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Milk in Nepal and India: the difference!

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 I have observed that whenever milk ferments when I am in India, the paneer or cottage cheese does not come out easily. Even if I boil it and add lime juice to it, the cheese formed is quite little and more powdery than cheesy.  But when the same happens in Nepal, the cheese formation is immediate, dense and cheesy. I do not have to do more efforts to get cottage cheese out of the milk in Nepal. What is the reason? I checked internet and found some factors that can affect the quality and amount of cheese  1. Freedom from pathogenic bacteria - Good cheese forms of milk is free from pathogenic bacteria. Differences between Nepali vs Indian panipuri  2. Different milk quality with different amounts of fats and proteins  3. Ultra-pasteurization can destroy vital enzymes and bacteria that are required for cheese formation  4. If temperature of milk is less when it ferments, cheese formation will be less.  5. If milk is rancid, it means it's fats are also br...
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Global peace index 2020!

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Global peacefulness has been showing a decline in the last decade. This is not a good sign. There are intercountry and intercountry conflicts and frictions. And if this continues, it would have a bad impact on world living, economy, and people's well-being.  Global peace (Source: Vector Stock)  Global peace indices Global peace index chart reveals that global peace is at risk due to various race and religious conflicts. For calculating peace index of a nation, 23 quantitative and qualitative indicators are taken and each is weighted on a scale of 1-5. The lower the score of GPI, the more peaceful is the country.  Why is vaccination rate low in USA?  In 2020, countries have shown an average of 0.34 percentage decline in GPI scores. The covid crisis added to the already prevailing regional tensions in the world.  Countries and their GPI scores Iceland tops the list with a score of 1.078. It is the most peaceful country and holds this first position since 2008. New...
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Why is vaccination rate in population and health care workers in the USA still below 70%?

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USA has set a vaccination rate of 70% to be achieved in order to get the pandemic under control. But this rate has not reached in the population as well as the health care workers. A significant number have refused the vaccine. Though the vaccination is voluntary, people who refuse it are losing their jobs in hospitals? Is this move justified?  Vaccination rate and health care workers   Health care workers and frontline workers who came in direct contact with patients were high risk and first to be vaccinated in the USA. But a recent survey showed that a significant number of the staffs have refused vaccination. A survey conducted by USA Today in 276 hospitals (4.5% of the country's hospitals) showed that the fully vaccinated rate was 53 to 72% in hospital networks and 51 to 91% in 15 public hospitals of the US. Rural hospitals have even lesser vaccination rates. Covid vaccine (Source: Pinterest)  The target of 70% of Joe Biden by 4 July seems to have become impossible. S...
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Sex behavior: the status of being asexual or minimally sexually active rising! Why?

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Social barriers of coupling and having sex are fewer for the newer generation. Sex is equally enjoyable and means to enhance the pleasures are also available. Yet this generation youth is having sex less frequently.  Stats on sex behavior CDC keeps a survey analysis of teen sex and it found that sex in this age group is declining since 1985. National Opinion Research Council at the University of Chicago since 1972 is doing the regular General Social Survey of American behavior. The findings show that doing sex once a week was 45% in 2000 and it declined to 36% in 2016. And the number of young millennials who are inactive on the sexual front s twice the number seen in the previous generation. This decline was steep from 2014 to 2016.   In 2016, 4% fewer condom sales occurred than in the year 2015. Anda drop further of 3% was noticed in 2017.  The fertility rate has also fallen. Thus people are into less sexual drive. Is it normal? What are the reasons? Is less sexual ...
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