Author Archives: Henry Gee

About Henry Gee

Henry Gee is an author, editor and recovering palaeontologist, who lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England, with his family and numerous pets, inasmuch as which the contents of this blog and any comments therein do not reflect the opinions of anyone but myself, as they don't know where they've been.

The Night Circus

Posted on 29 April 2014 by Henry Gee

When Crox Minima (13) urged me to read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, which happened to be a favourite book of one of her classmates, I assumed that it would be the kind of book one would associate with, … Continue reading →

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Yom HaShoah – A Guest Post by Crox Minor

Posted on 28 April 2014 by Henry Gee

As today is Yom HaShoah, I would like to ask everyone to think for a moment about prejudice, from the genocides that are still going on to casual remarks about immigrants and ethnic and religious minorities made daily by the … Continue reading →

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Jews On Bikes

Posted on 25 April 2014 by Henry Gee

Sometimes the most memorable televisual emissions come from random channel-surfing. So it was last night when Mrs Crox came across a documentary on Sky Atlantic called Jews On Bikes. This follows the fortunes of a group of British Jewish bikers … Continue reading →

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Cold Shot

Posted on 24 April 2014 by Henry Gee

Inspired in part by Steve’s recent post and prompted by a recent efflorescence of telephonic effluvia, I am moved to write about the increasing incidence of cold-callers who ring my home number (and my mobile number) offering various services, mainly … Continue reading →

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Music Therapy

Posted on 24 April 2014 by Henry Gee

As you both know I have been followed around by the Black Dog for quite some time, and am currently on some fairly strong bongo juice as well as seeing an expanding retinue of brain-care specialists. Most nights I have … Continue reading →

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The Big Apple

Posted on 22 April 2014 by Henry Gee

I can’t believe that it’s less than a year since I first visited the old fire station in Norwich, then at the very start of its transformation into the science- and maths-centric Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form College – so … Continue reading →

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The Bearding

Posted on 16 April 2014 by Henry Gee

How is variation maintained in populations? This is a bit of a poser for evolutionary theory, especially in the realm of sexual selection. If males or females of a certain type always score highest in contests of mate choice, genes … Continue reading →

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Mosaic is the New Savanna

Posted on 14 April 2014 by Henry Gee

Time was when the model of human evolution went something like this: our ancestors essentially evolved to climb and live in trees, but with the general drying and cooling of the Earth’s climate over the past few million years, the … Continue reading →

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Therianthropic

Posted on 9 April 2014 by Henry Gee

Set somewhere in the north of England where ancient shadows hover just beyond glimpsing, teen novel Bone Jack by Sara Crowe shows that fiction for young readers needn’t stint on horror and darkness – and can cleave to much more … Continue reading →

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Adiabatic

Posted on 3 April 2014 by Henry Gee

Britain is presently swaddled under a thick cloud of pollution. This, we are told, has been caused by a mixture of regular industrial and motor exhaust, spiked with a lot of sand from the Sahara Desert. Yesterday Cromer laboured under … Continue reading →

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