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    Hilda Phoebe Hudson: The Forgotten Mathematician Behind Epidemics, Aircraft, and Geometry

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    08/12/2025

    | Reading time:

    41–61 minutes
    Hilda Phoebe Hudson: The Forgotten Mathematician Behind Epidemics, Aircraft, and Geometry

    Hilda Phoebe Hudson calculated disease spread before epidemiology existed, modelled aircraft stress during WWI, and mastered Cremona transformations – yet history erased her name from all three fields. A brilliant mind in a body society had no place for.

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  • Daily Prompt

    Settling Accounts

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    Bob Lynn

    on

    08/12/2025

    | Reading time:

    4–7 minutes
    Settling Accounts

    Standing at the edge of a glacier, terrified of heights, wondering why I paid good money to be this frightened. Something about atonement and settling old scores. The storm’s coming. I should probably go.

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  • Poetry

    The Hill I’ll Die On (And I Know It’s Stupid)

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    08/12/2025

    | Reading time:

    1–2 minutes
    The Hill I’ll Die On (And I Know It’s Stupid)

    Plant your flag in absurd soil. Defend the indefensible with footnotes and passion. Because if we can’t be ridiculous about the things that don’t matter, what’s the bloody point of anything?

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  • New Corinth

    Inventory

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    07/12/2025

    | Reading time:

    6–8 minutes
    Inventory

    After Michael and Linda depart, Catherine faces a deceptively simple prompt: catalogue the year’s positive events. The list proves ungrand – Thursdays at the museum, watercolour fumbling, dinner invitations – but reveals something riskier than achievement: evidence she’s learning to inhabit her life rather than merely curate it.

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  • Women In STEM

    Zinaida Yermolyeva: Weaponising Mould, Defying Death

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    07/12/2025

    | Reading time:

    44–66 minutes
    Zinaida Yermolyeva: Weaponising Mould, Defying Death

    Discover the Soviet microbiologist who weaponised mould under German bombardment, drank cholera to test vaccines, and saved the Red Army in 1943 – years before the West. A story of wartime pragmatism, Cold War erasure, and the woman history forgot.

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  • Daily Prompt

    A Matter of Judgment

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    Bob Lynn

    on

    07/12/2025

    | Reading time:

    5–8 minutes
    A Matter of Judgment

    They say I overstepped. That I put the ship at risk. But you’ll see, when you hear my account, that sometimes the most dangerous choice is playing it safe. I know these waters better than their machines ever will.

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  • Poetry

    Almost

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    07/12/2025

    | Reading time:

    1–2 minutes
    Almost

    Two souls recognise each other in the wrong season – one still unravelling, one already leaving. A lyrical exploration of almost-love, where connection collides with circumstance, and the most profound question isn’t if, but when.

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  • New Corinth

    Domesticated

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    Bob Lynn

    on

    06/12/2025

    | Reading time:

    10–15 minutes
    Domesticated

    Harbour seals and caged brothers on the morning harbour walk. Linda moves through Catherine’s kitchen as if it’s always been shared. Wild foxes cross boundaries without asking permission. A text about deer arrives. Catherine learns domestication isn’t only for animals.

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  • Women In STEM

    Alice Perry: The Engineer Who Built Roads and Left in Poetry – Ireland’s Only Woman County Surveyor

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    06/12/2025

    | Reading time:

    51–77 minutes
    Alice Perry: The Engineer Who Built Roads and Left in Poetry – Ireland’s Only Woman County Surveyor

    A woman who calculated bridge loads and inspected factories speaks candidly about the doors that opened, then closed. From Galway’s county surveyor to Boston’s Christian Science poet, Alice Perry reveals how precision persists across worlds, and why institutions, not individuals, truly leak talent.

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  • Daily Prompt

    Observations Upon the Inferior Orders: A Natural Study

    Published by

    Bob Lynn

    on

    06/12/2025

    | Reading time:

    4–6 minutes
    Observations Upon the Inferior Orders: A Natural Study

    You believe yourself safe amongst honest country folk. But what if the gentleman at your hearth possesses a keener understanding of human nature than you can fathom? Some predators do not announce themselves. Observations upon the inferior orders begin.

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