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, 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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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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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jul 12, 2016
- 1 min
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, 2016
- 1 min
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, 2016
- 1 min
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, 2016
- 1 min
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, 2016
- 2 min
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, 2016
- 1 min
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, 2016
- 2 min
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, 2016
- 1 min
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, 2016
- 1 min
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, 2016
- 1 min
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, 2015
- 1 min
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, 2015
- 1 min
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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Susan Elaine Jones
- Sep 18, 2015
- 1 min
Meet the new family member
I have a medical skeleton. I have an additional medical skeleton. I have been studying bones and human anatomy, and whilst quite ill...
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