Curious beasts before the deluge
A belated write up of a lovely afternoon spent in the company of curious beasts at the Whipple Museum as part of Open Cambridge. These...
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Susan Elaine Jones
May 22, 20171 min read
Dying for Life was dead good
A very quick post (as I'm still exhausted) to say how brilliant the Dying for Life Event was. Over 150 people came to chat about dying,...
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Susan Elaine Jones
May 5, 20172 min read
When I'm dead, I want to go out and meet new people
Through some fantastic luck, a chance meeting a few years ago sparked my interest in skeletons and came together as a superb visit to an...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Apr 26, 20174 min read
Undiscovered gems of the Cambridge Science Festival… the Duckworth Collection at the LCHES.
18,050* people were at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies last month. *This figure is an estimate. But I guess that 50...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Apr 7, 20171 min read
The Fairfax Fozzard font of knowledge
A long overdue update on the magic lantern slides that I acquired at auction, originally from the marvellous J. A. Fairfax Fozzard, the...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Feb 24, 20171 min read
Skulls a plenty
Today, not many words are needed, as I just wanted to share my first attempts to bring out the beauty of the variety of skull shapes....
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jan 27, 20172 min read
Death in Cambridge
Death in Cambridge. It doesn't sound as glamorous as Death in Venice, but we have arty buildings and the punting. Most of all, we have a...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Nov 25, 20162 min read
Dr. Auzoux's House of Horror
Okay, not really. I have spent most of my recent Friday's enjoying the wonderful Robert Lloyd Parry (of Nunkie theatre) performing...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 30, 20162 min read
Someone made me a spider!
A very quick note to say thanks to everyone who came along to my installation at the Day of the Dead evening at the Cambridge Museum of...
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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 8, 20161 min read
Octopuses for sale
Look at these beauties! I think I'm in love! These gorgeous octopuses? Octopi? Octopodes? Beautiful aren't they? But they're in...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jul 1, 20161 min read
Late for the day of the dead
Finally had the opportunity to spend some time with a camera in the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. I lingered at least...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jun 17, 20161 min read
Witch balls
Witch balls. Or did you think only wizards had balls? Well, honestly, witches don't have balls (that I know of). These balls are to repel...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Mar 25, 20161 min read
Lost your head?
A number of friends shared this with me, asking if I was in some way responsible. (Those of you who don't know me might not be aware of...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 2, 20151 min read
Behind the scenes at the Zoology Museum
So sorry for the terrible quality of the photo. But it was on a behind the scenes tour, at night, taken through the door of a freezer....
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