from a letter home from bangalore in 2010 Mean people. This story doesn’t actually start with mean people. It starts with the wide variety of people – mostly people from the state of Bihar, I am told – that sell sundry goods on the streets. I am not talking about the people who set up shop somewhere onContinue reading “snakes in bangalore”
Monthly Archives: June 2012
pirates & seasteads (islands of good institutions?)
well, this is all new to me. “off the coast of East Africa is environmentally a very favorable location [for sea-steadng] but the issue of piracy makes it forlorn,” says the institute for ethics and emerging technologies. sea-steading was a new concept to me but, apparently, it involves ” creating permanent dwellings at sea, called seasteads, outsideContinue reading “pirates & seasteads (islands of good institutions?)”
how is the body doing?
from a letter home from chennai in 2008, when i was there studying diabetes. drs. s & b, i hope it is OK to include this photograph! To help add context to my research, I have undertaken a series of interviews with doctors and dieticians at the hospital to see how “biomedicine” in India “talks”Continue reading “how is the body doing?”
used against pirates and tornadoes
the crew of a greek oil tanker resisted hijacking in the gulf of guinea by hiding in the ship’s safe room. evidently, safe rooms are increasingly being used as anti-piracy measures. unlike in hijackings off the coast of Somalia on the opposite side of the continent, west African gangs have not sought ransoms, instead unloadingContinue reading “used against pirates and tornadoes”
Heather E. Lanthorn 