MATCHA DRINKS
six proportions · grams, millilitres, degrees
PUERH AGEING
sheng and shu · what the years do and when to drink
SUGAR IN DRINKS
how many sugar cubes hide in a glass — from water to cola, by the USDA reference
BLACK TEA
grades, six leaves and four blends · in China it is "red tea"
TEA PLANT CULTIVARS
assamica against sinensis · leaves at one scale · six cultivars
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
BABY-LED WEANING
cutting fruit and vegetables so a baby can feed itself: the shape, the size limit and what is never served
THE HAMBURGER
the ratios of the mince and the five steps that decide the result
COOKING SALTS
table, kosher, sea and flake: the sodium in the very same spoon — per the makers’ labels, drawn to true scale
ENGLISH ALPHABET
26 letters · 5 vowels · 21 consonants
GREEK ALPHABET
24 letters · names and where science uses them
IRREGULAR VERBS
the 100 you meet most: base · past · past participle — grouped by the four patterns, not shuffled alphabetically
LETTER TEAMS
40 letter combinations and the sounds they spell, in IPA, with one example word each
SIGHT WORDS
all 220 Dolch service words in five grade groups, Pre-K through third — with the top of the Fry frequency list up front
BENFORD’S LAW
the first digit of a number: why a one turns up more than six times as often as a nine, and in which sets that is true
THE BIRTHDAY PARADOX
how many people it takes for two of them to share a birthday — and the same count for codes and fingerprints
THE CLOCK FACE
two hands, twelve numbers — how to read the time
PASCAL’S TRIANGLE
the first thirteen rows, the sum of each row and the pattern of the odd numbers
REPEATING DECIMALS
which fractions stop, which run for ever, and how to know the length of the repeat without dividing
ROMAN NUMERALS
seven symbols · ones, tens, hundreds · years
MICROPHONE POSITIONS
where to place a mic around an acoustic guitar and how each spot sounds — after Shure’s guides
AUDIO CONNECTORS
analog, digital, and speaker wiring · pinouts and balanced signals
AUDIO CARRIERS
seven carriers over a century at one scale, and what each one brought first
BARRE CHORDS
two shapes, twelve chords each
DECIBEL SCALES
what stands at zero on each of them, and why −10 and +4 are not fourteen apart
ARPEGGIOS ON TWO STRINGS
major and minor in one position · the bare triad, no octave
ARPEGGIOS ON THREE STRINGS
major and minor in one position · a whole octave on three strings
ARPEGGIOS ON FOUR STRINGS
major and minor in one position · exactly an octave, one note per string
ARPEGGIOS ON SIX STRINGS
major and minor in one position · two octaves from the root
FIRST CHORDS
15 chords every beginner starts with · standard tuning E A D G B e
INSTRUMENT FREQUENCIES
fundamentals and overtones · 20 Hz – 20 kHz, logarithmic scale
B FLAT MAJOR FINGERING
right and left · one octave and two · two flats · B flat and E flat
D MAJOR FINGERING
right and left · one octave and two · two sharps · F sharp and C sharp
F MAJOR FINGERING
right and left · one octave and two · one flat · B flat
G MAJOR FINGERING
right and left · one octave and two · one sharp · F sharp
THE KEYBOARD
three octaves · every key and its note on the staff
THE SOPRANO RECORDER
all 27 notes from C5 to D7 in the Baroque and German systems — and how to tell which one you hold
SNARE DRUM RUDIMENTS
the forty international rudiments of the PAS · four families · the Standard 26 marked
THE TEN CLOUD GENERA
three levels of the troposphere to one scale, and the ten genera that live in them
THE VERTICAL PLANET
from the Challenger Deep to the summit of Everest · one scale, nothing compressed
TN, VA, IPS AND OLED
what differs inside the cell · and a paper describing each mode
THE FUJITA SCALE
six categories of tornado damage — and the two different winds assigned to them
GREEK LETTERS IN SCIENCE
10 capitals with a shape of their own, 14 twins of Latin letters, and what each one stands for
THE MOHS HARDNESS SCALE
ten reference minerals and five household probes: who scratches whom
THE PERIODIC TABLE
all 118 elements: symbol, atomic number and IUPAC atomic weight in every cell — blocks in colour, lanthanoids and actinoids offset below
THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM
eighteen decades of frequency · and how much of it the eye sees