Music & Art

If you look at it it seems completely incomprehensible with all the frets and strings. But is guitar hard to learn?

October 20, 2021

Were there music videos before MTV?

August 25, 2021

The chromatic scale – Is there any divine, or universal reason why the scale of a keyboard is precisely 12 notes, and not 11 or 13?

June 22, 2021

Theremin – Can you play music just by moving your hands in the air?

June 14, 2021

Eat & Drink

Surströmming – The stinkiest food on the planet.

What is Surströmming? Surströmming, salted fermented Baltic herring… Is it the stinkiest food in the world? What is surströmming? Surströmming is a traditional dish, regarded as one of the smelliest and most disgusting foods in the world. You buy them in tin cans, and eat them cold. Surströmming is made from small herrings from the … Read more

Science

With all the evidence and observations in recent years, can we finally accept that aliens exist here on earth?

With all the evidence and observations in recent years, can we finally accept that aliens exist here on earth? Do aliens exist here on earth? If you look only at all the observations, grainy footage, people testifying that aliens exist and that they’ve seen strange light formations in the sky, or pilots stating that they’re … Read more

haunted places

The Vallecas Case – Unraveling the Horror Behind Verónica

The Vallecas Case – Unraveling the Horror Behind Verónica. The horror movie, Verónica, is based on a real case. But the true story is almost as terrifying as the movie. Verónica, the movie. On August 25, 2017, the Spanish film Veronica premiered in Madrid. The director was Paco Plaza from Spain, and among the cast, … Read more

Love & Relationships | History

Was the true story about Romeo and Juliet different from the one told in the play by William Shakespeare?

Was the true story of Romeo and Juliet different from the one told in the play by William Shakespeare? Romeo and Juliet. The true story. Romeo and Juliet is a play by the extraordinary English author William Shakespeare. Written probably in 1595 (we don’t know the exact year…), it is, together with Hamlet, maybe the … Read more

History | Science

Is the Great Wall of China the only man-made building detectable with the naked eye from the moon?

Is the Great Wall of China the only man-made building detectable with the naked eye from the moon? The Great Wall of China from space. The Wall that separated imperial China from the barbarians of the north, is not one, but many. And it wasn’t built in one moment but in the arc of thousands … Read more

History

The Marshall Plan was an economical aid from the US to help rebuild Europe after World War II. But was it aimed at Germany?

The Marshall Plan was an economical aid from the US to help rebuild Europe after World War II. But was it aimed at Germany? World War II What was the Marshall Plan for? After the second world war, most of Europe lay in ruins. Much of the industrial capacity was destroyed, and the factories that … Read more