My Dominant Hemisphere

Awesome photo-essay!: Anatomy: an evolving rite of passage - As ideas about anatomical education have changed, so have the images from the dissection room. via amednews.com - http://www.ama-assn.org/amednew...

YouTube - Ode to the Brain! by Symphony of Science | re: http://bit.ly/kl6vQ2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

#India's passion for traditional #tea in a clay cup | "That first time I tried it, I thought it was utterly disgusting, and tipped it out of the window, much to the horror of my fellow passengers. Then to my horror, they threw their cups out of the window." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...

Here Be Dragons - Outdoor Photographer | "There’s a wonderful sense of freedom sailing on the high seas onboard a small expedition ship. The prospect of finding wild animals in their natural environment, the adrenaline rush of the first sighting and the challenge of getting the shot make every trip an epic voyage. No two expeditions are ever the... - http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/locatio...

RT @itsmerajveer: Chiraagh Jalana Toh Puraani Rasmein Hain #Faraz... Ab Toh Tere Shehar Ke Log Insaan Jala Detey Hain......!#Urdu

"Those who drink the #tea knows. Those who do not drink the tea #knows not..." — Unknown http://www.goodreads.com/book...

"What refuge is there for the victim who is possessed with the feeling that there are a thousand new #books he ought to #read, while #life is only long enough for him to read a hundred?" — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"The love of #learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of #books" — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Interesting piece on the poet Agha Shahid Ali: In the poem "Learning Urdu," he speaks of his mother tongue as if it were itself a contested land, pressured between the cultures of India and Pakistan: "Across the line of blood my friends dissolved / Into bitter stanzas of some dead poet. / I couldn't sympathize / I only wanted the bitter couplets... - http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue...

Mystic rhythm! Can you feel it? :-) : آس وہی دل میں لئے ، اس آرزو میں ہم جئے ... #urdu #poetry

What?! Only 3 civilizations in the entire world c. 3000 BC - 1700 BC ! http://www.goodreads.com/book... #history

کیوں جا رہے ہیں ، کس لئے جا رہے ہیں ؛ کچھ بھی نہیں پتہ بس جا رہے ہیں . فضاؤں میں ایک سرسراہٹ بھی کچھ کہ رہی ہے ، جلتے ہوئے چمن بتلا رہے ہیں ؛ کوئی شہر تھا جو لٹ گیا دیکھو ذرا ، اک نام تھا جو مٹ گیا دیکھو ذرا ... http://www.youtube.com/watch... #urdu

I think I've finally stumbled upon what could possibly be the most serious competitor to OHCM! Cud this b the BEST BOOK ON MED OF ALL TIME?!

افّ یہ مدھر آواز ! پیش ہے آج کا اردو لفظ : "ابتدا" . ماننا پڑے گا کہ سننے میں ہے انتہائی میٹھا . :-) #urdu

Meet the 'Deccan Odyssey' - traversing the Deccan plateaue along the Konkan Route of the #Indian #Railways. | #indiansubcontinent - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

UPenn's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Films @ Archive.org is a treasure trove of spectacular imagery! Check out the ones on the #indiansubcontinent. What was the 2nd largest seaport after #Bombay? #Karachi! http://www.archive.org/details... | #history #travel #travelogue

Awesome! : Now Ibn Battuta's famous #travelogue has been adapted into a film: http://is.gd/NUOQPU http://is.gd/gOSRLs - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

http://www.vagablogging.net/half-th... : “That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation without the toil and sweat of realization. The greatest romance ever written pales before the possibilities of adventure that lie in the faint blue trails from sea to sea. The perfect journey...

How to re-ignite the scientist within: Revitalizing Science Education « My Dominant Hemisphere http://is.gd/jWRrq6 #education #learning #teaching #science - http://mydominanthemisphere.wo...

What's on my @Goodreads: Foundations of Systems Biology http://www.goodreads.com/book... http://mydominanthemisphere.wordpress.com/tag... #biology

My computer looks DASHING as it chugs through this "for" iteration loop! http://mydominanthemisphere.wo... re: http://friendfeed.com/mydomin... #programming #technology #unix

Mucking about with OCR and Tesseract. Scripting on Windows is a headache! http://ubuntuforums.org/showthr... http://mydominanthemisphere.wo... #unix #linux #windows #programming #technology

This just on my @Goodreads: William Moorcroft's travelogue (18th century veterinarian-explorer from the East #India Company): #Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Punjab, in Ladakh and Kashmir, in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz and Bokhara http://j.mp/htEyNr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.glowimages.com/index...

This just read on my @Goodreads: Sir Creek, The Atlantique Incident and Khem Karan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... #indiansubcontinent #india #pakistan #history

Hope this beautiful creature can now roam carefree! - Shahtoosh #kashmir #tibet #china #indiansubcontinent #wildlife - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

How fast a reader are you? Here's how the @Goodreads graph looks like for the latest book I finished: http://prntscr.com/1n6zw

Stunning: Ladakh - A #Photographic Journey #ladakh #tibet #indiansubcontinent #kashmir - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Behold: The Banihal Tunnel between Jammu and Srinagar Valley along the Banihal Pass. 1.5 mi long & cutting deep through the Pir Panjal mountain range. http://j.mp/e5ejbZ #kashmir #indiansubcontinent #travel - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Behold: The highest paved border crossing in the world: Khunjerab Pass between Gilgit & Xinjiang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://j.mp/e5ejbZ #kashmir #indiansubcontinent #india #pakistan #china #travel