Le Gourmet

Providing a direct line of "translated" public health science to you, so you can take action for your community's health

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Art, Poetry, Music & More... "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

... between words ...

Living a dog's life in a dogs world...

Facts, data and analytics about biomedical matters

Look at the lilies in the field, how they grow... they do not toil or spin...

"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between." ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful." — John Maeda

The Tao Te Ching, written around 400 BC by Lao Tzu. Translated by James Legge.

Extraordinary Stories in Art & Literature...

Photography, Music & Art - “Poetry is us…our voices in the street, like a photograph of the darkness and the light.”

Life in Medicine and Science... ― “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie

Victor Hugo's historical novel, first published in 1862 and considered one of the greatest in the 19th century. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood.

The Arts

Science, Art & Poetry

“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” ~ Herman Melville

An artist's life in an interstellar world...

Homer's works, written around 8th century BCE, are regarded as one of the most significant works of the Western canon.

Music ~ Poetry ~ Art

Currently Featured: The Essays of Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne published in 1580 - Translated by Charles Cotton - Edited by William Carew Hazlitt (1877)

Art is more important than ever in our tumultuous world. It can touch us in very powerful ways. Nature is art and artist - so is everyone of us...

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storms to pass ... It’s about learning how to dance in the rain." ~ Vivian Greene

Plato's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, authored around 375 BC.

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music..." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

"There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star: Consume me..." ~ Virginia Woolf

Women are amazing creatures...

Visual Arts...

Science Photography & Art

"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self." — W.H. Auden

Words - Art - Photography

Life Under Water...

"A letter always seemed to me like immortality, because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend." ~ Emily Dickinson