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The Foundation: Observations Upon the Common Life
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The Foundation: Observations Upon the Common Life
From my tower I observe the common life unfolding below – the clerk, the housewife, the lamplighter at his rounds – and perceive in their small daily rituals the true foundation upon wh…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Three Peeves and the Door They Guard
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Three Peeves and the Door They Guard
Catherine catalogues three irritations – weaponised busyness, sensory-hostile spaces, tidy narratives – and discovers each is a mirror. Her standards have become walls. With Thanksgivin…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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‘Scott of Girton’: The Woman Undergraduates Cheered Into Cambridge History
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‘Scott of Girton’: The Woman Undergraduates Cheered Into Cambridge History
A woman silenced by deafness yet heard by undergraduates who drowned out Cambridge’s refusal to name her. From illegal exam-taker to Bryn Mawr’s founding mathematician, she demanded rig…
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November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Borrowed Convictions
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Borrowed Convictions
They call this place a school. How terribly civilised. I’m granted library privileges today – such magnanimity. One reads Milton between decorative bars, contemplates truth whilst they …
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November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The Inner Circle, Named Aloud
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The Inner Circle, Named Aloud
Catherine confronts her professional discomfort with the word ‘favourite’ and names her current inner circle: Father Walsh at dawn, Jenny’s conspiratorial library wisdom, David&#8…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva: The Physicist Einstein Wouldn't Publish - How Thirty Years of Rigorous Work on Thermodynamic Foundations Remained Hidden in Plain Sight
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Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva: The Physicist Einstein Wouldn’t Publish – How Thirty Years of Rigorous Work on Thermodynamic Foundations Remained Hidden in Plain Sight
Tatyana Afanasyeva co-authored physics’ most influential encyclopedia article on statistical mechanics, yet history credits her husband alone. After his death, she spent thirty years developi…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Favourite People
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Favourite People
Sitting here in the church shadows, turning over a daft question: who are my favourite people? Funny how a word like that doesn’t fit what I feel for the wife, the lads. Technology’s ra…
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November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The Creatures Who Greet Us at the Door
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The Creatures Who Greet Us at the Door
A morning encounter with Tom’s dog and a sun-warm bench prompt Catherine to consider which creatures she’s trusted into her carefully ordered life – and whether she’s finall…
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November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Mary Sears: The Oceanographer Who Mapped Death and Saved Thousands at Tarawa - How One Woman's Tide Tables Changed the Course of the Pacific War
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Mary Sears: The Oceanographer Who Mapped Death and Saved Thousands at Tarawa – How One Woman’s Tide Tables Changed the Course of the Pacific War
Mary Sears reveals how her midnight tide calculations saved thousands of Marines at Tarawa and beyond – and why the Navy desperately needed her expertise while refusing to let her on research…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Hollow Bones
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Hollow Bones
This afternoon in Marcus’s studio, surrounded by fox bones and silent paintings, I find myself reckoning with beauty, vulnerability, and the strange comfort of hollow things. Even the crow skull se…
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November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Twice Daily: On Tides and Staying
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Twice Daily: On Tides and Staying
Faced with the perennial question – beach or mountains? – Catherine walks New Corinth’s windswept shoreline and weighs the allure of solid peaks against the lessons of flux. A med…
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November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Florence Nightingale David: The Statistician Who Calculated Casualties and Saved London During the Blitz
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Florence Nightingale David: The Statistician Who Calculated Casualties and Saved London During the Blitz
Florence Nightingale David hand-cranked mechanical calculators to create correlation tables that enabled modern statistics, then forecasted bombing casualties before London was attacked – wor…
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November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Standing in the Mire
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Standing in the Mire
They call it folly when a man speaks truth. Here in the marsh I stand where ground gives way – much like the court I fled. What sacrifice will sate their hunger? Whose blood greases ambition&…
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November 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Three Meals, Three Grammars
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Three Meals, Three Grammars
Catherine examines three family recipes – her mother’s improvised lemon pilaf now refined into fennel risotto, her father’s steadying shepherd’s pie, and a tentative new dis…
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November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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The Blood Between: A Conversation with Ruby Sakae Hirose
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The Blood Between: A Conversation with Ruby Sakae Hirose
Ruby Sakae Hirose decoded blood clotting’s deepest secrets whilst her family was caged in American concentration camps. The biochemist who advanced life-saving vaccines could hold property he…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The Pilgrim's Longing
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The Pilgrim’s Longing
They would have me bent to the ledger like a beast of burden, my spirit trapped amongst these dusty folios whilst my mind ranges far beyond these walls, forever dreaming of distant shores and the l…
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November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The Woman with No Recorded Name: On Quiet Hours and the Luxury of Choice
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The Woman with No Recorded Name: On Quiet Hours and the Luxury of Choice
During Wednesday quiet hours at the museum, Catherine finds herself drawn repeatedly to an unnamed woman in a Civil War daguerreotype. Reflecting on family migrations and the museum’s stillne…
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November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Kathleen Booth: The Woman Who Taught Computers to Speak Human
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Kathleen Booth: The Woman Who Taught Computers to Speak Human
Computing pioneer Kathleen Booth invented assembly language at 25, built three groundbreaking computers, and demonstrated the first machine translation – yet worked in the shadows for decades…
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November 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Absurd Duty
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Absurd Duty
Twenty-three days stranded. Relief cannot land. A wreck-survivor burns with fever I cannot break. The sea mocks us whilst I fulfil my absurd duty – tending the dying, trimming wicks, recordin…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The Small Hunch That Comes Before the Overthinking
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The Small Hunch That Comes Before the Overthinking
Catherine advises a patient to trust instincts before overthinking, then catches herself rarely following that counsel. She contrasts decades of clinical pattern-recognition with wobblier personal …
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November 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Evelyn Boyd Granville: The Mathematician Who Programmed the Path to the Moon
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Evelyn Boyd Granville: The Mathematician Who Programmed the Path to the Moon
Evelyn Boyd Granville, second Black woman to earn a mathematics PhD, programmed Apollo spacecraft trajectories – yet remained invisible for decades. From segregated classrooms to NASA’s…
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November 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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The Cipher Broken
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The Cipher Broken
I have cracked the cipher at last. Within these sanctuary walls, I stand vindicated – an outsider who trusted her instincts when all counselled doubt. Today I glimpsed that better world, the …
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November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Corridor Month
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Corridor Month
Catherine clocks that her boldest moves cluster in October, not summer: interviews, watercolours, Bartók, a Québec booking, and long-buried letters bearing her mother’s name, as she wonders why she…
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November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Berta Karlik: The Element Finder
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Berta Karlik: The Element Finder
A physicist who discovered nature’s hidden element during wartime Vienna speaks candidly about breaking barriers, proving astatine occurs naturally, and how her overlooked work now saves canc…
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November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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The Crossing
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The Crossing
At the harbour’s edge, November 1942. Soldiers wait for dawn and the crossing. A mentor tells them the cost, why November speaks truth, what the abyss demands. No brave words. No false promis…
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November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM