It is one of the few memories that I remember from my early childhood: My mother playing Chopin’s C-sharp Minor Walz on the piano. I still have the music sheets she used, although now somewhat battered. Through one of his friends Chopin got acquainted with Charlotte’s father Baron James de Rothschild and her mother Betty […]

The researcher Solomon Asch made some laboratory researches in 1950’s to determine the extent of the influence of the ideas of a group of many people, being in contact with a person, on the ideas of that person. These researches resulted in the tests which are known today as the Asch Paradigm in social psychology. […]

According to the German Society of Ophthalmology, which has collated different scientific studies on crying, women cry on average between 30 and 64 times a year, and men between 6 and 17 times per year. Men tend to cry for between two and four minutes, and women cry for about six minutes. Crying turns into […]

fac totum in Latin means ‘do everything!’ In the old days It was a name given to someone who carried out more than one task in an organisation, at home or in the work place. In some sectors, also by utilising technological facilities, it is easier to make it seem as if one is managing […]

In her song Celementine Sarah Jaffe says, “All that time, wasted / I wish I was a little more delicate.” You might consider some of your activities in the past as time spent in futile. You might wish to have been more careful. Easy to say now, but hard to notice at that time. Ask […]

Valentina Lisitsa is a Ukrainian-born classical pianist who resides in USA. By mid 2012 she had nearly 50 million views on her YouTube videos. Ms. Lisitsa followed a unique path to success, independently launching the beginnings of her career via the social media, without initially signing to a tour promoter or record company. To further […]