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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…

Three Meals, Three Grammars
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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…

The Blood Between: A Conversation with Ruby Sakae Hirose
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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…

The Pilgrim's Longing
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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…

The Woman with No Recorded Name: On Quiet Hours and the Luxury of Choice
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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…

Kathleen Booth: The Woman Who Taught Computers to Speak Human
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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…

Absurd Duty
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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 …

The Small Hunch That Comes Before the Overthinking
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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…

Evelyn Boyd Granville: The Mathematician Who Programmed the Path to the Moon
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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 …

The Cipher Broken
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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…

Corridor Month
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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…

Berta Karlik: The Element Finder
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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…

The Crossing
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The Harbour Within the Harbour Catherine walks the Delaware at dawn with Father Walsh and asks whether her favourite place is the harbour path, her shell-lined consulting room, Marcus’s café or a museum stillness space – d…

The Harbour Within the Harbour
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Alice Lee: The Statistician Who Measured Anatomists’ Skulls and Debunked Gender Science Alice Lee, Victorian statistician, dismantled pseudoscience linking skull size to intelligence – by measuring anatomists’ heads and naming them publicly. Paid less than a typist, she re…

Alice Lee: The Statistician Who Measured Anatomists' Skulls and Debunked Gender Science
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Green Walls Saturday. Green walls breathing. Can’t remember my own name but they keep asking the same questions. What’s your favourite place? Heart hammering, breath catching. Something I’m n…

Green Walls
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First Impressions and the Art of Not Arriving Fully Assembled Catherine quietly audits her own “professional armour” as she ponders the first impression she gives: impeccable clinician, or actual human being with crooked watercolours and late-life…

First Impressions and the Art of Not Arriving Fully Assembled
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Christine Ladd-Franklin: The Logician Who Refused Her Fake Diploma and Rewrote the Rules of Valid Argument At seventy-eight, Christine Ladd-Franklin demanded her earned PhD – denied forty-four years earlier simply for being a woman. Discover how this mathematician and logician solved problems that…

Christine Ladd-Franklin: The Logician Who Refused Her Fake Diploma and Rewrote the Rules of Valid Argument
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Fifty-Seven Views Day three on the ice. Filming the glacier die in real time. Nobody’s watching – last video got fifty-seven views. Storm coming in. Should leave but won’t. Another voice note Marcu…

Fifty-Seven Views
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The Ordinary Courage of Asking for More New Corinth’s favourite psychiatrist swaps case notes for a late-life love story on her nightstand, as a quietly subversive novel dares Catherine to want more than usefulness, and to decide whether…

The Ordinary Courage of Asking for More
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Hedwig Kohn: Measuring Light, Defying Erasure A German-Jewish physicist recounts her 17-year wait for academic recognition, her dismissal by the Nazis, and her brother’s murder in the Holocaust. She discusses how 70 international letters…

Hedwig Kohn: Measuring Light, Defying Erasure
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The Web I Wove A poor woman of eight-and-thirty years stands before the justices, caught in the web of her own making. Time has been both servant and master to this coiner of false shillings. Shall mercy be exten…

The Web I Wove
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Harbouring One Life Catherine weighs Parisian fantasies against New Corinth’s harbour grit, testing whether a Quebec hotel, her parents’ ghost-cities and a careful-handed man can tempt her from the radical experiment …

Harbouring One Life
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Ida Freund: First Female Chemistry Lecturer and the Periodic Table of Cupcakes A century after her death, the Austrian refugee who became Britain’s first female university chemistry lecturer speaks candidly about inventing periodic table cupcakes, designing apparatus, f…

Ida Freund: First Female Chemistry Lecturer and the Periodic Table of Cupcakes
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On Legacy and the Governance of Men A man of property speaks upon legacy and the proper governance of those beneath him. Hear how fear ensures remembrance, how land becomes dominion, and why weakness must be met with iron resolve. Tr…

On Legacy and the Governance of Men
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The Shell on the Harbour Sill On a rain-soaked Thursday, Catherine answers a seemingly light prompt: coolest thing she’s ever found and kept. A chipped harbour shell becomes confession booth, colleague, and secular rosary, as s…

The Shell on the Harbour Sill
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Lingering in the Bit In‑Between Catherine does battle with the one thing she prescribes to everyone else and resists for herself: unscheduled pauses. In this quiet harbour-night entry, she tests staying in the doorway of her own …

Lingering in the Bit In‑Between
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Marta Bohn-Meyer: First Woman in the Blackbird – The Engineer Behind NASA’s Forgotten High-Speed Research From SR-71 Mach 3 flights to aerobatic championships, Marta Bohn-Meyer broke barriers whilst advancing supersonic research. Discover how her laminar flow innovations still shape aviation’s fu…

Marta Bohn-Meyer: First Woman in the Blackbird - The Engineer Behind NASA's Forgotten High-Speed Research
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Her Bright Particular Star November 1864: A former theatre wardrobe keeper, now imprisoned, delivers a haunting monologue from a prison yard. Consumed by envy and dreams, she recalls a stolen love letter – the finest t…

Her Bright Particular Star
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Learning Takes Wing An Edwardian father shepherds his sons through a ruined abbey as news of Santos‑Dumont’s Paris flight stirs wonder. Boots crunch, wind whispers, and learning takes wing. A playful confession about …

Learning Takes Wing
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