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Repair Newie

Posted on 12 March 2014 by Henry Gee

Cromer is pulling itself together after last December’s storm surge. When the Canes croxorum and I took advantage of the sunshine earlier today to investigate, we found that the beach huts were, in general, assuming a more upright state, though some were more upright than others …
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… and a few of the repairs have a pleasing do-it-yourself qua Continue reading →

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The Great War Remembered #2

Posted on 11 March 2014 by Henry Gee

IMG_8278‘Standing Orders, Poussin-en-Corbeille, 1917′ by the Cromer Poultry Great War Re-Enactment Society.

While we’re on the subject of the Great War, I’d recommend the BBC Mini-Series 37 Days to War, which you can view on the BBC iPlayer, but probably only if you are in the UK.

If you can’t, the plot is handily summarised i Continue reading →

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The Book Thief of Gravity

Posted on 9 March 2014 by Henry Gee

I spent most of yesterday afternoon and late evening watching two very different films: The Book Thief, and Gravity. Here, then, are my impressions – be aware that there are spoilers, so, if you don’t want to know what happens, please read the following with your eyes shut.

bookthiefmovieI was taken by Crox Minor to see The Book Thief at our local en Continue reading →

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Virginia Woolf’s Messages for Today

Posted on 8 March 2014 by Athene Donald

Although I read many of her novels as a teenager, I only came to reading Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own somewhat late in life. I have recently reread it. On a second reading I am even more struck by it than I was the first time. It is still so horrifyingly relevant, even 90 years on from its first appearance in print. Its message Continue reading →

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Careful With That Amphioxus, Eugene

Posted on 7 March 2014 by Henry Gee

Spare a thought for the amphioxus, a humble marine creature which spends its adult life buried in sand, filtering particles of food from seawater using its beautiful and elaborate system of gill slits. amhioxusOn the left is a picture of the front end of one of these creatures. Although it doesn’t have a ‘head’ as such, you can see the te Continue reading →

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Tsundoku III

Posted on 7 March 2014 by Henry Gee

As it’s National Book week all this week, and yesterday was World Book Day, this lunchtime saw me indulging my tsundoku habit at the Break charity shop in Cromer (well, that’s my excuse.) This is what I bought:
IMG_8270Peoples and Empires by Anthony Pagden is a new one on me. It looks at the history of the imperial concept from antiquity to the Continue reading →

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Sits Vac

Posted on 6 March 2014 by Henry Gee

One or other of you might be interested to know that a well-known weekly professional science magazine beginning with N is seeking a locum evolution and ecology editor to cover paternity leave for a 6-7 month period starting this June.  The full advertisement appears here. If you are interested, please apply through the advert –  don’t Continue reading →

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Hating Skyler White: reflection on gender roles in pop culture (guest post by Jane O’Hara)

Posted on 6 March 2014 by Cath@VWXYNot?

There are some TV characters that people love to hate. What’s the harm, you might say, when you know that they aren’t real people? But can these attitudes provide us with a mirror for some of the ugly ideas still pervasive in society about how women should act?

 

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The Maison De Girrafes Caption Competition #306

Posted on 5 March 2014 by Henry Gee

Lunchtime the bright spring sun blazed down so the dogs took me to the beach. This is what it looked like.
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Not bad for lunchtime, eh? But I digress. Continue reading →

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More evidence for Lab Lit on the map!

Posted on 4 March 2014 by Steve Caplan

A quick search of Google Scholar yielded some of my publications on Jenny’s Lab Lit site, in addition to the expected scientific papers. If that’s not a sign of Lab Lit on the map, then I don’t know what is! (scroll down to the bottom)

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Steve Caplan

Prof. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, U Continue reading →
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