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The Light That Went Out Early

"What technology would you be better off without, why?"
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The Light That Went Out Early
Catherine arrives too late to a community exhibition, then confronts how email and browser tabs have become elaborate avoidance systems. When digital housekeeping replaces actual presence, she plan…
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November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Kathleen Antonelli: The Subroutine's Architect - How Ireland's Invisible Programmer Built Modern Software
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Kathleen Antonelli: The Subroutine’s Architect – How Ireland’s Invisible Programmer Built Modern Software
From Irish immigrant to ENIAC coder, Kathleen Antonelli invented the subroutine while being told to smile for cameras. Hear how she cracked machine logic, fought erasure, and shaped the digital age…
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November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Upon Saying Nothing of Consequence

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Upon Saying Nothing of Consequence
I ought not to speak at all, yet here I stand in the guild-hall, wondering what mark I shall leave upon the world. Perhaps only the memory of a foolish girl who spoke too much and said nothing of c…
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November 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The Hardest Currency

"What's the hardest decision you've ever had to make? Why?"
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The Hardest Currency
Black Friday’s false urgency prompts Catherine to reflect on her hardest decision: not a dramatic past crossroads, but an ongoing commitment to be seen. Museum hours disrupt her clinic schedu…
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November 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Jean Bartik: Inventing Software Engineering From ENIAC's Vacuum Tubes
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Jean Bartik: Inventing Software Engineering From ENIAC’s Vacuum Tubes
Jean Bartik taught herself to program ENIAC through schematic diagrams alone, inventing subroutines and debugging techniques that became computing’s foundation. Yet the woman who transformed …
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November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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A Confession at the Water's Edge
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A Confession at the Water’s Edge
I am dying upon these wharves where I have laboured thirty years. Before I go, I must speak of the choice that damns me – the silence I kept when I ought to have spoken. Learn from my failure…
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November 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The Fifth Chair
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The Fifth Chair
Catherine navigates a holiday prompt about special dishes by tracing three kitchens – her mother’s Nevada improvisation, her father’s steady roasts, and her own risotto – be…
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November 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Yvette Cauchois: The Woman Who Saw the Hidden Element and Shaped the Spectrum
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Yvette Cauchois: The Woman Who Saw the Hidden Element and Shaped the Spectrum
Legendary physicist Yvette Cauchois discusses unseen elements, her ingenious spectrometer, and the long shadows cast by scientific credit disputes. Her candid conversation spans discovery, war, and…
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November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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At the Crossroads
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At the Crossroads
I stand where four roads meet, this day after our first national Thanksgiving, and find myself wondering: might not the worn stones beneath my feet teach us how decay itself serves hope? Come, frie…
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November 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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The Hours I Don't Want
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The Hours I Don’t Want
Catherine confronts a hypothetical: what would she do with extra hours if sleep were optional? The fantasy exposes old instincts – more case reports, endless polishing – versus the woma…
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November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Three Drops: How Karen Wetterhahn's Death Rewrote Laboratory Safety After She Did Everything Right
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Three Drops: How Karen Wetterhahn’s Death Rewrote Laboratory Safety After She Did Everything Right
A pioneering chemist who did everything right still died from dimethylmercury exposure. This fictional interview resurrects the woman behind the safety warning – exploring her 85 papers, her …
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November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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The Foundation: Observations Upon the Common Life
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The Foundation: Observations Upon the Common Life
From my tower I observe the common life unfolding below – the clerk, the housewife, the lamplighter at his rounds – and perceive in their small daily rituals the true foundation upon wh…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Three Peeves and the Door They Guard
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Three Peeves and the Door They Guard
Catherine catalogues three irritations – weaponised busyness, sensory-hostile spaces, tidy narratives – and discovers each is a mirror. Her standards have become walls. With Thanksgivin…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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‘Scott of Girton’: The Woman Undergraduates Cheered Into Cambridge History
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‘Scott of Girton’: The Woman Undergraduates Cheered Into Cambridge History
A woman silenced by deafness yet heard by undergraduates who drowned out Cambridge’s refusal to name her. From illegal exam-taker to Bryn Mawr’s founding mathematician, she demanded rig…
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November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Borrowed Convictions
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Borrowed Convictions
They call this place a school. How terribly civilised. I’m granted library privileges today – such magnanimity. One reads Milton between decorative bars, contemplates truth whilst they …
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November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The Inner Circle, Named Aloud
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The Inner Circle, Named Aloud
Catherine confronts her professional discomfort with the word ‘favourite’ and names her current inner circle: Father Walsh at dawn, Jenny’s conspiratorial library wisdom, David&#8…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva: The Physicist Einstein Wouldn't Publish - How Thirty Years of Rigorous Work on Thermodynamic Foundations Remained Hidden in Plain Sight
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Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva: The Physicist Einstein Wouldn’t Publish – How Thirty Years of Rigorous Work on Thermodynamic Foundations Remained Hidden in Plain Sight
Tatyana Afanasyeva co-authored physics’ most influential encyclopedia article on statistical mechanics, yet history credits her husband alone. After his death, she spent thirty years developi…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Favourite People
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Favourite People
Sitting here in the church shadows, turning over a daft question: who are my favourite people? Funny how a word like that doesn’t fit what I feel for the wife, the lads. Technology’s ra…
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November 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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The Creatures Who Greet Us at the Door
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The Creatures Who Greet Us at the Door
A morning encounter with Tom’s dog and a sun-warm bench prompt Catherine to consider which creatures she’s trusted into her carefully ordered life – and whether she’s finall…
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November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Mary Sears: The Oceanographer Who Mapped Death and Saved Thousands at Tarawa - How One Woman's Tide Tables Changed the Course of the Pacific War
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Mary Sears: The Oceanographer Who Mapped Death and Saved Thousands at Tarawa – How One Woman’s Tide Tables Changed the Course of the Pacific War
Mary Sears reveals how her midnight tide calculations saved thousands of Marines at Tarawa and beyond – and why the Navy desperately needed her expertise while refusing to let her on research…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Hollow Bones
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Hollow Bones
This afternoon in Marcus’s studio, surrounded by fox bones and silent paintings, I find myself reckoning with beauty, vulnerability, and the strange comfort of hollow things. Even the crow skull se…
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November 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Twice Daily: On Tides and Staying
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Twice Daily: On Tides and Staying
Faced with the perennial question – beach or mountains? – Catherine walks New Corinth’s windswept shoreline and weighs the allure of solid peaks against the lessons of flux. A med…
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November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Florence Nightingale David: The Statistician Who Calculated Casualties and Saved London During the Blitz
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Florence Nightingale David: The Statistician Who Calculated Casualties and Saved London During the Blitz
Florence Nightingale David hand-cranked mechanical calculators to create correlation tables that enabled modern statistics, then forecasted bombing casualties before London was attacked – wor…
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November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Standing in the Mire
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Standing in the Mire
They call it folly when a man speaks truth. Here in the marsh I stand where ground gives way – much like the court I fled. What sacrifice will sate their hunger? Whose blood greases ambition&…
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November 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Three Meals, Three Grammars
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Three Meals, Three Grammars
Catherine examines three family recipes – her mother’s improvised lemon pilaf now refined into fennel risotto, her father’s steadying shepherd’s pie, and a tentative new dis…
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November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM