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Continue reading →: The Price of ProgressA deputy head spends her Sunday alone in an empty school, obsessively troubleshooting the computer network and cataloguing institutional failures. Paper cuts bleed, computer systems crash, and security fears haunt empty corridors. Progress demands sacrifice, but who counts the cost?
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Continue reading →: Open Tabs, Quiet HoursNew Corinth’s Catherine closes Sunday with tide tables, library holds, Historical Society plans, and one steady recipe; a harbour walk keeps talk careful, collegial favours hold, and a four-line poem softens the day as Monday approaches with a simple invitation.
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Sister Miriam Michael Stimson: The Nun Who Peered Into DNA
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Continue reading →: Sister Miriam Michael Stimson: The Nun Who Peered Into DNASister Miriam Michael Stimson – a Catholic chemist – used her pioneering infrared technique to correct a Nobel laureate’s inside-out model of DNA in the 1950s. Yet her groundbreaking KBr disk method – still a standard in labs worldwide – has been largely erased from history. Why was her critical…
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Continue reading →: Chains That Keep UsA sixty-three-year-old recluse finds himself running communications in a Syrian aid camp. Amongst refugees, solar panels, and makeshift networks, he confronts what he once fled: human connection. The chains he thought would trap him might be what keeps him whole.
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Continue reading →: The Envelope and the PresentAn envelope arrives. Catherine must choose: museum pilot starts Thursday, clinic hours shift, Québec pauses. Rajesh swaps; Maggie presses; David texts. Presence becomes a calendar. Quiet courage, soup or music – and a letter waits by the keys till morning.
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Dorothy Maud Wrinch: The Mathematician Who Saw Proteins Dance
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Continue reading →: Dorothy Maud Wrinch: The Mathematician Who Saw Proteins DanceThe mathematician whose “wrong” theory catalysed a right one. She proposed the cyclol structure for proteins. While the model was ultimately rejected, her stubborn advocacy sparked the research that proved her core insight – the importance of hydrophobic interactions – correct. Her story is a conversation on scientific stubbornness, gender…
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Continue reading →: The Closed ChamberOn All Saints’ Day 1792, an unmarried scholar reflects on legacy and loss in her borrowed refuge. As terrible news of French massacres reaches London, she confronts what will remain when she’s gone, and whether her life’s work has mattered.
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Continue reading →: The Hinge of ArrivalOn Hallowe’en by the harbour, Catherine traces fascination to not fireworks but thresholds – river landings, blurred names, small mercies – while a conservator’s text, a neighbour’s wave and two solemn skeletons tilt the night toward ordinary courage and tomorrow’s quieter arrivals at dockside.
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Irmgard Flügge-Lotz: The Mathematician Who Bent the Rules
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Continue reading →: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz: The Mathematician Who Bent the RulesIrmgard Flügge-Lotz solved what Prandtl couldn’t. She taught as a lecturer for twelve years. She invented discontinuous control theory. Yet Germany forgot her, and Stanford almost did too. In a candid conversation, the aerospace engineer confronts her overlooked legacy, wartime choices, and the price of genius constrained by institutional barriers.
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Continue reading →: All Hallows’ WatchA lighthouse keeper’s young daughter keeps vigil on All Hallows’ Eve, 1802, her stomach empty and mind troubled. As darkness closes in and provisions dwindle, she tends the flame that guards passing ships from the rocks, fearing it will fail.
Feign the virtue thou dost seek, till it becometh thine own
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