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Continue reading →: Absurd DutyTwenty-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, recording futilities. What use is healing when water bars all deliverance?
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The Small Hunch That Comes Before the Overthinking
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Continue reading →: The Small Hunch That Comes Before the OverthinkingCatherine 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 hunches – saying yes to David, keeping her shell, reading letters in company – and designs a modest week-long experiment in self-trust.
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Evelyn Boyd Granville: The Mathematician Who Programmed the Path to the Moon
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Continue reading →: Evelyn Boyd Granville: The Mathematician Who Programmed the Path to the MoonEvelyn 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 moon missions, she calculated paths through space whilst confronting barriers on Earth. Recognition arrived at ninety-nine.
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Continue reading →: The Cipher BrokenI 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 earthly paradise which proves society need not remain inferno.
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Continue reading →: Corridor MonthCatherine 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 comes most alive in months that look like endings, not beginnings.
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Continue reading →: Berta Karlik: The Element FinderA 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 cancer patients. Rigorous science, international networks, and the cost of being first.
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Continue reading →: The CrossingAt 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 promises. Just the reckoning before they go.
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Continue reading →: The Harbour Within the HarbourCatherine 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 – discovering it might be room where she dares arrive as herself.
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Alice Lee: The Statistician Who Measured Anatomists’ Skulls and Debunked Gender Science
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Continue reading →: Alice Lee: The Statistician Who Measured Anatomists’ Skulls and Debunked Gender ScienceAlice Lee, Victorian statistician, dismantled pseudoscience linking skull size to intelligence – by measuring anatomists’ heads and naming them publicly. Paid less than a typist, she refused to recant under pressure from Francis Galton himself. Her rigorously calculated revenge rewrote evolutionary biology.
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Continue reading →: Green WallsSaturday. 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 not supposed to know. Something locked up tight. Maybe I did this to myself.
Feign the virtue thou dost seek, till it becometh thine own
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