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Fe del Mundo: How appropriate technology beat expensive medicine at saving lives
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Continue reading →: Fe del Mundo: How appropriate technology beat expensive medicine at saving livesFe del Mundo invented a life-saving incubator from bamboo baskets and hot water bottles, yet medical history forgot her. She discusses appropriate technology, postcolonial science hierarchies, the BRAT diet’s global spread, and why preventing deaths leaves no dramatic stories.
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Continue reading →: Wind’s MemoryConfined within gilded chambers in 1808, a fallen statesman reflects on lost freedom, the whisper of wind beyond his cell, and the lives he might have lived. Dreams, philosophy, and memory entwine in this haunting meditation on captivity.
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Continue reading →: Ladle and ListenHarbour psychiatrist Catherine plates lemon‑fennel shrimp risotto, stirs safety into supper, then walks to Bartók with a man who volunteers the washing‑up – attention as love, stock as testimony, New Corinth fog lifting like a benediction over second chances.
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Dorothy Hill: World Authority on Palaeozoic Corals History Nearly Forgot
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Continue reading →: Dorothy Hill: World Authority on Palaeozoic Corals History Nearly ForgotDorothy Hill classified thousands of fossil corals, built Queensland’s geological map, and opened Australian universities to women – then vanished from history. She explains why taxonomic labour disappears, how ancient reefs predict modern collapse, and what she got wrong about mentoring.
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Continue reading →: Heavy KeysA weary shopkeeper and mother in 1850 reflects on duty, lost learning, and the heavy keys at her waist. Between trade, faith, and her son’s schooling, she weighs what knowledge truly opens – and what remains forever locked.
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Continue reading →: Architecture of WitnessCatherine explores what counts as history – not just televised disasters but inherited silence, shipyard closures, and yesterday’s watercolour risk. At the Historical Society, she asks: whose memory gets archived? Personal and collective trauma blur in consulting rooms and harbour light.
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Alice Catherine Evans: She Proved Raw Milk Kills and Was Told She Was Wrong
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Continue reading →: Alice Catherine Evans: She Proved Raw Milk Kills and Was Told She Was WrongAlice Catherine Evans discovered that raw milk transmitted deadly brucellosis from cattle to humans – then spent a decade being dismissed by male scientists and dairy interests who valued profit over proof. She contracted the disease herself, worked whilst chronically ill, and waited for men to confirm what she’d already…
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Continue reading →: At the CrossroadsAt a moonlit crossroads in October 1892, a Victorian merchant reflects upon the circular nature of trade, the weight of historical memory, and the moral dimensions of his itinerant travelling life. Every journey he takes shapes both fortune and character.
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Continue reading →: The CorridorCatherine registers for watercolour class, accepts a concert invitation, and sits for the Historical Society as subject rather than interviewer. A rainy Tuesday prompts her to name the risk she’s avoided: ordinary intimacy without the clinical frame to hide behind.
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Hertha Sponer: The Bridge Builder Between Quantum Physics and Chemistry Who Vanished
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Continue reading →: Hertha Sponer: The Bridge Builder Between Quantum Physics and Chemistry Who VanishedHertha Sponer built the experimental foundations of quantum chemistry, developed methods still taught worldwide, and trained 35 scientists – yet history remembers her as “Franck’s assistant.” She explains how interdisciplinary innovation becomes invisible, why exile shattered her career’s momentum, and what bridge-builders lose when traffic flows freely across their work.
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