As kids we wondered about the price of fish in Mexico as a way of suggesting something was highly irrelevant. I thought of this as I wrote to a friend to ask about the price of chickens in Cambodia? Who’d have ever thought such a thing would ever be relevant to my life? Turns out … More The Price of Fish in Mexico
The average number of individuals directly infected by one infectious case during the entire infectious period of a specific disease is defined as the basic reproductive rate. Infectious diseases have individual characteristics, such as the route of transmission and the number of organisms needed to cause infection, which make this calculation different for each disease. … More Disease and Discrimination
In 2013 Angelina Jolie won a humanitarian award at the Governor’s Awards, which celebrate lifetime achievement in film, and form a part of the Academy Awards in Hollywood. Her heartfelt, at times tearful, utterly inspiring speech, started out acknowledging various people including friends and family. She then went on to honour her mother, who had … More The Definition of Success
More than 40% of the Central Australian population are indigenous. 18 local languages are spoken here. My associations with indigenous people, as with locals in Cambodia and Timor Leste, or with the British, Americans, Spanish and French, have been positive, warm-hearted and filled with laughter and friendship. Mum always said “people are the same no … More Credit Where Credit is Due
Short answer: What police forensics? Very important article in the Cambodia Daily, which I’m copying here without permission (sorry CD but this is worth preserving): When two North Korean doc… Source: Police forensics in Cambodia?
Every Night & every Morn Some to Misery are Born Every Morn and every Night Some are Born to sweet delight Some are Born to sweet delight Some are Born to Endless Night ~ William Blake, c. 1803 Adele Bloch-Bauer was the youngest daughter of a wealthy Jewish banker, born in 1880 in Vienna. She … More The Pursuit of Happiness
Helen Hunt and Kevin Spacey made this phrase famous in a film of the same name some years ago. The concept involves the recipient of a favour, instead of paying the favour back, paying it forward to three new recipients. Each recipient is then asked to pay it forward, to three more recipients. The favour … More Pay It Forward
The other day here in Australia, I was with a friend in town when her daughter called her, panic-stricken after being bitten by a snake at their home 10km from town. As I sat on the phone with Emergency Services, who answered on the first ring, replying to their orderly and systematised questions, my surprisingly … More Baby Business
Darwin mentioned the word love 95 times in the Descent of Man. He mentioned survival of the fittest twice. Five months ago, days after Paula’s major corrective surgery, Samantha and I left Seattle, bound for Phnom Penh. A week later I returned home to Australia. The last time Samantha or I saw her, Paula was … More Our Fields of Gold
I am in the throes of a prolonged episode of writer’s block right now. Sorry Mum! Today I spent time with a patient from a remote Central Australian community about 300km out of Alice Springs. I have spent a few months of my life in this community so we had a common interest. In a … More Some Reasons I Love Central Australia
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