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.

Sunday, August 31, 2025

Psychohistory from Asimov’s Foundation to Big Data

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Psychohistory had no academic definition before Isaac Asimov penned his Foundation Trilogy 1942-1953. In the 1970s the academic pursuit of p...

Saturday, August 30, 2025

Ashleigh Brilliant, Tom Lehrer, and the Limits of Humor

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Arthur Koestler explained humor as an intersection or juxtaposition of two different meanings which then creates a new meaning of its own. H...

Sunday, July 27, 2025

Analytics and Metrics for this Site

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A friend asked me about the numbers here and I had to go into the analytics to refresh my memory because I write for myself. Creating techni...

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Casablanca

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We viewed the perennial favorite over two nights for Bastille Day weekend. The story and its presentation hold up well over the years. There...

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Aphorisms

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I am the point-of-contact for a support group here in Austin. I joined as a member and inherited the work when the person before me had to m...

Sunday, June 29, 2025

EUREKA

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The plain truth is that over the years we have preferred cozy murder mysteries from Quincy ME and Columbo to NUMB3RS , Bones , and Foyle’s...

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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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