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Ceci N’Est Pas Un Oeuf

Posted on 18 March 2014 by Henry Gee

I know Spring really is here when the Cromer Poultry Great War Re-Enactment Society lays the first egg of the year. This is it. As I don’t know which particular member of the CPGWRS laid this particular egg, I shall view it as a result of collective endeavour and say – well done, Ladies!
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And with the final arrival of Spring, I shall br Continue reading →

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Surfacing from the jungles of Central America

Posted on 16 March 2014 by Steve Caplan

Following my 3rd trip to Central America in the last 10 years, and my second visit to Costa Rica, I have returned from the rain and cloud forests invigorated by the immense diversity of flora and fauna, with the spectacular colors of birds ingrained in my brain.
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One of my new favorite birds, the Blue-Crowned Motmot

Over the next few weeks as I sor Continue reading →

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MOOCs: my other online compulsion

Posted on 16 March 2014 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I’ve heard a lot about massive open online courses (MOOCs) over the last couple of years, but hadn’t quite got around to trying one until Eva mentioned on Facebook recently that she’d signed up for a communication science course, and would anyone else like to play? Having joined both my department’s new communications team a Continue reading →

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Medicine and Maths

Posted on 16 March 2014 by Henry Gee

IMG_8304As you both know, Crox Minor wants to become a surgeon, and some time ago she announced that what she most wanted to do to celebrate her 16th birthday was to go to London and visit the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. So that’s what we did, and we’ve just got back.
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The museum is built on the collection of eighteenth-c Continue reading →

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Getting the Writing Right

Posted on 15 March 2014 by Athene Donald

As one moves through life, there are many different types of writing one needs to master. Schooling may produce a standardised kind of essay which is of only limited use when it comes to writing one’s thesis. Many universities will run courses/online tutorials to advise students how to proceed, but as often as not one learns by example. There Continue reading →

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Downbound Train

Posted on 14 March 2014 by rpg

A funny thing happened on the way to Borough this evening. The train was delayed as we pulled into Old Street. The driver said there was a faulty train ahead being taken out of service. He warned us that lots of passengers—who’d had to get off the faulty train—would want to get onto our train, and he wished us good luck.

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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #47

Posted on 14 March 2014 by Henry Gee

Custom-made Universes, made to order in Cromer. And you thought Cromer was all about crabs.
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The Anonymity of Warfare

Posted on 13 March 2014 by Henry Gee

My colleague Professor S. C. of London has just alerted us to a short film clip showing how airmen prepared an atomic bomb for use on Nagasaki in 1945, commenting that the full horror of the piece lies in its banality.

It’s apposite that he posts this in the centenary year of the outbreak, not of World War 2, but of the Great War – the Continue reading →

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The horror is in the detail

Posted on 13 March 2014 by Stephen

I recently came across a film on YouTube called ‘Unedited footage of the bombing of Nagasaki (silent)’. It is one of the dullest and most horrific things I have ever seen. The film shows US servicemen on Tinian island performing the banal tasks needed to prepare the Fat Man bomb before it was dropped on Japan. We see men, stripped to their waists i Continue reading →

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Lines. Lines. Lines.

Posted on 12 March 2014 by Richard Wintle

I have lines on my mind.

Just recently, commercial photographer and photography instructor Zack Arias has (finally!) launched his DEDPXL website, complete with Q&A videos, the obligatory blog, links to merchandise including the upcoming renewal of his popular Onelight instructional video, and a section for non-photography, but inspirational, th Continue reading →

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