CULTURAL QA 04-2022-08 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 How did early humansspread to all continents from Africa without a boat? A1 Claire Jordan Degreein biology and folklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper16h The first humans to leave Africa seem to have done so from the Horn of Africa toYemen. At its narrowest point the Red Sea is iirc nine miles across- close enough that they could see trees and grass on the far side - andthere’s an island partway, so they only had to paddle their canoes or rafts a few miles at a time.At a pinch they could even have swum across. It’s also possible to walk from Egypt to Israel overland,provided you have a couple of days’ supply of food and water with you. That gave humans access to Asia and Europe - from the Middle East, theyjust had to walk. Humans penetrated as far east as Kamchatka, then crossed toAlaska either by walking across the land bridge which existed at the time, orby canoeing along the edge of it, camping on land at night. From there theycould get to anywhere in the mainland Americas by walking. The only time proper sea-goingships were required was to get from the south of mainland Asia to Indonesia, Australia and various small islands. We mustassume that by that point they had developed better canoes and rafts, like theones used to settle the Pacific islands. But note that humans only made it asfar as New Zealand less than a thousand years ago. Q2 My wife and I willretire in a house with a living space of 2,000 sq ft. Is that manageable for anelderly couple? Is it too large or too small? A2 Bhuvana Rameshwar Livesin Chennai /Ooty/Bengaluru (1979–present)Sat 2000 sq feet is too large fortwo elderly people. At thisage taking care of such a large house is difficult even with servants or hiredday cleaners. It also feels lonely as an empty nest what with adult children,their families away. I would prefer a safe , smallapartment of maximum 1200 sq ft with three bedrooms and three wash rooms besides a hall, kitchen etc. InBangalore we live in a 3 bedroom apartment wherein one bed room is not used atall unless we have guests. This is our son and dil room. But we have to use theattached washroom here often as unused pipes send out insects through the dry, drain outlets.Or spider webs may take over. Keeping our apartment clean is not difficult asit doesn't get very dirty with just two of us here. So we manage without anyservants. Now.. Why apartment and not aseparate house? It is safe, the apartment has watchmen, a generator for power cuts andlift. The apartment has a committee which takes care of other apartment issueslike bore well, pump cleanliness, repairs, painting, and other annualactivities. We have our privacy yet people around for company and any help ifneeded.Any time we want we just lock the main door and are off on our regulartours. A single separate cottage or villa would surely be robbed even in onenight trip in Bengaluru ! Besides maintaining a garden at this age is tiring.In our youth we lived in a cottage in Ooty, a hill station with a beautifulgarden but often faced water problem. Attack on elderly by the watchman, maid,or driver combo is becoming very common in India too.More rooms also mean morehoarding of unnecessary things, filled store rooms, lofts. So dispose awayunused things, live light and free. Houses are clean and insects free thus. Q3 How excited are youabout reports that fossils from dinosaurs killed on the day a massive asteroidstruck the planet millions of years ago may have been unearthed? A3 Claire Jordan Degreein biology and folklore; programmer, shop owner, secretary on newspaper Sat Not very - but only becauseI’ve known about it for a couple of years. This is just a more detailed report which has been published, now thatthey are further along in the excavation. When the find was first announced, they’d found evidenceof a tsunami - marine, freshwater and river-bank organisms all jumbled together- at the KT boundary, including part of a luckless Triceratops. So what’s newis definite confirmation that this happened within an hour or two of theasteroid strike, because they’ve found fish who had taken fresh debris from thestrike into their gills, plus part of another, more bipedal dinosaur, a turtlekilled and run through by a broken branch, and a pterosaur egg. Q4 How can I make oldphotos look good? A4 HMS Core Turn your appideas into reality Fri Since 1839 when Louis Daguerre invented the daguerreotype (the firstpublicly available photographic process), new inventions have continued toadvance photography. Its spike reached a record high where people were able torecord experiences through photos, anytime and anywhere. However, it is a shamethat many early photos existed in only black and white. HMS Core Video Editor Kitprovides the AI color function that can liven up such photos, intelligently adding color to black-and-white images or videos toendow them with a more contemporary feel. In addition to AI color, the kit also provides other AI-empoweredcapabilities, such as allowing your users to copy a desired filter, trackmotions, change hair color, animate a picture, and mask faces.In terms of input and outputsupport, Video Editor Kit allows multiple images and videos to be imported,which can be flexibly arranged and trimmed, and allows videos of up to 4K andwith a frame rate up to 60 fps to be exported. Useful in Various Scenarios Video Editor Kit is ideal for numerous application scenarios, to name afew: Video editing: The kit helps accelerate video creation by providingfunctions such as video clipping/stitching and allowing special effects/musicto be added. Travel: The kit enables users to make vlogs on the go to share theirmemories with others. Social media: Functions like video clipping/stitching, special effects,and filters are especially useful for social media app users, and are a greatway for them to spice up videos. E-commerce: Product videos with subtitles, special effects, andbackground music allow products to be displayed in a more intuitive andimmersive way. Flexible Integration Methods Video Editor Kit can now be integrated via its: UI SDK, which comes with aproduct-level UI for straightforward integration. Fundamental capability SDK, which offers hundreds of APIs for fundamentalcapabilities, including the AI-empowered ones. The APIs can be integrated asneeded. Both of the SDKs serve as a one-stop toolkit for editing videos,providing functions including file import, editing, rendering, output, andmaterial management. Integrating either of the SDKs allows you to access thekit's powerful capabilities. These capabilities enable yourusers to restore early photos and record life experiences. Check out theofficial documentation for this great Video Editor Kit, to know more about how it can help youcreate a mobile life recorder. Q5 Why is Indian Railwaysnot introducing modern new trains in South India? A5 Vibhakar T S (Cricket)Know about India. Updated Fri Tejas express, one of thefastest trains in India with good facilities, has four routes currently inIndia. One of those routes is between Chennai (Egmore) and Madurai. Vande Bharat Express (Train 18)has only two routes currentlyin India. None of them are in South India. But in the upcoming days, there willbe many of them coming to South India. There are already a lot ofShatabdi and Janashatabdi trains running between different routes in South India, if they're considered asmodern new trains.SouthIndia isn't neglected with modern new trains. There has been a slight delay dueto the pandemic, where train services were stopped. If not, oneVande Bharat express train would've come by 2023 to South India.It might takesome time. But eventually, the trains will surely run. Can't say when SouthIndia would get its first Bullet train though. Q6 Why did humans evolveto have teeth with nerves? Do they have a point, biologically speaking? A6 VivienneMarcus mammalian anatomist Apr 4 The nerves in your teeth givevery clear feedback on how hard you are biting down on something. You’ve got enough strength to break your own teeth if you bite down toohard. Since human teeth don’t regrow,having nerves in your teeth makes them more likely to last. All the above QA are from Quora website on 10-04- 2022. Quoraanswers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 10-04-2022 -- 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]. 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