CULTURALQA 10 -2021-04 Being compilationthere may be errors Q1 What aresome truths about medical school?
A1 Sumya Hasan Studied Medicine and Healthcare (Graduated 2017)February 23, 2018 Only one “truth” sticks out for me… No matter how hard you worked to get in or how badly youwanted to be a doctor when you were applying to med school, you are 100% goingto question why you chose to pursue the degree. And that means havingmoments where you freak out over the amount of debt you will have over something you “don't want to doanymore”, thinking the work load is either too hard or not what you thoughtbeing a doctor was about, being jealous of friends who chose to pursue degreesthat aren't as long or time consuming and then of course there are the momentswhere you think “but I wanted this so I could help people. Why does it feel like I'm doingnothing of the sort?” This is a truth that veryfew people have the luxury of preparing for before they begin their medicalcareers. Frompersonal experience, the faster you accept that your opinion about medicinewill fluctuate, the better. These thoughts aredaunting. But they are a part of the process Q2 Why is abanking job better than any other government job? A2 Alankar Parida Associate at State Bank of India (SBI)Thu I think the reverse is true. Banking sector has more vacanciesthan other government jobs but that does not make it better. When people fail to clear other exams like UPSC,SSC, RBI, Insuranceor GATE they choose banking sector. The salary is somewhatless in banking sector compared to the hard work bankers put in. For bank officers work-life balanceis also poor due to long working hours and frequent transfers. Still bank job is better than any ordinary private job. Q3 it trueor false that the Earth is located at the right distance from the Sun? A3 Marc Lawrence I've written two books and read at least three Fri True, and obviously so, since if it was not we would eithercook or freeze. Earth is positionedright in the correct zone to be habitable. Furthermore, the Solar system is set up in such a way toshepherd asteroids and other such interstellar objects away from the earth. Q4 thecheapest most filling food in your country? A4 Himank Gupta MBBS, AIIMS Bhopal (2015-2020)September 23 I think most Indians, especially Delhites, will agree with meon this-The legendary, thealmighty-Rajma Chawal Besides being a staple food combination in homes in NorthIndia, you can find cheap Rajma chawal combo in restaurants for as low as ₹40–50.This tasty combo fills you up nicely and one doesn't need to eat any othermeals before dinner if they eat an adequate quantity in lunch. Of course, the experience is just multiplied if you mixconcentric cut raw onions along with this. And do I need to tell about the HEAVENLY combination of JEERARICE, rajma and raw onions with small touch of lemon? Q5 What isyour country's opinion of India? A5 Anthony Anderson Student September 26 I come from a country named zambia Zambia sees India as a partner alongside with our closettrading partner china. Zambiaand India have a positive relationship. India has been involved in doing construction projects inzambia. India has built flyover bridges in lusaka which is the capital city ofzambia. Indians invest in our country especially in the economic privatesector. India is our investorand a partner of zambia. MayZambia and India have a close and a positive relationship. Q6 Why isthe ocean blue but water transparent? A6 Steve Dutch Retired geoscience professor; 36 years August 16 Water is blue. This is the deepestdive pool in the world, 60 meters, in Dubai. There is no sky colouring the pool. A few inches of water is transparent but you can begin to see thecoloration after filling a bathtub. Water absorbs infrared and a bit of it slops into the visiblespectrum. So water alsoabsorbs red light, making the water weakly, but definitely, blue. Q7 How doesan airplane that weighs lots of tons go up in the sky? A7 Geoffrey WiddisonBeen learning sciencesince I was six, still getting started. September 21 First of all, there’s never been an airplane that weighs“thousands of tons”.Large aircraft may weigh in the hundreds of tons (small aircraft can weigh lessthan a single ton). As far as I’ve been able to tell, the heaviest aircraft inthe world is the AN-225, which weighs about 700 tons. But aircraft (even themonster, heavy-duty ones) are deliberately designed to be as light as possible,for obvious reasons. Still 700 ton is a lot. How do they go up in the sky? With these: That’s a progress D-18T jet engine. It’s capable of 230 kN of thrust, which is equivalent to 23,000 kg. TheAN-225 has six of them. Now, that’s not enoughto lift the plane directly, but when moving horizontally, it’s enough to kick the plane up tohigh speeds. And the airflow across the wings at those speeds creates enoughlift to raise the whole craft. The interesting thing about air pressure is that, if youhave a big enough surface (which you do, on the wings of a large aircraft, evena small pressure difference between the bottom and the top is enough to createhuge lift. Those engines provide the speed,which creates a pressure difference, which lifts the aircraft. Heavy as the plane is, it’s big enough, with enough power, todo that. Q8 Is itlegal to pay a one-month house rent to a broker? A8 Prasanna BhaleraoI have some experience in real estate deals. September 19 Broker charges 1 month’s rent from the landlord and onemonth’s rent from the tenant as broker fees. This is perfectly legal. The broker is not doing charity. This is his business. If one does not like to paybrokerage, one must find a property to rent on own and deal directly with thelandlord. Q9 As anorganism grows and repairs itself, does the number of its cells increase? A9 Ken SaladinFormer professor of histology (microscopic anatomy) Fri Yes, they have toincrease in number. Withexceptions such as some nerve and muscle cells, the cellsof an adult aren’t larger than the cells of a juvenile. The difference in body size is is due to a difference in cell number, notcell size. In humans, though, the difference in fat and muscle massbetween late childhood and adulthood is due to increases in cell size, as fatand skeletal muscle cells don’t divide. If we get fatter or more muscular, it’sbecause our existing cells got larger. I presume the same to be true of othervertebrate animals. Q10 Whydidn't herbivores evolve to eliminate their predators? A10 Pascal Morimacil Worker, Thinker, WriterThu Many herbivores haveevolved ways to fend off predators. But if you are not going to be an omnivore and eat them, whychase them down to the ends of the world? Scaring them off is enough. Then you can keep on munching on the stuff around you, whichis kind of the main thing for a herbivore really. Q11 Whyis Mars a planet of great interest? It’s always been one that comes up intopics, movies, etc. more than any other planet? Is there something that scientistsknow that we don't? A11 Mats Andersson M Sc. in Physics & Computer Science, Uppsala University(Graduated 1991)September 27 It’s close, it’s got asolid surface, and it’s got anatmosphere. Wecan’t breathe it, but it makes the climate a lot less inhospitable. This isn’t something “scientists” know, it’s something anyonewith a casual interest in astronomy knows. If you didn’t know that, there’s probably practically nolimit to the number of things that genuine scientists know, but that you don’t.I mean, it’s probably not a particularly high bar to clear. Q12 In TamilNadu, which colour saree is used for bridal? A12 Bhuvana Rameshwar Tamil culture and heritage Fri We have three mainsarees On the wedding dayduring the marriage ceremony, homam and pooja. For the post - weddingreception,.. Very grand, silksari of any colour the bride likes, but they avoid black, dark blues and darkgreen. For the first night.Usually white sari with a prominent coloured border and pallu. Usually silk but cotton is alsocommon. Add to these a new sarifor engagement function.Some wear mother’s sari too on this day as a blessing. But nowadays engagementfunction ate becoming grander so now brides get a new sari and often there is aphoto session with garlands, rings groom in suits. The bridal sari originallywas a cotton sari with finecheck design in an dark maroon color or arakku colour. Arakku is a maroon -dark brown colour. This sari could stand the turmeric, sandal wood paste orkumkum falling on the sari and staining it. Sometimes even sparks from thehomam (havan) fall on the sari. It was the most comfortable sari for the heatof homam fire and the long rituals of the ceremony, usually three hours. Any bridewould be uncomfortable in the heat and smoke, big crowd on the marriage stage.The groom wears cotton shirt and dhoti for comfort too. This saree beingcotton usually stained by sandal paste, turmeric, and kumkum, sometimes roses from the garland was usually washedbut not used. It will be preserved and used to tie the baby hammock of thefirst child as it is cotton and soft. Some wear in pinkcolour too Then in my generationwe were made to buy the pure kanchipuram silk version of this sari, but it cannot be used for baby hammock. Ibought in maroon colour. I wore one and sweated throughout the ceremony. Then some modernfamilies changed to bright mango yellow, turmeric yellow, onion skin colour and even a cotton candy - pink , silksari. These are usually low cost silk sarees as the fear of various Poojastains is always there. Only for the post or pre wedding reception girls getsarees from as low as ₹ 3K to as much as 2 L depending on the fathers ‘ cards. I however wore a puresilk arraku sari on my son's wedding, my dil wore a typical traditional cotton koorai sari. I wore the same arakkusari for my husband's shashtiabada poorthi and our remarriage. Q13 Why arebanana and passion fruit banned in NZ? A13 Caroline GlassI am a New Zealander. I have lived most of my life inWellington and Dunedin September 25 They’re not. However, you may be thinking of a fruit called Banana Passionfruit,which is a relative of passionfruit that has yellow tubular fruit, making themlook like a cross between a passionfruit and a banana. The banana passion fruit plant is considered a noxious weedin New Zealand. You are not allowed to plant it, andefforts are made to weed them out of our forests, because they are in danger oftaking over and strangling native trees in some places. There’s nothing wrong with eating them, and they can be quiteyummy - its just planting them that’s illegal. Q14 Does an electric water heater need to begrounded? A14 Lewis Edge, B.S. Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology(1964)Answered Sat North American electrical codes REQUIRE that electric waterheaters be grounded. Therefore, if your installation is done according tomodern electrical codes it will “need” to be grounded. All the above QA arebased on Quora digest to me on 03-10-2021.Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers Compiler- R. GopalaKrishnan, 78 dated 04-10-2021 -- 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/1711425968.1154183.1633301605475%40mail.yahoo.com.
