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.

Fishface

Posted on 26 September 2013 by Henry Gee

And now, a girrafe on a unicycle one of the most exciting areas in evolutionary biology at the moment – tracing the origins of gnathostomes, or jawed vertebrates. Before I start, I owe a debt of gratitude to our Latin-America … Continue reading →

Posted in acanthodian, chondrichthyan, entelognathus, evolution, Fish, gnathostome, missing link, ostracoderm, Research, shark | Comments Off on Fishface

Intelligent Design

Posted on 25 September 2013 by Henry Gee

When writers get together to chat, and when they’ve dispatched the introductory pleasantries of the inscrutability of agents and the availability of accountants, they’ll share war stories about their works, the sources of their inspiration, how to construct a novel, … Continue reading →

Posted in Darwin, evolution, Haeckel, intelligent design, Matt Avery, natural selection, The Accidental Species, university of chicago press, Writing & Reading | Comments Off on Intelligent Design

Vienna

Posted on 24 September 2013 by Henry Gee

I’m just back from the annual meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE), which this year took place in Vienna. Regular readers with long memories might recall that I went to their meeting in Leipzig … Continue reading →

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Dogsplaining #19

Posted on 6 September 2013 by Henry Gee

Using only her eyebrows, Heidi the Dog expounds possible solutions to the conflict in Syria. She agrees with me (and probably also rpg) that one solution would be to carpet-bomb Damascus with cute fluffy kittens. UPDATE: Crox Minima, who has … Continue reading →

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Psoriasis

Posted on 6 September 2013 by Henry Gee

Time was when I thought psoriasis was an obscure pharaoh, possibly one of the late and degenerate Ptolemies. Or possibly a small town in Kansas (pop. 207). Until I got it myself.

Posted in China, Cromercrox In China, diet, expresso, gluten, latte, pharaoh, psoriasis, Science Is Vital, The Singing Detective | Comments Off on Psoriasis

Transport

Posted on 4 September 2013 by Henry Gee

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Kindertransports. On the night of 9/10 November, 1938, Jewish homes and businesses across Nazi Germany were trashed – an event known as Kristallnacht, Night of Broken Glass. Five days later, a delegation … Continue reading →

Posted in association of jewish refugees, asylum seekers, big boots would have been better than crox, Daily Nimbyist Bungaloid Curtain Twitcher, Domesticrox, farrago, kindertransports, kristallnacht, lobsterpots, no coach parties, Politicrox, syria, that ursula andress moment, UKIP | Comments Off on Transport

Sheket!

Posted on 2 September 2013 by Henry Gee

A little while ago I was with a group of family and friends discussing the Bilderberg Group, a kind of un-conference in which the world’s movers and shakers can get together and discuss matters of great import in an informal … Continue reading →

Posted in angry birds peace conference, bilderberg group, former mesenteric republic of euthenasia, Israel, News, news editors, Palestine, peer review, Politicrox, scoop, syria, Writing & Reading | Comments Off on Sheket!

Bodies

Posted on 2 September 2013 by Henry Gee

Crox Minor (15), who has just gotten three GCSE examinations out of the way (all with A*s, I might add), and is embarking on a lot more this year, wants to be a surgeon. She has her heart set on … Continue reading →

Posted in Cambridge, creationism, crox minor, discoidal, dissection, entrenching tool, evolution, hamadryad, intelligent design, kleptocracy, Medicine, Science Is Vital, spoonfed, typology, yellowhammer | Comments Off on Bodies

Cake

Posted on 1 September 2013 by Henry Gee

Earlier today the Croxii collectively attended my sister’s birthday party, which was held at her family’s beach hut on Cromer West Beach (the déclassé end of Cromer, if you ask me, but we’ll let that pass) Cromer West Beach, earlier … Continue reading →

Posted in Andy Connelly, cake, Delia Smith, Domesticrox, Nigella Lawson, release of calcium from intracellular stores, Science Is Vital, science of cookery | Comments Off on Cake

A New Arrival

Posted on 29 August 2013 by Henry Gee

Notwithstanding inasmuch as which the recollections of those few you who remember why chez Crox is sometimes known as the Maison des Girrafes, there has been little evidence of same, either in the Maison itself, or in the Jardin adjacent. … Continue reading →

Posted in all your girrafe are belong to us, Apparitions, Domesticrox, no girrafes on unicycles beyond this point, Silliness | Comments Off on A New Arrival