CULTURAL QA01-2022-09 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Whatdo you have in your refrigerator that most people do not? A1 Sangeeta HR | A movielover| Fiction reader | Mumbaikar | A mother Fri Frozen milk packets!! I hate buying milk on daily basis and hence, I use this strategy. I haveseen my mother doing it and I also find this more convenient than tracking theavailability of milk on daily basis and buying packets as and when required. I buy 3–5 liters of milk onweekly basis and whenever, I need it, I drop a packet of milk in a bucket full of water. Wait for an hour to allow themilk to get back to its liquid form. If I need this on urgent basis then I justcut open the plastic packet and move the milk in solid form to the milk pan andheat it. The milk is ready to consume in next 10 minutes. During Vardah cyclone, thesituation was very critical in Chennai. It was tough for people to move out of the house to even buy essentials like milkand vegetables. At that point of time, I handed over a couple of packets ofmilk to people with babies at home. Many people prefer to buy milk on daily basis as they believe that themilk would get spoiled in maximum of 2 days’ time. So this hack might helppeople to store milk for a week or 10 days and enjoy tea/coffee as and whenrequired. My note- While going out ofstation, my wife keep surpluspack in refrigerator, and prepare milk as told above, but uses it for preparingcurd. Learnt members can write on it-whether it is a healthypractice. Q2 Whathappens if a patient goes to a lab but they cannot find the vein to draw theirblood? Tomaž Vargazon Practicing atheist Updated Thu The standard procedure is to get someone else, who will find a vein. Ifthis doesn’t work, you can also do this: It hurts like hell, but you can see these veins. If even this doesn’t cut it, you can do most analyses from capillaryblood too. This is frequently done in the case of drug addicts, not so muchbecause you can’t possibly find a vein, but because their veins are brittle andburst at vein puncture so you need to start anew. Usually the patient willremove his consent and say theydon’t want their blood work done at all before you run out of options. Q3 Doesan Indian husband say goodnight to his wife before sleep? A3 Bhuvana Rameshwar SouthIndian culture Jan 2 Yes, we often do whenever we go to sleep at the same time. When myhusband says “good night” I reply the same to him. If he is watching TV or doing some other work I take leave saying “ I'mtired, I'm going to sleep, are you coming? “. He replies he will take anotherhour. So I go, shut the door to avoid the TV sound which gives him company. If he is tired he pushes off with a simple good night and a bottle ofwater.in his hand He says the goodnight more easily. I am a little uncomfortablewith the English word good night as we speak Tamizh at home. Besides i’m not used to the Tamizh word “ Nal iravu” for good night. Sothe hesitatation. Q4 Aswe know the Sun is not moving, but as per Hindu mythology, the Sun has achariot run by seven horses. What is its significance? A4 Mahesh Mallia Updated5h I would like to answer this based on Science because the modern mind willnot accept anything blindly just because its mentioned in our scriptures. Modern science says that the Sunis not stationary. The Sunand in fact, our whole solar system orbits around the center of the Milky WayGalaxy at an amazing speed of 828,000 km/hr. See this amazing animation belowto understand this phenomenon: So your question is factuallywrong. As for the seven horses, the ancient civilizationprobably did not know anything faster than horses, so they added not one butseven horses to run this super fast Chariot of the Sun!! Q5 Howcould ancient people manage to live with extreme cold in Europe with no heatingservices available today? A5 JV Nande A PortugueseTV writer living in Brazil. www.jvnande.comJan 2 I would say the main way wasfire, either a fireplace or a wood stove. I’m originally from Northern Portugal, where temperatures can get tonegative Celsius during the winter, and I grew up without central heating, but my grandmother always had thefire running in the stove, so the kitchen was a great place to be and get awayfrom the cold. When you went to bed, some extra blankets would dothe trick. But there was a second way: architecture. Houses in Northern Portugalwere originally built with a thermally stable material which also happened tobe laying around: bigblocks of granite. The warmth from a fire wouldn’t get lost easily. Also, did you notice this is a two-storey house? There’s a reason forthat. People would liveupstairs while the cattle would be downstairs. This way, the heatgenerated by the cows or sheep’s breathing (and also the fermentation of theirmanure) would keep people warmer. Some houses even had a kind of a gutter thatwent from the kitchen directly into the pig trough, so people could dispose ofmeal leftovers or potato peels immediately and feed the hogs without too muchof a hassle. So, fire, clothes andingenuity: that is how people managed to live with extreme cold in Europe. Andsome still do. Q6 Doyou use WhatsApp or telegram (or something else)? What are pros and cons ofeach and what led you to choose whatever you're going with? A6 GopalkrishnaVishwanath Willing responder to survey questions Fri I use WhatsApp. It meets myneeds. I don’t know the pros and cons and I am not interested. I don’t want to take the trouble to switch to Telegram or Signal orwhatever even if they are better. I have heard about the controversy regarding the new terms and conditionsthat WhatsApp wanted to introduce. I am not bothered. Let the terms and conditions be anything. I never readthem anyway. I have nothing to hide and am unconcerned with privacy. The presence orabsence of the so-called “end-to-end encryption” is not an issue for me. For decades, during my youth, Iwrote postcards and mailed them and anybody could read them, not just the recipient. I will continue usingWhatsApp because all my contacts are on WhatsApp. Some of them, influenced by the negative publicity did switch to Telegramand they sent me messages informing me. They all came back to WhatsApp laterwhen they found no one there to exchange messages with. I believe thecontroversy is now closed. Q7 Iwant to change my address in my passport. Will I get the same passport numberor will it be changed? A7 Bhuvana Rameshwar Livedabroad a few years 1h You will get a new number. If you want to change your address in your passport as you are relocatingto a new place or changing house you need to apply for a re - issue ofpassport. Change of addresshas to be updated as soon as possible as per govt rules. They will issue a new passport to you which will have a new passportnumber and your new ( updated) address. Q8 Isrice dangerous for a kidney stone patient? A8 Lucia Garcia Worked atHospitals11h Rice is the staple food for more than half of the world's population,including countless people with kidney stones, but they still eat rice everyday. Rice is an extremelynutrient-rich food, and rice has nothing to do with kidney stones. Kidney stones are preventable and treatable, and the easiest way toprevent and treat kidney stones is to eat the right foods. Studies have shown thatapproximately 70% to 80% of stones are calcium oxalate stones. The accumulation of oxalic acid in the body is the main factor leading tokidney stones. In addition, excessive intakeof high-sugar, high-protein and high-purine foods is also linked to kidneystones. Kidney stone patients should eat less foods high in oxalic acid, such asspinach, beans, carrots, mushrooms, amaranth, coriander, celery, grapes,oranges, strawberries and so on. It is recommended thatpatients with kidney stones often eat some black fungus. Blackfungus contains alkaloids and various minerals, which can produce a strongchemical reaction to kidney stones, dissolve the stones, shrink them andexcrete them from the body. Patients with kidney stonesalso are advised to drink plenty of water. Studies have shown that a 50% increase in urine output can reduce theincidence of kidney stones by 85%. Q9 DidIndian railways ever closed a railway station for any reason permanently? A9 Vivek Singh Lives inIndia (1989–present)Tue Cochin Harbour Terminus - CHTS(Kerala) was closedpermanently, due to the objectionsby Indian Navy during electrification, as the train tracks were extremely closeto the Naval air strip. Recently, they tried to revive the station byrunning a DEMU between CHTS and Ernakulam, but due to operational constraintsit was shelved again. Howbagh Railway Station inJabalpur (M.P.) was closedpermanently after the Gauge Conversion, as the route of the station passes through theheart of the city (which is not safe for the Broad Gauge Trainsmovement). Old Munger station (Bihar)(which was a terminal in MG era)was closed permanently post Gauge Conversion. A new BG station was created and the bridge on Ganga riverwas built, hence ceasing the existence of Munger as a terminal. There are few more stations like Gauri Phanta in UP (Code: GPF), etc that were closed, but Iam not aware of the proper reasons (my wild guess, the income must be too lowto continue). My note- Ranipet in North Arcot District was functioning while I was working there from 1966 end to March 1972.The railway route Wallaja road- Ranipet telecom line was under my jurisdiction. The passenger train with a lot of goodsboggies was hauled by a steam engine. Distance of about 7 KMs. Details of the route is as follows:- Laid in 1858, disuse in 1995. Station was again put in toservice on Jan 20, 2021, probably after Ranipet district was formed. CHENNAI: Southern Railway on Wednesday loaded the first rake ..on Jan 20,2021. Q10 Isit possible that people from different regions of the world evolved fromdifferent hominid species? A10 Claire Jordan Degree inbiology and folklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper Thu Yes and no. All the human groups we know of are at least 94%descended from the same species, Homo sapiens. However, with the possible exception of a few small groups in central Africa none of us is *pure* Homo sapiens - weall have a dash of genes from various other human groups such as Neanderthalsand Denisovans, whom we regard as separate species from H sapiensbecause the evidence suggests that although they couldhybridise with H sapiens, a high proportion of these hybrids were sterile. Q11 Whywas Prince Philip never called a king? A11 Jill GrantFormer RetailSales (1976–2003)Dec 8 He was a prince of Greece and Denmark . A King is a ruler and Philip wasn’t going to rule,he was only the spouse of the Queen who did rule. They were married before her father died and Philip was given a Britishtitle, Duke of Edinburgh.He didn’t like the idea of being called a Prince Consort. He also wanted his family namegiven to his children.Mountbatten, but Elizabeth wanted the Windsor name too. Q12 Cana power supply step up DC to AC? A12 Dave Haynie BSEE/Math, CMU 1983, I design digital, analog,and RF systems.Jan 2 Sure. That's a device known as an inverter. I havethis device, a 600W inverter, in my car, attached to the 12V battery. This produces a pretty normal ACoutput. I get a normal output because this is a pure sine wave inverter: normalAC power delivered to your house is a sine wave. Cheaper inverters can produce square waves or“simulated" sine waves made by stepping voltage at multiple levels.These can cause problems or inefficiencies with some AC devices. My car actually has its own inverter. Most hybrid and electric cars thesedays use multiphasic AC motors driven by batteries, which store DC of course.My 2015 Prius has a 200Vdc battery pack that's stepped up and inverted todeliver 650Vac to the motors. That's the inverter/power conversion unit (PCU)on the right. The day-glo orange cables are the high voltage cables. The pinkstuff is the inverter coolant. The inverter uses very efficient insulated-gate bipolar transistors(IGBT), but they still get very hot and need cooling. Tesla started usingsilicon-carbide transistors their inverters in 2017, and Toyota used a similarinverter design in the 2020 Mirai, their hydrogen fuel cell hybrid.Silicon-carbide promises to boost efficiency by over 10%. All the above QA are from Quora website on 08-01- 2022. Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan ,78, former ITS on09-01-2022 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to thatha_patty+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1129418777.2199507.1641688080734%40mail.yahoo.com.
