Map of life expectancy at birth from Global Education Project.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009  What I do  In response to C. Corax,
unfortunately there are some weird rules to the science game --
rules which may be undemocratic, but which I have to play by. In
particular, I'm not allowed to go public with research results
until they have been published, except in a limited way at
academic conferences. That means we've found out some stuff here
that I think is interesting, but I can't tell you about it or I
might get in trouble. In fact it would be helpful to get some
feedback from a broad audience, and would undoubtedly improve
the interpretation and applicability of results, but that would
be violating the privileges of the secret society.  So let me at
least tell you more generally about my interests.  I originally
became interested in what is generally framed as the problem of
cross-cultural competency in medicine, and the broader issue of
how language and culture shape people’s understanding and
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