CULTURAL QA04-2022-10 BEING A COMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Can you eat cucumber seeds? If so,what are the benefits? A1 Lucia Garcia Worked atHospitals Sat Cucumber seeds are extremelynutritious, which is the essence of cucumber. Studies have confirmed that among cucumbers, cucumber seeds have thehighest nutritional value, and their nutrients are 7.5 times higher than thoseof cucumber pulp. Cucumber seeds contain a variety of amino acids, vitamins, carotene,thiamine, riboflavin, xylose, fructose, glycosides, calcium, phosphorus, iron,potassium and other nutrients the body needs. Cucumber seeds can coordinatethe function of internal organs, activate dormant cells, promote cell regeneration, nourish the brain, enhancememory, and are very beneficial to physical health. 100 grams of cucumber seeds contain about 90 mg of calcium, and cucumberseeds are also rich in phosphorus. The appropriate amount of phosphorus canpromote the absorption of calcium. The ratio of calcium and phosphorus in cucumber seeds is about 2:1, whichis very suitable for calcium absorption. Therefore, eating cucumber seedscan quickly supplement calcium, and the effect of calcium supplementation is much better than eating calcium-containing foodssuch as milk, soybeans, and sesame seeds. In some Asian countries, if chickens, ducks and other poultry have brokenlegs, feed them some cucumber seeds, after a few days, the legs of thesepoultry will be healed. For humans, regular consumptionof cucumber seeds plays a role in supplementing calcium and strengthening bones. Cucumber seeds can dredge meridians, relieve waistand leg pain, relieve bone and joint pain, and are very beneficial to bonehealth. Q2 Why is glass used for car windows? A2 Aaron Young AutomotiveExpert with over 8 years of experience Apr 3 Glass is used in most, if not all new vehicle windows for one big reason.Plastic/acrylic is lighter, cheaper, safer, and less messy if it breaks, however there’s one massivedownside, and that has to do with scratches. When acrylic is scratched(Which you could probably do with just your fingernail), it leaves marks thatare not transparent. Well, if it happens a lot over years, then the plasticwill become less transparent overall. This is why it’s commonly only used inrace cars, as they can swap a windshield or a window in the off-season, butmost regular consumers wouldn’t have the time or care to do so. Glass remains transparent, evenif it heats up and cools, or scratches. You can see a perfectexample of this with your headlights. After a year or two, headlights with aplastic lens will become foggy, as pictured here: This is mainly because of several factors: 1. The plastic can soften, andcool down on hot days,which reduces the transparency. (Glass has a MUCH higher melting/softeningtemperature than plastic, so that’s not an issue for car windows.) 2. Small dust particles, tinyrocks, etc. hitting the plasticat high speeds causes them to scratch, which as discussed above, leads to aloss of transparency. Now imagine if that happened to your windows every year or 2. So glass,is therefore the *clear* winner (Pun intended), and car manufacturers havefound ways to make glass less dangerous to the occupants during an accident.(Laminated windshields, tempered glass side windows, etc.) Q3 How big of a role does oxygen playin digesting? A3 Ken Saladin Textbookauthor and professor emeritus Sat It plays no direct role indigestion, other than the trivial point that digestion is enzymatic hydrolysis, hydrolysis uses water to split organic molecules,and oxygen is part of water. Digestion can occur without free molecular oxygen. Where oxygen becomes importantis in how nutrients such as fats and carbohydrates are metabolized afterdigestion. The most efficientenergy extraction from these fuels is by aerobic respiration, which requiresoxygen. This lies at the root of why a person dies within a few minutes ifdeprived of oxygen. Q4 What is an abandoned subway station? A4 Steven Haddock Livesin Toronto, ON (1959–present)Apr 5 Subway stations get abandonedfor several reasons, but the most common is the re-routing of a line. This is Lower Bay station in Toronto, which was in use for about a year.It’s closed to the public now, but it is frequently used as a movie set(Suicide Squad, Shazam!). In the original configuration, trains heading eastfrom either Upper Bay or Lower Bay would go to Yonge Station on what’s now Line2, but trains going west from Lower Bay would go to Museum Station on Line 1(heading south), but those on Upper Bay would go to St. George, which at thetime was the transfer between Line 2 and Line 1. However the train that wentwest, then south, wasn’t very popular and people just transferred at St. Georgeanyway. This is Court Street inBrooklyn, which is an abandoned station converted to the New York TransitMuseum. It used to be a terminal station in centralBrooklyn, but low usage resulted in it being closed and the line going straightthrough from Brooklyn to Manhattan instead.(Pictures not added) Q5 For a single person, is it cheaperto travel around the UK by train or by car? A5 Nicholas Stone Lifelong interest in trains. Apr 4 I am a single person. For me,it is cheaper to travel around the UK by train rather than by car. I often travel between London and West Yorkshire, in order to visitrelatives. The typical return train fare is £50. By National Express coach,it’s cheaper still. I do not have car and do nothave a driving licence. If wanted to do this same journey by car, then I would take driving lessons, pass my test,buy or hire a car and pay for other incidentals. Altogether, this is going tobe more than my £50 return train fare. For the purpose of expense claims, the UK government currently estimatesthat a car costs 45p per mile run. This takes into account depreciation,insurance and fuel. Using my London to West Yorkshire example, the return costof the car journey for this trip is £180, more expensive than the train. In the year, I typically spend £1,000 in train and bus fares for all mytrips across the UK. The Nimblefins website estimates annual car costs during2022 to be around £3,550 - including depreciation, insurance, fuel, parking andany repairs. For me, public transport ischeaper than car ownership. By at least £2,000 per year. Q6 Did manufacturers make refrigeratordoors magnetic for our convenience, or was it not the original intention atall? A6 Loring Chien Maint ofhome AC, plumbing, electrical, lighting for 45 yrs Sat They did it because the slightlyflexible seal pulled tightly closed at the interface allowing little or no airto escape. Sealing against airleaks is key to making the refrigerators efficient in energy use and not losingcold air to the room. Prior to that, they used a compressible flexible rubberseal that needed pressure provided by a latch which proved to be a safetyhazard for children who could not escape. They did it to save youelectrical energy and make the compressors last longer and to make the fridges safer for children!If that’s convenient toyou, then yes. Q7 Why will a washing machine stopworking, unless it is unplugged and then plugged back in? A7 Dennis Mulgannon, Ihave learned from history for 74 years and counting Answered Sun I had this very same problem with my Kenmore front load. I discoveredthis issue while my washer was still under warranty. The issue wasresolved by replacing the control circuit board. Modern appliances these days have become computerized, and sometimes they act up, just like computers. For whatever reason, almosteverything has to have a power cycle, followed by a reboot by unplugging forthirty seconds, then re-plugging, and turning back on. Modems, printers, routers, Xboxes… All need an occasional power cycle.However, if your washer is still under warranty, call for service, because fora heavy appliance, this is not acceptable, due to the inconvenient location ofthe power cord. Q8 Why are brain infections so rare ifinfections can spread through your other body parts? A8 Franklin Veaux ProfessionalWriterApr 2 Because the brain isimmunologically privileged. The brain has a “blood brain barrier” that prevents a lot of things fromreaching the brain itself. A lot offolks imagine this like, I don’t know, some kind of filter in your neck orsomething, but that isn’t how it works. Rather, brain cells aren’tnourished or supplied directly from blood vessels in the way all your othercells are. Rather, the blood vessels that supply the brain provideoxygen and nutrients, and carry waste products, away from support cells likeastrocytes, and these in turn pass material along to the neurons. (That’s a bitoversimplified, but it gets the idea across.) So it’s not like there’s afilter somewhere that the blood goes through and then goes on to the brain, it’s that the neurons are never directly suppliedby the blood at all. Anyway, this barrier isdifficult for complex molecules to cross (that’s why if you have Parkinson’s you can’t just take dopamine pills, forexample), but it’s also difficult for pathogens to cross. Q9 Will storing water for long periodsin the washing machine spoil the motor/machine? A9 Tony ChristianRatcliffe, former Technical trainerAnswered Jun 17, 2018 Firstly it will have zeroeffect on the motor. If longperiods means a few days then there won’t be anything spoilt but if you mean over a year or morethere will be problems. Depending on conditions* the water could turn into astagnant soup and mild will grow. *Heat, state of the inside ofthe machine, detergents previously used, age etc. I can’t fathom why you want to know this though unless you have a brokenmachine that won’t drain and want to ignore it. No the “motor” won’t mind thestorage of water in the drum and plumbing of the machine. And if the water is clean, neither will the rest of the machine. But ifthe water is used laundry water because of a machine failure and and thedifficulty of draining it, that’s a different matter. The old water will ofcourse rapidly spoil as all such used wash water will. It won’t hurt anything,it’s just unhygenic. But; you said “storing”. Youdon’t want to store water in a washing machine. The outer tub and the hoses and the pump all carrythe wash water, and these surfaces are surfaces you would not want to storeanything in. In earlier days, wash water was boiled in large tubs for washing.Sometimes with fires beneath. Sometimes boiled on the stove and carried to thewashing machine. The wash water might well haveextra capacity for cleaning and be used again. In modern machines it of course is thrown away, but in older machines,you had the option of saving in into auxiliary tubs and reusing it. You shouldn’t store clean water in your machine. If you want to re-usewash water, look for a machine built to save and suck back wash water,sometimes called “suds-saving”. It’s similar to soaking for long times. No harm comes from stopping awash and starting again later, to let it soak for a while to remove difficultstaining. Well there is one drawback. You need to use some extra detergent. Ifnot enough, the temperature drop can result in some precipitation out ofdetergent precipitates where grease has been disolved, and then with thetemperature drop results in terrible black spots in the clothes. Need a bit more information onwhat you are thinking to do. All the above QA are from Quora website on 11-04- 2022. Quoraanswers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 11-04-2022 -- 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/196647029.530428.1649689252222%40mail.yahoo.com.
