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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.
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Continue reading →: First Impressions and the Art of Not Arriving Fully AssembledCatherine quietly audits her own “professional armour” as she ponders the first impression she gives: impeccable clinician, or actual human being with crooked watercolours and late-life hopes. Expect harbour walks, office chairs, and a risky inch towards being known.
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Continue reading →: Christine Ladd-Franklin: The Logician Who Refused Her Fake Diploma and Rewrote the Rules of Valid ArgumentAt seventy-eight, Christine Ladd-Franklin demanded her earned PhD – denied forty-four years earlier simply for being a woman. Discover how this mathematician and logician solved problems that baffled Aristotle for two millennia, integrated competing colour vision theories decades before neuroscience confirmed her right, and fought relentlessly for recognition in a…
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Continue reading →: Fifty-Seven ViewsDay three on the ice. Filming the glacier die in real time. Nobody’s watching – last video got fifty-seven views. Storm coming in. Should leave but won’t. Another voice note Marcus will never listen to. Just me and the cracking ice.
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Continue reading →: The Ordinary Courage of Asking for MoreNew Corinth’s favourite psychiatrist swaps case notes for a late-life love story on her nightstand, as a quietly subversive novel dares Catherine to want more than usefulness, and to decide whether companionship is worth unsettling her carefully solitary, harbourlit equilibrium.
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Continue reading →: Hedwig Kohn: Measuring Light, Defying ErasureA German-Jewish physicist recounts her 17-year wait for academic recognition, her dismissal by the Nazis, and her brother’s murder in the Holocaust. She discusses how 70 international letters saved her life, the flame spectroscopy work that transformed medical diagnostics, and why measuring light became an act of resistance against totalitarianism.
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Continue reading →: The Web I WoveA poor woman of eight-and-thirty years stands before the justices, caught in the web of her own making. Time has been both servant and master to this coiner of false shillings. Shall mercy be extended, or must justice prevail?
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Continue reading →: Harbouring One LifeCatherine weighs Parisian fantasies against New Corinth’s harbour grit, testing whether a Quebec hotel, her parents’ ghost-cities and a careful-handed man can tempt her from the radical experiment of simply staying put where she already belongs.
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Continue reading →: Ida Freund: First Female Chemistry Lecturer and the Periodic Table of CupcakesA century after her death, the Austrian refugee who became Britain’s first female university chemistry lecturer speaks candidly about inventing periodic table cupcakes, designing apparatus, fighting for women’s professional recognition, and why teaching science joyfully was her most radical act.
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