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    Guest blog: Mourning and funeral selfies
    Katie Hetherington
    • Feb 21, 2017
    • 6 min

    Guest blog: Mourning and funeral selfies

    Modern Day Mourning What is mourning? Is it sadness, loss of appetite, inability to cope or the process of shutting your emotions off? In...
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    Guest blog with the OCA
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Feb 14, 2017
    • 1 min

    Guest blog with the OCA

    I was asked by my college to write an encouraging post to future students on receiving arts council funding. I turned it into a discussio...
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    Death in Cambridge
    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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    Don't lose your head. Or your teeth.
    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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    Make no bones about it
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Jan 2, 2017
    • 2 min

    Make no bones about it

    Today I saw a lovely, informative image from the Biologist's Apprentice on Facebook. Which made me realise that I would not normally have...
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    Who is the skeleton in Norwich Castle?
    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 cr...
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    Looking murder in the face
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Dec 9, 2016
    • 2 min

    Looking murder in the face

    What's not to like? Another of the gems from the Norwich Museum. The stories of these murderers, briefly: Catherine Frarey and Frances Bi...
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    Bleached blondes of the savannah
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Dec 4, 2016
    • 1 min

    Bleached blondes of the savannah

    I enjoyed a smashing visit to Norwich Castle Museum a couple of weekends ago. I spent much of my time in the Natural History Gallery. As w...
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    Big birds of history
    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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    Dr. Auzoux's House of Horror
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Nov 25, 2016
    • 2 min

    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 readin...
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    Someone made me a spider!
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Oct 30, 2016
    • 2 min

    Someone made me a spider!

    A very quick note to say thanks to everyone who came along to my installation at the Day of the Dead evening at the Cambridge Museum of A...
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    No boner jokes please
    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 S...
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    Uncle Neanderthal and Auntie Denisovan
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Oct 18, 2016
    • 2 min

    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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    Poo in a drawer
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Oct 14, 2016
    • 2 min

    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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    No photos, no litter
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Sep 25, 2016
    • 3 min

    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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    Wandering wombs and vibrating cures
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Aug 29, 2016
    • 2 min

    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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    Getting wet at OUMNH
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Aug 19, 2016
    • 1 min

    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 surround...
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    THAT scene from Alien
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Aug 10, 2016
    • 1 min

    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, w...
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    Which way first? The little end or the big?
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Aug 6, 2016
    • 3 min

    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 avoi...
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    Art with embryos
    Susan Elaine Jones
    • Jul 22, 2016
    • 2 min

    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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