vs Liminality These two words have tremendous significance and relevance in the situation we are going through and the state of our societies even before the calamities stepped in…
THE USA is ranked at Number 70.. I applaud ISRAEL for its efforts and early containment. Both Germany and Austria did well. so did Australia and New Zealand. Kudos to…
There is no visible symbol in the west that has been associated with another entire hemisphere such as the MASK. People stared at Japanese tourists politely had their masks on…
MALAYSIA, MONGOLIA AND THE MASK HISTORY OF THE FACE MASK Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are. Its title is an Armenian proverb;…
BEAUTY IS IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER…. THE ORIGINS OF RACISM IN MODERN TIMES? I was sitting on the stretch of grass behind my sister’s house in Miami. I…
People worry that they would be bored if they have to stay home for more than a few days, as most people in this world are forced to do now…
I still remember that evening very clearly, at the restaurants just across the International bridge from Eagle Pass, Texas..perhaps its name was El Modelo? in Piedras Negras in Coahuila, Mexico..…
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0 0 1 1171 6676 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 55 15 7832 14.0 Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Why International Farhud Day Stymies Invented…
I have just spent ten days with the Omaha, the original inhabitants of the State of Nebraska in the USA. They live in an isolated part of the world, but…
I was so touched by this article that I have decided to put the entire article without editorializing. Brave doctor, who lived by a cyanide tablet by his side, so…
Refugee Situation in Europe and the chance to cleanse our minds about FEAR of the OTHER Unprecedented numbers of people seeking refuge from war torn nations such as Syria, Iraq…
Pablo Neruda had written that if you do not know or have a cultural identity, you are like a boat without an anchor, moving where the wind takes you, without…
BEST THING ABOUT ABU DHABI IS KERALA! And the other foreign workers from Asia I had a 12 hour transit in AUH recently, in a strange and imaginative itinerary, coming…
Australian researchers have uncovered how the massive DNA molecules that appear in some tumours are formed like Frankenstein's monster, stitched together from other parts of the genome. This solves a…
This is the first time, in a very long while, that I have spent any time as a tourist in the capital of Malaysia. First of all, I have to…
