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 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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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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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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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...
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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
- 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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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 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...
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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...
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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
- 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...
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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...
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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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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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