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Wang Zhenyi: How One Woman Made Mathematics Accessible to Common People
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Continue reading →: Wang Zhenyi: How One Woman Made Mathematics Accessible to Common PeopleMeet the 18th-century scholar who modelled eclipses with a lamp and mirror, democratised mathematics through plain language, and wrote poetry attacking social inequality. A conversation with history’s overlooked genius – and what she learned about power.
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Continue reading →: The Economy of DreamsBesieged Paris, November 1870. A prisoner rations not just bread but dreams, lingering before confessional grilles and carved saints whilst contemplating the masks worn by the starving. How does one manage time before screens when imagination becomes the only escape?
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Continue reading →: Room Before ReplyOn a November Wednesday, Catherine trades hurry for wider margins: harbour light, honest sessions, Tom’s sky report, Maggie’s civic notes, a watercolour green, and one small vow – keep time with looser fingers, then close the lamp at ten to ten, softly.
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Olga Taussky-Todd: The Torchbearer Who Transformed Matrices Into Mathematical Theory
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Continue reading →: Olga Taussky-Todd: The Torchbearer Who Transformed Matrices Into Mathematical TheoryA candid conversation with Olga Taussky-Todd – the Vienna-born pioneer who transformed matrices from computational tools into rigorous theory. Discover how she corrected Hilbert’s errors at twenty-four, published over 300 papers, and fought institutional barriers whilst illuminating mathematics for generations to come.
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Continue reading →: Claimed TimeWhile fireworks explode above on Bonfire Night 1912, a mother retreats to her coal cellar to force hyacinth bulbs, mark her children’s lessons, and read of distant wars. In the underground darkness, she claims rare time for thought and reflection.
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Continue reading →: Three Winters OutCatherine tries the future on for size – clinic steadied, rosemary soup simmering – then David’s unexpected ask nudges her onto a rehearsal stage; two minutes on welcome redraw the night’s map, and three winters out stops feeling like prophecy, starts sounding like practice.
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Hilda Geiringer: How Gender Discrimination and Refugee Crisis Erased a Mathematical Genius from History
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Continue reading →: Hilda Geiringer: How Gender Discrimination and Refugee Crisis Erased a Mathematical Genius from HistoryHilda Geiringer spent nearly a century making equations that still shape engineering, yet history forgot her name. In this rare interview, the Austrian mathematician speaks candidly about Nazi exile, American marginalisation, and why being overlooked might be the cruellest form of recognition.
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Continue reading →: Delayed PassageNovember 1954: A British merchant waits anxiously at Oran docks as Algeria erupts into violence. With his steamer delayed and customs inspections tightening, he must decide whether to protect his cargo or his life. Three days. One crossing. No guarantees.
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Continue reading →: Harbouring Day: Keeping the Room OpenCatherine quietly inaugurates Harbouring Day – a modest ritual of welcome and waiting – while tuning calendars, thresholds, and harbour weather; threads from Sunday settle into Monday’s humane logistics, as New Corinth practises kindness at scale and conversation with David lingers in the lee.
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Ellen Hutchins: The Botanist Who Catalogued an Island from Her Sickbed
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Continue reading →: Ellen Hutchins: The Botanist Who Catalogued an Island from Her SickbedIreland’s first female botanist speaks from beyond the archive. Ellen Hutchins discovered twenty species whilst bedridden, created watercolours so precise they settled centuries-old debates about whether seaweeds were plants, and watched her name affixed to lichens and mosses she could never author. A conversation about invisible labour, institutional erasure, and…
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