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Continue reading →: Rifle and WatchYou ask what I wear? My rifle and my watch. One tells me I’m still dangerous, the other that I’m still alive. Six kilometres of ravine, same patrol twice daily. That’s what 2014 looks like from down here.
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Continue reading →: The Light That Went Out EarlyCatherine arrives too late to a community exhibition, then confronts how email and browser tabs have become elaborate avoidance systems. When digital housekeeping replaces actual presence, she plans a modest Sunday experiment: three phone-off hours with only tide tables and recipe cards for company.
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Kathleen Antonelli: The Subroutine’s Architect – How Ireland’s Invisible Programmer Built Modern Software
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Continue reading →: Kathleen Antonelli: The Subroutine’s Architect – How Ireland’s Invisible Programmer Built Modern SoftwareFrom Irish immigrant to ENIAC coder, Kathleen Antonelli invented the subroutine while being told to smile for cameras. Hear how she cracked machine logic, fought erasure, and shaped the digital age – only to be recognised decades later.
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Continue reading →: Upon Saying Nothing of ConsequenceI ought not to speak at all, yet here I stand in the guild-hall, wondering what mark I shall leave upon the world. Perhaps only the memory of a foolish girl who spoke too much and said nothing of consequence.
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Continue reading →: The Hardest CurrencyBlack Friday’s false urgency prompts Catherine to reflect on her hardest decision: not a dramatic past crossroads, but an ongoing commitment to be seen. Museum hours disrupt her clinic schedule, patients bear the cost, and ordinary intimacy demands daily renewal. The price of presence, measured in rearranged Thursdays.
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Jean Bartik: Inventing Software Engineering From ENIAC’s Vacuum Tubes
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Continue reading →: Jean Bartik: Inventing Software Engineering From ENIAC’s Vacuum TubesJean Bartik taught herself to program ENIAC through schematic diagrams alone, inventing subroutines and debugging techniques that became computing’s foundation. Yet the woman who transformed 18,000 vacuum tubes into working logic was erased from history for forty years – until her story reshaped how we understand innovation itself.
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Continue reading →: A Confession at the Water’s EdgeI am dying upon these wharves where I have laboured thirty years. Before I go, I must speak of the choice that damns me – the silence I kept when I ought to have spoken. Learn from my failure.
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Continue reading →: The Fifth ChairCatherine navigates a holiday prompt about special dishes by tracing three kitchens – her mother’s Nevada improvisation, her father’s steady roasts, and her own risotto – before volunteering at a community meal and hosting a modest Thanksgiving table where an intentionally empty chair keeps vigil.
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Yvette Cauchois: The Woman Who Saw the Hidden Element and Shaped the Spectrum
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Continue reading →: Yvette Cauchois: The Woman Who Saw the Hidden Element and Shaped the SpectrumLegendary physicist Yvette Cauchois discusses unseen elements, her ingenious spectrometer, and the long shadows cast by scientific credit disputes. Her candid conversation spans discovery, war, and missed recognition – offering insight and wit from the overlooked founder of modern X-ray science.
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Continue reading →: At the CrossroadsI stand where four roads meet, this day after our first national Thanksgiving, and find myself wondering: might not the worn stones beneath my feet teach us how decay itself serves hope? Come, friend – let me share what I beheld.
Feign the virtue thou dost seek, till it becometh thine own
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