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<td>The same sensation as being bilingual and deciding one day to observe how speakers of one of your languages learn the other one: a unjustified frustration at retreading ground you'd covered years and years ago. More useful for an English class context than for private study.</td>
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<td>2024-W27</td>
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<td>The Dream of a Common Language</td>
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<td>Adrienne Rich</td>
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<td>New Years Day</td>
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<td>Another favorite of my teenage self.<br>Favorite track: <b>Alone</b></td>
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<td>Emblas Saga</td>
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<td>Brothers of Metal</td>
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<td>Favorite track: <b>Weaver of Fate</b></td>
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<h2>2023</h2>
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<li>December 1 - <a href="./2023/december/typesetting.html">How I typeset my books</a></li>
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<li>December 1 - <a href="./2023/12/typesetting.html">How I typeset my books</a></li>
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<li>November 1 - <a href="./2023/november/foodshelf.html">I'm alive, and I'd like you to feed me something other than cans of peas</a></li>
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<li>October 1 - <a href="./2023/october/urbit2.html">Urbit is still basically just a broken computer simulator</a></li>
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<li>September 1 - <a href="./2023/september/koreader.html">Workaround for external keyboards to make special characters in KOReader</a></li>
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Unfinished, obviously.
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Last updated: 2023-10-18
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Last updated: 2024-06-27
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## Art
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- [Aphra Behn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn): one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing
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- [Tina Bell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Bell): pioneer of the "grunge" music genre, before Nirvana
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- [Lisa Ben](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Ben): created *Vice Versa*, the first known lesbian publication in North America
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- [Diemoth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diemoth): 12th-century recluse who transcribed at least forty-five manuscripts; notable for her "beautiful handwriting"
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- [Enheduanna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna): first known poet
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- [Marie de France](https://archive.md/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-de-France): earliest known French woman poet
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- [Leila Denmark](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Denmark): synthesised the first vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
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- [Gertrude Elion](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_B._Elion?lang=en): biochemist and Nobel Prize winner instrumental in the creation of the first antiviral drug widely used to fight AIDS
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- [Rosalind Franklin](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin): discovered the double-helix formation of DNA
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- [Mary-Claire King](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary-Claire_King): discovered the BRCA1 gene and its role in causing breast cancer
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- [Barbara McClintock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock): discovered that genes can move between chromosomes
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- [Rita Levi-Montalcini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Levi-Montalcini): discovered nerve growth factor
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- [Andromachi Papanikolaou](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromachi_Papanikolaou): key factor in the development of the pap smear test
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- [Jocelyn Bell Burnell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell): discovered first pulsar
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- [Annie Jump Cannon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon): developed the first stellar classification system; classified almost 400,000 stars
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- [Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin?lang=en): discovered what stars are made out of
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- [Sophie Germain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain): French mathematician and pioneer of elasticity theory
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- [Fanny Hesse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hesse): critical in the invention of the Petri dish by suggesting to use agar instead of gelatin
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- [Hypatia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia): first female mathematician whose life is "reasonably well recorded"
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- [Mary Jackson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer)): NASA's first Black female engineer
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- [Mae Jemison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison): first Black woman in space
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- [Katherine Johnson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson): mathematician crucial for the success of the first USA spaceflights
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- [Martha Gellhorn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Gellhorn): journalist and WWII war correspondent; pretended to be a nurse to be the only woman at Normandy on D-Day
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- [Helen Lewis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Lewis_(journalist)): journalist and namesake of "Lewis' Law": "the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism"
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- [Elizabeth Magie](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Maggie): created the progenitor to the *Monopoly* board game
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- [Rose Valland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Valland): captain in the French military during WWII; saved thousands of works of art from being stolen by the Nazis
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- [Madam C. J. Walker](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker?lang=en): entrepreneur and first female self-made millionaire in the USA
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