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Susan Elaine Jones
Mar 2, 20183 min read
If a body meet a body...
What to do with your old cadaver? Find some thoughts here
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Susan Elaine Jones
Aug 18, 20173 min read
Meeting a new skull
So last month I had a chance to meet a new skull. And was invited by a pro to "say what I see". Let's see what I can tell you about a...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jul 15, 20172 min read
The Marathon scale of progressive acceptability
Sorry I've been so quiet recently. I had a long rest after Dying for Life, then a push to write up the final bits for my photography...
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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
Mar 18, 20172 min read
Strings, pins and dead things
Anatomy illustrations have often switched between the fiction of placing skeletons in lifelike poses and shocking honesty of showing not...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Mar 3, 20173 min read
Thinking about dissection
Channel Four made the first televised autopsy with Dr Gunther von Hagen's in 2002. There was much criticism by people who I can only...
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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
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
Aug 19, 20161 min read
Getting wet at OUMNH
After many hours scouring the databases and determining what was special about this museum's stores, I spent a wonderful morning...
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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
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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