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.

Yet Another Mystery Fish For You To Identify

Posted on 15 April 2011 by Henry Gee

The deeps really are yielding their secrets at the moment. First there was this. Then there was this. And today there was this.

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Another Mystery Fish For You To Identify

Posted on 14 April 2011 by Henry Gee

Here’s a fishy tail I found on Cromer beach today. Here’s a detail. The skin is very rough, and those spines are wickedly sharp – they look (and feel) like the thorns on a rose bush, and thereby hangs a … Continue reading →

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Guest

Posted on 14 April 2011 by Henry Gee

My friend Grrlscientist asked me to write a guest post for her at Punctuated Equilibrium. This is it. Meanwhile, here is a cute pet picture, for those who demand more from their reading than a blog the sole purpose of … Continue reading →

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Tzores

Posted on 9 April 2011 by Henry Gee

Things aren’t going entirely to plan. An irritating niggle is threatening my grand erection with flaccidity, but it’ll be sorted out – eventually. Mrs Crox locked herself out of her office, which occasioned some drama. And when I opened the … Continue reading →

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A Mystery Fish For You To Identify, And Other Stuff

Posted on 3 April 2011 by Henry Gee

While walking along the beach this afternoon, Canis croxorum alerted me to this washed-up fish. It’s a pretty common North Sea fish, I believe, though I have never seen one before. Its roe sometimes appears pseudonymously as caviar. Can you … Continue reading →

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LinkedIn

Posted on 1 April 2011 by Henry Gee

April Foolz can haz struck LinkedIn…

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Rumours

Posted on 1 April 2011 by Henry Gee

Probably the most exciting paper I’ve ever handled at Your Favourite Weekly Professional Science Magazine Beginning With N was this one – on Homo floresiensis, a diminutive and very peculiar hominin from the island of Flores in Indonesia. The creature … Continue reading →

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Barefoot

Posted on 31 March 2011 by Henry Gee

I am extraordinarily lucky in being able to work some of the time at home. Today, after a drizzly start, the sun came out so that I could spend my lunch hour on the beach and, notwithstanding inasmuch as which, … Continue reading →

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #131

Posted on 30 March 2011 by Henry Gee

Father! Pinocchio!

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Census

Posted on 23 March 2011 by Henry Gee

Anyone in the U. of K. and not moving quickly enough to avoid it will have to complete a census form, providing what will be a snapshot of who is doing what, with whom, and where, on 27 March 2011. … Continue reading →

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