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Continue reading →: Hilda Phoebe Hudson: The Forgotten Mathematician Behind Epidemics, Aircraft, and GeometryHilda 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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Continue reading →: Settling AccountsStanding 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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Continue reading →: 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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Continue reading →: InventoryAfter 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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Continue reading →: Zinaida Yermolyeva: Weaponising Mould, Defying DeathDiscover 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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Continue reading →: A Matter of JudgmentThey 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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Continue reading →: AlmostTwo 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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Continue reading →: DomesticatedHarbour 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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Continue reading →: Alice Perry: The Engineer Who Built Roads and Left in Poetry – Ireland’s Only Woman County SurveyorA 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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Continue reading →: Observations Upon the Inferior Orders: A Natural StudyYou 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.
