Packing for social bones
Quick blog to say sorry for being quiet - I've been manning various events in the Cambridge Science Festival, and now am packing pictures...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Mar 2, 2018
- 3 min
If a body meet a body...
What to do with your old cadaver? Find some thoughts here
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Nov 3, 2017
- 1 min
Books for sale - direct!
Looking for the perfect Christmas present for that friend who still wishes it was Halloween? Buy my book! I know I've mentioned this...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Oct 13, 2017
- 1 min
70 pages of skulls for sale!
After a prompt from a very good friend, I have been persuaded to put a book of my images together and offer it for sale. This way any of...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Sep 1, 2017
- 2 min
Skeleton day trip to meet the public
Last weekend I had a fantastic afternoon meeting people meeting human bones for the first time. It was a free, drop in workshop organised...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Aug 23, 2017
- 3 min
Where are all the Snicthons?
I had to write with the excitement and urgency of those discussing with flat earthers what they think caused the solar eclipse this week....
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Aug 18, 2017
- 3 min
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
- Jun 16, 2017
- 4 min
How the sieve changed the skull (or not)
***Correction to this information - see bottom of blog*** Of all the nightmare fodder I shared on the last post, the question that came...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- May 22, 2017
- 1 min
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, 2017
- 2 min
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 7, 2017
- 1 min
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 25, 2017
- 2 min
No tea, no biscuits. Just the taste of bone.
Visiting one of only two charnel chapels (or ossuaries) left in the country left a bitter taste in my mouth. Though it was possibly more...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Mar 18, 2017
- 2 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 1 min
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, 2017
- 2 min
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
- Jan 15, 2017
- 3 min
Don't lose your head. Or your teeth.
This week I have mostly been thinking about decapitations. It started as a casual conversation with someone who will remain anonymous but...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Dec 17, 2016
- 3 min
Who is the skeleton in Norwich Castle?
He (I am assuming it is a he) is easy to overlook. Many people wander by and don't even notice him. He is stealth itself, watching the...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Dec 1, 2016
- 2 min
Big birds of history
Big birds of history. Actually the biggest birds. Ever. (If you don't count dinosaurs). Let me start again. The biggest birds than humans...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Oct 27, 2016
- 3 min
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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