CULTURAL QA 02-2024-22A All the below QA are from Quora DIGEST to me on 22-02-2024.
Selected quora answers generally interesting are included.Still they need not be 100% correctanswers. Compiled and posted by R. Gopala Krishnan, 80, on 22-02-2024. Q1 If eating white rice daily is unhealthy, how come our Indianancestors are so healthy though they used to have it daily 3 times? A1 Dr.Balaji Viswanathan, follows government policies closely.8y Our ancestors didn't eat 3 square meals a day. In southIndian villages, people would start their day with a Congee[porridge made of avariety of millets] work on the fields for most of the day and come home to afairly heavy dinner before the sun sets. If they were well off, they couldafford a dosa or idly in the middle and maybe bananas or other seasonal fruits.That's pretty much it. They didn't sip Coke in the middle. Nor snackon biscuits, chips and all the other sugary, fatty stuff. And they didn't have3 timely meals. Food, especially sugar, was scarce until the 20th century. Most importantly, they could notafford to sit & work all day like most of us do. Field work burns everycalorie they had. Rice intake increased drasticallyonly after the green revolution. Until then millets like ragi, thinai andkezhvaragu provided a sizable chunk of the calories. And as other postersmentioned, they also ate rice whose outer shell was not removed throughmilling. And finally. Not everything ourancestors was necessarily right. They did many things right, but notall. Remember, 200 years agolife expectancies and quality of life was in general lower than ours. My note- Even in my boyhood days death at age 65-70 was considered as old age death. Q2 What are some of the greatest examples of presence of mind? A2 ShivC,BE from NIE Institute of Technology (NIEIT)Updated 6y Once Swami Vivekananda[1] wastravelling in a train in America. In the same compartment which Swamijitravelled there were three girls travelling who made fun of his looks. And tried to annoy him. The girls made fun all along, passedcomments and tried hard to irritate him. Girls presumed that Swamiji did not understandEnglish. They saw an expensive wrist watch onSwamiji’s wrist, which probably was gifted by one of his devotees, they now asked Swamiji to give that watch to them else they willcomplain the cops that he tried to harrass them. But Swamiji gave no reply, he just made a hand gesture thathe couldn’t hear, and is deaf. Again he made a gesture that whatever you want to say please write it on a piece of paper. Sothose girls wrote and handed it to Swamiji… and now Swamiji spoke elegantly, “Please call the cops, I want toregister a complaint”. The girls were dumbstruck andshocked. Footnotes[1]Swami Vivekananda – Wikipediarom your Digest Q3 How long does it take for Earth to go around our sun once?What is that called? A3 JeffLewis, Studied at University of Maryland, College Park Oct 17 Okay Quora Prompt Generator, you'vedrawn me in with another question that's more interesting than most peoplerealize. The time it takes for the Earth to goaround the Sun once is known as a sidereal year, which is different from acalendar year (or more accurately, a tropical year). And it's not just becausecalendar years have to use whole days – even with leap years, sidereal years andcalendar years drift away from each other. The issue comes down to what we wanta year to represent. It seems that society has settled on wanting a year torepresent the cycle of the seasons. We should all remember from grade schoolthat the seasons arecaused by the tilt of the Earth's axis, but this tilt wobbles, or'precesses'. While the Earth's axis is currently aimed more or less at theNorth Star, because of this wobble, in about 13,000 years, it will be aimedcloser to Vega. So, if we measured years as the time it takes theEarth to go around the Sun, then 13,000 years from now, the seasons would beswitched. Januaryin the northern hemisphere would be warm, while July would be cold, andsolstices and equinoxes would all be 6 months out of phase compared to wherethey are now. So, to keep a year representing thecycle of the seasons, we use a slightly different definition of a year – thetime for the Sun to return to the same relative position in the sky (i.e.vernal equinox to vernal equinox, or summer solstice to summer solstice). Thisis technically known as a tropical year, and is around 20 minutes shorter thana sidereal year. Using tropical years means that 13,000 year from now, thesummer solstice will still take place in June, but the Earth will be on theopposite side of the Sun when it happens. ABOVE SOURCE: As Earth wobbles due toprecession, do the seasons change in regard to the months (i.e., 13,000 yearsfrom now, will June be winter for the Northern Hemisphere and December summer)?| Astronomy.com This is also the reason why the signsof the Zodiac are drifting. While 13,000 years is a pretty long time, it'sstill short enough to be noticed in the time frame of civilization. Since thesigns of the Zodiac were based on the constellations the Sun was passingthrough at the time, and that it's been around 4,000 years ago since thosesigns were first developed, that means that the difference between sidereal andtropical years means the constellations have drifted roughly 31% of the way (4/13)to their opposite relative locations. Or another way to look at it, 4/13 isreally close to 4/12, which means the signs have shifted just about 4 places bynow. So, to answer the question withactual values, the time ittakes the Earth to go around the Sun, a sidereal year, is 365 days 6 hours 9minutes 10 seconds, while the cycle of the seasons, a tropical year, is 365days 5 hours 48 minutes 46 seconds. A calendar year, pretty obviously, isnearly always either 365 days or 366 days depending on whether or not it's aleap year (with the occasional leap second), with the timing ofleap years designed to keep the calendar years in sync with the seasons. Q4 What are some of the greatest examples of presence of mind? A4 ShashwatSahai, Updated 6y 2016. Class 12th. Physics Board practical. Itwas my turn for the viva. The external was asking questions about our projectfiles and model. Ihad this AC generator project and had prepared a small model as well. The generic… “how to make an ac generatoryoutube video”. I was pretty confident about it since physics was a piece ofcake for me. So the viva started pretty smooth. Heasked me some questions from the project report, some other miscellaneousquestions which I answered pretty well. But then out of nowhere came this nextquestion… “How many turns of wire are there in your generator?” For a moment I was dumbstruck. I had no idea about the number of turns in the generator. But then it hit me… Nor does he! So very quickly I said… “248 turns sir. Actually I planned for 250 but then I had tounwind a couple of turns to connect it to the bulb.” Heseemed satisfied. He even gave me a hint of a smile which I think wasbecause he realised my little shenanigan. So a tip for all those appearing forthe boards this year.Learn to Lie. My note- The local re-winders of motorsweigh the old copper wires used for winding and take a little more new wirefor rewinding unless details are mentioned in the motor given for repair. Q5 What was the happiest moment in your life? A5 AnujSajwan, Studied at Delhi University ( DU ) (Graduated 2023)Jan 25 One day, I was heading home from myinstitute, and on that particular day, my friends were also absent. Standing at the bus stop alone, a beggar approached me and asked forsome money, mentioningthat he had been hungry for many days, as people often do. I had 100 rupees inmy pocket, and without much thought, I gave it to him, considering that he mustbe going through a tough time. As soon as I handed him the money, a smileappeared on his face, and he walked away. Coincidentally, I had forgotten myearphones at the institute, so I started walking back to retrieve them. The beggar was walking ahead ofme, and he suddenly stopped to buy some food items. He handed them to his wife andchildren on the roadside. I observed silently, not letting him know that I waswatching. However, as he continued hisjourney, he again started begging for alms. I felt a strange mix of emotionsseeing him. Despite being hungry himself, he selflessly thought about hisfamily. In my bag, I hadsome emergency money, around 50 or 100 rupees. I approached him, handed overthe money, and told him not to worry as it might help him in hisdifficult situation. He was surprised and grateful, saying,"Sir, why are you giving me more? You already helped." I repliedthat it was okay and that it might be useful for him later. He thanked me withfolded hands, and his face lit up with a genuine smile. I then continued on myway. Seeing his family and witnessing thechange in his expression, I felt a deep sense of happiness. With a small act of kindness, I had managed to bring a smile to someone'sface and, in turn, positively impact the lives of his family. Respect your father- He sacrifice morethings for you - -- 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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