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.
I am writing this, sitting INSIDE a bus, while the middle aged levantine (irani?) driver is negotiating through the traffic. We are still in Vancouver, Canada and our destination is…
Wandering Medical Anthropologist and Endocrinologist: A prescription for a Stress Free Life Day 1 March 4 th , 2011 EuroStar. Paris Gare du Nord to St Pancras, London. 2h 32…
Today in 2 February 2011 and I am far removed from the Asian Continent but it was good to receive emails from countries with sizeable Chinese populations and also from…
French Paradox: an additional piece: Slowly digested or Undigested Carbohydrates. Another Piece of the French Paradox: Why French are not fat or have higher Cardiovascular Diseases. Most people working in…
In a New York Times Article published on May 3, 1903, the headlines read: No representative of the Race that greeted Columbus could be found in Cuba. Just think, how…
Feel very content on this erev Yom Kippur even though I am far away from many of the people who are important to me and also to the Jewish people…
We all want to be Happy.. is it a sensation of feeling High? a sense of contendment? the rush of acquiring material goods? Are Rich people happier than the Poor?…
A LOVELY NEW YEAR GIFT FROM EL COMMANDANTE, FIDEL CASTRO RUZ. Fidel to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jews' He said the Iranian government should understand the consequences of theological anti-Semitism.…
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false IDENTITY It would be a wonderful world, if you could consider each and every person as a human being,…
Filipino Chinese Chef, Peruvian Student from Lima, LAN Pan Asian Restaurant It is time to celebrate, dear friends! What ingredients do we need? Good News! Of course, lately we have…
Unfortunately, news that comes out of Malaysia, stress upon the unsavoury or ignorance.. the struggle of the country to remain peaceful, prosperous and progressive is never given notice.. but notice…
Genetic 'map' of Asia's diversity The study indicates that all of Asia was populated through one migration event. Even during a short time period such as one's life time, the…
My dearest Brothers in Portland, Oregon and the Mischpuchah there & our Israeli Mischpochah in Haifa: Shabbat Shalom. But this Shabbat has a special meaning. We are always looking for…
Where do they get them from? Arrived at the EWR international airport after a swift and smooth flight from Paris. There were only two people in front of me at…
Claude Berger is certainly an interesting man.. Born and raised in Marais, the jewish district, this writer, philospher, marxist, and a dentist to boost and a lover of jewish culture…
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20090316-0806a.mp3 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/docarchive/docarchive_20090316-0806a.mp3 one of the few advantages of driving through large swathes of plain countryside in the USA, in a rented car, is the ability to listen to BBC
Historian Bernard Lewis breathes a fresh perspective into the cultural conflict between the Arab and Islamic world and the west. Even as early as 1950, he had thought that the…
Dear Friends: I was in India for six days, but in three states, three cities and three nights spent on trains! The Blind Astrologer had wanted me to do three…
