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by Brandy Cross | Sep 27, 2023 | Blog
In April of 1651, a 63-year-old white man published a book that would go on to influence the rise and fall of governments, societies, nations. Thomas Hobbe’s Leviathan detailed the theory of the social contract, the idea that in a society, people give up the power of...
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by Brandy Cross | Jul 3, 2023 | Blog
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants” Everyone knows this quote. The thing is, it’s difficult to say if it means what you think it means. Sure, Isaac Newton, was referring to his teachers and the philosophers whom he...
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by Brandy Cross | Jul 3, 2023 | Blog
The the transition of the old gods to the new *this contains spoilers for the comic Sandman and for the comic Lucifer. If you’d like to read those works without insight into the plot, do come back later. In Neil Gaiman’s Sandman (published 1989-1993) the...
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by Brandy Cross | Apr 14, 2023 | Blog
On the convoluted origin of words Sometimes things are not what they seem. That’s true with a lot of things, but with words in the English language, it’s more common than not that a word might be so convoluted in origin as to be bordering on the...
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by Brandy Cross | Jan 25, 2023 | Blog
Most of us have, by dint of a slip of the tongue or while over explaining something or other, managed to say something that ended up being ridiculously repetitive or tautological. Think of phrases like “fortified fort“. You say it, take a second, and realize how...
by Brandy Cross | Aug 22, 2022 | Blog
Or why what you think you’re saying means more than what you’re saying In colloquial usage, pragmatic means to be practical, to deal with things sensibly and realistically with all practical concerns taken into consideration. While I rather love this form...
