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.
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Effect of macronutrient composition of weight loss diets on reduction of the inflammatory marker hsCRP http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/12/S1/O5 Published on 12 th June 2012…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE WHEN ONE DOOR IS CLOSED, DON’T YOU KNOW THE OTHER IS OPEN? Those lyrics from Bob Marley, Philosopher from Jamaica, always held…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Miracle in the land of the Kickapoo A Night visit to the Quiet Barrio of the Kickapoo Reservation The night was unusually…
PHILOSOPHY IN EVERY DAY LIFE Following closely the real-life adventures in Thought Experiments of a good friend: A mixture of Self-Realization, Applied Psychology and Philosophy I wanted to delve into…
HOW DOES ONE BECOME INTERESTED IN GEOGRAPHY? I was a pre-schooler, when my grandfather, olav ha shalom, came into the room with a bagful of sweets and said: these are…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE It truly saddened my heart to read this news item from The Age in Melbourne, Australia VICTORIAN welfare authorities have begun using…
Some Good News about Iran These days, one hardly hears anything good from Iran. Just yesterday USA tightened the sanctions against Iran, banning certain people and companies including some tanker…
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE PHILSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY BAKHTIN MERLEAU-PONTY Like many of us, I can clearly recall a turning point in my life. Soon after graduation…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE COMPASSION OR PITY: WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO YOUR HAPPINESS I overheard someone say: If only we gave the children of African Migrants an…
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 Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.” Recently I had been thinking about CONTEXT, in a phenomenological sense, but never…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE AN INDIAN JEW SAYS GOODBYE TO HIS OLDER INDIAN BROTHER When I was adopted into an Indian family, C, a brother began…
Tolerance of Minorities in Israel The case of Circassians For some reason or other, I thought about the Circassians this morning while at the Blue House among the Indians I…
A silence. I saw my teacher dozing on a chair on the left; two others sat with their eyes closed. A breeze from the cornfields. Suddenly a flap opens, and…
As I approached the Terminal 2 of Jose Marti International Airport in La Habana, Cuba, imagine my surprise when I saw the familiar red and white Kangaroo Tail of a…
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Countries with low levels of teenagers giving birth accept sexual relationships among teenagers and provide comprehensive and balanced information about sexuality…
I had stopped at my sister's house on my way to La Habana. Affectionate as she is, didnt want me to go without some middle eastern food, so thrusted a…
THE MIRAGE OF YOUR FOOTPRINT In the course of one week I have gone through several geographical and emotional changes: my intense life in La Habana to the affections of…
