Thursday, June 18, 2020

Anatomy & physiology

Anatomy & physiology for dummies by Maggie Norris and Donna Rae Siegfried is a good read and very enjoyable along with videos from crash course - https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtOAKed_MxxWBNaPno5h3Zs8.

Our body has many parallel systems. It’s amazing to know that how evolution has fine crafted a being like us, or, one may simply amazed by this creation of God, depending on from which school of thought you are from. Never knew that there is a system called lymph network in our body. Memory is not binary storage. Spine can take local decision - remember you pull hand at the prick of a pin. Your smell sense is resulted by chemical bonding. Hormones play a very vital role in keeping things together. Heart is an amazing pump which brings in oxygen depleted blood and pumps out oxygen rich blood. Urinary system is as amazing as blood circulatory system.


The book deals with skeletal system, muscular system, integumentary system, nervous system, endocrine system, circulatory system, respiratory system, digestive system, urinary system, immune system, reproductive system and change and development over the life span. It’s complicated!

Sunday, June 7, 2020

Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens

Quite impossible story to happen, but author could take you to the 1950s/60s and life in marsh. It’s waterways, lagoons, beaches, estuaries, egrets, herons, gulls, palmettos, oaks, adjoining meadows and in the these context Kya’s shack. It starts with parallel story of death of Chase Andrews and Kya’s childhood at marsh. Beautifully convenes at solving the mystery, but along with take us through the survival and thriving story of Kya in her adverse conditions.

Friday, June 5, 2020

Al-Fathiha

The four Tafsir I am trying to follow.
1. Ibn-kathir, Tafsir ibn Kathir
2. Ibn-Arabi, ഖുർആൻറെറ ഉൾസാര വ്യാഖ്യാനം
3. Maybudi, Kashf al-asrar
4. Seyyed Hossein Nasr(editor), The study Quran

And the Quran
- The Noble Quran, Karya Bestari




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