CULTURAL QA 04-2022-07 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Howmany liters of water does a normal kitchen sink hold? A1 Joe Ting Answered Feb19, 2020 Measure your sink with a tape measure in decimeters (every 10centimeters). Multiply and Voila! Sink capacity in liters. I just measured my sink andgot rounded off 3.5x4x1.5=21 liters. I did not even need a calculator. Sinceit’s one of two sinks in the counter, I just need to add another 21 liters. Thebeauty of the metric system astounds! Q2 Whydid sugar cane evolve to have so much sugar, and most all other plants don't?What advantage did that give to the plant? A2 Andrew Dunbar Apr 1 Sugarcane does not have a lot ofsugar. The sugar content (12–18 %) is similar to many common fruits. eg grapes have around 16% sugars. Sugarcane juiceis a moderately sweet yellow/green liquid. It is nothing like the refined sugar sold in stores. The refined sugar we eat is pure sucrose. The main advantage of sugar cane is that it isextremely cheap to grow, harvest and process. Q3 Whatis solo garlic? A3 Lucia Garcia Worked atHospitalsWed Solo garlic, also known assingle clove garlic, is about 2 cm to 4 cm in diameter. Solo garlic is just one clove and looks like a shrunken version of anonion, usually with purple streaks. The medicinal value of thisgarlic is much higher than that of normal garlic, and it is known as "Penicillin Grown In The Ground". Solo garlic is an excellent source of allicin, which contains much more thannormal garlic. More and more scientific studies have proved that allicin has very strongbactericidal and anti-inflammatory ability, and itsefficacy is even better than penicillin. Allicin has different degrees of inhibition or killing effect on avariety of bacteria, viruses, fungi and tumors.This garlic is rich inprostaglandins, which are the protectors of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular. Prostaglandins can dilate blood vessels, accelerate blood circulation,reduce platelet aggregation, and reduce thrombus formation. Q4 Whereare all the other ancient human fossils? We only have Ardi and Lucy? Shouldn'tthere be much much more? Why haven't we found them? A4 Claire Jordan Degreein biology and folklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper13h I’m afraid your information isat least 50 years out of date. We have the fossils of thousands of individuals of dozens of ancienthuman species. Lucy,for example, was the first Australopithecus afarensis that we found, but we’vesince uncovered over 300 individuals from the same species, at leastone far more complete than Lucy. The Natural History Museum in London alone hasover 3,000 early human fossils. Just in the genus Homo, for example,we have Homo habilis, erectus, antecessor, heidelbergensis, naledi,floresiensis, georgicus, luzonensis, ergaster, rhodesiensis, neanderthalensis,sapiens, theDenisovans and several “ghost groups” we haven’t named yet because we don’thave their actual remains, just bursts of unknown genomes suddenly appearing inthe main human line where we interbred with them. Before Homo we haveParanthropus, Sahelanthropus, Kenyanthropus, Graecopithecus, [maybe]Ouranopithecus, Orrorin, Ardipithecus and multiple species of Australopithecus- afarensis,africanus, sediba, boisei, anamensis, bahreighazali, garhi, kadabba, ramidusand deyiremeda. Some of these individual species are disputed and may turn out to be justlocal races of other species, but even so, we’retalking of around 30 species in between us and our split from the line leadingto chimps and bonobos - and there’sno reason to think we’ve found them all yet. Q5 Whydid they stop bendy buses? A5 Steven Haddock LL.B.degree, 25 years in litigation, administrative law, collections, bankrupty andprofessional regulation Wed They’re still in use, but theycan’t be used on any route with extreme turns. I rode one a few years ago along Burnhamthorpe Road in Mississauga -about a 55 minute trip! Shortly after it left Islington Subway station, it hadto go past Kipling Road, make a right, another right, and then a left to getonto Kipling because the ramp from Bloor to Kipling was too steep and too tightfor it. Bendy buses, or moretechnically articulated buses, are also quite difficult to drive. My friend who became a bus driver flunked out on day two becauseshe kept making tight turns that caught the curb. Articulated buses are evenmore difficult to get around curves because the very back wheels take turnsvery tight. Although articulated buses do allow you to add capacity without addingdrivers, in the end there are better solutions with trams being at the top ofthe list. Trams can carry more people and since the back wheels follow thetrack they’re easy to turn in tight quarters. In addition, a better solutionfor extra capacity are double deckers. The problem with those is accessibility andheight restrictions. A Toronto articulated bus that runs between Don Mills and ScarboroughCentre, a very busy express route that joins a gap that was supposed to beclosed by light rail. Double decker buses run by the GO regional system. They have the samecapacity as an articulated bus and are pretty much as easy to drive as singlefloor buses. The problem is that they won’t fit in TTC bus stations which oftenhave lower roofs. The bus platform at the Eglinton TTC station, one of the busiest bustransfer points in the system. The roof is too low for double deckers but asthere is office space above there’s not a lot you can do about the constraints.A lot of this will be redundant once the Eglinton Crosstown is completed. My note- Double buses calledTrailer buses were in Chennai tillabout 5 years back. Double Deckers were in Chennai till about 15 years back.Now such buses have disappeared from Chennai roads, with brand new buses ofgood length painted maroon plying. Breakdown of buses have become a thing ofpast now in Chennai. Q6 Whatis one reason to not visit Kerala? A6 Kook Kannan / கூக் கண்ணன் M.B.B.S from Stanley Medical College (Expected2025)Tue Here are some reasons why Iwon't visit Kerala: I don't have a large savingsright now. At least not largeenough to fund an extensive tour anywhere, not just Kerela. I don't have a girlfriend. What's the point of visiting God's own countryif you don't have a girlfriend? My college has a strict code Ihave to adhere to: mallugirls are only for mallus. If I visit Kerela, I'm afraid some beautiful girlmight fall in love with me and my college mallus will beat me to a pulp.If Idecide to visit Kerela, I won't be able to answer this question. I'm alreadyrunning out of questions to answer. I have already visited Kerelaand I can think of only one wordto describe the state - beautiful. I am allergic to beauty. My note- I have added this QAfor the present day youngster’sthinking Q7 Whatare your suggestions to prevent electrical hazards? A7 Gopala Krishnan ,former Assistant General Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom(1966-2004)Answered just now My suggestions 1, Switch off EB Supply to the point or totally depend on the type ofwork. 2. Either use insulated footwear or stand on rubber mat and work. 3. Ensure non availability of supply with phase tester on wires whilecutting them 4. Wearing where ever possible, gloves in hand . One can observein EB substations where heavy voltage and current are dealt with, staff use rubber gloves andstand on rubber mat. Keep all tools handy. If one require spectacleswhile working, definitely use spectacles Q8 Howdo you eat Vilvam fruit in Tamil? A8 Bhuvana Rameshwar Knowlittle Tamil, English and Hindi Mon Yes.. It is called as vilvam in Tamizh, bael in Hindi and wood apple inEnglish. These fruits which grow on huge trees. Common in Shaivite templebackyards and is soldin markets during summer. In our house we had such a tree with fruits, every year. The fruits arecut from the tree when big and ripened at home. When ready they are yellowish. A ripe fruit is cut (broken with a stone or metal) and the pulp scoopedout. It is more sourthan sweet. So we mix in jaggery powder and have it in one or twospoonfuls at a time. Otherwise many people mix chilli powder, salt and have ita side dish for rice and chapathis more like a pickle. My note- I have a friend inOrissa, who once said, woodapple juice is common in their place. I have not seen it used as drink or foreating either in Kerala or Tamilnadu. Q9 Whatdo Americans need to know before visiting Canada? A9 Steven Haddock 3rdgeneration (or so) Canadian & lifelong resident; political science major16h Bring your passport. We don’tcare a lot but you may notbe able to get back to your own country without one so we make sure you have apassport or other ID (A “RealID” compliant driver’s license will work) so youcan go home at the end of your wonderful stay. Use your inside voice. Americans tend to beon the loud side by Canadian standards. Be polite. To everyone. Youdon’t have to be nice, butyelling at the staff at Tim Hortons because you’ve been waiting for tea forthree minutes is likely to turn the whole place against you. Some places take American money at a good exchange rate. Some takeAmerican money at par which means you are losing a lot of money. Some don’ttake American money at all. No-one here HAS to take American money. Credit cards are fine.Every bank in Canada will exchange your U.S. cash for Canadian cash at a greatrate. Bring a credit card that hascontactless tap capability. Yes, we will take chip cards or cards you swipe, but almost every transaction you do inCanada will be with a tap unless it’s over $200 or so. I haven’t actuallysigned a credit card transaction in about three years, and that was onlybecause I was at Costco, it was for about $700, and I hadn’t used the cardthere before. Leave religion, your ideasabout race, and your gun athome. There are minor exceptions, like if you’re coming to hunt. If you’re going to Quebec, grab yourself Babbel or Duolingo and practicea bit of French. Many people in Quebec speak English well. Many can get by.Many know little to no English at all. A little “Desole, je ne parle pas lefrancais” goes a long way. Lache pas la patate! (“Don’t give up”, but literally“Don’t let go of the potato”). Roads are crappy here. Accountfor that if you’re driving outsideof the Windsor/Quebec City corridor, which has lots of freeways. The rest ofthe country, not so much. Mind you, what roads there are are usually in prettygood shape. You can get everything at Dollarama for less than $4 Cdn. Q10 Isit possible to inherit more ancestry from one parent than the other? A10 Ken Saladin Formerprofessor of histology (microscopic anatomy)Apr 1 It’s not only possible, butnormal and inevitable that we inherit more genes from our mothers than from ourfathers, for two reasons: (1) Females inherit two X chromosomes, one from their mothers and onefrom their fathers. The X chromosome carries from 804 to 874 protein-codinggenes (depending on what authority you go by and their method ofdetermination). Males inherit one X chromosome (fromtheir mothers) and a much smaller Y chromosome from their fathers. The Y chromosome carries only 45 to 73 protein-coding genes (again withdifferences of opinion). (2) We also inherit DNA through the mitochondria. Mitochondrial DNA(mtDNA) has 14 protein-coding genes (and 23 genes that code for ribosomal andtransfer RNAs). Allmitochondrial DNA comes from the mother. One egg cell has 100,000 to600,000 mitochondria, and each mitochondrion has typically four or five mtDNAmolecules in it, so that’s a lot of mtDNA. That doesn’t mean a proportionatenumber of genes—just a lot of copies of the same genes, with some allowance formutational variation. There are several diseases that result from mutations inmtDNA, so this DNA, less heard of among the general public than our nuclearDNA, is not insignificant. All the above QA are from Quora website on 08-04- 2022. Quoraanswers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 09-04-2022 -- 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/1162446058.22371.1649470255990%40mail.yahoo.com.
