Apr 15, 2020
POBRE ESTADOS UNIDOS, TAN CIRCA DE DIOS Y TAN LEJOS DE SU PUEBLO
Porfirio Diaz, the Mexican President was purported to have said: Pobre Mexico, tan circa de Estados Unidos y tan lejos de Dios Oh Poor Mexico, so close to USA but…
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.
Apr 15, 2020
IRAN. THE WALL OF KINDNESS. TAAROF AND PHILANTHROPY IN PERSIAN CULTURE
Everyone knows of my obsession with Persia IRAN, something dating back to the time when we had some family connection to that land. As I grew up I became enchanted…
Apr 15, 2020
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE STATE OF KERALA: INTELLIGENT EDUCATED POPULATION AND A GOVERNMENT THAT CARES FOR THE PEOPLE
What the world can learn from Kerala about how to fight covid-19 The inside story of how one Indian state is flattening the curve through epic levels of contact tracing…
Apr 15, 2020
USA A RICH COUNTRY NOW NEEDS ISRAEL FOR ITS TECHNOLOGY AND CUBA FOR ITS HUMAN SOLIDARITY
I have chosen to love three different countries other than my own: USA , Israel and Cuba. This is the story about the three of them. While hard hit countries…
Apr 15, 2020
SAUDADE POR QATAR AIRWAYS
It was a nice day in August 2012, when I left the reservation of the UmonHon Indians in the USA and flew from Houston to Doha, connecting to Jakarta. It…
Apr 15, 2020
DO YOU FEEL RESPONSIBLE OR WILL YOU RESPOND TO IT? FALSE FRIENDS FAUX AMIS AND OTHERS
I have lived in four countries where English in various forms is the official language: Australia, England, USA and Jamaica 3 other countries where English is spoken but not the…
Apr 15, 2020
TENHO SAUDADES POR TUDO. SAUDADE SODADE WHAT A BEAUTIFUL WORD
Without doubt my favourite single word in this entire world has to be Saudade e eu tenho saudades por tudo, saudades do Brasil... It is so difficult to translate this…
Apr 15, 2020
WESTERN DIET MAY CREATE A FORM OF IMMUNE DEFICIENCY ? EXCITING RESEARCH FROM GERMANY
CELL IS a wonderful medical journal which over the years has given me pleasure with absolutely new knowledge. Researchers around the world are working on so many miracles, so when…
Apr 15, 2020
GOOD BYE COMMENDATORE … HOPE MURAKAMI WINS THE NOBEL PRIZE THIS YEAR ?
A lovely spring day in Miami. The leaves are growing in front of your eyes. Tall trees shadier by the day. On such a day I finished reading Murakami, Haruki's…
Apr 15, 2020
FIDEL AND GLOBALIZATION IN THE TIME OF CORONA VIRUS 2020
FIDEL AND GLOBALIZATION Jefe Comandante Fidel Castro of Cuba was one of the earliest opponent of Rampant Capitalism and Globalization. He was right on the target as we see the…
Apr 15, 2020
BEACHES IN TWO COUNTRIES .. WHICH IS THE SELFISH COUNTRY, THINKING OF JUST THEMSELVES?
The Beach at Quiberon in Brittany in France 4 days ago in the time of Corona. The beach at another western country under the grip of the virus, on the…
Apr 15, 2020
START UP NATION COMES WITH YET ANOTHER INNOVATION
Researchers from Israel’s prestigious Technion Institute created a home coronavirus test with a 99 percent accuracy rate that provides results in less than an hour. By Yakir Benzion, United With…
Apr 15, 2020
AN ANTHROPOLOGIST LOOKS AT CHOLESTEROL LEVELS IN THE BLOOD
AN ANTHROPOLOGIST LOOKS AT CHOLESTEROL IN BLOOD Key findings Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ● During 2015–2018, 11.4% of adults had high total cholesterol, and prevalence…
Apr 15, 2020
THRIFTY GENE, DR.MARCELA LeBEAU AND SNP ON ABCA1 GENE: A CENTURY OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND DIABETES
Thrifty Gene, Dr. Marcela LeBeau and SNP on ABCA1 gene. A century of American Indians and Diabetes When I first read about J.V.Neel’s Thrifty gene theory, I was immediately attracted…
Apr 15, 2020
MALAYA MONGOLIA AND THE MASK. THE STORY OF DR WU LIEN TEH OF PENANG,
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;…
Apr 15, 2020
WHY ARE SO FEW IN INDIA DYING IN THIS PANDEMIC. AND SWEDEN WITHOUT LOCKDOWN. BE CAREFUL TO INTERPRET DATA
If you are used to reading scientific articles especially in Medicine, you can see the commentaries in the popular press distorting the data. At no time has it been true…
Apr 15, 2020
SIXTY DAYS WITHOUT A FLIGHT: UNUSUAL BUT UNDERSTANDABLE
Sixty days ago, I arrived in Miami on a flight, and took Share Ride Uber to my sisters house and I have not been back to the airport since. I…
Apr 15, 2020
MASKS: THE FEAR OF THE OTHER AND OTHER THOUGHTS OF LIMINALITY
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…