Ancient Medicine Modern World

It is a question as common as rain in Seattle.
How does acupuncture work?
Us westerners like to think of nerves and endorphins, MRI lightshows and double-blind glimpses of reality. We want to know. Know if it works (just ask someone who has used it!), and how it does what it does.
After ten years of using [...]

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A flashback travel log from the summer of 2001. Back when every new word of Chinese learned was a luminous experience.
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I like spending time with my friend from Brazil, Marcelo. His name in Chinese is
Ma Rou-Zi. The sound comes off my tongue like cranking up an old metal windup toy. The kind that had [...]

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