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    Odd things I've overheard
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Nov 9, 2017
    • 1 min

    Odd things I've overheard

    When you hang around museums and their interesting people, you hear some odd things. Most of these raise more questions than they answer....
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    Books for sale - direct!
    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 bef...
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    70 pages of skulls for sale!
    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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    Curious beasts before the deluge
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Sep 29, 2017
    • 2 min

    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 lo...
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    An Atlantis for Octopuses
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Sep 19, 2017
    • 2 min

    An Atlantis for Octopuses

    Blog been slow as I've been ill, and I've still got the wonders of the Open Cambridge display at the Whipple to share. But not today. Tod...
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    Skeleton day trip to meet the public
    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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    Where are all the Snicthons?
    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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    Meeting a new skull
    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 per...
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    Timeline of death (in art)
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Jul 26, 2017
    • 2 min

    Timeline of death (in art)

    After the wonderful, lovely, joyful, belly laughs of the Death and the Maiden conference, I have been resting. I did present the full Ma...
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    The Marathon scale of progressive acceptability
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Jul 15, 2017
    • 2 min

    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 degr...
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    How the sieve changed the skull (or not)
    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 t...
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    The Malice of Raspberry Seeds
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Jun 9, 2017
    • 3 min

    The Malice of Raspberry Seeds

    Sorry for a period of quiet, I've had a bit of a tooth ache and been trying to book a visit to a dentist. It's all because raspberries ar...
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    Dying for Life was dead good
    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, m...
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    When I'm dead, I want to go out and meet new people
    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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    Undiscovered gems of the Cambridge Science Festival… the Duckworth Collection at the LCHES.
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Apr 26, 2017
    • 4 min

    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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    The Fairfax Fozzard font of knowledge
    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 p...
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    No tea, no biscuits. Just the taste of bone.
    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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    Strings, pins and dead things
    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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    Thinking about dissection
    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 gues...
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    Skulls a plenty
    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. It'...
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