Aug 15, 2012
HAPPY DOCTORS DAY : TOLERANCE HAS ITS REWARDS
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…
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, 2012
EVEN IF YOU ARE FAR AWAY, CUBA IS IN YOUR HEART
CUBANIDAD IN MORBIHAN, FRANCE Most foreigners especially in the West has access only to news and information about Cuba which stresses on the material and economic aspects of our beloved…
Jul 15, 2012
languorous lunch of the Australians in Paris
A LANGUOROUS LUNCH OF AUSTRALIANS IN PARIS Good Friends of mine had arrived from Melbourne a couple of days earlier, I arrived from Miami via Bruxelles just yesterday A warm…
Jul 15, 2012
IT IS EASY TO LEARN TO SPEAK ENGLISH POORLY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A French academician once put it: English is a language that is relatively EASY to speak POORLY. A language so rich as…
Jul 15, 2012
ADVICE ON FOOD LABEL READING esp for AMERICAN INDIANS AND ASIANS IN ASIA
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…
Jul 15, 2012
when one door is Closed, Dont you know the other is open? Bob Marley
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…
Jul 15, 2012
MIRACLE IN THE LAND OF THE KICKAPOO, TEXAS AND MEXICO
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…
Jul 15, 2012
PHILOSOPHY TO IMPROVE ONES EVERYDAY LIFE
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…
Jul 15, 2012
HOW DOES ONE BECOME INTERESTED IN GEOGRAPHY?
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…
Jul 15, 2012
CHILDHOOD OBESITY IN AUSTRALIA
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…
Jul 15, 2012
SOME GOOD NEWS FROM IRAN
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…
Jul 15, 2012
PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY : MIKHAIL BAKHTIN ET MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY
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…
Jul 15, 2012
PITY OR COMPASSION: WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO YOUR HAPPINESS
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…
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…
Jul 15, 2012
CONTEXT, BREAST CANCER, ARROGANCE, MINA AND MALAYSIA
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…
Jul 15, 2012
AN INDIAN JEW SAYS GOOD BYE TO HIS OLDER INDIAN BROTHER
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…
Jul 15, 2012
TOLERANCE OF MINORITIES IN ISRAEL
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…
Jun 15, 2012
HAPPY TO PRAY FOR THOSE I LOVE
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…