Jun 15, 2016
OMAN AIR: SERVICES ON THE GROUND AND IN THE LOUNGES AND AT AIRPORTS
IF YOU ARE NOT A FOODIE, YOU MIGHT FIND THE PHOTOS OF THE FOOD ITEMS A BIT TOO EXTRAVAGANT, PERHAPS YOU SHOULD SKIP THIS BLOG On 9th June I took…
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.
Aug 15, 2015
FOOD, WINE AND GOOD CONVERSATION: A JEWISH FAMILY IN AFRICA
If I had travelled the eight hours on an Etihad Airways flight, then taken the train to the centre of town, checked into a Hilton Hotel and then went to…
Jun 15, 2015
LOOKING FORWARD TO MIAMI: BRUSSELS TO MIAMI VIA LONDON JOHANNESBURG ABUDHABI AND SAO PAOLO
LOOKING FORWARD TO MIAMI: BRUSSELS TO MIAMI VIA LONDON JOHANNESBURG ABUDHABI AND SAO PAOLO I have had a long standing love affair with Miami and it is that city in…
Nov 15, 2014
CULTURAL FRANKENSTEIN: CUBA AND THE WORLD
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…
Jul 15, 2014
MEDICAL CARE IN AN UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRY: STORY OF IGNORANCE, GREED AND SUFFERING
MEDICAL CARE IN AN UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRY STORY OF IGNORANCE, GREED AND SUFFERING Let us call this South East Asian country, Srivijaya. Charming people, wonderful smiles, tolerant of others, they had…
Jan 15, 2014
CULTURAL DIVERSITY, NOW AND BEFORE IT WAS, MULTICULTURALISM
COULD CULTURAL DIVERSITY DISAPPEAR THE SAME WAY AS CROSS CULTURE AWARENESS WITH A SOCIAL ACTIVIST IN HANGA ROA While I was studying Anthropology in London, the buzzword of the day…
Dec 15, 2013
SPIRITUALITY: LETTER TO A JEWISH FRIEND IN MIAMI
Thoughts on Spirituality I have thought about it for long. One thing I can tell you what it is not: Rituals and Dogma like you mentioned in your email of…
Nov 15, 2013
THE JEWISH IDENTITY IN DIASPORA
The Jewish Identity in Diaspora The Economist, published weekly, has to be one of the best brain foods that is published that frequently in the English Language. I have great…
May 15, 2013
PEER TO PEER HEALTH PROMOTION AT WORK PLACE : ZHENG HE’S METHOD OF COLLABORATION
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Peer to peer health promotion at work place The humble boss of Bogor An old Indian story talks about a group of…
Jul 15, 2012
THE FRENCH AND THE HAMBURGER
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The French and the Hamburger The French are concerned that they have become the SECOND largest consumers of Hamburgers in the European…
Feb 15, 2012
BROTHER WHERE ARE YOU? YOUR GIFTS ARE ATTRACTING ATTENTION
This afternoon I had a chance encounter with Dr J, a visiting academic from Australia.. who is doing research into the social context of the first Rajah of Sarawak.. After…
Jan 15, 2011
Globalization in a Paris Suburb: an Anthropological View
Paris Suburbs: Shopping for Everyday Goods Globalization at Work This morning I went shopping in one of the western suburbs of Paris and it was truly a lesson in Globalization…
Dec 15, 2009
I am also a Bumiputra…
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…
Aug 15, 2009
Fructose and Gout
Fructose and Gout In 1970, Prof (now emeritus) Fiorenzo Stirpe of Univesity of Bologna in Italy wrote a letter to The Lancet, the medical journal published in London, England, informing…
Jul 15, 2009
Cuban Heart and Parisian Mind and Sefardi Stomach
Newly found Love for Paris One thing you would learn living in Cuba is that you are curious about most things and you become very observant. when you show someone…
May 15, 2008
Meet the Top 100
Meet the Top 100 The May/June issue of Foreign Policy, a global magazine about Politics, Economics and Ideas, named its list of top 100 public intellectuals. I was drawn initially…
Nov 15, 2007
Globalization Will Not Eradicate
Globalization will not eradicate Prejudices Competence, Efficiency and Education will! Or Why we need Israel to train security agents worldwide. Rainy end of October day. 0730 AM. Steady drizzle. Not…