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.

Monday, June 29, 2015

Meteorites

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You can own meteorites, the remaining pieces of the early solar system. They are swept up by the Earth in its orbit, and survive the long ...

Friday, June 19, 2015

The Ferengi Rules of Commerce

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Intended as humor or parody, this little book offers a megagram of useful – if contradictory – advice. Before the invention of the Fe...

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Salsa Showdown: Jaime's versus Royito's

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In the movies, when those two guys are standing there, the streets are already cleared, so I am not going to say which one is better. It d...

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Two Books on Fermat’s Last Theorem

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By the fifth grade, kids learn enough arithmetic and geometry to appreciate the challenge in Fermat’s Last Theorem. FLT stood for about 35...

Thursday, June 4, 2015

The Unremarkable Origin of Species

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The most surprising facts are (1) Darwin’s Origin of Species is still a lightning rod for religious fundamentalists and (2) in various loc...

Sunday, May 31, 2015

Peace is More Powerful

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Imagine a successful protest in Berlin 1943 against the Holocaust. Between February 27 and March 6, about 200 German women stood outside a...

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Armies Without Weapons

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Not all military units engage in combat. Chaplains and medics are easy examples. Twenty-two Thirteen American states states and territor...

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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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