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Continue reading →: Lingering in the Bit In‑BetweenCatherine does battle with the one thing she prescribes to everyone else and resists for herself: unscheduled pauses. In this quiet harbour-night entry, she tests staying in the doorway of her own life a few minutes longer than thinks necessary.
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Marta Bohn-Meyer: First Woman in the Blackbird – The Engineer Behind NASA’s Forgotten High-Speed Research
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Continue reading →: Marta Bohn-Meyer: First Woman in the Blackbird – The Engineer Behind NASA’s Forgotten High-Speed ResearchFrom SR-71 Mach 3 flights to aerobatic championships, Marta Bohn-Meyer broke barriers whilst advancing supersonic research. Discover how her laminar flow innovations still shape aviation’s future – and the catastrophic canopy failure that cut short a remarkable career.
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Continue reading →: Her Bright Particular StarNovember 1864: A former theatre wardrobe keeper, now imprisoned, delivers a haunting monologue from a prison yard. Consumed by envy and dreams, she recalls a stolen love letter – the finest thing she ever found – and yearns for transformation she’ll never possess.
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Continue reading →: Learning Takes WingAn Edwardian father shepherds his sons through a ruined abbey as news of Santos‑Dumont’s Paris flight stirs wonder. Boots crunch, wind whispers, and learning takes wing. A playful confession about skipped cold shaves punctuates a quiet day lit by flying rumours.
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Continue reading →: Light Best at FourVeterans Day hush steadies New Corinth as Catherine inherits a note about light, edges toward a Tuesday watercolour class, and answers ‘famous or infamous’ by choosing presence over profile; Marcus pours, Tom’s dog witnesses, Maggie files, Dan balances – courage at four.
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Anna Mani: The Physicist Who Built India’s Meteorological Independence Without a PhD
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54–81 minutes
Continue reading →: Anna Mani: The Physicist Who Built India’s Meteorological Independence Without a PhDMeteorologist Anna Mani recounts designing India’s weather instruments, shaping ozone discovery, and insisting on scientific accuracy even as her own achievements and credentials were overlooked. A revealing conversation on measurement, resilience, and atmospheric truth – told in her own voice.
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Continue reading →: Trust No OneTilbury Docks, 1948. A merchant trader hides in a warehouse cellar as customs men patrol outside. On Remembrance Day, surrounded by contraband and coded ledgers, she reflects on blood sacrifice, dangerous cargo movements, and her father’s warning: trust no one.
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Continue reading →: Leash and LetterCatherine discovers a misaddressed letter in her late mother’s hand, reads just one line, and enlists a small-town network – historian, bookseller, librarian – to trace the postmark. On the eve of Veterans Day, she practises metabolising grief at the speed of trust.
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Olive Dennis: From Ventilation Patents to Reclining Seats – The Invisible Engineering Behind Modern Transportation
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59–88 minutes
Continue reading →: Olive Dennis: From Ventilation Patents to Reclining Seats – The Invisible Engineering Behind Modern TransportationA civil engineer who travelled half a million miles observing passenger comfort speaks candidly about designing reclining seats, ventilation systems, and air-conditioned trains – then watching her innovations become industry standard without her name attached. The invisibility of brilliant work, and what she wishes she’d done differently.
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Continue reading →: Desert WatchSaudi Arabia, November 1990. A British lieutenant colonel commands troops on the eve of war, grappling with defiant frustration, cutting-edge military technology, and the endless waiting. In the desert wilderness, a tracker dog offers unexpected perspective on loyalty and purpose.
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