31 August, 2008 (18:07) | Health, Psychology
This summer was a busy time for global Alzheimer’s activities and the changes in thinking are dramatic. I personally presented at international meetings held in Oslo, Chicago and Albuquerque (see photo of poster in Chicago at the International Conference on Alzheimer Disease). In general, I would say some areas of research and policy [...]
Tags: alzheimer, alzheimer disease, cholinesterase inhibitor, cognitive impairment, Europe, generics, intergenerational learning, memory problems, mountain, pharmaceutical companies, prevention strategies, psychosocial, psychosocial interventions, United States
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26 August, 2008 (10:00) | Antiques
Extraordinary Artists
Some people just have a way of putting things together!
SIGH……
Feast your eyes on the work of Frédéric Tabary. Frédéric is an Interior Architect and Designer living in Nantes, France. I find his work absolutely amazing and I think you will too!
He salvages the old and gives it a unique new life.
Zinc, iron, rusted [...]
Tags: curtains, Europe, interior architect, interior stylist, kitchen sinks, metal urns, old windows, rusted metal, vanities
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25 August, 2008 (00:06) | Food
Okay. So, it seems that I’ve come down with the flu. Brandon has been sick since last Wednesday, sweating and shivering and coughing, and by Friday evening, it had felled me too. Unless you count scrambled eggs and a half-hearted batch of tomato sauce, we have cooked absolutely nothing in the [...]
Tags: Brussels, couch, dishes, Europe, macarons, Paris, Portland, tomato sauce, train
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24 August, 2008 (23:53) | India, Travel
Notes from a story I shot for a french publication on young girls from Russia and Eastern Europe, who make a living dancing in Bollywood dance sequences.
Everybody deserves 15 minutes of fame, but nobody deserves to have to spend nine hours in a crumbling, sweltering suburb of Bombay to get it. Nevertheless, that is what [...]
Tags: Europe, India, money
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24 August, 2008 (23:53) | India, Travel
Originally published in Men’s Health Magazine, October 2007
A Few months ago me and two of friends of volunteering ourselves into a race that involved driving over 3,000 km across India in the Monsoons over the Himalayas - if that wasn’t harrowing enough we thought we’d do it in an mobile toaster on wheels - 3 [...]
Tags: art and culture, cell phone, Europe, health magazine, himalayas, India, mantra, mountain, sleep
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