Gods and Monsters
Last Saturday, I was watching Channel 4 with my hands over my eyes. Tony Robinson's new series called Gods and Monsters was on, and it was pretty scary stuff. The episode was about how medieval people...
View ArticleOff to Bonnie Scotland
This weekend I am 'hauling ass' over the border to Scotland. I'm attending and speaking at the Forensic Science Society's One Day Student Conference. This year, the title of the conference is 'Sex,...
View ArticleTop Forensic Science Blogs
I was delighted to discover that my humble blog has made it to the Top Forensic Science Blogs website! http://www.itsgov.com/top-forensic-science-blogs.html I'm in some very distinguished company, so...
View ArticleE.T...phone home...
Just spotted this blog post about artificially deformed crania being misinterpreted as evidence of extra-terrestrial beings. I love the sheer ignorance of those alien-fanciers, and Daily Mail...
View ArticleStab happy
Happy New Year to my readers! I'm back after a long, and I think, well deserved, break. I had a lovely, quiet Christmas, and plenty of time at home, which I relished.Anyway, back to the forensics -...
View ArticleGive a dog a bone
The Further Forensic Anthropology: Identification module is well under way. Thankfully, the weapon-wound matching exercise, for which my colleague Adrian and I had been preparing specimens for weeks by...
View ArticleMiracle Day?
As part of the Further Forensic Anthropology: Identification module, which is running this week, I promised my students the opportunity to attend a routine post-mortem examination, kindly permitted by...
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Lucius Valerius Geminus
Hey, kids. This post is not so much forensic anthropology, as archaeological conservation meets Asterix. Today, with a colleague, I have been priviledged to be involved in preserving for prosterity one...
View ArticleAAFS nerves...
This evening, I am at home in England, preparing a presentation to give in Atlanta, Georgia tomorrow morning. No, I've not invented a time machine or developed teleportation, but am living vicariously...
View ArticleClash of the Titans
Again, this isn't strictly Forensic, but I would say it is broadly Anthropology. Last week, I was lucky enough to attend an Oxford Alumni Dialogue event, between Professor Richard Dawkins and Dr Rowan...
View ArticleSecrets of Everything
Last year, I was lucky enough to be asked to contribute to a BBC3 programme called 'Ask A Stupid Question'. In it, TV presenter and general science junkie Greg Foot was attempting to answer weird and...
View ArticleMass Fatality Incidents
This week, I have been teaching on the Mass Fatality Incidents module at Cranfield. This is my favourite module, as the concepts raised in the module tend to stimulate a lot of debate amongst the...
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Washing up
Now, I don't usually bring my work home with me, or at least I try not to; mainly because it is not very popular with Him Indoors. However, this week, I have had to, largely because of silly Health and...
View ArticleSilent Witness gets better
Those of you who have followed my antics from the start may remember one of my very early blog posts (On the set), in which I advised (well, visited, sat around and drank tea is probably more accurate)...
View ArticleBusy, busy, busy!
Hello there readers! I apologise for the long delay in posting. My only excuse is that I have been rather busy over the last few months, marking exam scripts; setting up more pig decomposition...
View ArticleBook news
Hello again Lovely Readers! Long time no hear! I have emerged unscathed from a mound of exam-script marking, to be greeted by a pile of supervision feedback that won't write itself. While trying to...
View ArticleFun at the Royal Society
This week, I had the honour of being part of the Summer Science Exhibition at the Royal Society. It is an annual event which showcases the best of British scientific endeavour in a fun exhibition open...
View ArticleThe summer can't be over yet!
I'm sorry, loyal readers, about my lack of posts recently. I have spent the summer supervising pig decomposition projects, planning my wedding, watching the Olympics and having a short summer holiday...
View ArticlePrehistoric Autopsy
I was very excited to see the trailer for Prehistoric Autopsy a few weeks ago, and couldn't wait for the first episode on Monday. In many ways, I got what I was expecting - the same TV cliches that...
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What's that smell?
Have just returned from a frankly freezing weekend near Camberley, where I spent most of the time standing outside in the cold, next to a lake. Half of you may be thinking 'Sounds like fun', and half...
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