PHASES OF THE MOON
eight phases · a full cycle of 29.53 days
THE SOLAR SYSTEM
eight planets · size, distance, year and day
SIZE CHARTS
shoes, tops, bottoms — and a centimetre under every grid
SERUM ACTIVES
when to apply, what to keep apart in time, what the season changes
BITS, BYTES, KILOBYTES
two scales · 1000 and 1024 · why a drive looks smaller
FLOWCHART SYMBOLS
10 shapes, and one algorithm drawn with them
HTTP STATUS CODES
five classes · twenty codes you meet every day
NINE DRINKS
the same coffee, different proportions
ARABICA AND ROBUSTA
two species, six varieties, one difference
POST-FERMENTED TEAS
six teas changed by microbes rather than oxygen
MATCHA GRADES
ceremonial, premium, culinary — what is behind the words
PUERH AGEING
sheng and shu · what the years do and when to drink
BLACK TEA
grades, six leaves and four blends · in China it is "red tea"
GREEN TEA
six leaves · water, time, number of steepings
OOLONG
from 15 to 80 % oxidation · leaf shape · seven steepings
SIX KINDS OF TEA
one plant · the oxidation scale · seven processing steps
YELLOW TEA
yellowing under a cover · the step no other tea has
THE ISO 3591 GLASS
the only wine glass with dimensions instead of adjectives
PROTEIN IN FOODS
grams per 100 g · animal and plant · and the state each one was weighed in
ENGLISH ALPHABET
26 letters · 5 vowels · 21 consonants
GREEK ALPHABET
24 letters · names and where science uses them
NUMBERS 1 TO 100
the hundred chart · primes picked out in colour
MULTIPLICATION TABLE
1 to 12 · colour intensity = size of the product
ROMAN NUMERALS
seven symbols · ones, tens, hundreds · years
CIRCLE OF FIFTHS
12 keys · key signatures · relative minors
NOTES ON THE FRETBOARD
standard tuning E A D G B e · first twelve frets
THE PENTATONIC
three positions · the root is marked
TONEWOODS
density, hardness, export · what is measured kept apart from what is taste
THE STEREO FIELD
what stays centred · what is spread · why the low end is not panned
NOTE VALUES
from whole to thirty-second · how many fit a 4/4 bar
C MAJOR FINGERING
right and left · one octave and two
THE KEYBOARD
three octaves · every key and its note on the staff
DADGAD
D — A — D — G — A — D
DROP D
one string down · everything else unchanged
HALF STEP DOWN
every string down a semitone · same shapes
OPEN C
the deepest of the open tunings
OPEN D
the open strings are already D major
OPEN G
the open strings are already G major
MAMMALS IN TIME
from the first synapsid to us · 320 million years on one axis
VERTEBRATES IN TIME
when each group appeared · five hundred million years on one axis
BASIC PHYSICS FORMULAS
fifteen formulas · every letter explained beneath it
ANIMALS
the main branches — from comb jellies to chordates · who is actually related to whom
THE TREE OF LIFE
who sits inside whom · where animals, fungi and plants actually are
VERTEBRATES
from lamprey to bird · and why "fish" and "reptiles" are not groups
MORSE CODE
26 letters and 10 digits · dot, dash
PHONETIC ALPHABET
the ICAO standard · for radio and telephone
THE BASKETBALL
four FIBA sizes with their circumference and mass — and why the rules set a bounce, not a pressure
FOOTBALL: THE BALL
Law 2, three codes of the game, five sizes and three FIFA quality marks — what a ball must survive