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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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Continue reading →: Mary Sears: The Oceanographer Who Mapped Death and Saved Thousands at Tarawa – How One Woman’s Tide Tables Changed the Course of the Pacific WarMary 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 vessels. The oceanographer who mapped victory speaks candidly about classified wartime intelligence, institutional bias, and the mathematics of…
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Continue reading →: Hollow BonesThis 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 seems to know what I’ve lost.
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Continue reading →: Twice Daily: On Tides and StayingFaced 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 meditation on tides, community, and why staying put might be the braver climb. Québec beckons; the harbour holds.
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Florence Nightingale David: The Statistician Who Calculated Casualties and Saved London During the Blitz
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Continue reading →: Florence Nightingale David: The Statistician Who Calculated Casualties and Saved London During the BlitzFlorence Nightingale David hand-cranked mechanical calculators to create correlation tables that enabled modern statistics, then forecasted bombing casualties before London was attacked – work so classified it remained secret for decades. A conversation with the overlooked statistician who calculated death to save lives.
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Continue reading →: Standing in the MireThey 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’s wheel? Only fools see clear.
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Continue reading →: Three Meals, Three GrammarsCatherine 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 dish with David – while quietly gathering the courage to invite Michael and Susan for early December.
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The Blood Between: A Conversation with Ruby Sakae Hirose
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Continue reading →: The Blood Between: A Conversation with Ruby Sakae HiroseRuby 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 her immigrant parents were legally forbidden to own. Science, sacrifice, erasure.
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Continue reading →: The Pilgrim’s LongingThey 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 liberty I may never know.
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The Woman with No Recorded Name: On Quiet Hours and the Luxury of Choice
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Continue reading →: The Woman with No Recorded Name: On Quiet Hours and the Luxury of ChoiceDuring 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 stillness project, she weighs whose stories matter – and what her own late-life risks honour.
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Kathleen Booth: The Woman Who Taught Computers to Speak Human
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Continue reading →: Kathleen Booth: The Woman Who Taught Computers to Speak HumanComputing 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. At 103, she finally corrects the record on infrastructure, erasure, and recognition.
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