Caviar with white chocolate, blue cheese with cranberry, watermelon with feta, or maybe mint with chocolate? Some of these connections seem obvious, others less so. Food pairing is a science-based cooking method that helps you understand why some ingredients go so well together and others don't. Find out what this...

Music as therapy Music affects a person as a physical phenomenon: as a specific set of acoustic vibrations that induce physical reactions and accompanying mental reactions. That is why music can change the state of activity of the nervous system, cause specific changes in the activities of the whole organism,...

Each child has his or her favorite fairy tale - an animated series or a movie, and their beloved heroes with whom they identify. Toy manufacturers who produce homemade movie toys know this very well. That is, figures, mascots, vehicles, dolls and sets inspired by the plot and characters from...

But also one of the most complex, the most difficult to learn, among those that require more perseverance, dedication, commitment, application and a lot of discipline. These and many others are traditionally the adjectives and concepts attributed to the undisputed "king" of musical instruments: the piano. As is normal, everyone...

Non- SI unit of length Mile is non-SI unit which means that mile is non-system unit of measurement. This term is also used to denote factors that do not belong to any system of units of measurement, or that do not belong to the considered system of measurement. The SI...

US size shoes may have different EU equivalents. As a rule, a US size shoe is 1 size smaller for women than for men. In general, size conversion can be done in a linear fashion using the general formula for converting US size to EU size. However, this method of conversion is unreliable...

Kilogram definition In September 1889 when the General Conference of Measures took place, the kilogram standard was established. The standard kilogram (symbol kg) is a cylinder with a height and base diameter of 39 mm and it's made of an alloy of platinum (90%) with iridium (10%). That prototype is...

How it all begun Lenny Kravitz was born in New York City on May 26, 1964. His father was NBC's leading producer Sy Kravitz and his mother was an actress Roxie Roker. When he was a kid his parents decided to move to Los Angeles, where Lenny took his first...

The avoirdupois system The avoirdupois system (abbreviation for the avoirdupois system is avdp.) is a measurement system of weights that uses pounds and ounces as units. It is used in United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and some other former British colonies, despite their official adoption of the metric system....

Space odyssey and Hal 9000 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick is a classic over the classics of science fiction cinema. But also one of the first films in which we deal with an extremely intelligent robot equipped with artificial intelligence. Not only that: HAL 9000 is not only...