CULTURAL QA03-2022-04 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 How do you store dalsfor a long time? A1 Bhuvana Rameshwar Smartcook, not hardworking Wed Sometimes we buy lentils in bulk. So the first thing I do is to dry roast them on a very lowflame in my kadai (wok). This dries them well, slightly heats them,removes moisture if any and kills weevils or any mold spores. Then I cool the lentils to roomtemperature on a big plate or newspaper and store them in airtight jars ortins. Dry roasting moongdhal (green gram skin removed) helps not only to extend shelf life but also toincrease its aroma and its flavour . Raw mung dhal has an unpleasant smell whichhas to be covered up with lots of cumin. I also dry roast or dry in hot sunlight, dry red chillies before storingthem.Similarly I dry roast semolina too so that all weevil eggs or theirmaggots die. Then cool and store it in jars . Q2 Why has AllahabadJunction been marked as deleted from the route of train 'Gyan Ganga SuperfastExpress' (train number 22132)? A2 Ankit Barnawal FormerStudent at Doon Business School, Dehradun (2017–2022)7h About Gyan Ganga Express The Gyan Ganga Express is a superfast express train in Indian Railwayswhich runs between Banaras and Pune Junction. The train operates as train number 22131 from Pune Junction to Banarasand as train number 22132 in the reverse direction. The 22131 Gyan Ganga Express departs Pune Junction at 04:15 pm on Mondayand arrives Banaras at 08:10 pm on Tuesday. The total travel time is 27 hours55 minutes. The 22132 Gyan Ganga Express departs Banaras at 04:00 am on Wednesday andarrives Pune Junction at 07:20 am on Thursday. The total travel time is 27hours 20 minutes. The train travels 1,531 kilometers between Banaras and PuneJunction. The train shares it's rakewith Gorakhpur - Pune Weekly Express (11037/38). The train is hauled by a diesel locomotiveWDP-4D of PUNE shed. Stoppages of Gyan Ganga Express The stoppages of the train between Banaras and Pune Junction are :- Gyanpur Road (GYN). Prayagraj Rambag (PRRB). Prayagraj Jn (PRYJ). Satna Jn (ST). Katni Jn (KTE). Jabalpur Jn (JBP). Narsinghpur (NU). Pipariya (PPI). Itarsi Jn (ET). Harda (HD). Khandwa Jn (KNW). Bhusaval Jn (BSL). Manmad Jn (MMR). Kopargaon (KPG). Belapur (BAP). Ahmednagar (ANG). Daund Chord Line (DDCC). So, there are total 17 stoppages of the train between Banaras and PuneJunction. Allahabad Junction has not been marked as deletedfrom the route of train Gyan Ganga Express. Allahabad Junction is renamed to Prayagraj Junction. The train passes via this station. The locomotive reversal of thetrain takes place at this station Q3 What are theunhealthiest habits for your brain? A3 Raja SekharTelagathotyEducator (2000–present)Updated Feb 19 Biggest brain damaging habits Brain Stroke-Missingbreakfast. Sleeping late. High sugar consumption. (Men : 150 calories per day. 37.5 grams or 9 teaspoons) Women : 100 calories per day. 25 grams or 6 teaspoons) More sleeping especially in the morning. Eating meal while watching television or computer. Wearing cap scarf or pair of socks while sleeping. Habit of blocking or stopping urine. (Holding urine forextremely long periods of time can also cause urinary tract infections due tobacteria build up. In addition, it canincrease the the risk of kidney disease and in rare cases even risk yourbladder bursting a condition that can be deadly) To sum up, while the above mentioned habits do not directly lead to braindamage, they can lead to negative and life-threatening effects only when donein excess. Source/images of courtesy :World Health Organisation Q4 What are the benefitsof pressure washing? A4 Vannam, Chief -MarketingAnswered Jun 9, 2017 The Exterior walls of our homes gather a lot of dust, dirt, and overtime, become home to algae and fungus. High Pressure Washing is the best way to remove all loosedust particles, algae and fungi that has accumulated on the walls.This is effective in removing cobwebs and loose paint too. The jets of water clear outevery nook and corner, leaving the building looking way cleaner than before! The biggest advantage of choosing high pressure washing over the manualwashing and scrubbing method is: It is an eco-friendly method. Just the force of the water is enough to give a cleanerbuilding. In the manual washing method, generally, some chemicalsare used It saves time. Imagine scrubbing a huge apartment. Not only does it taketoo long, it is also no where close to being as effective as this machine! It saves water. Contrary topopular belief, you DO NOT save water bymanual washing. The pressure ofthese jets make sure that effective work happens with 80% lesser water unlikein manual washing. The best way to paint is to paint on a clean building! If you are planning to paint,go for a pressure washing process first. This will clean theapartment, and when you paint, it will greatly improve the useful life of thepaint! Q5 What if I rub cucumberon my face? A5 Lucia Garcia Worked atHospitals Mon Cucumbers contain severalingredients that are great for the skin. If you rub cucumber slices on your face, can directly supplement thenutrients your skin needs without any side effects. Cucumber is rich in cucumber enzymes, and cucumber enzymes have strongbiological activity. Cucumber enzymes can enhancethe metabolism of the skin, speed up the blood circulation, remove toxins fromthe skin, and make your skin look firmer and healthier. Cucumbers are an excellent source of silica, a beauty mineral. Silica isfound in many skin care products. Silica strengthens connective tissue, promotes collagen production andmetabolism, tightens skin, improves sagging, and reduces wrinkles. In addition, cucumber is also rich in vitamin C and vitamin E, which arenatural antioxidants that can scavenge harmful free radicals, stimulate thegrowth of skin cells, and delay the aging process of the skin. Q6 How do I move to theUK permanently after I’m 18? Do I need to apply for a citizenship or how is itpossible? A6 Claire Jordan Degreein biology and folklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper Sun You need to either befabulously wealthy and willing to invest your wealth in the UK,or be married to a UK citizen, or get a job in the UK which pays above acertain minimum (I thinkit’s £32,000 a year), is with one of a list of reputable companies, and isfilling a role which could not easily have been filled by somebody more local. So start studying for aprofession which is both in demand and quite rarified.Alternatively,if you are an EU citizen you could move to Ireland, then see if you can wangleIrish citizenship. If you were an Irish citizen you would have some rights inthe UK too. Q7 How does salt actuallypreserve meat? How did people discover this? A7 Matt Riggsby MAArchaeological Studies, Boston University Feb 23 Bacteria, mold, and so on havecertain requirements for where they live. They need a particular range of temperature, moisture, availablenutrients, a lack of chemicals with anti-microbial properties, and so on. Mostfoods are pretty friendly to microbes, but changing the chemistry by drying,smoking, salting, pickling, and so on changes the micro-environment presentedto those microbes. Packingfoods in salt has a couple of different effects on it. One is thatthe salt draws out a lot of moisture. Another is that it, naturally, creates anenvironment which is very heavy in salt, a tautology but importantnevertheless. The upshot of all of this is that it creates an environment veryhostile to most microbes. The kinds of things which usually thrive on meat orfruit or whatever don’t do well in much dryer, much saltier environments. How did people discover this?We don’t know. Given howwidespread preserving meat is by salting it, it’s probably a prehistoricpractice (though it could have been independently invented several times), but it’sthe kind of thing which leaves essentially no archaeological traces, so it’snigh-impossible to figure out. Q8 Do dogs feel pain likehumans and just don’t show it? Or do they not feel pain as much as a human?Why? A8 Claire Jordan Degreein biology and folklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper Tue All vertebrates, and mostanimals generally, feel pain, but the things they feel pain *in* can vary. For example, rats don’t feel much pain from superficial wounds to the skin because their skins are looseand don’t have many nerve endings, but they feel deep wounds, musculo-skeletalwounds and wounds to areas which have tight skin (face, hands and feet, tailand genitals) just as much as we would. Horses have very tight, twitchy skinand may well feel skin injuries *more* than we do. Q9 How did money work inmedieval times when someone might only earn a penny or two a day? A9 Matt Riggsby MAArchaeological Studies, Boston University Feb 23 That penny wasn’t a trivialamount of money at the time. It represented, after all, a day’s wages for alaborer. It’d be theequivalent of a few tens of dollars, not the smallest of loose change that youwouldn’t miss if it fell out of your pocket. That said, there were other issues involved. The penny was neverthelessthe smallest of coins. You might cut it up into smaller pieces for very smalltransaction, but if a penny is worth the equivalent of, say, $50, and you canonly cut it up into quarters, how do you buy or just do transactions below thelevel of $12.50? And the answer is that you don’t. The Medieval economy was only partlymonetized. The vast majority of people in Medieval society were peasantfarmers, who supported themselves by growing their own food and doing most oftheir own spinning, weaving, sewing, building, and so on. On a day to daybasis, they usually didn’t spend money. And if they needed small things, theymight trade or share with neighbors in the small communities in which they lived.Money was involved when it came to larger transactions, like paying certainkinds of rents or tribute to the landlord (though most of those were paid inlabor or kind) or occasional purchases of manufactured items. City life wasmore monetized, and there people would buy things in larger bulk. City peoplealso tended to be richer and goods more expensive, so money scaled a bit betterto more frequent transactions there. Q10 Do human arteries havemuscles that help speed up the blood and veins don't? A10 Ken Saladin Formerprofessor of histology (microscopic anatomy)Sun Both veins and arteries havemuscular walls, but the arteries are more muscular than the veins. Here, for example, are an artery and vein of similar size.Notice the conspicuous difference in the thickness of their muscle layer(tunica media). A, artery; B, vein; 2, muscle of the artery; 5, muscle of the vein.(Other structures: 1 & 6, tunica interna; 3 & 4, tunica externa; C,nerves; D, adipose tissue.) What controls the speed ofblood flow is blood pressure and diameter of the internal space (lumen) of thevessels. For two vessels of similar size, blood flows faster in an artery because its closer to the heart(pressure source) than the vein is. Both arteries and veins can alter the flowby constricting (reducing flow) or dilating (increasing it), but arteries havethe greatest influence because they’re on the upstream side and they have moremuscle. All the above QA are from Quora website on 03-03- 2022. Quoraanswers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 04-03-2022 -- 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]. 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