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HOW PRECIOUS THINGS ARE DAMAGED BY MISUNDERSTOOD WORDS Words are the greatest source of misunderstanding. And especially when one is reading in another language. I have never added a moral…
I was still in high school and in the habit of frequenting second hand bookstores (why did they all disappear?) when I came across a novel by Agnar Mykle's Lasso…
The United States like other colonized countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and all of Latin America from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, do not have a good record…
I am very proud of my friend Maurits van Pelt and the NGO he heads in Cambodia, MoPoTsyo in which Peer Educators take care of poor people, usually from the…
I have a lifelong connection with Burma even though my first visit there was in 2003 with my brother Eliyahu. I had heard stories from my biological father about his…
AMERICA OR USA is a land of immigrants and more so as each year goes by. When you are in a city like Miami you realize that your chance of…
Very few Practising Physicians are also Medical Anthropologists, this applies to the entire world. In the USA, there are excellent Medical Anthropologists but the majority of them are not physicians…
on 29th december 2020, the last full moon of the decade appears and as the Indians call it the winter moon or the moon that brings the winter.. I received…
THE PUZZLE OF VITAMIN D It was very exciting to study about Vitamin D metabolism while we were medical students. Called Sunshine Vitamin it was manufactured in the skin from…
The very first time I heard the name WALDEMAR HUFFKINE was when I was offered a STAMP which showed his face and his proper role (but largely forgotten) in the…
Jews must have lived in Morocco ever since 70 CE but the definite change came after they were expelled from Spain 1492. Even before the expulsion, there was migration of…
I had been waiting for this day, 21 december 2020. Normally it is just the Winter Solstice. Even in this tropical clime, during this time of the year, the sun…