CULTURAL QA 11-2022-25 BEING A COMPILATIONTHERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Howoften should you wash your bath towels? A1 Gopala Krishnan, Former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966–2004)Just now I am from Chennai,India. This is a place having high temperature except in winter. We wash our bath towels daily,at least once in 3 days using soap or detergent. This includes alltypes of bath towels commonly we use. Q2 Whatis cardiac deconditioning? A2 Narayana Health, Promoted Health forall. All for health. Nov 18 Weightlessness induces an acute syndrome calledcardiovascular deconditioning. This weightlessness canresult from short-term and long-term head-down bed rest and after long termspace flight. It causesreduced responsiveness of heart muscle, decrease in blood volume and pooling ofthe blood in the legs after returning to normal conditions. Source:Narayana Health[1] Q3 Itfeels like 80% of the IT industry is filled with Telugu and Tamil people. Whyis it so? A3 Prahlad Bhagat, IT Engineer for 2Decades Oct 4 Here is why IT industry seems to be filled with Teluguand Tamil people. It was politiciansfrom southern states who woke up first to capture the potential of IT industryby opening manyengineering colleges, inviting IT companies in their states whentheir counterparts in rest of India were still oppressing citizens with castepolitics, and filling their own pockets. With high number of engineering colleges, southern statesproduces far far more engineers that northern states Since southern states have high numbers of IT industryestablishments so all jobs are to be found in this area making it easy for localsto get employed. Generally standardsof school education is far better in southern states in comparison to rest ofIndia. So quality of engineers will be better. Fresh graduates of the southern states are ambitious andinspired from the early success stories of those who already made their marksin industry where as many from northern states juststop looking for jobs if they don’t get it easily and remain unemployed Southern stateshave many private training institute which provide quality and affordabletraining on the latest trendy technology northern towns lack in this. English language learning comes easy to people of south sotheir dominance Q4 How deep does a lake freeze? A4 Steven Haddock, Lives in Toronto, ON(1959–present)Wed Lake Baikal,which sits in Russian Siberia and is the deepest lake in the world, forms iceabout ten feet deep most winters. During World WarII, that was strong enough to run freight trains over it. But that’s prettymuch the limit. Because of how density of water changes with temperature, andthe fact that ice will protect the water underneath from evaporating (whichwould cool the lake further) it doesn’t go much deeper than that no matter howcold it gets. When youlook at places like the Arctic and Antarctic, almost everything in a depressionis fallen snow that’s been compacted to ice, not ice that has frozen over freshwater. In order toturn into ice, water much lose a very large amount of heat. If there’s no placefor that heat to go (like into the air) it will stick around and raise thetemperature of the ice or water, keeping it from freezing further. The physics ofwater’s density confuses the matter further. Water is at itsmaximum density at 4C, which means as it goes down from, say, 8C, it getsdenser and starts to fall deeper relative to other water. On a lake, as the wateris cooled by the air the water starts heading down, and it’s only when it dropsbelow 4C that it gets less dense and starts moving up. But water at 3C and 5Care roughly the same density, so they tend to work towards an equilibrium - 4C,which means they go down again. It’s only after the whole body of water getsthat cold that the water starts to cool below 4C, starts rising, then turns toice. If you go to LakeBaikal in summer and go to the bottom, the water down there is 4C all yearround with only the top layer changing temperature. Q5 How bad are things inKarnataka/India? A5 Rohit Virmani, I Love India Nov 6 RN Kulkarni, resident of Mysuru, was walking on theManasa Gangothri campus of Mysore University Friday when an unidentifiedvehicle hit him from behind leading to his death. Kulkarni was notwalking on the public road but inside the university campus. Not many vehiclestake this road and the CCTVfootage also shows that it was a deliberate act. The vehicle usedfor it did not have nameplate. [Mr. Kulkarnistarted working with the IB in 1963 and served in several positions for threedecades. He was spending his retirement life in Mysuru. He had authored manybooks such as 'Facets of Terrorism in India' and 'Sin of National Conscience'.] Seems like it was a planned murder. The car sped awayafter hitting Mr. Kulkarni. What kind ofprotection do officers get? Useless politicians are protected with Z classsecurity but thousands of govt officers who risk their life toprotect the nation are left at the mercy of the unknowns? Is this howIndia takes care of people who have served the country in very sensitivepositions!! Very sad!! Q6 Should I buy a new air conditioner(AC) or wait for prices to drop for used ones? A6 Gopala Krishnan, Former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966–2004)Just now Normallymiddle class or lower upper class never dispose a working AC. An AC working isdisposed when spares are not available for any part getting damaged already. So I suggest to purchase a new AC when one is affordable Q7 How did women survive child birthbefore healthcare was so advanced? A7 Noor Halit, Learning the art to livelife. Mon “Mumtaz Mahal died from postpartum hemorrhage in Burhanpur on 17 June1631 while giving birth to her 14th child, after aprolonged labor around 30 hours.” Hence Taj Mahal. Women dying givingbirth was very common a few decades ago, so much so, that a lot of novels arebased on the premise of mother of the protagonist dying while giving birth tothem or their siblings, or wife dying and man trying to cope with the loss andmove on. Usually women died and men married other younger womenwho gave birth to more children and took care of the dead wife’s children.Older women now a days, bragging about their times where no supplements/checkups were needed and treating today’s mothers as lesser than them just becausethey opt for anesthesia, or cussing the doctors for resorting to emergencyC-sections to make money, forget that a lot of women around them died or weremiserable due to postpartum complications. Just because humanrace was able to survive, does not mean that good old’ days were indeed good. No birth controlmeant a lot of kids and enough women available for man to marry in case hiswife died, hence more kids. Romanticizing the old days will not make thehistorical facts disappear. Just like mensurviving wars does not mean wars are to be appreciated, not all women dying inchildbirth does not mean that medical care for mothers is unnecessary. Q8 What is the main culture of SouthIndians? A8 Rachita Shetty, proud indian Updated18h I had been toKatra, Jammu once, and stayed at a nice hotel. The waiter was a very nice guywho started a conversation with us (in Hindi) andhe told : you guys are from the South right? I identify SouthIndians by their simple dressing and humility. Eveneducated men wear white dhoti and shirt. They don’t yell at the waiters, or ateach other. Somepeople from the North, though they look educated and wear modern clothes, theyaren’t polite to us, they use dirty language with us. Me : maybe that’show they are, little rustic, not exactly bad at heart (I didn’t mean it in abad way, I said it to indicate a rustic/unpolished sort of a speech that’scommon in some places) He: yes, that’s what I call culture. I can mostlyidentify people from your culture by their not-so-posh clothes, calmness andrespectful behaviour. These words shocked me, for the first time in my life, Iwondered what culture is? South India is diverse, there’s no main culture but forus, a cultured person should always be a humble person. Edit : I mustmention, the people of Jammu city and Katra are very sweet - emporium guys,hotel staff, drivers, the army guys at vaishno devi, my respect for Indian armygrew by a 100 folds. I got cheated with the saffron once, but our driver tookus to the J&K emporium near Raghunath mandir and I was simply stunnedlooking at the Walnut wood furniture - the craftsmanship, the pashminas (kani,sozni), the papier mache, suede leather bags, brass vases and vessels,embroidered fabrics, carpets - all authentic and beautiful. I just wished I was a littlemore rich to own a piece of the walnut wood furniture. A big thank u to thearmy and to Jammu Q9 When someone breeds a mule from adonkey and a horse, does it matter whether the two parents are a female horseand a male donkey, or the other way around? A9 Pamela B. Zohar,MSc Geology +38 yearsexperience in gold mining/exploration Nov 11 Yes it does. Donkeys are smallerthan horses, and such a crossbreed, with a donkey mother, is usually smaller. It is also not calleda ‘mule’, but is called a ‘hinny’. Hinnies are less useful than mules and are rarely produced.You must of course breed the smaller donkey with a smallish horse, for safety’ssake, so you never get a big strong hinny. People used to produce hinnies as riding animals for women. MULES, on the other hand, have HORSE mothers, and you canuse as big and strong a mare as you want, plus a good strong big jack donkey.A mule is bigger than a hinny, stronger, and a better worker. Like mules, hinnies areusually sterile. Q10 Whatare the advantages of installing LED lights? A10 Sumit Roy, Promoted Lifestyle and Food Apr28 LED lights are thenew-age lighting solution designed to suit all your needs. The advantages of installingLED lighting solutions in your home and office are endless. Emit highlevels of brightness and intensity Consume lesselectricity, saving you money in the long term. Long lifespan,depending on how you use them. An average life of 30,000 to 50,000 hours orlonger. Perform well atalmost any power percentage, from 5% to 100%. Highly durable and built with sturdy components. Containno-toxic chemicals, are 100% recyclable, and eco-friendly Work inextreme temperatures, both excessively hot and cold. If you are lookingfor smart LED lighting solutions for your home, go for brands like Hafele. I have used LED lights from Hafeleand I am extremely satisfied with its best-in-class performance. Hafele’s LED lightsare incredibly flexible and available in small shapes and sizes, making themsuitable for almost any application. Moreover, they are energy-efficient,cost-effective, and durable. My note- Not inany way recommending Hafele’s LED products. All the above QA are from Quora website on 25-10-2022 Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . 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