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
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 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 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
Jul 12, 20161 min read
Spin the skull game
D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum in Dundee is one of many museums on my bucket list to visit. It's not the best, or the most comprehensive...
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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
May 28, 20162 min read
Invisible rail, extinct rail and other railings
A friend has been trying to photograph water rail at the Great Fen. Not an easy task. Even the RSPB notes that they are difficult to see...
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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
Apr 8, 20162 min read
Witch skull with iron stake for sale
(Witch skull, Woolley and Wallis Auction House, Salisbury) It's not often that the usual run of skulls up for auction varies from the...
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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
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
Jan 22, 20161 min read
New year, new box
After much searching of blanket boxes, coffins, wicker beds, I have finally found an appropriate and well sized box for the new skeleton....
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Susan Elaine Jones
Nov 20, 20151 min read
Skulls with soul
Some bones just give you a look. It is often the primates, but some skulls seemespecially expressive, and just catch your attention. This...
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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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