CULTURAL QA03-2021-23 Being a compilation there may be errors
Q1 Has anyone quit government job to join private sector? A1 Sathishkumar 21-3-2021 Entrepreneur.Idid. Not exactly Govt. job, but job(s) in PSB. I got selected and worked asProbationary Officer in Bank of India. While working there, I got into SBI asPO again. I resigned at BOI with SBI as pretext and never joined SBI either. I never felt like I belonged to that job. Not to blame the system, but I am certainly not a game for doing thesame, monotonous job for some 36 years of my life. I realised this within 6months of my job. After coming out of the banks, I went on to clear CAT , did MBA andstarted my own company now. I never regretted my decision because I would nothave been as happier or as contained as I am today, had I continued with thebank. My note- I installed CCTV inmy home about 6 months back. One gentle man appeared first day for calculation. My brother in law introduced him asthe owner of firm. He was in slightlysoiled clothes. Later I had talk with him. He was lecturer in Sathyabhama Engineering college, apostgraduate in engineering. He resigned and with two others started thecompany. Though for job satisfaction hestarted own firm, he was suffering since loss of business due to covid 19, high rent for business premises, payments to hisstaff, who are also engineers and diploma holders etc. Some regret I could feel in his face forresigning lecturer post from a reputed engineering college. So everybody need not shine by selecting job for Job satisfaction. Q2 How does it feel to conduct a postmortem? Do doctors feelscared at any point? A2 Vidya Mogili December17, 2017-Internship at Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati(2019–present) I can tell you how it feels to watch one. It was my first time during 2nd year. We were so excited that we reachedhalf an hour before the scheduled time. Now that's so unlike us. Soon relatives of the deceased along with police came to the departmentand body was shifted inside the room. We thought that doctors will perform thewhole procedure but man we were wrong. There was our assistant professor alongwith two men (who actually gave incision and took the body parts out forexamination). Initially a thorough external examination of the body was done includingclothing, any cuts or blood stains, condition of skin etc. Incisions are of three types as you can see in the above picture. On thatday modified Y-shaped incision was given and body parts were taken out one byone. He explained us the whole procedure and the associated findings. Here comes the difficult part - smell, at times it becomes unbearable. Wejust moved a bit back for a while. That particular case was death because of road traffic accident with headinjury. When his skull cap was opened, we could see brain, haemorrhage andfracture which lead to death. Later the body parts were placed inside and suturing was done. So you see there is no point to feel scared here. We felt a bitdiscomfort somewhere in the middle of the procedure but scared no! It wasreally important in medico legal cases. No one had any feeling of nausea or dizziness among us. As it was ourfirst time we were kinda more enthusiastic to get in there, to know about theprocedure. Anyway that didn't last long. I mean neither we felt like goingagain nor our teachers were interested to take us in.It's a responsibility! My note- As I understand,doctors who has to perform postmortem comes in turn duty. Q3 Why do people leave jobs from IT even though they have ahuge salary? A3 Mohan Prakash Mon SrProgram Manager at 247.Ai (2018–present) With 30 years in industry with close to 23 companies in 2 continents -think am the most eligible employee toanswer this. HUGE SALARY - Wow who told you? Ask any IT service company, he believeshis OLA cabbie or the Chai master outside office makes more money than him!!Could be true too! Jokes apart, People quit companies because of Pay is not sufficient aslifestyles change, requiring huge chunks of money. Unhappy jobs or routine stuff irritate folks, 95% of engineers find theirjobs can be done by a 10th fail as systems are mostly repetative and has nocreative part. The lure of higher money, ability to take tougher tasks forcesyou to move The Glamour of travelling, living abroad lured me into shifting out ofcontinent as i found payment, task, boss all the same toxic thing in allbrands. But realised the pay parity for developers and locals. Went to onbecome a resident. Bottom line: The dream of earning big very quickly to retire at 40 is notpossible. Q4 What are some unwritten social rules everyone should know? A4 Rabiya Memon March 18-2021.I have a childish heart. If someone is using phone while sitting beside you, don't creep into it orgive side looks.Mind your own business please. Don't drive with the too loud music.It's not safe. If a cop stops you randomly and start asking questions, just stay calm.Don'targue with them. It may lead you somewhere unexpected. Don't touch stuff at the shops that you don't intend to buy. Never kiss a stranger's kid.They might not like it. If you find the baby cute, just say a Hii from a distance. Mind your own business unless it involves you directly. Just stay out ofit. You got more important things to do. When someone talks about their problems, listen to them. Don't just startwith yours. Don't talk to someone if they wearing headphones or earphones. They arewearing it because they don't want to talk to anyone. When in a theatre bus or airplane,don't invade in other person's hand and leg space.Just stay in yours, it's sounpleasant. If someone ignores, they ignore for a reason.Never disturb them again. When someone you know has an obvious change in appearance e.g - weightgain/loss, bald spot, acne, etc. don't comment on it unless they want to talkabout it.They already know what has happened to them. Never touch anyone’s personal diary.It's so unmindful of their privacy. Never give advice unless you are asked for it.If a person is directlytalking to you, stop looking at your damn phone screen.This is so rude. Treat everyone equally whether he is a cleaner or a cool dude. No one likes to be treated bad. People always appreciate when you treatthem with respect. If someone tells you that they have an appointment of a doctor, don't askwhat it's for.Just say, hope you are fine. If they want to share, they will. When taking a long flight or a long journey, take a shower and smellgood.The person next to you will be thankful to you. If you are talking to someone and if they,Keep taking their eyes away or Theytilt their body away from you or Give you a one word quick response, Take thisas a sign that they want to end the conversation If you tease someone and they don't seem to enjoy, Never repeat itplease. Respect different political opinions.Just like you have a opinion, sodoes the other person.Don't just start arguing. Most important one, very important in social media world-Do not viewevery post on FB or Insta or Twitter or Quora as an opportunity todebate/argue, Even if it doesn't conform to your beliefs or opinions. Q5 Derived from the poisonous gas fluorine, why is fluorideused in toothpaste? A5 Tomaž Vargazon 23-3-2021Practicingatheist Derived from the poisonous glas chlorine and a dangerous metal sodium, Ipresent to you the mother of all poisons: Sodium chloride, also known astable salt. Fluorine gas is something quite different from the fluoride ion. Flourinegas is comparable to cyanide in toxicity, by contrast we can tolerate about 10 mg/kg body weight offluoride ions without adverse issues (lehtal dose of cyanide is about 3 mg/kgof body weight). This is the basis of all chemistry, atoms themselves are just a part ofthe picture, it’s how they’re arranged that makes for all the difference. The real danger from fluorideion in toothpaste is that it will form hydrofluoric acid when put into an acidenviroment, such as a stomach. That’s why you should never swallow your toothpaste. Hydrofluoricacid is bad news indeed, but unless you eat your toothpaste for lunchyou shouldn’t worry about it. You also shouldn’t eat nothing salt for lunch. About 3 g/kg of bodyweight (250 grams for most of us, about half a pound) will kill you. Yup, most of us have enough table salt at home to kill 2–3 people at alltimes and you worry about toothpaste of all things. Q6 What is the ship of Theseus paradox? A6 Srinath Nalluri Updated 20-3-2021.M.Sc, B. Eng in Mechanical Engineering & Minor (Technopreneurship),National University of Singapore (Graduated 2020) This bicycle you see in thepicture is 4-generations old. My great-grandfather bought it for his children to travel to school inthe neighbouring town. His name is still there engraved on the handlebar of thebicycle. The cycle is being used by my grandfather now. It is still going verystrong. He occasionally says ‘This was bought for Rs 75 (~1 Dollar Now) around60 years back.’ Except for the frame andhandlebar, all the parts of that cycle have been replaced slowly with time. Now, let’s say The frame and thehandlebar too would be replaced in the future. Then Could it still be called as the 60-year old cycle? Or it becomes a newcycle? Or something in between? And if someone had been collecting all the damaged parts and assembled itone day, would that be the 60-year old cycle or this? The answer to this is what Shipof Theseus Paradox is all about. The ship of Theseus raises the question of whether an object that has hadall of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object or not[1]. The name comes from the legendthat the famous ship sailed by Theseus in a great battle was kept in a harbor as a museum piece, and as theyears went by some of the wooden parts began to rot and were replaced by newones; then, after acentury or so, every part had been replaced. The question then is whether the"restored" ship is still the same object as the original. Footnotes [1] Ship of Theseus Q7 Does ice help in creating lightning? A7 2 Answers John Larsson, former StudiedPhysics, Economy, and Politics Answered 23-3-2021 To be more exact, the formationof ice crystals creates the electricity in the atmosphere, but not due the widespread false ideathat ice crystals ‘collide’! In fact ice crystal do exactly the opposite, they repel each other asthey get positively charged through a piezoelectric process. The positivelycharged ice crystals are necessary both for the formation of rain clouds asdescribed in my answer to Where does a rain fall comefrom? https://www.quora.com/Where-does-a-rain-fall-come-from and the formation ofthunderclouds as described in my answer to Lightning and thunder are caused by electric discharges due to chargedifferences from the ground and the clouds. But why is there a charge build up? Ratnesh Ramesh Joshi, BTechfrom Shivaji University (2023) 23-3-2021 The formation of ice in a cloudappears to be a very important element in the development of lightning in astorm. The collision of ice and water particles causesseparation of the positive and negative electric charges in the particles.These opposite charges attract, thus "in-cloud" lightning is oftenproduced. Q8 When volcanoes erupt, does that mean that the core of Earthis slowly running out of lava? A8 5 Answers-John Flavin, ProfessionalGeologist and Engineer 22-3-2021 The lava extruded by volcanoes does not originate from the core, it comesfrom the mantle. Much of the material belched out of volcanoes is recycled material, asocean crust moves under continental masses and melts. This is a process calledplate tectonics. The Earth has plenty of lava toaround and will continue to flow for the next few billion years from places all around the planet. These sites willchange over time, (as they have for the last few billion years). 2ND ANSWER Rene De Hon, former Former Professor of Geology(Retired) at Texas State University (2015-2021) 22-3-2021 Magmas forms from materialscloser to the surface than the core. The Earth is composed of a core, mantle, and crust. Melting to formmagma occurs in the upper mantle or in the lower crust. Once formed, amagma may rise toward the surface. If erupts onto the surface it is known aslava. There is a very slow but consistent circulation of materialso that some crustal material is subducted into the mantle while somemantle material melts and intrudes into the crust. So, the source material ofmagma is never exhausted. 3RD ANSWER John Yash, MD Pediatrics Tamil Nadu State Board& Pondicherry University (2014) 22-3-2021 No there is and will be a constant stream of rock that’s being pulverisedand melted by friction pressure and heat in the earths MANTLE not coreall the lava from all the volcanoes is from the mantlewhich is molten and the crust of our planet sits over the mantle . so no chanceof running out of lava. 4TH ANSWER- IanCampbell, BSc Geology, Newcastle University (1986) 22-3-2021 The magma associated with volcanos come from molten rock from the crustand mantle not the core, but inany case, the material is recycled. As well as molten rock coming go thesurface in volcanos, there is material being absorbed from the surface below insubduction zones, for example in places under the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’. 5TH ANSWER- John Clerk, 52 Years in Science Education.(1969-present) 22-3-2021 Lava originates in the mantle, not the core. Molten rock being extrudedis simply a rearrangement of material.Lava extruded during the Archaean age was up to 250°C hotter than lava beingextruded today - this indicates that the mantle temperature has decreasedslowly over billions of years. Q9 Before humans discovered fire, what did they eat? I do notthink they ate raw meat. Did they just eat fruit and berries, stuff like that? A9 Matt Riggsby 20-3-2021 Eatson a regular basis. For hominids who didn’t use fire, you have to go back not just one buttwo species before us to Homo habilis. It’s not clear what their diet was, but it was likelysimilar to that of our chimpanzee cousins: fruit, nuts, young leaves, and amodest proportion of insects. And if it was like chimp diets, thenit did also occasionally include small amounts of meat, which would obviously have been raw.The discovery of fire by Homo erectus, along with their increasing braincapacity, meant that they were able to hunt more effectively and increase theamount of meat they consumed considerably. All the above QA are based onQuora on 24-03 - 2021. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 24-3-2021 -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1793169340.725626.1616599867039%40mail.yahoo.com.
