The Monkey King's whole story, from a stone egg to a Buddha, with the chapter for each scene, his seven names, his real powers and why he wears the golden headband.
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Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly and woke unsure which was the dreamer. Here is the full passage, where it sits in the book, and the main ways to read it.
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Sixteen real passages on learning and teaching from the Analects, each with its number, and three famous 'Confucius quotes' that turn out to be someone else's.
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Every virtue on Aristotle's list sits between two vices. Here is the full table from the Nicomachean Ethics, and why the golden mean is not the same as moderation.
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Leonardo designed a flying machine, a parachute, an armoured vehicle and a 280-metre bridge. Here is where each is drawn, and which ones anyone actually built.
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Ada Lovelace's 'first program' is a 25-step table that works out a Bernoulli number. Here is how it runs, where the bug is, and why her credit is still argued over.
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Tesla vs Edison was a fight over how to send electricity. Here is how AC beat DC between 1882 and 1896, and which famous stories about the two rivals are myths.
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Tesla invented the induction motor, the polyphase AC system and the Tesla coil. He did not invent AC, X-rays or neon. Here is each claim, checked against the patents.
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Hays, Hammond, Hard, Waterfield or the free George Long? Compare Meditations translations side by side, see what the old translators said, and learn how to read the book.
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Some things are up to you and some are not. A plain guide to Stoicism's core ideas, the main Stoics, the best first book and seven exercises, quoted from the sources.
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Euthyphro on piety, Cephalus on justice and a boy doubling a square: three real Socratic method examples from Plato, with the steps and the classroom questions.
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AI versions of Socrates or Marcus Aurelius are interpretations, not the people. Here is how they work, why they slip, and how to ask so the answers hold up.
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