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.
My love for Iran is as old as myself, from stories transmitted to me as a child some of which I remember. While a teenager, on a exchange course of…
Natalie d'Arbeloff Born in Paris, raised in Europe, Paraguay, Brazil and the USA, Natalie d’Arbeloff speaks those languages and lives in London. Her father was Russian and her mother French.…
The above video uploaded and already has garnered millions of views. It touches on a subject that we might pretend that does not exist , he is a second generation…
On making his discovery, the astronomer had presented it to the International Astronomical Congress, in a great demonstration. But he was in Turkish costume, and so nobody would believe what…
CLUB HETEROCLITE IS OPEN FOR MEMBERSHIP: PLEASE SEE IF YOU QUALIFY I take pride in my language, even though I am not very good at its grammar, but good at…
I became aware of both masculine and feminine sides of both sexes very early on life, in heterosexual people. When in medical school, you could see the faculty, masculine and…
For young translator of sold-out ‘Harry Potter,’ Yiddish is truly his mamaloshen How Arun Viswanath, the 29-year-old scion of a US literary dynasty, translated series opener ‘The Philosopher’s Stone’ into…
I have been lucky to include India in my wanderings around the world, despite the fact that my visits are always short lived, a matter of days and it is…
The little island of Cuba, despite being economically blockaded for six decades by the United States, is a shining light when it comes to International Humanitarian Medical help. Sri Lanka…
There has been a disproportionate number of deaths from this virus, Covid-19, in France in 2020. If you look at the map, you would see a disproportionate number of infections…
When my association with the indigenous people began, I wanted to learn why they are being marginalized, disliked and accused by people who came to their lands centuries later. Who…
FROM MONOCLE 2 MAY 2020 OUTPOST NEWS / ST KITTS AND NEVIS Life and breath The Caribbean island of St Kitts – formally known as St Christopher – was the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It is a wonderfully beautiful full moon night in Miami. Why is this night different from all the other nights? I will tell you I was told to go out…
