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Continue reading →: Kathleen Drew-Baker: The Botanist Who Saved Sushi but Lost Her Job to the Marriage BarDiscover how a Manchester scientist’s 1949 breakthrough transformed Japan’s nori industry – yet her own university fired her for marrying. Hear her candid reflections on erasure, excellence, and the oyster shells that changed the world.
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Continue reading →: On CaptivitySeven weeks captive in rooms that once mattered. The garden below grows wild whilst I catalogue the peculiar architecture of confinement. Memory, I find, is the truest monstrosity – and I should gladly prune it away.
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Continue reading →: The Year I Stopped BelievingAt six, the world was wide with mystery. Now we understand the winter stars but cannot wish upon them. A haunting meditation on outgrowing Father Christmas – and the resentment of trading wonder for wisdom.
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Continue reading →: The Divided HouseCatherine’s body wakes at dawn for harbour walks, but her mind holds office hours past midnight. As Michael’s visit approaches, she experiments with protected time – learning whether genuine presence requires choosing between morning efficiency and evening honesty, or risking both.
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Continue reading →: Tomorrow’s FoolWe tell ourselves to wait until we’re ready – as if readiness arrives gift-wrapped. But what if the door was never locked? A meditation on the paralysing advice we offer ourselves, and the lives we rehearse but never live.
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Continue reading →: Marlyn Meltzer: The Mathematician Who Wired the First Computer, Then Disappeared Into Community ServiceMarlyn Meltzer taught herself to program ENIAC’s 3,000 switches without manuals, inventing software engineering before the discipline existed. Erased from history after marrying in 1947, she later knitted 500 chemotherapy hats. Her untold story challenges what we think we know about computing’s origins.
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Continue reading →: Sub JudiceI sit in judgment whilst my hands shake from want of whisky. The red earth of Katanga clings to everything. I fear I am become both judge and judged, and the verdict grows clearer with each passing night.
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Continue reading →: What Bodies Will BearCovering Rajesh’s morning clinic and planning for Michael’s weekend visit, Catherine confronts leftover turkey bones and lamb mince – and uncomfortable questions about factory farming, inherited recipes, consent, and whether she’s better at feeding others than listening to her own appetite.
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Continue reading →: Ruth Teitelbaum: The Mathematician Who Invented Software Engineering From Schematic Diagrams, Then Vanished Into HistoryOne of ENIAC’s six female programmers reveals how she invented software engineering from circuit diagrams, computed ballistics in seconds instead of days – then vanished from history when she married. A quiet pioneer’s erasure by secrecy, gender, and institutional silence.
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Continue reading →: Log: Orbits and Other CompanionsFirst of December. Night watch alone. Heater’s broken, CCD’s glitching, Rachel’s soup has meat in it. There’s a doll by the monitor. Binary star logged. Everything else holding position.
Feign the virtue thou dost seek, till it becometh thine own
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