Necessary Facts

Observations, reports, and discoveries that are true of necessity because they are perceivable and reasonable, empirical and logical, evidentiary and rational, synthetic and analytic. Truths are objective statements.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Rational Optimist and The Grand Complication

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Finding a quotable quote is a challenge because all 359 pages are exciting and pithy. This is an antidote to the ever-popular doomsaying. ...

Saturday, March 17, 2012

South by Southwest 2012

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Working as a security guard at 6th and Congress, SXSW came to me. Dee Hemingway in Starlet by Sean Baker Violin Monster played i...

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Harriman's Logical Leap Almost Makes It

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The root of the problem with his presentation is that the audience is not defined. If he were writing only for others in his peer group –...

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Monday, March 12, 2012

Is Philosophy a Science?

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Sociology, philosophy, music performance, almost any pursuit can be a sci ence, if the scientific method is applied. The scientific method...

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Gresham's Conjecture

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We learn it as "Gresham's Law" the claim that "bad money drives good money from the market." But the general rule ha...

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Science Fairs and Science Frauds

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Last month, I volunteered to judge the exhibits in “Behavioral and Social Sciences” at the Austin Energy Regional Science Festival. After...

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Another Cheer for American Education

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A hundred years ago, an eighth-grade education was sufficient. In 1910 only 5% of Americans entered high school. Then, the “high school m...

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Michael E. Marotta: Experienced freelance technical writer always looking for more work. Author of over 300 newspaper, magazine and journal articles on topics of business, technology, and society.

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