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.

Kaddish II

Posted on 8 August 2012 by Henry Gee

No, no, no, no, no.  I know you were all trying to be nice, responding to my complaint about the lack of any memorial to the Israeli athletes gunned down at the Munich Games in 1972, with cosy phrases about … Continue reading →

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Manners

Posted on 6 August 2012 by Henry Gee

I have written elsewhere on the campaign to get a skate park up and running in Cromer, discussing the fact that whereas elderly residents are amply served by the community, young people, in particular, suffer for want of constructive activity or … Continue reading →

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Mensch

Posted on 6 August 2012 by Henry Gee

It’s great to hear some good news. Team GB is practically buried under the weight of its gold medals. We at the Maison des Girrafes thrill to the winning smile of Mo Farah. Mrs Crox admires Cath Jessica Ennis’ abs, … Continue reading →

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Spineless in Cromer

Posted on 3 August 2012 by Henry Gee

Many years when the world was young (OK, it was the mid-1980s) I was a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, having lots of fun playing in rock bands and pretending to do a Ph.D. In the gaps between … Continue reading →

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Wilderness

Posted on 29 July 2012 by Henry Gee

What is the difference between Left and Right? I have always had trouble with this. When I was small I learned the difference from a Natural History Museum guidebook which, on one page, had a picture of Tyrannosaurus rex on … Continue reading →

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Kaddish

Posted on 27 July 2012 by Henry Gee

Forty years ago eleven athletes and officials were murdered at the Olympics in Munich. As the media frenzy around this year’s London games ramps up from Over-Excited to Orgasmic, you can bet that at tonight’s opening ceremony, there will not … Continue reading →

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Tsundoku

Posted on 23 July 2012 by Henry Gee

Thanks to a meme on Facebook (which I discovered courtesy of a Mr A. S. of London) I have discovered a Japanese word that could and should be appropriated into what King Alfred called Englisc. That word is tsundoku and … Continue reading →

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Creationists – Serpents in Eden

Posted on 21 July 2012 by Henry Gee

I’m working my way through an edit of The Beowulf Effect, or whatever it’s going to be called, after it came back with a lot of helpful comments from referees (I know, I know, taste of my own medicine.) While … Continue reading →

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Evolution In Pictures #7

Posted on 19 July 2012 by Henry Gee

Evolution – probably the most misunderstood, misused and abused word in science. Like all words, its meaning has been subject to change. The word didn’t mean the same thing to Darwin as it does to us today. And it certainly … Continue reading →

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #3

Posted on 17 July 2012 by Henry Gee

I have been deluged with this photograph from my friend Professor Trellis of North Wales. ‘I’ve become deeply disturbed by the way non-Newtonian physics is permeating everyday life,’ [Professor Trellis writes] I purchased [the roasting tin] as a simple kitchen … Continue reading →

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