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Beyond the Weekend: An Exploration of Leisure, Meaning, and the Art of Living Well
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#Leisure #Philosophy #Wellbeing #Flow #Rest
Beyond the Weekend: An Exploration of Leisure, Meaning, and the Art of Living Well
Leisure is not just downtime; it is the key to flourishing. Explore the history, philosophy, and psychology of free time – from Aristotelian virtue to modern status anxiety – and discov…
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January 25, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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Etheldred Benett: The Fossil Hunter Who Read the Earth in Secret
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Biostratigraphy #Palaeontology #Geology
Etheldred Benett: The Fossil Hunter Who Read the Earth in Secret
She whispered to the earth, and it answered in stone. Forgotten for a century, England’s first female geologist finally speaks. Witness the resurrection of a lost legacy, uncovering the hidden stra…
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January 20, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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Matilda Joslyn Gage: The Radical Visionary Who Documented Women's Stolen Inventions
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Suffragist #FreeThought #Feminism
Matilda Joslyn Gage: The Radical Visionary Who Documented Women’s Stolen Inventions
A radical feminist visionary meets her modern interviewer. Gage reveals how institutions stole women’s inventions, why she split from the suffrage movement, and why her 19th-century warnings …
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January 13, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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The Weight of Domesticity: Why Housework Feels Like a Personal Insult
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#Carework #Housework #Inequality #InvisibleLabour #MentalLoad
The Weight of Domesticity: Why Housework Feels Like a Personal Insult
Discover why housework triggers such visceral resentment. This groundbreaking analysis reveals the hidden architecture of domestic burden – spanning centuries of oppression, invisible cogniti…
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January 12, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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Margaret W. Rossiter: The Historian Who Named Erasure While Experiencing It
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#Archives #GenderEquity #Historiography #STEM #WomenInSTEM
Margaret W. Rossiter: The Historian Who Named Erasure While Experiencing It
Historian Margaret W. Rossiter excavated five hundred hidden women scientists from archives and coined the “Matilda effect” – then watched institutions ignore her own tenure case.…
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January 8, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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Mary Leakey: The Paleoanthropologist Who Discovered Humanity's First Footprints and Rewrote Human Evolution
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#STEM #WomenInSTEM #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #Palaeoanthropology
Mary Leakey: The Paleoanthropologist Who Discovered Humanity’s First Footprints and Rewrote Human Evolution
Meet the British paleoanthropologist whose meticulous excavations transformed our understanding of human evolution – from discovering “Nutcracker Man” to unearthing 3.6-million-ye…
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December 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Lynn Margulis: Symbiosis, Scientific Rebellion, and the Theory That Rewrote Evolution
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Endosymbiosis #Symbiosis #Microbiology
Lynn Margulis: Symbiosis, Scientific Rebellion, and the Theory That Rewrote Evolution
The evolutionary biologist who challenged orthodoxy and won – then kept fighting. Lynn Margulis on symbiosis, vindication, scientific rebellion, the theories that transformed cell biology, an…
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December 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Rachel Carson: The Marine Biologist Who Changed How We See the Living World
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #MarineBiology #Ecology #Conservation
Rachel Carson: The Marine Biologist Who Changed How We See the Living World
A conversation with the scientist who exposed pesticide dangers whilst dying of cancer. Discover how she translated complex ecology into clarity, challenged industry disinformation, and modelled wh…
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December 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Maria Goeppert Mayer: The Nobel Prize Winner Who Worked for Free for 30 Years
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #NuclearPhysics #TheoreticalPhysics #QuantumMechanics
Maria Goeppert Mayer: The Nobel Prize Winner Who Worked for Free for 30 Years
A physicist who predicted the laser before it existed. Won the Nobel Prize whilst unpaid. Breaks decades of silence to reveal how institutional barriers nearly buried her contributions to nuclear p…
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December 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Mildred Dresselhaus: The Unsung Architect of Graphene and the Fight for Women in Science
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #CarbonScience #Nanotechnology #Thermoelectrics
Mildred Dresselhaus: The Unsung Architect of Graphene and the Fight for Women in Science
Meet the Queen of Carbon Science who unlocked graphene’s secrets decades before its discovery – yet was overlooked for the Nobel Prize. From Depression-era Brooklyn factories to the Pre…
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December 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Mary Kenneth Keller: The Nun Who Coded Computer Science's Future - and Chose to Teach
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #AI #Programming #Computing
Mary Kenneth Keller: The Nun Who Coded Computer Science’s Future – and Chose to Teach
A Catholic sister earned America’s first computer science Ph.D. in 1965, then chose a small Iowa college over prestige. In this intimate conversation, she reflects on inductive inference, BAS…
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December 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Karen Spärck Jones: The Hidden Mathematician Behind Every Search
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #InformationRetrieval #ComputationalLinguistics #NaturalLanguageProcessing
Karen Spärck Jones: The Hidden Mathematician Behind Every Search
Karen Spärck Jones, the British computer scientist whose mathematical insight powers billions of daily searches, sits down to discuss invisible infrastructure, institutional barriers, and why compu…
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December 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Evelyn Berezin: How a Physics Student Became Computing's Invisible Architect
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Wordprocessing #Realtime #Architecture
Evelyn Berezin: How a Physics Student Became Computing’s Invisible Architect
Evelyn Berezin designed the first computerised airline reservation system and invented the word processor – then vanished from history. In this rare conversation, the 93-year-old engineer ref…
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December 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Frances Elizabeth Allen: The Woman Who Made Code Run Fast - And Was Forgotten Because It Worked
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #CompilerOptimisation #ProgramAnalysis #ParallelComputing
Frances Elizabeth Allen: The Woman Who Made Code Run Fast – And Was Forgotten Because It Worked
Frances Allen sits down to discuss how compiler optimisation became computing’s invisible foundation. From farm girl to Turing Award winner, she reveals why the most profound technical achiev…
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December 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Ada Lovelace: The Woman Who Saw the Future of Computing a Century Early
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Mathematics #Algorithms #Computing
Ada Lovelace: The Woman Who Saw the Future of Computing a Century Early
A visionary mathematician meets her future. In 1843, Ada Lovelace encoded the first algorithm for a machine that didn’t exist. Now, across two centuries, she reflects on how her insights into…
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December 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Helen Megaw: The Crystallographer Who Made Atomic Structures Visible in Wallpaper, Solar Cells, and History
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Crystallography #Perovskite #MaterialsScience
Helen Megaw: The Crystallographer Who Made Atomic Structures Visible in Wallpaper, Solar Cells, and History
Helen Megaw decoded perovskite crystals that now power solar panels – then designed wallpaper from atoms themselves. Yet history forgot the woman who bridged science and art. Hear how she fou…
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December 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Hilda Phoebe Hudson: The Forgotten Mathematician Behind Epidemics, Aircraft, and Geometry
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #AlgebraicGeometry #Epidemiogy #Aeronauts
Hilda Phoebe Hudson: The Forgotten Mathematician Behind Epidemics, Aircraft, and Geometry
Hilda Phoebe Hudson calculated disease spread before epidemiology existed, modelled aircraft stress during WWI, and mastered Cremona transformations – yet history erased her name from all thr…
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December 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Zinaida Yermolyeva: Weaponising Mold, Defying Death
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Microbiology #Antibiotics #Epidemiology
Zinaida Yermolyeva: Weaponising Mould, Defying Death
Discover the Soviet microbiologist who weaponised mould under German bombardment, drank cholera to test vaccines, and saved the Red Army in 1943 – years before the West. A story of wartime pr…
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December 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Alice Perry: The Engineer Who Built Roads and Left in Poetry - Ireland's Only Woman County Surveyor
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #CivilEngineering #Construction #Infrastructure
Alice Perry: The Engineer Who Built Roads and Left in Poetry – Ireland’s Only Woman County Surveyor
A woman who calculated bridge loads and inspected factories speaks candidly about the doors that opened, then closed. From Galway’s county surveyor to Boston’s Christian Science poet, A…
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December 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Florence Violet McKenzie: Australia's First Female Electrical Engineer and the Architect of the WRANS
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #ElectricalEngineering #RadioTelegraphy #SignalsTraining
Florence Violet McKenzie: Australia’s First Female Electrical Engineer and the Architect of the WRANS
Mrs Mac built the infrastructure that forced Australia’s Navy to accept women – and trained 12,000 servicemen in Morse code from a woolshed on Clarence Street. Discover how one electric…
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December 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Elsie MacGill: Queen of the Hurricanes and Aeronautical Engineer Who Built Trust in Flight
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Aviation #Engineering #Aerospace
Elsie MacGill: Queen of the Hurricanes and Aeronautical Engineer Who Built Trust in Flight
Elsie MacGill, the world’s first female chief aeronautical engineer, discusses mass-producing 1,451 Hawker Hurricanes during WWII, overcoming polio with metal canes, and redesigning society i…
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December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Kathleen Drew-Baker: The Botanist Who Saved Sushi but Lost Her Job to the Marriage Bar
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Phycology #MarineBiology #Algae
Kathleen Drew-Baker: The Botanist Who Saved Sushi but Lost Her Job to the Marriage Bar
Discover how a Manchester scientist’s 1949 breakthrough transformed Japan’s nori industry – yet her own university fired her for marrying. Hear her candid reflections on erasure, …
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December 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Marlyn Meltzer: The Mathematician Who Wired the First Computer, Then Disappeared Into Community Service
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Programming #Computing #Ballistics
Marlyn Meltzer: The Mathematician Who Wired the First Computer, Then Disappeared Into Community Service
Marlyn Meltzer taught herself to program ENIAC’s 3,000 switches without manuals, inventing software engineering before the discipline existed. Erased from history after marrying in 1947, she …
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December 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Ruth Teitelbaum: The Mathematician Who Invented Software Engineering From Schematic Diagrams, Then Vanished Into History
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Programming #Computing #Ballistics
Ruth Teitelbaum: The Mathematician Who Invented Software Engineering From Schematic Diagrams, Then Vanished Into History
One of ENIAC’s six female programmers reveals how she invented software engineering from circuit diagrams, computed ballistics in seconds instead of days – then vanished from history wh…
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December 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Frances Spence: The Quiet Programmer Who Taught ENIAC to Think and Then Vanished from History
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#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Programming #Computing #Computer
Frances Spence: The Quiet Programmer Who Taught ENIAC to Think and Then Vanished from History
Frances Spence helped programme ENIAC, the world’s first electronic computer, inventing software engineering from scratch – then left the field when she married. Discover how one brilli…
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November 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM