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In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life
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The Science of Middle-Earth: Explaining The Science Behind The Greatest Fantasy Epic Ever Told!
reviews: 5
ratings: 32 (avg rating 3.22)
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Author Archives: cromercrox
Sits Vac
One or other of you might be interested to know that a well-known weekly professional science magazine beginning with N is seeking a locum evolution and ecology editor to cover paternity leave for a 6-7 month period starting this June. … Continue reading
The Maison De Girrafes Caption Competition #306
Lunchtime the bright spring sun blazed down so the dogs took me to the beach. This is what it looked like. Not bad for lunchtime, eh? But I digress. On the same walk I took this picture, and that’s the … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Norfolk!, Cromer, Silliness
Tagged caption competition, Cromer East Beach, lunchtime
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Authoration
Not having written any books lately about teenage vampires, schoolboy wizards, sadomasochism, cookery or gardening, the times I’ve been asked for advice about how to get a book published can be numbered on the fingers of one hand. (The times … Continue reading
The Accidental Audiobook
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! I knew that the Shameless Plug was soon to come out as an audiobook. Well, it’s here, and, notwithstanding inasmuch as which, here. Narrated by the very splendid Martin Dew, it’s completely unabridged, and, … Continue reading
Squishy
When a colleague of Mrs Crox learned that Crox Minor (15) wanted to go to medical school and study to be a surgeon, the colleague recommended that Crox Minor read Brain Matters: Adventures of a Brain Surgeon. So she did, … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science Is Vital, Writing & Reading
Tagged books, brain matters, careers, glioblastoma, healthcare, katrina s firlik, neurosurgery, reading and writing, sexism
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Writing Spaces
At the beginning of his memoir Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall, Spike Milligan wrote After Puckoon I swore I’d never write another book. This is it. I know, I know, I swore I wouldn’t, either. But the temptation … Continue reading
Apples for Sir Isaac
You might remember (either of you) that last summer I paid a visit to the old Norwich Fire Station, which was, back then, just about to be converted into the Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form, a sixth-form college devoted to … Continue reading
Posted in Cromer, Domesticrox, Research, Science Is Vital
Tagged inspiration trust, sir isaac newton sixth form
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Gut Feelings
Decisions, decisions. The job as a manuscript editor at Your Favourite Weekly Etcetera largely consists of making decisions – whether to consider a manuscript for publication, or to send it on its way elsewhere. Because we receive a very large … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Writing & Reading
Tagged books, Gigerenzer, Gut Feelings, recognition heuristic, science communication, science publishing
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The Great War Remembered #4
“The Last Post, Confits-De-Canards, 1916″, by the Cromer Poultry Great War Re-Enactment Society.
Posted in Domesticrox, Silliness
Tagged Cromer Poultry Great War Re-Enactment Society, Great War, silliness
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Science of Middle-Earth: New Paperback Edition
The printing history of The Lord of the Rings is reputedly one of the more complex and tangled issues in modern publishing history. Matters aren’t quite so fraught for The Science of Middle-earth, my own contribution to the canon. For … Continue reading
