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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 18, 20162 min read
Uncle Neanderthal and Auntie Denisovan
A friend recently visited the USA, and did me the marvellous favour of going to the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City. She did a fair...
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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
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
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
Mar 18, 20161 min read
Hug a dinosaur
Made it to a little bit of science week. Which is really just an excuse to neb around Cambridge University buildings whilst snack vans...
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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
Jun 12, 20151 min read
The real Jurassic World
20 years on from Jurassic Park, Jurassic World has been brought to our screens. (Yes, you read that right, 20 years! 22 years actually,...
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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
Oct 31, 20141 min read
Skull with a smile
One of the most engaging exhibits at the Oxford Museum of Natural History is this skull. It is a juvenile Western Gorilla, looking out of...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jul 18, 20141 min read
Wellcome, wellcome, wellcome
... to the Wellcome Collection. A wonderful way to spend an afternoon. And actually my favourite part were the audio extracts, one of...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Mar 28, 20142 min read
Ikea manual for reassembly required
A late write up from a trip to the wonderful gem, Grant's Museum in London. Part of UCL, hidden somewhere near the Petrie Museum, I was...
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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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