Infographics
Visual explainers on books, ideas, language and finance.
Compares Hephaestus, smith of the Greek gods, with Batman's Lucius Fox and James Bond's Q: the makers who build the hero's gear, plus a family tree of craftsmen from other myths.
📚 The Iliad · The Odyssey
What the VIX measures, how to turn it into an expected one-month range for the S&P 500, and what the number can't tell you.
Traces one word for indignation from Mark 10:14 in Greek and Russian to Ivan's decision to "return the ticket" in The Brothers Karamazov.
📚 The Brothers Karamazov
Proposes defining God as a role rather than a particular being, so different religions and worldviews can be compared on common ground.
📄 Read the full paper (PDF)
A side-by-side primer on the two languages of the New Testament and the Roman classics: alphabets, sounds, grammar, and an outline for learning both.
📚 The Aeneid
A no-spoiler character map for first-time readers: the family tree, the many nicknames, and who's who in the town.
📚 The Brothers Karamazov
A no-spoiler guide to the four families, the war's key dates, and how Russian names work, so the huge cast stays straight.
📚 War and Peace
A book-club field guide: the two questions that drive the dialogue, the city–soul analogy, the five regimes, and a book-by-book map.
📚 The Republic
A book-club companion to Augustine's answer to the sack of Rome: the two cities, his life, and a map of all 22 books.
📚 City of God
Follows the survivors out of Troy into the Odyssey, the Greek tragedies and the Aeneid, comparing how each answers who pays the cost of war.
📚 The Iliad · The Odyssey · The Aeneid
Compares the two founding horror novels: a man who looks like a monster and a monster who can pass as a man, and what film adaptations flattened.
📚 Frankenstein · Dracula · Paradise Lost
A family reading path through Aesop, Lang's Blue Fairy Book, Andersen and Grimm, with stories sorted from gentle bedtime tales to the grim ones.
📚 Aesop's Fables · The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales · Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
Four ways into the Arthur legend (Sir Gawain, Malory, Pyle and Guite) compared by era, audience and plot, to help you pick where to start.
📚 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight · The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Pairs each of the ten plagues in Exodus with the Egyptian god it challenged, following the story down the Nile.
Pascal's wager as a grid: what atheism, Christianity, Judaism and Islam each say awaits you, depending on which one turns out to be true.
A beginner's guide to what Protestants and Catholics share and where they differ on justification, quoting each side's own sources.
Newton's laws and thermodynamics explained with a car and its engine, and why describing one machine takes both rulebooks.
A playful comparison of the Odyssey and The Cat in the Hat: two stories about uninvited guests taking over a house while its master is away.
📚 The Odyssey
Uses the bell curve of human height to define luck as a rare outcome that actually happened, and to separate the draw from the work.
One idea seen three ways: the derivative as slope in math, as velocity in physics, and as the margin in economics.
Explains a private equity buyout through something familiar: buying a rental house with a down payment and a mortgage. A teaching model, not investment advice.
Game theory and econometrics side by side: how people choose when others' choices matter, and how economists measure what actually happened.
A sorting key for meteors, meteorites, asteroids, comets and planets, including why Pluto's category changed in 2006.