Everyone Is Extraordinary

I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been working in TV production since. I'm taking time off work to go on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across France and Spain (I’m doing the full Camino Frances). I will be walking 800 km as a female solo traveller, completely untrained (in fact with a hip injury). This journey has been a dream of mine since I was 15, when I read The Pilgrimage by Paulo Coelho. I wouldn’t say I’m religious, but I do have some sort of relationship with spirituality, which I am hoping to explore on this trip. Stay tuned for an episode for every day of my journey, which I will be walking for over a month. From the practical, emotional, historical and spiritual, to the deep connections (and blisters) I’m expecting to make, you will hear it all. Buen camino!

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Welcome back! Today I interview bestie @taliapamensky, who I went to sixth form and uni with. Tals has always deeply inspired me to tap into and work on my relationship with spirituality, with huge benefits to my mental health and overall being. We discuss Talia's own journey with spirituality through school, uni and beyond, delving into the big questions, her dreams to be a healer and tips for those getting started with it all. It will be impossible not to leave this episode filled with energy and inspiration to look within and self-reflect <3

We also discuss sobriety in relation to being present, a very interesting topic in my opinion! Overall it was such a blast to record with Tals, a natural speaker and healer as well as amazing friend.

Contact me with questions for Talia for our next episode together! These can be spirituality-related or otherwise!
Talia recommended checking out Finding Focus: https://www.findingfocus.app
Find Talia on Instagram on @taliapamensky :)

Welcome back, today my best friend Adam Rei joins me to give a hot girl film review of Barbie. Besides Adam roasting me, all things patriarchy, horses, maaate to a mate and maths axioms are discussed! Adam reveals that he and his guitar are indeed Kenough. Enjoy x

Hello everyone, welcome back! Today I interview Mark Box, also known as Humans of Cambridge or @humanofcambridge on instagram! We discuss all things Humans of Cambridge, photography, the Cambridge University Library, Mark's love of cosplay and his bionic ear... stay tuned!
I am very proud of this episode and can't wait for future ones :)

Hello Everyone!
Grace Chisholm Young is extraordinary. I have spent the last four months submerged in this woman's life, reading her letters and writings at the University of Liverpool Library and beyond. I had the chance to do a project on her personal copy of her seminal book The Theory of Sets of Points, which she published jointly with her husband in 1906. This copy is held at the Whipple Library Special Collections at the University of Cambridge. It contains marginalia, inserted postcards and reviews, Grace's annotations revising the book for a second edition, and watercolours of her son Laurie. On top of being a skilled mathematician, Grace was talented in art and writing, ran a household and mothered six children. Up until now her life has been evaluated adjunct to her husband William's, as the two embarked on a mathematical partnership together, where most of their life works were published under William's name. I explore this partnership, but use Grace's annotated copy of The Theory of Sets of Points to try and better understand her lived experiences of life independent of William. I hope you enjoy!

Here are some references if you're interested in reading more:
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Grattan-Guinness, Ivor. 1972. ‘A Mathematical Union: William Henry and Grace Chisholm Young’. Annals of Science29, no. 2 (1 August 1972): 105–85. https://doi.org/10.1080/00033797200200431.
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Rothman, Patricia. 1996. ‘Grace Chisholm Young and the Division of Laurels’. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 50, no. 1: 89–100.
Secord, James A. 2006 “Scrapbook Science: Composite Caricatures in Late Georgian England,” in Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture, ed. Ann B. Shteir and Bernard V. Lightman, 164-191. Dartmouth: Dartmouth College Press.
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Warwick, Andrew. 2003. Masters of Theory, Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wiegand, Sylvia. 1996. “Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young: A Partnership of Itinerant British Mathematicians,” in Creative Couples in the Sciences. Lives of Women in Science, edited by Abir-Am, Pycior, Slack, Abir-Am, Pnina G., Pycior, Helena M., and Slack, Nancy G., 126-140. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.

Woolf, Virginia. 1929. A Room of One's Own. London: Hogarth Press.

What is a genius?

Hello, welcome back to Everyone Is Extraordinary! Today I chat to Clare College Emeritus Fellow Patricia Fara. She is an incredible Historian of Science at the University of Cambridge. She has written about many things, including the way in which we remember past female practitioners of science. In this episode you will learn a bit about past agents of science, Patricia Fara's life and journey into academia, and whether geniuses exist at all. It was a total joy to interview her :)

Hello! Today I discuss some of my favourite podcasts. I have listened to hundreds of hours of podcasts whilst running, cleaning and commuting, so have some wisdom and many opinions to impart :)