CULTURAL QA 01-2022-30 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 CanI improve myopia if I eat carrots everyday? A1 Lucia Garcia Worked atHospitals11h Carrots are rich in carotene, of which β-carotene accounts for about 85%and α-carotene accounts for about 15%. After β-carotene enters the body, about 50% of β-carotene is convertedinto vitamin A through the action of enzymes. Vitamin A is closely related tovisual function. Lack ofvitamin A can affect vision, and in severe cases can lead to various eyediseases, such as night blindness, dry eye and so on. However, myopia isirreversible, Eye doctors may tell you that there is no cure for myopia. Although carrots do not curemyopia, eating some carrots regularly can help protect the eyes and improvevision, avoiding the risk of many eye diseases. Carrots also contain carbohydrates, protein, dietary fiber, vitamin C,vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, folic acid, and minerals such as calcium,potassium, and sodium. Eating some carrots can supplement the nutrients your body needs, whichis very beneficial to your health. Q2 Whyis Dolo 650 the most preferred tablet of all? A2 Pratima Gedela Coding Executive at Medicine and Health care Jan19 If you believed the pandemic was finally over, you were mistaken, It hasreared its ugly head by releasing Omicron, a new variant. Dolo 650 is now India’s favoured paracetamol brand, with sales of Rs 567crore since March 2020. It’s even trending on social media and is the subjectof memes. Since COVID-19 cases have been on the rise, demand for the drug Dolo 650has been high. As India grapples with the third wave of Covid, Dolo 650, which hasclocked sales of Rs 5.7 billion during the pandemic since March 2020 and toppedthe charts of paracetamol pill, has been dubbed a "favourite snack." Fever, one of the most common symptoms of COVID-19, has pushed sales ofthis oval-shaped white pill to treble in the last two years, despite the factthat paracetamol pills are the most commonly used cold and fever treatments. What Made Dolo Popular????? The first reason shared by doctors, brand experts and industry veteransis it’s short and crisp brand name. It’s simpler than other brands such asPyrigesic, Pacimol, Fepanil and Paracip. Another reason is the company’sentry into the 650 milligram (MG) category and perception that it’s moreeffective on fever due unknown illnesses. Founded in 1973, Bengaluru-based Micro labs -maker of brand Dolo- sensedthe opportunity and relaunched the product emphasising that it contained 650 mgof paracetamol, while the rest had 500 mg. The medicine became popular as“Dolo-650". Q3 Dodishwashers really work on Indian utensils? A3 Croma - A TataEnterprise India’s first Omni-channel expert in Electronics1y To address the query, first, we need to see how a dishwasher functions. A dishwasher is an appliance which uses heated and pressurized water,mixed with utensil detergent, to clean the utensils. A dishwasher first fills up a small basin withwater, just like a washing machine that fills up with water before the cleaning.Once the water is heated up to 60 Degree Celsius and the utensils have beenloaded inside the dishwasher in their respective specified compartments, the washprogramme is selected. There are nozzles which revolve around sprayingpressurized water equally to the various compartments. Utensils in an Indian householdare mostly made up of metals like steel or aluminium, which require scrubbingto remove the grease and food particles from the surface. Therecent models of dishwashers available in India are designed keeping Indianutensils in mind. They can clean the grease with hot water and thedetergent cleans the stains. In case of burnt stains of milk or daal, a little scrubbing is advisedbefore placing the utensil in the dishwasher. To conclude, dishwashers can be used to clean Indian utensils, but thedishwasher should have the specifically designed wash programs for Indian utensils.Hopethis answers your query. Q4 Whatare some household gadgets that were used in the last century and are not to beseen these days? A4 GopalkrishnaVishwanath Retired Structural Engineer & language and internet/social mediaenthusiast.Tue These are some gadgets that wein our age group used and which we don’t see today. A black and white TV set withjust one channel and noremote. The landline telephone withrotary dialing. The Vespa scooter before thearrival of Japanese bikes.These scooters had a waiting period of 15 years! People booked these scootersfor the use of the next generation. Gas lanterns. Many of us studied late at night using oil lamps when electricity was not available or ifthere was a power cut. Before light electric ironsbecame common, these heavy gadgets heated by coal were used for ironing our clothes. This was a typical timepiece. Itwas powered by a handwound spring and we could set the alarm. When the alarm rang, it not only wokeus up but our neighbors too. This was the torch we used to seein the dark. Nowadays people usetheir phones. This was the kerosene stove weused for cooking when gaswas not available. When wall-mounted hot water geysers were not available water was heatedusing firewood and stored in largecontainers like this for the use of the entire family.(anda) Before the advent of MP3 and CDs and music downloaded from the internet,we had cassette tapes forlistening to music. And these were the cassette players into which the above cassettes wereinserted to play music. When the cassette malfunctioned we used a pencil to wind the tape back into the cassette. This is how we blocked people from whom we did not want to receive acall. We simply kept thereceiver out of the cradle. The other party would get an “engaged” tone. If you made mistake dialing the last digit, you had to disconnect anddial the full number all over again. You couldn't ‘backspace’ as you do now. We remembered short 5digit numbers or consulted a directory or diary. There was nothing like “Contacts”. There were no computers and printers. We used manual typewriters and got additional copies usingcarbon paper. There was no TV or Netflix at home. For entertainment, we used the radio. I hope this brings feelings of nostalgia among those in my age group andgives an idea of how life used to be to the younger generation. Q5 Howcome our digestion system doesn't need gravity? A5 Ken Saladin Formerprofessor of histology (microscopic anatomy)Tue When we swallow, foodand drink fall to the stomach mainly by gravity, faster than theesophageal peristaltic wave travels. Peristalsis is important, though, inswallowing larger items like inadequately chewed pieces of food, and swallowingwhen one is lying down or even head down. (You can still swallow while bendingover to tie your shoes or even standing on your head.) Gravity is also significant inthe falling away of the feces in defecation, of course. Things would be rather messy otherwise. Q6 IfPandu's five sons are called Pandava, why are not their 100 cousins calledSaurava instead of Kaurava (as all 105 cousins are Kauravas in strict sense)? A6 Vishnu Kumar IAM ThatI AM Tue Alright, Pandavas were called as such since they are the sons of Pandu. They are not generally calledKauravas because they are actually demigods, with five different fathers and two different mothers with Pandu beingthe common link as the adopted father. So its quite complicated and calling them Pandavas would be mostappropriate. Now, coming to the Dhartrarashtras, they are also called as Kauravassince they are thebiological progeny of Dhritarashtra who is the Kuru King and Gandhari, the KuruQueen. No complexities here and the Kuru identification is simple and direct. The number of pandavas (5) and kauravas (100+1) does not have any bearingon the nomenclature. Now can the Pandavas be calledKauravas, technically YES since they are part of the Kuru clan Q7 Whydo commercial aircraft not use a tug all the way to the runway? Couldn't theysave thousands in fuel costs? A7 Ted Griffith FormerAir Transportation at U.S. Air Force (2002–2019)Jan 19 Each one is about to burn thousands of pounds of fuel to whisk a fewdozen travellers to a different city in a couple hours. You want them to save afew pounds of fuel and have this thing push them to the active runway? No. Most airports do not haveenough of these to do that. You do not want tugs out on the active. It wouldn’t save that much, would be risky, and wouldrequire more manpower on the ground side. Plus the airport does not payfor the fuel inside they jets, they sold the fuel to the jets, why would theytry to save them that fuel? No, no and no. Q8 Whydoesn't Canada manufacture more steel themselves rather than selling the ironore used to make it? A8 Steven Haddock 3rdgeneration (or so) Canadian & lifelong resident; political science major Thu Steel manufacturing has pretty much completely changed in the last 30years. Back in olden times, you usedmassive steel mills that ranlargely on iron ore and coal and would produce everything you needed from rebarto structural girders. However, that kind of operation has been dying out for years. Most steel is now produced in“mini mills” that run off natural gas and electricity and produce a singleproduct. They either use recycled steel or “ore concentrate” which isore that’s been treated to remove a large percentage of the non-iron content,then compressed into easy to transport blocks. And mini-mills rule becausethey’re cheaper to set up and run. So for the most part, if you want a particular type of steel, you go tothe mills that makes that product whether it’s in the United States or Canada. It would be folly to build a newmill that already makes the type of steel that someone else is making.The capital expenditure to get going just doesn’t make sense from a competitivestandpoint. And ore is not the same sort ofbusiness either. Steel is cheaper on the recycling market than it is to get it raw. Again, it’s the energy and pollution cost -turning ore into steel is capital, energy and pollution intensive. So, the only real market for ore is with big mills and it would bepointless to build a new one because the return on investment isn’t worth it. Q9 Whatare 'ballistic' suitcases? A9 Subhadeep Paul MilitaryAviation buffJan 23 Do you mean “Ballistic Briefcase”. This is type of discreet VIPprotection solution. Itlooks like a normal briefcase in the hands of security guards which makes itlook like they are carrying official documents & files in them,camouflaging its actual purpose. When the VIP comes underattack, the Security Guards (SPGs in this case) can quickly “unfold” thebriefcase into 3 or 4 panels to form a layer of protection. The outer material of a ballistic briefcase ismade up of bullet resistant material like Aramid, Kevlar or Dyneema whichprovides multi hit protection. It is an ingenuous,unsuspecting but a quickly deployable system used for the protection of VIPs& VVIPs. Q10 Isthere another country that attempts to limit the internet in a way similar toChina? A10 KanthaswamyBalasubramaniam Lawyer 9h Oh Yes. Absolutely In fact out of 186 Countries - only 38 Countries in the World have what is called Unrestricted Access tothe Internet or Internet Anonymity. These include Australia,Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Austria etc. Surprisingly some EasternEuropean Nations also make this list. Meanwhile at least 41 Countriesin the World have higher percentage of Internet Control at the Government end than China including - Saudi Arabia,Tonga, Tuvalu, Venezuela, Cuba and yes…Pakistan. Many Countries including India& Singapore have Partial Limiting of the Internet including:- IP Cache & Storing Mandatory Service Provider obligation to Departmental Communications (If Ministryasks Jio to block Pornhub - they have to do so without a single protest) Content Regulation specified by Govt of India and recommended (Govt caninstruct Google Newsfeed to minimize News related to specific topics on theirAlgorithm) No Server Anonymity So China is just middling in terms of restricting the Internet. Besides China even has a Law that Unless VPN is used Commercially , NoLaw is broken which is not the case for Saudi Arabia or Pakistan or Venezuelaor Cuba. Q11 Whatfood is just impossible to eat in a civilized manner? A11 Sahasra S K In libras,libertas.Tue Here are a few that I can think of from the top of my head.Palmyra TenderNut. More commonly known as Palmfruit, or “நுங்கு” in Tamizh,it is the fruit from the palm tree. Every fruit normally contains three pods inside its shell. The podsinside are filled with juice on the inside, much like coconut and its water. And the tricky thing is, you’ve got to peel the white outer layer totaste the bliss within. Sure, there are a few gods I know who can swallow itwhole, but I prefer itwithout the outer skin, as the bitterness obscures most of the taste. Thepeeled skin can be put to other uses, too. It makes a great face mask. But time is of the essence during this process. The more time the fruit remainsoutside, the harder it becomes, and it is useless to eat the fruit if it haslost all its slippery softness. The contributor to the most amount of mess is the water inside the fruit.I’ve never succeeded indrinking the water without spilling. It tastes sweet, but the struggleundergone to acquire it often makes me wonder if it is worth it. Coming to the “civilized” part, I don’t think anyone looks terribly dignified while slurping the waterout of the fruit or peeling it without making themselves sticky all over. And I know I look like a kindergartner who’s been force-fed his lunch byhis grumpy mum by the time I finish eating three fruits. Q12 Whatis the first thing I should do with my new laptop? A12 Gyan Guru – InfoSpace SangramSagar Dec 1 Safety tip for protectinglaptops from theft: Here is a tip to protect your laptop from theft in public places. A lotof people may have come across a mini-USB as a slot in a laptop. But what is this slot actually used for? This slot, called the Kensingtonsecurity slot, is an anti-theft system that allows us to attach ourlaptop to any stationary object using certain hardware accessories, such as theKensington lock. These locks have a cylindricalanchor attached to a long wire rope. This cylindrical anchor is connected to the slot using a combination ofnumbers, and the other end of the cable can be connected to an immovableobject. The thief will not be able tocut the wire rope or try to break the lock as this will damage the laptop andhe will not be able to resell it. So the next time you go to a public place, you can leave your laptopfree without worrying about losing it. My note- I have checked my new laptop. It is provided in the right sidetop. All the above QA are from Quora website on 29-01- 2022. Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 30-01-2022 -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1965329187.2522375.1643516390505%40mail.yahoo.com.
