Friday mystery object #19 answer

On Friday I presented you with this delightful looking creature’s skull:
and asked you what it was. SmallCasserole and Jim vied to reach the correct answer, with the physicist narrowly beating the biologist to the solution using brute force of reasoning (rather than attempting a comparative approach). However, Jim did step up and suggest a more [...]

Friday mystery object #19

Last week’s mystery object turned out to be very easy for most of you, so this week I have decided to give you something a bit more taxing:
What do you think this freaky looking skull belongs to? As usual, suggestions and any questions below in the comments section – I will try to provide useful [...]

Inspiring science

For the sake of clarity, ‘inspiration’ is here defined as: ‘arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity‘.
Inspiration is important; after all, every human cultural advance or achievement is the result of someone being inspired to do something new. I want to explore some of the ways in which people are inspired to undertake scientific investigation, but [...]

Friday mystery object #18 answer

Happy Monday one and all! Last Friday was a busy day for me as it was the day of the prize-giving event for the winners of the photographic competition that was part of the series of Darwin bicentenary events I have been heading up at the Horniman. I expect I will blog about that in [...]

Friday mystery object #18

It’s Friday and that means it’s time for my 18th mystery object. This week I have picked a skull (I can hear the groans already), but it’s a cute one and when I asked Melissa (who is not a biologist) what it is she got it in three guesses. I asked her how she worked [...]

Friday mystery object #17 answer

On Friday I gave you this mystery object:

and after a long bout of Q&A Fia managed to get the correct answer – it is indeed a

Friday mystery object #17

I can’t believe it’s Friday again – it’s all a bit hectic at the moment, so apologies for the late posting of this week’s mystery object.
 Here’s a rather odd object from the Horniman’s collections – any idea what it might be?
 
As usual, post your answers below and if you have any questions I’ll do my [...]

Friday mystery object #16 answer

On Friday I gave you this image and asked you to identify what it is:

I am pleased to say that it led you a merry chase before we got to the correct answer – but very well done to Debi, Jim and especially Woolgatherer for getting there! It is indeed a

Friday mystery object #16

I’ll keep it simple today and leave you free to ask questions about this week’s mystery object. Quite simply, can you work out what this is:

Comments and questions below – I will provide answers as I am able.
Good luck!

Friday mystery object #15 answer

On Friday I gave you a palaeontological mystery object and asked you to choose what you thought it was from a poll:

As it turns out, you did pretty well, with 60% of you selecting the correct category (with a couple of you making comments which went into greater detail). The object in indeed a piece [...]