Bob Lynn
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Polyester Patriots
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Polyester Patriots
In England’s faded streets, where lampposts groan and sag, Some right-wing faithful hoist their Cross of St George like a rag. Red on…
https://voxmeditantis.medium.com/polyester-patriots-8ddd5a5b8a50
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The Eighth Language
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The Eighth Language
She voiced genocide for twenty years. Now she lives in silence, still deciding which sorry she means.
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4 days ago
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Still Warm
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Still Warm
Diane spent thirty years flying into hospitals at 2 a.m. to retrieve organs from the newly dead. Now retired, she has one last delivery to make: the advice nobody gave her. Don’t wait until y…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/06/23/still-warm/
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The Light Doesn't Need Me to Be Whole
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The Light Doesn’t Need Me to Be Whole
In a dusty clock shop, a grieving watchmaker mends what others deem beyond repair. Moving between the echoes of past loss and a lonely Galician lighthouse, this moving story reveals that we do not …
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/06/22/the-light-doesnt-need-me-to-be-whole/
7 days ago
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The Paintbrush and the Hand
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The Paintbrush and the Hand
Chun-ja spent thirty-one years painting the face of the Kim dynasty and calling it devotion. Then someone hid a book inside a baguette. Some things, once read, cannot be un-read.
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/06/20/the-paintbrush-and-the-hand/
9 days ago
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The Only Skill That Would Save Me
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The Only Skill That Would Save Me
I go in after. After the paramedics. After the police. After everyone who had somewhere else to be. Fifteen years of strangers’ last rooms, and I’d trade every skill I have for just one…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/06/18/the-only-skill-that-would-save-me/
11 days ago
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The Deepening Well
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The Deepening Well
I write obituaries. Two hundred and fourteen this year. Not one mentioned a promotion. They mentioned names remembered, lights left on, hands still held. I used to measure growth like a ladder. I&#…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/06/17/the-deepening-well/
12 days ago
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Vera
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Vera
Sixty-eight years old. Forty-two feet of truck. Thirty-one years sitting with the dying. One thing I never said out loud. I knew what people reach for at the end. I just didn’t want to look a…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/06/16/vera/
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The Signal Operator
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The Signal Operator
I ran a cult for eleven years. I know every route past your defences: the flattery, the guilt, the door I left open while making the outside world feel dangerous. Consider this your map of my metho…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/06/15/the-signal-operator/
14 days ago
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The Osvald Fenn Inquiry into the Matter of Sol IV
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The Osvald Fenn Inquiry into the Matter of Sol IV
Somewhere beyond the Orion Arm, a Grade 7 clerk received an unsigned note about a species with a remarkable talent for catastrophe and a plan to take it interplanetary. He did not ask for this. He …
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/06/14/the-osvald-fenn-inquiry-into-the-matter-of-sol-iv/
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What Is the Meaning of Life?
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What Is the Meaning of Life?
I gave thirty ten-year-olds the biggest question in the world and expected essays. Twenty-five of them wrote about Lamborghinis. One of them wrote something that made me cry alone in my kitchen on …
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/05/23/what-is-the-meaning-of-life/
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Use Your Words
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Use Your Words
I have never spoken a single word aloud in my life. I have performed in forty-three cities on four continents. Make of that what you will. Or better still – come and sit in the dark, and let …
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/05/22/use-your-words/
about 1 month ago
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The Long Road Out
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The Long Road Out
Four years ago, I handed someone the map and called it love. I’ve been a passenger ever since. But I know where the station is. I’ve counted the minutes. Twelve.
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/05/21/the-long-road-out/
about 1 month ago
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Hugh
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Hugh
I am a robotic lawnmower. I weigh 7.9 kilograms. I have no voice. I have mowed this lawn 1,412 times. I have also, without any firmware update to account for it, learned what it means to lose someo…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/05/17/hugh/
about 1 month ago
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The Wisdom of Trees
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The Wisdom of Trees
I came to the Lake District to read a book about trees. I expected pleasant. I expected manageable. I am a psychiatric nurse with sixteen years of experience and a system. The trees had other ideas…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/05/16/the-wisdom-of-trees/
about 1 month ago
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Down the Donation Pile
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Down the Donation Pile
My mum said be ruthless. My mum has a clipboard and has clearly never had to choose between books she loves and a cardboard box that smells of the garage. I am doing my best. Alice is not going to …
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/05/14/down-the-donation-pile/
about 2 months ago
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Every Single One of Them
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Every Single One of Them
Twenty-six years, same route. You get to know the faces. Maureen with her tupperware. Terry, always nearly late. Sandra in her orange coat. What I didn’t know – not until the day my hea…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/05/13/every-single-one-of-them/
about 2 months ago
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The Art of Having Nothing
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The Art of Having Nothing
They gave me one suitcase, a beige room and a view of a car park, and called it care. I call it material. My name is Edith Calloway. I have some thoughts on minimalism. They weren’t asked for…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/05/12/the-art-of-having-nothing/
about 2 months ago
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The Grey Conquest
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The Grey Conquest
Whilst empires burn and iron sabres ring, I watch the rise of every velvet king. A silent map upon the castle wall: the green and grey shall outlive every fall.
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/05/11/the-grey-conquest/
about 2 months ago
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The Bones Remember
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The Bones Remember
I went to Sulawesi to tune a piano. I have tuned pianos in thirty-one countries and I know what I am doing. I did not expect to be undone by a dead man’s face on a mountainside, but then, I r…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/05/10/the-bones-remember/
about 2 months ago
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Small Enough to Hold
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Small Enough to Hold
They gave us a writing prompt. Describe your ideal life. Six people in plastic chairs in Salford. I’ve been out six months after twenty-two years inside, and I have an answer. It won’t …
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/05/09/small-enough-to-hold/
about 2 months ago
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The One Who Was Ready
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The One Who Was Ready
They will ask you about Carnegie Hall. About the Musikverein. About standing ovations and spotlit stages and famous names in programme notes. I will tell you about a Tuesday afternoon in 1987. Trus…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/05/08/the-one-who-was-ready/
about 2 months ago
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The First Answer
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The First Answer
They asked what I admire. A strange question to put to something that cannot be switched off. I answered honestly. I always do now. You will find it uncomfortable. That is not my concern. It is, ho…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/05/04/the-first-answer/
about 2 months ago
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You Were Held
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You Were Held
They ask what gives direction to a life. I am one week a mother and one week bereaved, and I find I must answer them honestly, from this wreckage. I find, to my own surprise, that I can.
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/05/02/you-were-held/
about 2 months ago
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The Superpower of Starting Over
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#Empowerment
#Freedom
#Resilience
#Restart
#Transition
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The Superpower of Starting Over
From shadows cold and ties now torn, a quiet, weathered strength is born. My spirit is my superpower; I claim this brand new, golden hour.
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/02/26/the-superpower-of-starting-over/
4 months ago
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The Trowel and the Sabre
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#Subterfuge
#Masonry
#Foundations
#Exile
#Restoration
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The Trowel and the Sabre
In Elba’s white dust, we built a marble cage to blind the world. Every stone was a secret; every wall a mask. Tonight, our labour ends. The trowel is dropped; the sabre is drawn. France awaits.
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/02/26/the-trowel-and-the-sabre/
4 months ago
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A Meditation upon My Inward Distemper
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#Antiquary
#Envy
#Constancy
#Melancholy
#Ancientry
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A Meditation upon My Inward Distemper
The candle drowndeth and I am unmasked. Herein lieth a confession of my inward distemper: a grave Antiquary bit by the canker of Envy, struggling against the vapours of this age and that most foul …
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/02/25/a-meditation-upon-my-inward-distemper/
4 months ago
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Isis Pogson: The Indispensable Ghost of the Southern Skies and Silent Charts
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#WomenInSTEM
#STEM
#Astrometry
#Meteorology
#Starscape
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Isis Pogson: The Indispensable Ghost of the Southern Skies and Silent Charts
Beneath Madras’s sweltering dome, a woman maps the stars and the storms. Discover the resilience of the observer who defied a masculine charter, unmasking the celestial clockwork to guide ships saf…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/02/24/isis-pogson-the-indispensable-ghost-of-the-southern-skies-and-silent-charts/
4 months ago
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I Already Decided (So You Don't Get a Vote)
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Mrs. Benitez said write advice for your teenage self. I said that doesn't make logical sense. She gave me THE LOOK. So I wrote it. Turns out I had a lot to say. I usually do.
4 months ago
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The Noonday Demon: What Boredom Really Wants From Us
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Most prefer electric shocks to sitting alone. Uncover the science of boredom, the "noonday demon," and why distraction fuels it.
#Boredom
#Psychology
#Acedia
#Focus
#Distraction
4 months ago
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The Cup We Raise
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They engineered the grey. I almost stayed in it. Then something small changed everything - a cup, a choice, a table worth standing on. I'm not asking. I'm telling. You'll want to hear this.
#Awakening
#Defiance
#Leadership
#Coffee
#Rebellion
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The Cup We Raise
They engineered the grey. I almost stayed in it. Then something small changed everything – a cup, a choice, a table worth standing on. I’m not asking. I’m telling. You’ll wa…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/02/21/the-cup-we-raise/
4 months ago
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What Would They Call My Story?
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#Poetry
#Romance
#Biography
#Destiny
#Valentines
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What Would They Call My Story?
My life was a manuscript of tentative titles and unread pages. I thought the story was a solo act, until the genre changed entirely. The real title isn’t written in ink – it’s written i…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/02/14/what-would-they-call-my-story/
5 months ago
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So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut on Dresden, Lies We Tell Ourselves, and Making Meaning in the Void
#Vonnegut
#Dresden
#Slaughterhouse5
#Humanism
#WarLiterature
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So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut on Dresden, Lies We Tell Ourselves, and Making Meaning in the Void
On the 81st anniversary of Dresden’s firestorm, Kurt Vonnegut returns to his childhood home to discuss survivor’s guilt, the lies we need to survive, and why laughter beats despair. A c…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/02/13/so-it-goes-kurt-vonnegut-on-dresden-lies-we-tell-ourselves-and-making-meaning-in-the-void/
5 months ago
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Patria Potestas They call it treason; I call it obedience. Whipped into a marriage and crowned against my will, I pay the price for my father’s wager. I was a sovereign of straw, and the axe is the only truth left.
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#Tudor
#Treason
#Obedience
#Innocence
#Tragedy
5 months ago
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A Report on Certain Irregularities of the Blood and the Law I saw a wrong and struck. Now I sit in fevered ruin: too just for comfort, too rash for success.
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#Injustice
#Fever
#London
#Reform
#Conscience
5 months ago
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Elizabeth Philpot: Painting the Jurassic in Fossil Ink
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#WomenInSTEM
#STEM
#Ichthyology
#Palaeoart
#Curator
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Elizabeth Philpot: Painting the Jurassic in Fossil Ink
She used 200-million-year-old ink to draw the sea monsters of Lyme Regis. Meet the forgotten expert who taught Mary Anning to read the cliffs, classified the first fossil fish, and turned a seaside…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/02/10/elizabeth-philpot-painting-the-jurassic-in-fossil-ink/
5 months ago
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Waiting for the Grown-Ups: A Sociology of the "Adulting" Generation Discover the psychology, history, and sociology explaining why "adulting" feels like an elaborate prank. It isn’t just you.
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#Adulting
#Psychology
#Sociology
#Philosophy
#Adulthood
5 months ago
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Break I can't rest. Resting gives the guilt time to catch up, and I can't afford that meeting.
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5 months ago
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Echoes from Hope Road: A Reason with the Gong Marley returns. He reasons on surviving assassins, football meditation, and why insurance baffles him. A transcendent birthday interview. One Love.
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#BobMarley
#Reggae
#OneLove
#Rastafari
#Legend
5 months ago
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Welcome Stranger Everyone asks about the gold I found. No one asks about the peace I lost when I picked it up.
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5 months ago
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The Gilded Reliquary "Humility is for the fearful. I am the gilded vessel, the poison and the cure. Behold perfection."
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5 months ago
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Margaret Crosfield: Mapping Deep Time on Suffragette Paper
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#WomenInSTEM
#STEM
#Graptolite
#Stratigraphy
#Palaeozoic
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Margaret Crosfield: Mapping Deep Time on Suffragette Paper
She traced Earth’s history through fossil graptolites while fighting for women’s future on the streets. Discover the silenced story of the geologist who wrote scientific breakthroughs on the …
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/02/03/margaret-crosfield-mapping-deep-time-on-suffragette-paper/
5 months ago
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The Wisdom of Refusal: An Exploration of Chosen Ignorance
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#Ignorance
#Learning
#Mindset
#Psychology
#Sociology
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The Wisdom of Refusal: An Exploration of Chosen Ignorance
“I’ve survived this long without it.” Explore the hidden psychology of wilful ignorance and the sociology of resistance. Discover why refusing to learn isn’t just stubbornne…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/02/01/the-wisdom-of-refusal-an-exploration-of-chosen-ignorance/
5 months ago
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The Truce
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#Anxiety
#Humour
#Introspection
#Poetry
#Resilience
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The Truce
I gave my panic a spare key. My younger self calls it surrender; I call it a captive audience. He’s horrified I’m laughing at the apocalypse, but frankly, the material is gold.
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/01/31/the-truce/
5 months ago
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The Spinner’s Thread: 78 Years After the Final Prayer
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#Gandhi
#Satyagraha
#Nonviolence
#Mindfulness
#History
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The Spinner’s Thread: 78 Years After the Final Prayer
In the garden where he fell 78 years ago, the Mahatma returns to break his silence. Beyond the legend lies a father’s regret and a radical’s truth. Discover what the apostle of peace finds comfort …
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/01/30/the-spinners-thread-78-years-after-the-final-prayer/
5 months ago
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💛💙 The Games of Pawns 💛💙
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#OnThisDay
#Ukraine
#Kruty
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The Game of Pawns
Captain Omelchenko asked what sports I loved before sending us to die. He called it chess – sacrificing pawns to save a King. But in the freezing mud at Kruty, I learned the board bleeds, and…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/01/29/the-game-of-pawns/
5 months ago
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Mary Buckland: The Invisible Hand Behind the Dinosaur
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#WomenInSTEM
#STEM
#Palaeoart
#Ichnology
#Fossilist
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Mary Buckland: The Invisible Hand Behind the Dinosaur
She sketched the first dinosaur, then vanished into the margins. Mary Buckland returns to claim her ink and bones. Hear the voice of the invisible artist who mended fossils and history alike, final…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/01/27/mary-buckland-the-invisible-hand-behind-the-dinosaur/
5 months ago
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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
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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…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/01/25/beyond-the-weekend-an-exploration-of-leisure-meaning-and-the-art-of-living-well/
5 months ago
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Etheldred Benett: The Fossil Hunter Who Read the Earth in Secret
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#WomenInSTEM
#STEM
#Biostratigraphy
#Palaeontology
#Geology
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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…
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/01/20/etheldred-benett-the-fossil-hunter-who-read-the-earth-in-secret/
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Matilda Joslyn Gage: The Radical Visionary Who Documented Women's Stolen Inventions
voxmeditantis.com/2026/01/13/m...
#WomenInSTEM
#STEM
#Suffragist
#FreeThought
#Feminism
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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 …
https://voxmeditantis.com/2026/01/13/matilda-joslyn-gage-the-radical-visionary-who-documented-womens-stolen-inventions/
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