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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 27, 20163 min read
No boner jokes please
This week, I have mostly been pondering the baculum. A wonderful friend, "glidergoth", brought me one as a present from her trip to the...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 14, 20162 min read
Poo in a drawer
A couple of months ago I had a fantastic behind the scenes tour of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (and it is with their...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Sep 25, 20163 min read
No photos, no litter
I finally had the time, energy and a willing chaperone to be able to book a Pathology Museum event. Housed at St Bart's - which is famous...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Aug 29, 20162 min read
Wandering wombs and vibrating cures
Once, women’s problems were often ascribed to a ‘wandering womb’. The organ would go walkabout in the abdominal cavity, and as it bumped...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Aug 10, 20161 min read
THAT scene from Alien
Looks like a normal X-ray of a normal torso doesn't it? Look closer. Okay, I see smaller creatures in there too. Swimming around. Wait,...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Aug 6, 20163 min read
Which way first? The little end or the big?
Which way does a chicken lay an egg? Little end first - and ease into it? Or big end first and finish with a relief? In the hopes of...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jul 22, 20162 min read
Art with embryos
"Something entirely unique, something beautiful and charming and grotesque, perhaps a little more esoteric" was how was described to me,...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Apr 29, 20161 min read
Wellcome to Morbid Anatomy
Yes, Joanne Ebenstein is amongst the guests at the Wellcome Collection next week for an Anatomical Venus and other things morbid...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Sep 18, 20151 min read
Meet the new family member
I have a medical skeleton. I have an additional medical skeleton. I have been studying bones and human anatomy, and whilst quite ill...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Apr 24, 20151 min read
The original Bodyworlds
"When I die, place my body in the hands of an anatomist." I suspect that prayer is said much less often than it should be. And especially...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Feb 20, 20151 min read
Vroliking good fun
As I research my dissertation on art and anatomy, I am being very willingly forced to spend hours pouring over books of historical...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Dec 12, 20141 min read
Best candle ever!
Reading about the history of anatomy, I have come across Museo La Specola! The Florence museum containing superb wax models of anatomy....
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 18, 20141 min read
Dr. Who at the Hunterian
Stunned by tonight's Doctor Who episode, Flatline. A lovely concept, and thoroughly enjoyable images (and I'll try not to spoil it if you...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Dec 13, 20131 min read
SOS - Save our skulls!
Do yourself a favour. Rather than receive the same old Christmas jumper and socks this year, get your relatives to buy you a skull! There...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 18, 20131 min read
More weird and wonderful
Another of the wonderful, imaginative anatomy preparations from the Horniman Museum. This is one of the series of animals (bat, hedgehog,...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 11, 20131 min read
The weird and wonderful
I never fail to be astonished by the weird and wonderful things out on display in museums that people don't even notice. And the infinite...
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