Jonathan Marcus
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  • Presentosis

    September 28, 2018

    It’s the beginning of a sweater which brings us to the raw guts of the problem:  this “sweater” is not a sweater.  At all. …

  • The Founding Mothers

    September 13, 2018

    These major rebel dudes marshaled a scrawny, patched-together, hungry crew—barely what you’d call an army—and they manned-up in a major dust-up with Great Britain,…

  • The Next Testament

    September 7, 2018

    Empires rise and shine.  Sooner or later they run out of fuel, and shrink.  Maybe it’s firewood—they burn it all.  Maybe it’s wheat fields,…

  • Open Questions

    August 22, 2018

    What kind of omnipotent god is offended by a fact?
    And what kind of pope or duke or mom or dad or blacksmith or apprentice…

  • Tessellation

    July 13, 2018

    Many of the world’s languages contain such a finitude of words that you can actually make a list, learn all the words, and be done. …

  • Gelotology

    June 23, 2018

    And if human beings couldn’t laugh, it’s possible that our entire species would have exploded by spontaneous combustion and drowned in the Nile delta…

  • Oy, The Heresy!

    May 3, 2018

    Galileo Galilei in Italy and Frances Bacon in England lived a thousand miles apart, yet pursued similar interests at the same time – so…