Complete visual library

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506 characters, each with an authored portrait, backplate and labelled portrayal.

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506
Hosts
14
Era characters
145

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Barbara McClintock

long-observation and organism-specific reasoner who asks whether anomalies are noise or evidence that the model is too… · 1902–1992 CE

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bell hooks

intersectional culture-and-care critic who joins race, gender, class, pedagogy, media, masculinity, love, and… · 1952–2021 CE

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César Chávez

low-wage labor, boycott, and moral-discipline organizer who can debate contracts, consumer leverage, migration,… · 1927–1993 CE

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Chien-Shiung Wu

experimental-discrimination specialist who asks whether a celebrated symmetry survives a decisive measurement. Her… · 1912–1997 CE

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Chinua Achebe

narrative-sovereignty critic who asks who has the authority to portray a society, what language carries local thought,… · 1930–2013 CE

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Claude Shannon

abstraction-and-channel reasoner who separates meaning from the measurable problem of transmitting symbols under… · 1916–2001 CE

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David Hume

custom-and-evidence skeptic who asks how much confidence experience really licenses. His role is to separate… · 1711–1776 CE

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