CULTURAL QA 03-2022-28 BEING A COMPILATIONTHERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 What are 5 cleaning agents commonlyused in your household? A1 Gopala Krishnan, former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966-2004) Answered justnow I am from Chennai,India. In our area commonly used cleaning items are Toilet soap(solidor liquid) 2. Detergent liquid/ powder/solid item for washing of clothes. 3Items for washing cooking and eating vessels 4. Floor cleaning liquids 5. Washroom cleaning items. Still more are there Q2 How does evolution know that the birdneeds a longer beak and why does it take so long to provide it? This is theintelligence I don't understand. A2 Claire Jordan Degree in biology andfolklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper18h When you pass flourthrough a sieve, the fine bits go through the holes and the big bits get leftbehind. The sieve doesnot have intelligence, and doesn’t “know” that it should separate theparticles. It just does. The way evolution works is this.Except for very simple microorganisms with a tiny number of genes, everyindividual within a species has a slightly different set of gene variants(called alleles). Evenidentical twins have slight differences, due to mutation. Some of thosevariants affect how successful the organism will be at passing on its genes. Family lines whosemembers have a higher-than-usual number of alleles which improve theirreproductive success, will tend on average to have more surviving offspringthan the average for their species. That means that in each generation, thedescendants of that family will become more common in the population, and theirbeneficial alleles will spread and alter the average genetic makeup of thespecies, until eventually it changes enough to be considered a new species. So if you take your example of the bird, if having alonger beak enables the bird to get at more food, birds with longer beaks willbe better fed, so they will tend to be better athaving and raising chicks. In each generation, more and more of the population will have the new,longer beaks. If there happens tobe a gene which makes beaks a *lot* longer in one go, then significantly longerbeaks will become the norm in the time it takes for the gene for them to spreadthrough the population, and it will spread quite fast because that single newgene variant will make a significant difference to the bird’s success. So it’llspread through the population and become the norm in maybe a few hundred oreven a few dozen generations. But often, features change in very small increments.Yournew variant gene might only increase beak-length by a couple of millimetres, inturn improving success by only a tiny amount, and in that case the evolution ofa much longer beak requires *many* beak-increasing genetic variants to stackup, with each one taking many generations to spread through the population. Q3 What are some common mistakes thatNorth Indians make when making a masala dosa? A3 Kanthaswamy Balasubramaniam Lawyer Mar22 FIrst off - NO MASALA DOSAS AT HOME PLEASE…… Its a Dish meant tobe eaten in a Restaurant.I have suffered in eating Masala Dosas at home when mywife or Daughter in law makes them and forced to say ‘Very Tasty’.They are notTasty. No matter if theyare made by Kavitha Krishnamoorthy or Kamaljit Kaur or Kamalinee Mukhopadhyayor Ketki Dave from any Corner of India. Firstly the Dosascrispness is gone. Its literally white or light brown than Golden Brown.Secondlythe Dosas are small as suited to the size of the Dosa Pan. So I will tell youone area where North Indians make a mistake with the Ordinary Dosa (Non Masala) Its the DosaiKalluThe Traditional Dosa making Pan Its made of LiteralCast Iron and it needs to be seasoned with lots of Gingelly Oil and dried andagain seasoned with Gingelly Oil and dried before it can become suitable forTasty Dosas. In Pune , my wife’sDosas were lousy as they were made on Non Stick Pans but a Kannada speakingAunty gave her Dosa Kallu and the effect was remarkable. Perfect and Crisp. Its been 34 years but i still have the sameDosa Kallu without rust though sadly due to health reasons - the dosas I eat athome are now made on fifthrate non stick pans. Once you have theDosai Kallu , you are 50% there.The next crucial thing is the Batter MTR or GITS Batteris a Ready Made Disaster for Dosa. Firstly as Dr Venkatram and Anbazhagan say -its loaded with Sodium and Artificial stuff. Second the Taste is awful. So Batter has to bepukka and that you can only get if you make as per instructions on a WetGrinder or you are lucky enough to find someone selling Dosa Flour in yourNorth Indian City. Mumbai has a lot of South Indians who sell Dosa Flour onSundays in Vashi and Matunga. I suppose ID wouldbe better than MTR though i personally find ID to be lousy as well and preferLocal brands. Q4 What is the future of wood-burningstoves? A4 Gopala Krishnan, former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966-2004) Answered just now As long asdisposable dry wood is there, it would be used either in stove or for other purposes. Unless damaged wood is burntand used for some purpose, disposable wood will increase. Before 2 decadessmall restaurants used firewood. Charcoal is used for many purposes. Q5 Why, when hot water touches my skin,does it take a second to realise it’s boiling and not cold? A5 Kivi Lansimaki, lives inHelsinkiAnswered 1h ago Many reactions are delayed by default, sometimes even1.5 seconds. But especially ifit's not dangerously hot and you don't expect it to be, you will spend somebrain thought to see if you still should go ahead or should abort.But I can'timagine a situation when I wouldn't suspect boiling water to be just that. Q6 Are there wild boars in the UK? A6 Claire Jordan Degree in biology andfolklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaperFri Yes. They’re kind-of feral wildboar, in that the original native wild boar died out, then people brought themback behind fences to farm them, then they escaped. This current lot are proper wild boar,genetically, but more likely to beg you for treats than to gore you. Q7 What is the difference betweengovernment schools and private schools in Tamil Nadu? A7 Kook Kannan / கூக்கண்ணன்Livesin Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Mar 17 My aunt iscurrently an English teacher in a government school in Vellore. According to her, the mostconspicious difference between government and private schools is the students’receptivity to learning rather than the quality of teaching. Students in privateschools are often instilled, from a very young age, that they have to study in order to have agood life. And they have parents who constantly monitor their progress. Acommon phrase in their households would be ‘Your only job now is to study’. They get rewards forstudying and punishments for not. On the other hand, students of government schools areoften plagued with several problems, from too much poverty forcing them to takeup jobs to totally irresponsible parents who just don't care. A lotof times, they just don't get why they have to study. A teacher's large part of job is explainingto them why they have to study, what options it would open for them in thefuture and motivate them to study. Also, teenagers aremore prone to peer pressure. If the entire class is studying hard for exams, asingle student fears being left behind and puts more effort to study. If mostof the class is indifferent to education, a single student finds it difficultto ask doubts and expand his knowledge, fearing he would become the odd oneout. FOMO plays a big role. That doesn't mean everyone fails in government school. Justthat they don't end up in the top universities.A lot of them customize themselves for local jobs. For example, the governmentschool my aunt is teaching at is near CMC (Christian Medical College) thatattracts a lot of medical tourists. So, a lot of her students become nurses andward boys, catering to the local demand. But for every student who makes it,there is probably another who doesn't. Once there was aboy in my aunt's class who was so bad at studies that he was adamant ondiscontinuing immediately. My aunt convinced him to attempt his tenth boardsatleast and discontinue after that. He managed to pass his tenth and started selling Idiyappams in a bicycle.He runs a little mess now. Sometimes, what astudent needs from a school, more than marks and a degree, is a little boost inconfidence and hope, that life isn't all dark and gloomy and he has a chance tocreate a place for himself in this otherwise cruel world.~Kook kannan. Q8 I love having a banana with mybreakfast, but my doctor told me it's better to have only once a week because"It is a high fructose, which is very bad sugar." I'm very healthy.Is what my doctor said accurate? A8 D. M. Platt Business Owner(2018–present)Mar 21 Onebanana a day is not a problem, you won't get sick from it, and despite whatsomeone else said, there is not enough potassium in asingle banana to harm you. The idea that the ssf sugars in fruits are bad foryou is just dumb. Q9 What are some small veganreptiles/small pets that do not eat live insects? A9 Claire Jordan Degree in biology andfolklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper Mar 21 As far as reptiles go, a smallish tortoise.That’s it. Iguanas are vegetarian, but at full growth they’re the size of afairly large dog, and also a bit bitey. You could keepmice. They’re less keen on meat and dairy than rats are so they won’t reallymiss it. Or a couple of chinchillas or degus. They’re smaller than a rat (Iknow chinchillas look quite big, but it’s nearly all hair) and *very*vegetarian, with extremely delicate digestions. Other than that, it’sguinea-pigs all the way. Q10 What is it called when your mouth iswatering that is coming from the brain? A10 Misinterpreted Questions Answered byK enSaladin Mar 13 When what is coming from the brain—the fluid? If that weretrue, you’d likely be dead by now, since I delayed a couple of days inanswering and didn’t give this emergency attention. If you mean themouth is watering because of nerve signals from the brain to the salivaryglands, that could be called reflex salivation (to the aroma, sight, or thoughtof food) or hypersalivation (salivating to excess, especially if food isn’t afactor—not even thinking about it). I’m not saying those are synonyms; the right expression depends on thecircumstances. All the above QA are from Quora website on 27-03- 2022. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 28-03-2022 -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/806768997.535261.1648427833978%40mail.yahoo.com.
