How many alkali metals can you name? If the answer is none, your high school chemistry class let you down. There’s an answer to this … Read More ›
Author: Noah Diekemper
Noah Diekemper studied Latin and Mathematics at Hillsdale College (B.S.) and Data Science at Loyola University Maryland (M.S.). Motivated by a desire to preserve and share knowledge, he contributed to Goodtruebeautiful.net and has also been published in The Critic, The Federalist, Intercollegiate Review, and The Baltimore Sun.
The 1994 Disney cartoon The Lion King draws on Shakespearean tragedy, Japanese animation, biblical proportions, and the music of Elton John to craft a rich, … Read More ›
In the wake of Congressional hearings on the possibility of D.C. statehood, Washington Post columnist Robert McCartney published a “Perspective” piece promising to show that … Read More ›
Suppose you see a trolley racing down its tracks, unable to stop. Further down, there are five people tied to said tracks. You, meanwhile, are … Read More ›
Ever since the dawn of history, some go-to techniques have wormed themselves into mankind’s habits, despite having no business being there. That clichéd opening for … Read More ›
“Friends are just strangers you haven’t alienated yet.” If someone said this to you, you probably wouldn’t think that he had decided to refer to … Read More ›
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Humanity consumes resources, but resources are finite. Therefore, we are destined to one day run out of … Read More ›
At heart, fiction is a made-up story. These stories draw on the real world for context, structures, settings, and even characters, however. More often than … Read More ›
The plays of William Shakespeare have given our language turns of phrase we all know: “full circle,” (King Lear) “break the ice,” (Taming of the … Read More ›