#MuseumMonday: Recollections of the Olduvai Gorge Museum
I was lucky enough to visit Tanzania in 2014 as part of my undergraduate studies. One of the many places I was fortunate enough to visit was the Olduvai Gorge Museum. A quick geography lesson: Olduvai Gorge (often spelled ‘Oldupai’)…
#MuseumMonday: Visiting Prittlewell Priory
One place a remember going to regularly as a child was to Priory Park in Southend-on-Sea. As the name suggests, this is home to Prittlewell Priory, which is a remarkable Grade I listed medieval site, with origins dating back to around…
#MuseumMonday: Britain – One Million Years of the Human Story
If you read my previous post on Mammoths: Ice Age Giants, this one probably won’t surprise you. If you haven’t then let me bring you up to speed quickly. I recently stumbled upon an old memory card that I used…
#SciFri: Royal Ontario Museum
Unless you’ve been living a rock for the past couple of months, you’ll know I look some time out of my busy herpetological schedule to spend some time in Toronto and the surrounding areas. This is the first blog post…
#StevesLibrary: Buried
I know this hard to believe, but not everything I read or do is linked to herpetology. Something that has always fascinated me is the past, and how we’ve been able to learn more about the lives of ancient people….
#StevesLibrary: The Book of Humans
A book that has been waiting patiently on my bookcase for me to read for a while, is The Book of Humans by Adam Rutherford. If you’re familiar with Rutherford, then you’ll know that he’s an intelligent and witty communicator….
#StevesLibrary: All That Remains
When you pick up a book about death, you expect it to be slightly sad and macabre. That is just the nature of the subject. Yet, Professor Dame Sue Black is able to make death a more welcoming subject by…
#StevesLibrary: Guns, Germs, and Steel
To me, Guns, Germs and Steel is one of those books that has revolutionised our thinking about the modern world. It is in the same realm of The Selfish Gene and Sapiens, in having helped disseminate ideas with far reaching…
#StevesLibrary: The Humans Who Went Extinct
Something that I’m sure I’ve mentioned on this blog is that I’ve always been fascinated by the origins of our species. To me, the scientific origins of our species are far more interesting than the biblical one, and I always…
