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.
Rick Hansen in Buddha's Brain: p 98 Find Refuge in whatever is a sanctuary and refueling station for you. Potential refuges include people, activities, places, intangible things like reason, a…
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…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE EUROPEAN/AMERICAN/AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS TO ASIA SEEN AS BEGGARS Last year an astonishing one billion (nearly one out six humans on this planet) took…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE AMERICA IS THE FUTURE* *APPLICABLE TO AUSTRALIA, CANADA AND NZ TO A LESSER DEGREE Why do I think so? After many years…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE LIFESTYLE AND CANCER While the MORTALITY (death) from cancer has declined in the USA (Treatment and Early diagnosis), the incidence (new cases,…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A CUBAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AT MADRID BARAJAS AIRPORT I am catching a flight to MIA today via FRA. Arriving just one our before…
AA 9471 HAV-MIA 39 Minutes 15 minutes after leaving Havana, our aircraft was already over the Marathon Bridge, by 30 minutes we had entered the Everglades National park, descending into…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE JEWISH NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS This week is a week of pride for Jews who take pride in being Jews. As each…
Doctors day is celebrated on various day on various continents, in Cuba, it is the birthday of Carlos Finlay that is celebrated as the Doctors Day. Today is the Birthday…
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…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE CORN SUGAR, I was told, when presented with an attractive little package, in Bogor, Indonesia. Sugar brings to our mind the waving…
This morning the sun has risen and a bright morning is in store.. Just exactly one week ago, around this time, in Toulouse, a father took his two children to…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE GASTRONOMIC PLEASURES OF SOUTHERN MOROCCO I distinctly remember, handwritten over a small Taco Bar/Resto in Merida, Mexico: To eat well, is not…
VISA ON ARRIVAL INDIA Those of us with an urge to visit this teeming land of Real Fakirs and Fake Yogis, Excellent Food and Mediocre Wannabees imitating the West, full…
This has been an incredibly good evening. Before going to the Yom Kippur Evening Services at the Temple Israel, we decided to have dinner at Soyka. As if it was…
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…
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…
Casualidad es no tan Casual It is just you are not intelligent enough to understand it, said my Meskwaki teacher.. We tend to believe that things happen in a random…
