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The Shell on the Harbour Sill
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The Shell on the Harbour Sill
On a rain-soaked Thursday, Catherine answers a seemingly light prompt: coolest thing she’s ever found and kept. A chipped harbour shell becomes confession booth, colleague, and secular rosary, as s…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Lingering in the Bit In‑Between
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Lingering in the Bit In‑Between
Catherine does battle with the one thing she prescribes to everyone else and resists for herself: unscheduled pauses. In this quiet harbour-night entry, she tests staying in the doorway of her own …
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November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Marta Bohn-Meyer: First Woman in the Blackbird - The Engineer Behind NASA's Forgotten High-Speed Research
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Marta Bohn-Meyer: First Woman in the Blackbird – The Engineer Behind NASA’s Forgotten High-Speed Research
From SR-71 Mach 3 flights to aerobatic championships, Marta Bohn-Meyer broke barriers whilst advancing supersonic research. Discover how her laminar flow innovations still shape aviation’s fu…
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November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Her Bright Particular Star
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Her Bright Particular Star
November 1864: A former theatre wardrobe keeper, now imprisoned, delivers a haunting monologue from a prison yard. Consumed by envy and dreams, she recalls a stolen love letter – the finest t…
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November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Learning Takes Wing
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Learning Takes Wing
An Edwardian father shepherds his sons through a ruined abbey as news of Santos‑Dumont’s Paris flight stirs wonder. Boots crunch, wind whispers, and learning takes wing. A playful confession about …
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November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Light Best at Four
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Light Best at Four
Veterans Day hush steadies New Corinth as Catherine inherits a note about light, edges toward a Tuesday watercolour class, and answers ‘famous or infamous’ by choosing presence over profile; Marcus…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Anna Mani: The Physicist Who Built India's Meteorological Independence Without a PhD
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Anna Mani: The Physicist Who Built India’s Meteorological Independence Without a PhD
Meteorologist Anna Mani recounts designing India’s weather instruments, shaping ozone discovery, and insisting on scientific accuracy even as her own achievements and credentials were overlooked. A…
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November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Trust No One
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Trust No One
Tilbury Docks, 1948. A merchant trader hides in a warehouse cellar as customs men patrol outside. On Remembrance Day, surrounded by contraband and coded ledgers, she reflects on blood sacrifice, da…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Leash and Letter
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Leash and Letter
Catherine discovers a misaddressed letter in her late mother’s hand, reads just one line, and enlists a small-town network – historian, bookseller, librarian – to trace the postma…
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November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Olive Dennis: From Ventilation Patents to Reclining Seats - The Invisible Engineering Behind Modern Transportation
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Olive Dennis: From Ventilation Patents to Reclining Seats – The Invisible Engineering Behind Modern Transportation
A civil engineer who travelled half a million miles observing passenger comfort speaks candidly about designing reclining seats, ventilation systems, and air-conditioned trains – then watchin…
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November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Desert Watch
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Desert Watch
Saudi Arabia, November 1990. A British lieutenant colonel commands troops on the eve of war, grappling with defiant frustration, cutting-edge military technology, and the endless waiting. In the de…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The Cost of Welcome
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The Cost of Welcome
Catherine weighs money versus meaning, names her priciest purchase – a chair that welcomes rather than fences – and readies for Monday’s 9 a.m. table with Maggie and an envelope of lett…
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November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Beatrice Tinsley: Cosmologist Who Proved Galaxies Age and Die
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Beatrice Tinsley: Cosmologist Who Proved Galaxies Age and Die
A young astronomer confronts one of astronomy’s most powerful figures – and history proves her right. Beatrice Tinsley reveals how she calculated galaxy evolution by hand, sacrificed he…
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November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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At the Edge
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At the Edge
A woman isolated in rural Wales watches the rivers rise whilst debating whether to re-enter the online marketplace of ideas she abandoned. As flood warnings mount and election postmortems rage, she…
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November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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At Human Volume
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At Human Volume
Catherine curates the voices that keep her Saturday company – poets, archivists, and harbour bulletins – whilst a message from the Historical Society delivers the past to her doorstep, …
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November 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Ellen Gleditsch: Radiochemist Who Measured Radium and Defended Science Under Occupation
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Ellen Gleditsch: Radiochemist Who Measured Radium and Defended Science Under Occupation
She sailed to Yale uninvited, determined a half-life that stood for fifty years, and sheltered scientists from the Nazis. Norwegian radiochemist Ellen Gleditsch refused to be invisible – unti…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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A Reckoning Made
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A Reckoning Made
A haunted scholar wanders St Giles churchyard on a fog-bound November evening, confronting fading inscriptions and forgotten graves. As voices of reproach fill his conscience, he faces a stark mora…
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November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Ginger Biscuits, and Other Verbs
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Ginger Biscuits, and Other Verbs
Catherine opens a long-avoided box, finds her mother’s ginger biscuit recipe, and practices hospitality for attention the quiet way: harbour hush, English-class instincts, a librarian’s dry grin, a…
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November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Michiyo Tsujimura: The Chemist Who Wrote Green Tea's Scientific Story
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Michiyo Tsujimura: The Chemist Who Wrote Green Tea’s Scientific Story
Michiyo Tsujimura – the groundbreaking chemist reveals how she isolated catechin and discovered vitamin C in green tea – whilst barred from universities, denied pay, and channelled into…
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November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Cold Hunger
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Cold Hunger
London, November 1828. An eleven-year-old girl confined in Newgate Gaol records her grim daily struggle with gnawing hunger and bitter cold. Through picking oakum, watery gruel, and a haunting refl…
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November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Hospitality for Attention
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Hospitality for Attention
Catherine tends the evening like a civilised host: paper-first mornings, a phone put to bed in the hallway, three-questions triage, and moonless rooms by eight, as harbour hush and wry clinical gra…
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November 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Wang Zhenyi: How One Woman Made Mathematics Accessible to Common People
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Wang Zhenyi: How One Woman Made Mathematics Accessible to Common People
Meet the 18th-century scholar who modelled eclipses with a lamp and mirror, democratised mathematics through plain language, and wrote poetry attacking social inequality. A conversation with histor…
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November 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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The Economy of Dreams
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The Economy of Dreams
Besieged Paris, November 1870. A prisoner rations not just bread but dreams, lingering before confessional grilles and carved saints whilst contemplating the masks worn by the starving. How does on…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Room Before Reply
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Room Before Reply
On a November Wednesday, Catherine trades hurry for wider margins: harbour light, honest sessions, Tom’s sky report, Maggie’s civic notes, a watercolour green, and one small vow – keep time w…
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November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Olga Taussky-Todd: The Torchbearer Who Transformed Matrices Into Mathematical Theory
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Olga Taussky-Todd: The Torchbearer Who Transformed Matrices Into Mathematical Theory
A candid conversation with Olga Taussky-Todd – the Vienna-born pioneer who transformed matrices from computational tools into rigorous theory. Discover how she corrected Hilbert’s error…
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November 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM